Not A Soul

Soul is the flavour of the season on another site with everyone pontificating on the nature of soul , whether it exists or not and whether it merges with something /someone called God aka Universal Consciousness or pops from one body into another in transmigration /reincarnation.

Why, I suspect the site itself is concerned about souls. The guys there are worried about the souls in their flock being swept away to other networking sites. Otherwise how do you explain one competition following another with promises of attractive prizes?

My dad used to say that there is a 50-50 chance that there is a God .If there is no God fine, but God forbid, what if he exists and is a big egoistic bastard who can’t bear being ignored or see his existence denied? So it would be a good policy to butter him up now and then and not rub him the wrong way, dad said.


Same with the soul, dad said.. There is a 50-50 possibility that it exists. If it doesn’t and we are just biological machines no problem when we conk out because the soul won’t be judged, punished or rewarded by the Guy Upstairs (if He exists that is). But what if we have souls? The Almighty might hit back at us for ignoring and denying him and hurl us down the hell, to be fried or grilled over charcoal. Of course getting fried will give us a really nice golden look, but we may not enjoy the process of reaching that stage.

.I suspect majority of the theists belong to this 50-50 party. But I chose to ignore dad’s advice and deny the existence of the Guy Upstairs and the soul… A relative of mine threatened me with hell for my beliefs. I said I would welcome it because after reading Dante’s Divine Comedy I am convinced that if there is a hell, that’s where all interesting people would make a beeline for. The indifferent ones will go for therapy to purgatory where they will be turned into big bores before being dispatched to heaven. All nature born bores, of course, will head straight to heaven.. Well, you don’t have to be really interesting or bright to hosanna the almighty and do nothing else for eternity do you?

All religions take special care to ensure that their followers feel guilty at the drop of a hat.. Scriptures list even utterly ridiculous, minor actions as sins. I was fascinated with the listing of hells in the Hindu epic Vishnu Purana once. Believe me it has a really interesting list of tortures apart from being seekh kababed and deep fried. And the reason it gives for these tortures is even more interesting. For instance, a Brahmin who participates in a boxing or wrestling match or acts in a play has hell guaranteed for him unless he atones for it by making some fat fellow Brahmin or temple richer with donations.

I am sure if a Brahmin actor appears before almighty and protests that he /she acted in a movie and not in a play, the Guy upstairs (do I have to go on repeating the mantra “if he exists") would dismiss it as a mere technicality and send the poor chap on a permanent vacation to enjoy the tortures of hell with masochistic glee.

Oh actors landing in hell would really brighten it up.. There must be quite a lot of PYTs among them and you can have a gala time with them (Kamalji, stop licking your chops will you!!!!!!).. Now don’t ask the silly question what if they die of old age and land there in that condition. That is utter nonsense. Souls are supposed to be immortal and ageless..

Similarly, I would expect the playboy bunnies to queue up to enter hell because of their “sinful” life on earth.. That should turn hell into heaven.. Only Playboy boss Hugh Heffner shouldn’t land there. Or else the other guys won’t have any chance with the girls..The best thing would be to kick Heffner upstairs into heaven by hook or crook. Spending the eternity in heaven in the boring company of the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa instead of having a rollicking time with the bunnies would be real hell for him. He deserves that for his sins.

. Hey we have been talking about heaven and hell so far. But what about the reincarnation of souls?. Let us not jump around in pride claiming credit for the reincarnation idea. . Even in Greece Pythagoras came up with that concept.
Yes, the same Pythagoras whose theorem was the recurring nightmare of umpteen geometry haters like me. (I do know that the square of the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. But why was I tortured by examiners who tried to force me into proving it?). I am sure Pythagoras along with his fellow geometry wizard and co-sinner Euclid would have taken several incarnations including that of hapless schoolkids facing the wrath of . their teachers for failing to prove the Pythagoras theorem because of the huge amount of bad karma they accumulated from the curses of generations of school students. If there is any justice in the world the duo would be trapped in this karmic cycle for ever without finding salvation.

.That’s all folks for the time being. Let us hope at least a few guys read this. It would be really bad if this is read by not a soul..
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Allright Google see you in hell.. Kamalji and I have already decided that we want to go to hell and not heaven. With you it willbe three is company not a crowd!

 

Kamalji I think our friend Hariharan wants to join us in hell.but at the same time he wants a part of heaven too. A classic case of having the cake and trying to eat it also. He wants a Swarajya combining heaven and hell. The ladies no I don't think they are the hell type (Have you seen the number of ladies posting spiritual threads here?)

 

Viswa you have drained even a litgtle bit of liking I had for heaven. Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa? I thought you would wish Me, Kamalji and ?Googleglass that we would have close encounters with Rambha, Urvasi and Menaka!.

On a serious note torturing young children in the name of celibacy and religion is ghastly. Particularly they are made sanyasis in some maths at an age when they cannot even decide what is good for themselves.The Babas are more interest in babes and bloody lucre than in religion. Even worse are people who treat their religion as some kind of an exclusive club and look down upon those who do not belong and even persecute him. Those who do not have tolerance, let alone acceptance deserve the worst.

 

Gauri03 true. The question of evil puts a big question mark on the existence of God. If there is a God, he is either blind and deaf, incompetent or plain bad.