Thursday, March 16, 2006
Siege of Darkness.
We have heard many tales from devotees of their encounters with particular avatars, frenzied stories from men and women alike who claimed to have looked upon their deities, likewise claiming they had seen the light and truth, however convoluted it might be.I do not disagree with the claims, and would not openly attack the premises of their encounters. For I am genuinely glad for those who have found enrichment admist the disorder; I am glad whenever another person finds the contentment of spiritual guidance.But what of faith?What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person requires proof to a god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality and we have thus reduced what is holy into what is logical.Again, I will not argue openly against one who has claimed to have seen an avatar, becuase that person will not comprehend that the mere presence of such a being undermines the very purpose, and value of, faith. Because if the true gods were so tangible and so accessible, then we would no longer be independent creatures set on a journey to find the truth, but merely a herd of sheep requiring the guidance of a sheperd and his dogs, unthinking and without the essense of faith.The guidance is there and I know it. Not in such a tangible form, but in what we know to be good and just and correct. It is our own reactions to the acts of others that depicts the value of our own actions, and if we have fallen so far as to need an avatar, an undeniable manifestation of a god, to show us the way, then we are pitiful, wretched creatures indeed.Such is the case for most of the followers of most of the various gods, and if we looked more closely at the pantheon of planet Earth, we would come to realise that the precepts of the different religions are not so different afterall; it is the worldly interpretations of those precepts that vary from faith to faith. And even more so if we are to believe the suggestion of avatars, because the truth is singular and cannot, by definition, support so many varied, even opposing manifestations.So tell me not of avatars, show me not your proof that yours is the one true god. I grant you your beliefs without the slightest of questions or judgements, but if you grant me what is in my heart, then such tangible evidence would thence be rendered irrelevant.Cheers.
