Musing : La Illaha – There Is No God!
By
Colonel K N Das
In Jainism and Buddhism, there isn’t a concept of god at all. He just does not exist.These two thought processes are the crops of Indic world. Unlike the Brahmanic (Hindu/Sanatan), Abrahamic (Jew, Christian and Muslim) and Parsee, these all are extra Indic faiths, that is of non Indic origin.
India has been a Godless country of hard working people of a Hydrolic Civilisation, where water has been in abundance generating plenty of resources and consistancy and continuity of jobs.
This facilitated enough surplus to sustain large urban settlements. Which were as good as any township of our time.Their present then was pleasing and prosperous, devoid of any ugly patch of past, packed with perils of scarcity.
Thus need of dreams and hopes of pleasant future did not intrude into their mind as a panecea .Hence, in the discovered ruins of their townships we do not find any temple or places of worships.
People with concept of God for guidance and solace are from resource scarce areas like deserts and steppes. Where water was and still is, generally not available in plenty. One had to move from place to place chasing resources, basically food (hunter – gatherer phase of human life) that is chasing herds of wild beasts, who themselves went searching for fresh pastures to feed. So with passage of time they became herdmen from initial hunters and graduated into community of nomads.
For other necessities of life they went to these settlements, where they begged, borrowed and bartered in best of times and stole, robbed and raided at the worst of times.Their preys were beasts in the wild and citizens of settled world of civilized people.
Lives of nomads are insecure ,insecurity breeds anxieties, whose remedy is Hope. Such people when they found plenty of games to hunt and plenty of herbs and fruits to gather and rich settlements to plunder, became immencely happy. And often wondered who gave them that ? This question became part of their mind.
And when they graduated to herdmen from hunter and moved from an old pastures to a new one and found one easily,to feed their herds or found a new settlement to plunder at ease , they thought some one gave all that to them.They started to search for an answer. The original sin – the Quest for God imerged.
With passage of time from robbers they elevated themselves to warriors! They praised new ventures of looters and free booters. Skill of a thief and robber became the valour of the brave.
They were convinced that some one gave them as it was not the act of any one from their fellow being in their surroundings, so it must be an outsider. Who was not seen, but has command over many and most resources.
This may have facilated the concept of omnipresence and omni potenance of god.
Thus must have the concept of God germinated in the minds of vulnerable and simple nomads.Clever person must have usurped the role of a thought manager,putting himself as a middle man to go in between.This must have given rise to priesthood and concept of barter system must have taken the form of offerings to please the god.
Sustainence and survival were always the daily nightmares of the nomads. They were always in search of shelter both physical and emotional.
Herdsmen had all the time to idle around when their herds were grazing about, so their idle minds really turned into the devil’s workshops. They could easily differentiate themselves from their beasts that were their food.They learnt to differentiate and used it vigorously there after till date.
They created the concept of me and you, us and them, creator and created. A whole binary world came into existence since then.
These faciliated subsequently the concept of divide and rule, of Slave and Master, of King and Subject, of Digvijay and Aswamedh, Jihad and Crusade, Arya and Malechha, of Dwij and Sudra, of Jews and Gentiles, of Christians and Pagans, of Muslim and Kafir, of White and Black, of European and non European, of Han and Barbarian, the divide is endless and the chasm is ever widening.
Near home in India Subcontinent we have Dwij (from Vedic infiltrators and Hunic invaders) and Sudra (Indic Originals) in Hindus , Ashraf(invader Arabs, Arabised Turks and Mongols) and Ajlaf & Arzal (Sudra Converts) in Muslim.
It is the people with baggage of god who keep disturbing the world peace and are the cause of exploitations.
God seeme to be far from truth and close to the Devil. A tool of exploitation for the elite and and the opium for the helpless masses.
Clever people create myth, cosmology and long literatures and cart load of philosophy to perpetuate the agony on fellow human, specially when found weak and vulnerable.
The predatory instinct sinks into DNA.The religious divides and conflicts world wide stands witness to this. In the subcontinent it persists since mid 40s more overtly than ever before. Conflict over Kashmir and ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits are there to prove it.
The poverty of the masses(Sudra-Arzal) does not matter to the masters(Dwij-Asharaf).Development that could be the tool to eradicate the poverty has no place of prominence, either in social or political discourses.
It is all about god centric religions and castes. Both humiliating imports in the Subcontinent brought in by the invading elements. All conflicts and chaos of the subcontinent are but नूरा कुश्ती and चोंचले of Dwij-Asharaf combine, whose DNA is laced with foreign predatory genes.
A rethink is required.
