Name of the God
I was reading about Katha Upanishad where Lord Yama ,the lord of death , reveals the secret of death to the curious Nachiketa.
It took me a while to understand the translated English, I had to read the text again and again.
Even though, it was a bit difficult to understand the text, the read was a mystical ride indeed.
Mystical because it encompasses the story of one's existence, the purpose on one's life and and the secret of death. This topic is quite debatable and of course there isn't a way to prove anything. And that is why I believe we have different religions, different ways to take an oath to the creator of this world before we finally conform to the laws of nature and perish , basically leading to the same end point where we came from.
But in today's time as they Kali Yuga, the Age of Vice, the human race has totally succumbed to all possible humanly desires ( I am one of them) and have started showing signs of the end. End of the era, where people kill in the name of god. Them, definitely not the men of god, who are willing to take one's life without discretion. A pretense has been ployed by masterminds to trick the innocent to kill the innocent. Why? After all, not for the god, but for humanly desires, power and wealth. But who to blame, we are after all humans, slaves to all the possible lures .
As the text said:
"Fools dwelling in ignorance, yet imagining themselves wise and learned, go round and round in crooked ways, like the blind led by the blind."
A vicious circle, soon coming to an end, when everything perishes.
And lastly, these are the few lines which have impressed me the most :)
"What name can man give to God? How can the Infinite be bound by any finite word? All that language can express must be finite, since it is itself finite. "
It took me a while to understand the translated English, I had to read the text again and again.
Even though, it was a bit difficult to understand the text, the read was a mystical ride indeed.
Mystical because it encompasses the story of one's existence, the purpose on one's life and and the secret of death. This topic is quite debatable and of course there isn't a way to prove anything. And that is why I believe we have different religions, different ways to take an oath to the creator of this world before we finally conform to the laws of nature and perish , basically leading to the same end point where we came from.
But in today's time as they Kali Yuga, the Age of Vice, the human race has totally succumbed to all possible humanly desires ( I am one of them) and have started showing signs of the end. End of the era, where people kill in the name of god. Them, definitely not the men of god, who are willing to take one's life without discretion. A pretense has been ployed by masterminds to trick the innocent to kill the innocent. Why? After all, not for the god, but for humanly desires, power and wealth. But who to blame, we are after all humans, slaves to all the possible lures .
As the text said:
"Fools dwelling in ignorance, yet imagining themselves wise and learned, go round and round in crooked ways, like the blind led by the blind."
A vicious circle, soon coming to an end, when everything perishes.
And lastly, these are the few lines which have impressed me the most :)
"What name can man give to God? How can the Infinite be bound by any finite word? All that language can express must be finite, since it is itself finite. "
"How can the Infinite be bound by any finite word?" sooo true!!!
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