These days I am trying to shed away all my beliefs, and trying to explore things myself.
Metaphysics is one of those areas in which you are supposed to believe more than what you experience. For me metaphysics is synonymous to wasting time. Trying to know stuffs life existence of God or soul or life after death might mystify most of the people, but the question is what is the need of it?
What happens after death? This is a common question that lures everyone. But we will definitely find it out the day we die. If we exist even after that, then we know that there is life after death and what it is like, and there is a soul and God! Till then when we are on Earth lets not waste our time thinking about death or other such metaphysical stuffs.
For me living and loving life and living the moment is everything! One who is able to do that gets it all. If there is something beyond death then he surely goes into the Kingdom of God or breaks the cycle of life(or whatever those sages and so called God men say!).
Living life in itself is a tough task. As it is well said. “Very few people live on this earth, most of them merely exist.”
By answering questions like ‘Is there a soul?’ or ‘Are there Ghosts?’ don’t really help you much in answering the basic question ‘How to live life?’ The answer lies in history. Life of those who really lived their life the fullest give us a glimpse of how to live life. The basic question is not ‘Is there a God?’ or ‘Does he answer to our prayers?’ The more important question is ‘How to feed the billion hungry people?’
The so called enlightened people, if really are full of knowledge, then why don’t they give us the answers of the more realistic questions rather than answering the unknowable, non provable abstract puzzles?
Ask them about issues like poverty, hunger and terrorism, and you must expect a very vague answer like “This is not the real world? Leave the attachment to this world and wake up from your sleep to see the real world.’
In my view the best way of running away from the burden of responsibilities, by proclaiming this world to be unreal!
Science is indeed the most important subject that forms the base of Human knowledge. It includes Maths(for understanding science), Language(for its transmission), Physics(for inventions), Chemistry(for Building things), Biology(for treating the ill), Economics(for meeting our needs), Political science(for running a society),Cultural Studies(for knowing people), Geography(for knowing our planet), Philosophy(for finding the ways to happiness) and History(for knowing our past). Literature and Arts are like the icing on the cake that adds flavor in our lives.
Metaphysics is an area that must be left for sages and hermits who have decided to escape away from this world, as the subject has nothing to do with the world in which we live!
British Historian Arnold Toynbee tells us that “It is recorded of the Buddha that, whenever any of His disciples asked Him to expound the metaphysical basis of his system He always refused to discuss metaphysics.”
I am not opposed to Metaphysics, but I hold that that wasting your precious time on discussing about abstract issues gets us nowhere. Neither do I completely disagree to the existence of God nor am I opposed to the existence of soul. I am only opposed to its discussion, because you can never get to any answer! Its all about your beliefs. Somebody believes in some Guru, somebody in Gita, someone in Quran, someone in orthodox scientists and all have contradictions.
As none of us have rally seen the truth, so somebody denies the existence of God, someone alls him the potter(Christianity) and someone considers him to be a performer(Hinduism). All notions have their own strengths and weaknesses so knowing the absolute truth requires a complete dive in the metaphysical world, leaving this world completely.
Believing in someone is the greatest foolishness as everyone says a different truth. So you have a choice. Either leave these metaphysical questions, or else leave this world.
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