Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Let's Pull Down The Pedestals!

I am thinking. What will be the world like, if we all pull Jesus, Krishna and Gautama Buddha down from their divine pedestals and 'de-deify' them - a world where they will not be treated as gods or god-incarnates, but just as men of exemplary qualities and supreme wisdom who lived once upon a time and whose divinity is nothing more than the mist of Time that puts them at a distance from us? 

What will be the world like when we all stop worshiping them and start - or, at least try - emulating them? Just imagine - a sea of humanity that is filled with all god-like beings, everyone in love with everyone else, everyone respecting everybody else, everyone in peace with him/herself and the whole of Existence around, everyone awake and everyone aware! 

Imagine, billions of gods (and goddesses) walking upon this planet! What stops us from aspiring to be like those supreme beings instead of merely putting their highest wisdom into narrow compartments of religion, and quarreling in their name?!

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