HEAVEN AND HELL ARE A DELIBERATE PLOY TO EXPLOIT THE BELIEVERS.

By Murli Chari

Heaven and hell have been invented to keep people under reins. The initial intention was good and that was to keep people away from committing sins and crimes. The philosophy is something like, if we good deeds we will be assured of a place in heaven where you will enjoy the abundance of everything. On the other hand, if we commit sins and crimes we will be designated to hell where you will be fried in a cauldron of burning oil. Though the intentions are laudable it is a figment of imagination. Over a period of time, it became a truth. It is like a Gobelin truth. When a lie is told a million times we start believing. Despite having all the logical tools and great intellect even the so-called educated people fall prey to the shenanigans of the priests. The religious heads thrive on the gullibility of the naïve masses. Science and technology have made rapid strides and has answers for virtually every natural phenomenon. Human beings have the proclivity to trust the religious leaders as they are considered to be the apostles of the almighty. Our blind faith in the purveyors of these solutions to secure us a place in the heaven makes us vulnerable to the gimmicks of the religious heads.

Heaven is nothing but our good virtues and the feel-good factor. When we are on high morale, we experience divinity within ourselves. The feelings of compassion, love, humanity, and camaraderie gives us a psychedelic state. We are filled with exuberance and exhilaration. Hell on the other hand, is when we indulge in wicked and inhuman activities and the attendant misery we experience. Our whole body resonates with supreme bliss. Nobody can say with certainty of what happens after we die. It is still a mystery. Most of the rituals post death may or may not be true. None of us has a germane rational answer to this. We have many historical evidence to the effect that this philosophy has been misused to perpetrate carnage, violence, devastation, and mayhem. In the medieval times for the lack of knowledge many of the occurrences were attributed to the mythical and illusory God to explain. Now, we can prove many things with the help of analytical reasoning. This theory of heaven and hell is double-edged knife. Many philanderers have got away with cardinal sins and crimes on women as their peccadillos will be punished after their mortal remains are buried/burnt. Nobody has a firsthand experience of heaven or hell. We can continue to follow these tenets if they honestly serve the purpose.

It is very lucidly clear that the purveyors of these abodes are indulging in skullduggery and chicanery as they promise the same things in abundant measure which we lack on this planet. We have due to our hubris, hedonism, Narcissism, violence, and hubris created a veritable hell on earth. If only all of us coalesce our energies, resources and focus on creating a heaven on earth we would have done our creator a great service. This singular contribution is what we need to do to assure egalitarian affluence for all.

We, as human beings have immense potential to experience heaven on earth. Science and technology coupled with true humanism, compassion and spiritualism can deliver on this promise. Many are sacrificing their lives in the mistaken belief that they will be assured of a place in heaven if they carry out violent acts all in the name of God and religion. We need to bury the hatchets and take on the cudgels of humanity with nonchalance. We, all human beings, and the legions of cornucopia endowed to us are being squandered with impunity. We are taking things for granted for all the blessings bestowed on us by the sprawling universe. We need to evoke the humanitarian elements ensconced deep in the recesses of our minds to treat the whole world as a single family. We can have all the abundance for everyone of us on this planet itself rather than relying on some mythical dream of heaven, paradise and Firdaus. We human beings have forsaken our divinely qualities are created a

veritable hell on this planet. It’s a clarion call to the whole of humanity to commit with heart and soul to make this dream a reality.