Utopia is a real or imaginary society, place, state, etc., considered to be perfect or ideal. As a kid Utopia is what we are taught; Utopia is what we grew up believing in. The police officer will always be upright; an engineer will know all the laws of engineering, a relative will always be good to you, politicians are suppose to do good job etc. etc. We are made to believe all is well in the world and we had to simply grow up and go about the usual business where everything would be fair and right.
Then the dreadful thing happens, all of us really grow up and came face to face with reality of life. The things we never thought existed stare us in our face. We now hear things like “life is not a level playing field” “world works in its own ways” “laws of science don’t work in life’ “who told you I will support you” “pay me to get work done” “be careful of everybody”.
Some of us accept the new reality and some of us take time. Finally each of us find a way to cope with it. In many of us it manifests in our behavior “Some of us became gregarious to avoid facing the truth” “Some of us became contemplative” “Some of us just ignored it and got immersed oneself in our lives and , work and family” “Some became activist” etc. etc. We all call it being focused and trying to achieve something in life, may be that is not that bad, though at the same time we forgot that most of us are making compromises. .
The World has both God and Devil holds true. Pick any religion, philosopher, writer or even simple rationalist, all will agree with this. The actual words can be, “different shades of grey”, “two sides of a coin” or as simple as “good and bad in the world. Though all would agree and believe that world has two faces to it, and I prefer to call it GOD and DEVIL.
Most of us are introduced to God very early in life, and all about him is taught to us, though we are kept away from devil by all well meaning elders. We are suppose to believe in God and act as per God’s will and not the Devil’s However the challenge is that when we move away from our support system, we face the devil, and worse we are left alone to deal with him when, nobody has ever told / taught us how to? Then one day it dawns upon us that the world is made of good and evil and then we make peace with devil. We understand that for the good to exist, evil will be lurking behind, for god to prevail, devil will be present.
When we make peace with devil, we are called grown up? We now know how to manage the world? We know how to handle situations? In the context of devil, where we face the devil i.e. corruption, bullying or just plain simple lying, we still learn to live with it. That is also called coming to age. Though making peace with devil is the worst thing that happens to a human being. That is when a human being dies. When we become living corpses? Look at corporate world full of living corpses, the flawed goal of life is to get next promotion; spirituality is a good word to write essay on, physical fitness is required to manage the rigors of the world hence patience required for yoga isn’t possible. Corporate world was an example; even worse kinds we find may be in government where most don’t even have a goal, not even a flawed one like next promotion, as well businessmen chasing the goal of making money? These all are way of camouflaging our inability to subdue devil. In all this we camouflage our peace with devil in the name of I have do it for family? I have to show my parents or somebody that I am can achieve something?
This peace with devil by each one of us makes us a bit of devil ourselves, it makes devil stronger. Since devil like god also stays within us. The small parts of devils in all of us in summation create the bigger devil in society and system. What this devil does to society and system, we all know and have felt at some time or other in smaller or greater degree.
So may be at some point, we need a little education about devil during growing up. A small amount of sensitivity to know how to manage this devil, and little amount of training how not to fall for devil with in us.
In a sense to tell us “How not to grow up, by not making peace with devil, and how not to fall for devil within, make us understand that its small devils inside which make of bigger devil of society? How to grow up by following God within us and subduing/ minimizing/ nullifying devil within?
In a sense to understand there is devil out there though don’t make peace with it, since that only feeds it, and makes it even more dangerous for me, for you, for my family, for your family and for society.
Then the dreadful thing happens, all of us really grow up and came face to face with reality of life. The things we never thought existed stare us in our face. We now hear things like “life is not a level playing field” “world works in its own ways” “laws of science don’t work in life’ “who told you I will support you” “pay me to get work done” “be careful of everybody”.
Some of us accept the new reality and some of us take time. Finally each of us find a way to cope with it. In many of us it manifests in our behavior “Some of us became gregarious to avoid facing the truth” “Some of us became contemplative” “Some of us just ignored it and got immersed oneself in our lives and , work and family” “Some became activist” etc. etc. We all call it being focused and trying to achieve something in life, may be that is not that bad, though at the same time we forgot that most of us are making compromises. .
The World has both God and Devil holds true. Pick any religion, philosopher, writer or even simple rationalist, all will agree with this. The actual words can be, “different shades of grey”, “two sides of a coin” or as simple as “good and bad in the world. Though all would agree and believe that world has two faces to it, and I prefer to call it GOD and DEVIL.
Most of us are introduced to God very early in life, and all about him is taught to us, though we are kept away from devil by all well meaning elders. We are suppose to believe in God and act as per God’s will and not the Devil’s However the challenge is that when we move away from our support system, we face the devil, and worse we are left alone to deal with him when, nobody has ever told / taught us how to? Then one day it dawns upon us that the world is made of good and evil and then we make peace with devil. We understand that for the good to exist, evil will be lurking behind, for god to prevail, devil will be present.
When we make peace with devil, we are called grown up? We now know how to manage the world? We know how to handle situations? In the context of devil, where we face the devil i.e. corruption, bullying or just plain simple lying, we still learn to live with it. That is also called coming to age. Though making peace with devil is the worst thing that happens to a human being. That is when a human being dies. When we become living corpses? Look at corporate world full of living corpses, the flawed goal of life is to get next promotion; spirituality is a good word to write essay on, physical fitness is required to manage the rigors of the world hence patience required for yoga isn’t possible. Corporate world was an example; even worse kinds we find may be in government where most don’t even have a goal, not even a flawed one like next promotion, as well businessmen chasing the goal of making money? These all are way of camouflaging our inability to subdue devil. In all this we camouflage our peace with devil in the name of I have do it for family? I have to show my parents or somebody that I am can achieve something?
This peace with devil by each one of us makes us a bit of devil ourselves, it makes devil stronger. Since devil like god also stays within us. The small parts of devils in all of us in summation create the bigger devil in society and system. What this devil does to society and system, we all know and have felt at some time or other in smaller or greater degree.
So may be at some point, we need a little education about devil during growing up. A small amount of sensitivity to know how to manage this devil, and little amount of training how not to fall for devil with in us.
In a sense to tell us “How not to grow up, by not making peace with devil, and how not to fall for devil within, make us understand that its small devils inside which make of bigger devil of society? How to grow up by following God within us and subduing/ minimizing/ nullifying devil within?
In a sense to understand there is devil out there though don’t make peace with it, since that only feeds it, and makes it even more dangerous for me, for you, for my family, for your family and for society.
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