WORDS FROM AN INDIAN HEART

When I was told about how the influence of other religions has been detrimental to my own, there was a revolt inside me, something in me wanted to stop all of this and put everyone in place. To stop the oppression of my own religion.

 But, what is religion? In my view, it is just a path amongst many that suits our personality. It is when we stop acknowledging the true purpose of religion that we turn our faces away from the light it gives.And the purpose of religion, according to me, is to show us a Light that helps us grow beyond ourselves and attain a perfection that is difficult if we were to try it all by ourselves. But it is when we try to confine religion to a few set rules and just see what we like to instead of what it actually is, that we make it dogmatic and there begins the conflict of "religions" trying to prove themselves as the truth.

The Spirit of India has not taught us to be violent and judgmental or to fight to preserve what is just an outer shell of the vast, all-inclusive ocean that embraces all controversies and all that appears to destroy it. It does its work silently, without provocation, without using men as puppets. It quietly penetrates all without exclusion of name, form or belief. Its effect, too subtle for people to perceive unless  they consciously try setting aside all prejudice and pre-conceived ideas about what ought to be right.

Spirituality has always been the strong pillar that supports India or in a vaster sense even the world. But this has been more evident  in the lands of the East, particularly India and She has always looked upwards even  in the midst of the darkest crisis and has grown stronger and more powerful.

As common as it is, if one observes with a keen eye, the strongest always face the most difficult times, and this also stands true for Nations. India in particular has faced formidable difficulties in the past and has emerged successful and triumphant, conquering the difficulties and not submitting to them. And so will be the case in the present and the future as well. The difficulties - financial, political, religious, physical and spiritual, that She is facing today will only prove Her strength and will confirm once again Her place as the Leader and the Light giver.

In the present scenario, things may apparently seem to be the opposite but the future will surely prove it otherwise.