Snehashree Mandal
Over the years, man created a world mirroring what we remember of how gods shaped us. Thus, we say we are mirror images of God. Does it not then mean we could be gods, as well as be humans? In Hinduism, we say “Har Har Mahadev.” We say, it means everyone is God. It then may mean everyone has the potential of becoming gods. It means the God particle also rests in each of us. It means we could become godlike.
But strangely, we chose and believed in chaos. The chaos we witnessed all around us. Something the man is incapable of stabilizing and what man could not stabilize or the man could not understand either, became the new God. Few men tried hard to stabilize situations by creating an array of constant measures supporting our action. But whether we like it or not, our perishable forms are still not enough to build what gods have built for us. The biggest of all jokes is that we still don’t know how to change the formulae of man since that is the only path to becoming Gods.
Until we don’t become gods, this randomness will keep ingesting our generations and will keep making us its slaves, keeping us mortal and ephemeral. We have tried keeping around hope while we keep stifling the rest of them—choice, coincidence, luck, chance, and faith. We celebrate festivals meaninglessly now. Since we are everyday trying to kill everything that could make a difference to us, put us in the way of God’s touch. It is true that by doing so, we are merely trying to expand the parameters of our existential abilities.
However, that cannot be done, since we know very well that when we stretch a rubber band only in one direction, after some time it breaks off. Without understanding it in its entirety, we have created huge branches of science from our own limitedness. We have built machines that we hope can expand our abilities. But how, if we are ourselves so limited, how do we create machines that are unlimited? The first exercise to undertake should not be a way of deception—deceiving ourselves. The first way should be a way where we gather all that we have to about our limitedness. Only then, if we proceed to a better understanding, can it help us evolve.
(Views expressed are personal opinion of the author.)
