Billi raasta kaat gayi

I hear these superstitious things everywhere, and it irritates me to the core. I don't understand, that how one's day will be spoiled because a black cat crossed their way. This is only one of the millions of superstitious beliefs that exist in the minds of people around us. It seriously leaves me amazed. I always ask my mom that why do we believe in all this, she asks me to shut my mouth and do as said, because, even she doesn't know the answer to this question. Even she would have been asking this question from her mother since childhood, and her mother would have been giving the same answer.

Recently, my grandfather passed away, thirteen days of rituals were performed, in which thousands of rupees must have been spent. And when I asked my grandmother, why are we doing it, she said " so that his soul rests in peace". I wonder how would his soul rest in peace, when his sons are spending hard earned money on performing rituals for thirteen whole days, serving lunch to relatives, feeding the pandits, paying them high "Dakshinas" for uttering the mantras and other things that I don't understand. And, this doesn't end in thirteen days. Some 21 pandits were served after the completion of one month, and a hawan was performed after the completion of 3 months. I don't see any logic behind all these ceremonies and rituals. The one who has passed away, his deeds will decide whether his soul rests in peace or goes to heaven or whatever happens after death. The mourn of his loss should be in our hearts. Feeding the poor is also a very good deed in his remembrance. But, why these absurd rituals?

We go to the temple, we pray to the god, we respect him, we have faith in him. Very fine. But, people also create strange beliefs related to god. First of all, monday- shiv ji's day, tuesday-hanuman ji's day, thursday- sai baba and so on.. If the creators of these beliefs were dedicated enough, then they would have considered each day as god's special day. People flock together at the hanuman temple on tuesday, sai baba temple on thursday and so on. They believe that, if you will go to hanuman temple on tuesday, he will listen faster.
I believe, if you actually have faith in him, every day is tuesday for you. Why wait for tuesday to visit the temple? Go whenever you feel like, go whenever you seek god. It may be everyday, once a week, or once a month, any day of the week, any date.

Recently, solar eclipse was seen. Ten days before it, and the news channels had these baba's, the fortune tellers predicting how one's life will be affected by the solar eclipse according to their sunsign. Strange, very strange it is. And on the top of that, they suggest ways to overcome these negative effects. Most of these ways include filling the pockets of pandits and baba's like him.
God is within us, we ought to have faith in him. Our life is in our hands. We make our own destiny, not these baba's and pandits.

You all must have been watching the serial balika vadhu on TV. It shows hardcore reality. It still exists, the life of widows and young girls are miserable in villages, and even in cities. I strongly disapprove of these superstitions and many others, that exist in our society. These are simply creations of people's own minds and have been followed through generations. Its YOUNGISTAN now, and we can liberate our society from the shackles of these beliefs which do not let people live freely.

Faith

FAITH- Actually, I never understood the exact meaning of faith. I guess, most of us don't. Whatever little I understand, I am writing.

I've heard:
"Faith is to believe what you can't see"
We can't see God,We don't know whether he is there or not, but we have faith in him, that he is the one, who has brought us into existence. We know that it's him who is responsible for the good and the bad, the smiles and the tears, the success and the failure. He makes it happen.
Our elders always say "BHAGWAN JO KARTE HAIN ACCHE KE LIYE KARTE HAIN".
When bad times fall, it is hard to believe this very line, it becomes hard to believe that whatever happens, happens for good. We often think, that if it is bringing so much of grief to us, how can it be for good? FAITH is the answer to everything. We should try to have faith in him, faith in the creator of this world.

One of my friends says you should think that you are God's favourite child. You should have faith, that he will not do any harm to you. Don't feel sad because something happened to you, smile because it happened. It saved you from further harm.

We can't define love, but we know that it exists. We have faith in our parents, our family that they love us. We know they won't cause us any harm.

Only if having complete faith was something as easy as saying all this, life would be full of happiness. We would not cry if something bad happened to us, because we would have complete faith in the almighty. We would not cry because our parents scolded us, or didn't fulfill our wish, because we would have complete faith in them.
I believe that we should have faith only in the God and our parents. Because they are our creators. They are responsible for our existence. We are a part of them. They are the only ones who love us selflessly.
No one else deserves our faith. Because no one else can love us selflessly. No one else in this material world will sacrifice their happiness for ours, no one else will love us more than they love themselves.

I have faith in god, that he will give the best I deserve, he will be fair in his decisions towards me, and I will be fair too, in my deeds.
Regards to those who love me.
:) :)