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Religion and Me

This topic has been on my mind since my last blog....'Religion and Me'

We r born 'human' but depending on our family's orientation,our religion is decided.. then we go to school we r taught abt the religions followed in the world...yet again classification of human beings...similar thoughts r instilled in us since childhood...n gradually our minds r conditioned to believe tht the ones who follow diff religion r diff frm us...

If we dig deep into the books be it 'Gita', 'Bible' or 'Quran' they all talk about 2 things... 'Humanity' and 'Compassion'. They dunn talk abt 'Hindu', 'Muslim' or 'Christian' for tht matter... They dint create walls around us..

But over the yrs we hv forgotten the utmost teaching of 'Humanty', 'Kindness' and 'Compassion' n started giving more importance to 'Religion'...We r slaves of our ego, and the quest of supremacy n our focus is more on the 'Fence' tht divide us rather thn anything else...

I hv been part of this system (n I still am) and my mind was also conditioned with similar views..for yrs I prayed, went to temples regularly, even followed weekly fasts... But now a ques comes to my mind.. Does all this changed the course of my life??? HELL NO!!! It is the same as it ws before....

Now I strongly feel tht if some POWER is thr, it is everywhr... It hs no shape, no form n no name. It resides everywhr... It guides me as as much as it guides u... It punishes me as much as it punishes u... I dunn need to go to any temple to bow my head to pay my gratitude for tht matter... I can do it anywhr n everywhr.... My beliefs reside in me n no one can alter them...!!!

....cabbie in Dubai

Traveling is a bundle of joy for me... It gives me a sense of freedom, independence...it makes me feel liberated, complete and content...!!!

With traveling comes the stories, incidents, strangers who meet you for a short while but leave a mark on ur memories...

I wanna share one recent encounter with an Iranian guy on a relaxed Friday morning in Dubai. Mind U, Friday is Sunday in Dubai...

My flight was around 4 and I had 3 hours in hand to shop around...in scorching summers, Dubai is best at its malls :) :) So I asked for a cab. This boy picked me from my hotel n asked where I wanted to go..n my answer was Burjuman.. with sheer innocence he asked why Burjuman...why not go to some places which r relatively less expensive..

n from thr we started chatting.. He shared with me that he is from Iran n came here six months ago only. Quite confused as we all are in our early 20's, he was unsure of his decision to come to UAE for earning. Only son, lost his father few months back n his mother asked him to relocate and earn livelihood for the family. He left his electrical engineering course in middle and went there to become a cabbie...n now unable to decide what to do n where to go....

Wid such a simplicity and innocence that stranger shared his story and his dilemma with me...I was awed by his innocence and his openess n at the same time I felt sorry for him...n for long I was thinking about him...Why God throws such difficult choices in front of us where we have to choose between our dreams n life??? But thats the way life is....

His name is HASSAN n I still have his number saved wid me wid 2 thoughts... mayb next time when I go there, I can find him...or may b he's gone back to Iran to pursue his dreams......