What is Religion? - Part 1

Hi Buddies,

I ve been thinking what to post for a long time... and today i got something to discuss it here.

During my office lunchtime.. i happened to participate in a philosophical discussion with my Boss.. about something related to religion. It all started when he questioned my colleagues, "what did people do to fight against evil, before the existence of Quran or Bible?" Now you might think, why didnt he mention Bhagavad Gita? :) There is the point i got to know today. I ll come to that in the second half of my writing. This is just my view or my boss influenced view.. so no hard feelings. Just read it as a concept in Physics or Maths.

So, what is EVIL? As we all have heard, there is no good without bad. Likewise, only if if there is evil, we can find the opposite - God or Good.

Defining Evil: "Evil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. Evil is therefore a negative quality."

Statement 1: You cant avoid or live without hunger. Hunger is obvious to every human species. We eat to conquer or get over hunger for a fixed time interval and hunger comes back. Hence hunger is always a constant, Eating is used to eradicate hunger temporarily or reduce the rate of occurrence of hunger.
Statement 2: Most of us would have read this somewhere… Darkness is the absence of light, which means darkness is always present. Light is used to eliminate the darkness to an extent. But Darkness returns when there is no light.
Statement 3: Evil is always there. Good or God is followed to reduce the effect of Evil to an extent.
So, If statement 1 and 2 are true, statement 3 is also true.

This statement reminds me of the question asked at many times… “Is Evil more powerful than God?”
I am not affirming or supporting that evil is powerful, but the universal logic proves that evil is present with or without the existence of God.

Okie.. now back to the definition of Evil. What are we humans do on Earth? Are we in anyway useful to the initial creation of the Universe? Though some of you might say that we created many things and brought it into our living, all these things were created by us only for our comfort and usage. We are giving nothing in return to the Earth. I fact, we are depleting the resources of the Universe day by day, generations after generation. So, more the human lives on Earth, more the rate of destruction of Earth, which you can relate to Global warming, depletion of water resources, melting of Antarctica… and what not. Evil is nothing but destruction. So humans become a part of the destruction of Universe. The amount of destruction one leads to… depends on one’s Karma.

Defining Karma: "Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect."

So, we are basically… fundamentally… born as Evil. It depends on us, to follow God or Good (Karma) inorder to reduce our evil effects to the universe.

Please read Part 2 to know about religions...