These lines are written in response to Reena’s exploration challenge: 265 on https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/reenas-xploration-challenge-265/
The prompt was the line,” You live in a world, where no god exists”
A beautiful world
There is lot less strife
Less pain and sufferings
No arduous paths to follow
No archaic books to read
Nothing blinds the minds
Or squeezes them in tubes
Forcing them to embrace
Delusions and puerile beliefs
No lasting wars to spread
Messages of transient peace
No hatred for our brethren
Belonging to other streams
There’s no hell or heaven
To terrorise or entice
For you live in a world
Where no god exists
©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
Morals, kindness and empathy as well as hatred, anger and jealousy are basic human traits. No religion can grant you some and no religion can take a few away.
https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/reenas-xploration-challenge-265/
I wonder if gods were invented to create benchmarks – most of them unachievable ones 🙂
True
True. Invented is the key word
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A Beautiful World …. by Shashi Dudhgaonkar
This was a very thoughtful post, I really enjoyed reading it. It really made me think, I am struggling with my own existential questions right now, and the way this was written allowed me to call into question, any forming believes and leave me more open, than before I read it, Thank you.
Thanks for your detail thoughts on the post.
And I also went through the process facing my own existential crisis. Took a long time to gather courage and come out of the shadows of belief systems.
Now when I look back, feel I am in a much better place.
Thanks again
Great poem! Freedom to find the truth!
Thanks a lot. Yes we need the freedom but then that is taken away the moment we are born. And we are gradually moulded into a our family’s belief system.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, Shashi <3
~David
Thanks David. That was one big appreciation. Enjoyed it.