Let me talk first of myself. I keep looking at the watch…checking mobile for messages & WhatsApp updates…and when I do not find anything new, I ask in frustration – How long does it take? I become impatient. I seek instant gratification! The world is moving at such a fast pace – I fell I am too slow. A businessman wants to multiply his money in no time…shares or land or business…is his dilemma.
Nobody wants to be slow. Everybody wants money, name, fame, recognition, social status in a jiffy! In other words, everybody wants heaven here, now, immediately. Even one hour of working, they look at that one hour and exclaim…’One hour I need to work for this’! Common, let me make hundred rupees into two hundred rupees in 10 minutes. Do you have any solution? I don’t have time. A lover he looks for his beloved and laments…how long? He doesn’t have time for love! Everything we want fast! We want it damn fu****g fast!
The question is – are we slow? Am I slow? Are you slow? There is no such thing called being fast. If people think they can complete the work fast, they are mistaken. For a rose bud to become flower, it takes its own time. Further, it becomes flower when no one is looking at it. Similarly, we grow old slowly…growth is a continuous process. In the world everything grows, becomes and manifests slowly. The existence is never in a hurry. Please be informed that the universe, the creation, the existence, has eternity as time.
When I look at this concept from the religious point of view – the old religions have lots of time. Old religions mean religions such as Hinduism. A Hindu never looks at his watch impatiently and ask how long does it take. The new religions are in a hurry. New religions mean Christianity, Islam etc. When you see America or the Islamic gulf countries – they want everything fast. They don’t have time. Whereas a Hindu has eternity as time. He says ‘I am unable to meet you in this life; I will meet you in the next life’. If I am unable to marry you in this life, I will marry you in the next! These people believe in the concept of birth and rebirth, therefore we are in no hurry. Thus, the older religions have eternity as time. Christianity and Islam do not believe in rebirth. For them human life span is only between 70-100 years. Hence, they are always in a hurry. The American society, for example, is always in a hurry…very fast pace.
Therefore, Hinduism believes in existence. We are in no hurry. We can wait. We are oblivious to time, space and life. If not this time, perhaps some other time. If not now, then. If not in this life, then next life. Whereas the modern religions like Christianity and Islam are in a hurry. What!! It takes ten minutes to double my hundred rupees to two hundred rupees!!! They have no time because according to their religion life is only once. It begins and ends.
You might ask me, what is it that I talk? Why do I say things which nobody thinks? I am only singing my song. If you want to listen, listen. If you want to read it, read it. A morning bird sings its own song. If you want to listen to it, listen and appreciate. If you don’t want to listen, don’t listen. It’s singing is not dependent on your listening. I am playing my own music on sitar. I am not asking you to come to a conclusion of this being good or bad. In my talks and writings there is nothing that is either good or bad. There is neither beauty nor ugly… no Hindu, no Muslim, no Christian.
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional.
What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but
beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
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