Bakthi, the Prayer
Long time ago,
One of my Indian friends,
Expressed the view
That there are 800 million
(Now over billion -give an indication of the time of this discussion-and one who reads this should investigate the doubling time of human population, especially India and China)
Indians in India,
And Equally there are
800 hundred million
Gods to Worship
What I am to do?
Whom, I should Worship?
My prompt and curt
Respond was
Worship nobody,
Just like me
As a simple Buddhist
BUT my dear friend
The problem in Ceylon is,
There are 8 million Buddhists
Looking for some sort of god
Or divine incarnation from India
(specially politicians)
In spite,
The majority
Of beings are non-abiding Buddhists
Going back in history,
Five thousand years or more
India the seat of divine incarnation
Of all gods
There were Rama, Ravana and Sita
Who are still revered as gods
And the Hanuman
Who built the Hunuman Way
Or the Rama-Satu Bridge
To recapture Sita
From Ravana who was a celebrity
All the gods
From Hindu to Judaism
Need Bakthi as a nutritive element
Or an animal sacrifice
Or some other sacrifice
For survival
Of the ancient conceptual wisdom
When Christ objected
To animal sacrifices
The Roman democrats
Crucified him
By majority Vote
If the same rule is applied
In the Modern Day
There won’t be any democrats
Or any meritocrats
Left in this world for posterity
The sacrifice of the Christ
Was the beginning
Of Human Misadventure
Of the history of gods
And their human counterparts
In the name of democracy
In this modern world
With so many adherents of its merits
Barring Russia and China
How come the democracy,
Still surviving?
In the midst of
Mayhem and Autocracy
From Myanmar to Zimbabwe
How come the U.N.O
Enshrine the human dignity
Devoid of god’s intervention?
The majority can be right
Or the majority can be wrong
Who is the best judge of all
It should not be
Or could not be
The All Mighty God
The God created,
The man with all impurities
And he is culpable of all
Human deeds
Good or Bad
Why NOT?
At the barest level
The love of god
Created the Evil by Exclusion
Of all other faiths of dissimilar gods
The breeding ground for hate and ill-will
It is just
The two side of the coin
On one side love and faith
The other side hate and enmity
If all the god loving men and women
Stop human sacrifices
As well as animal sacrifices
Many of the gods will die of starvation
Or the lack of nutritive Elements of Sustenance
Or Hate of other Faiths
We can let the gods
Fight their own Holy Wars in Heaven
Then only,
This world would be a nicer place
For us to “Live and Let Live”
The energy saved then
Could be better utilized
For saving the Planet Earth
From pollution
Including the noise in decibels!
