Bakthi, the Prayer

Bakthi, the Prayer

This was posted on now defunct www.writeclick.net October, 2007.

Long time ago

One of my Indian friends

Expressed the view that

There are 800 millions

In India

And equally

There are eight hundred million

Gods to warship

What am I to do?

My prompt

And curt response was

Don’t warship any

Like me,

A simple Buddhist

But my dear friend

The problem in Ceylon is

That there are eight millions

Looking for a god of some sort,

In spite majority,

Of the beings are

Of Non-abiding Buddhists

Going back in history,

Five thousand and more years,

In India,

The seat of divine incarnations

And godly origin,

There were Rama, Ravana and Sita

Who are still revered as Gods

And the Hanuman who made

The Hanuman Way

The Rama-Sita Bridge,

The Satu Sunderum of new age,

To recapture,

Sita from Ravana (Was a celebrity)

And gods from,

Hindu to Judaism need

Bakthi as a nutritive element

Or an animal 

Or some other sacrifice

For the survival

Of the conceptual

God Wisdom

The Christ objected to

Animal sacrifice

The Roman Democrats

Crucified him

On Majority Vote

If the rule is applied

In the modern day

There won’t be any democrats

Or Meritocrats

Left in this World

The sacrifice of Christ

Was the first misadventure,

In the history of gods

And their counterparts

In the name of democracy

In this modern world

With so many adherents

Of its merits

How come the democracy still surviving?

In the midst of mayhem in Myannar

To autocracy in Russia and China

With so many

Not god abiding

Majority can be right

Majority can be wrong

Who is the best Judge of All?

Certainly it cannot be the god,

Since god made Man

With, so many impurities

The gods hands

Cannot be clean

At the barest of level

The love of god

Or the Bakthi associated with

The Brotherhood of All,

Is in fact,

The exclusion of the Rest

Of all other faiths

Of dissimilar gods

And the breeding ground for

Hate and ill will

The Bakthi is like

The two sides of the coin

One side with love and faith

The other side,

With Hate and Enmity

If all the god loving men and women

Stop propagating

The human and animal sacrifices

Many of the gods

Would die of starvation

Or the lack of nutritive sustenance

And we can let,

Gods fight their Own Wars

In heaven

Then, this planet would be

A nicer place to live,

To Live and Let Live

The energy saved

Then would be enough

To concentrate on preventing

Pollutants of all kinds

Including Noise (and the Web)