c u on top - satyabrata dam

If every human heart could become an abode of God then we won’t need to build any more places of worship. Nor would we need to scream out loud God’s name from every corner, since a silent whisper within would suffice.   If the concept and belief of God must exist then let God be like water that we all need to drink to survive irrespective of our colour, caste, language, nationality, economic status, gender or beliefs or like that of air, which again we all must breathe without discrimination to sustain. These are the universal aspects of nature that binds us all into one unified code of life and so should be the idea of God. Instead of dividing it must polarize us into one.   Instead of more bloodshed, hatred and symbolic propagation of God what we really need at this hour is compassion and kindness, acceptability and the willingness to open our minds, hearts and souls to the possibility of oneness in this world. If each one of us capable of feeding just one more outsi...

Everest is an apt metaphor for the ideal concept of God and religion. It perfectly demonstrates both: the dilemma as well the clarity. Everest summit to my knowledge has 15 defined routes (perhaps few more than world’s main religions) to the top spread across haphazardly all around the massive pyramid. These routes encompass all the cardinal directions and all the intermediate ones as well. Yet no single route is more or less correct or the only right one to the top. Neither is there any one route that has exclusive right or privilege over the summit domain and it isn’t necessary for other route followers to pay any tax or submission or heaps of praises to any other. To each her own is what we believe. Everyone is free to follow their own routes (path) to the top. All we can say with certainty is if one route is technically more challenging than the others or if another route involves more objective hazards than the rest. And I suppose being the technically easiest routes the So...