Of GOD,Love and Sundry Other Things

A lot of people would have heard the joke below but I would like to start this post with the joke and here it is: One day a young boy got up in the middle of his biology class at school and said to the teacher - "My father says that we have descended from the monkeys." On hearing this, his teacher replied - "After this class, we will discuss your family's problems!" There has been a lot of research and talk about the origin of mankind and about how we seem to have evolved from the apes. I, for one, am very sceptical about this theory of the evolution of man from monkeys. If we really have evolved from them, why are so many monkeys still around? Why haven't all the monkeys evolved into human beings? This brings us to a very simplistic way of looking at the existence of life on out planet - it was created by the entity - God, call him by any name - Eshwar or Allah or whatever name you want to give to him. It is my firm belief that all these different names re...

A lot of times, in our lives, we encounter situations when a question arises in our minds - why me? This question arises, in most of the cases, when we are in a 'difficult' situation and we feel that GOD (or the creator or life itself) is or has been very unkind to us and that we do not deserve to be so shabbily treated by HIM (or HER - depending on what kind of GOD you believe in). And, by a 'difficult' situation, I MEAN a really difficult situation, like, for eg. , take the case of a friend of mine whose child has been diagnosed with a particular kind of illness of the mind. The fact that the child is very young and also suffering from this illness makes it a huge challenge for her parents to teach her some of the basic things. On a lot of occasions, the parents of this child become very frustrated and upset and I think, probably, the questions like 'why our child?' and 'why us?' could be arising in their minds too. I have myself faced innumerable such...