A journey towards the ultimate truth

Month: June 2022

‘Yama’ – God of Death

Descriptions of Yamraj as the deity of death can be found in Garud Puran and other mythological texts. Garud Purān and other mythological texts are full of untruth. Yamrāj stands depicted in these texts as having a very fearful body and a width of many kilometres. He is shown as the devta of death, the one who snatches the life of people. He seems to have assistants or messengers who inflict varieties of unbearable torture on sinners in the nether worlds (Hells).

What is True Devotion?

As we find in the world and practised by most people, devotion essentially involves ritualistic practices for self-appeasement. Something like visiting temples, shrines or mosques, worshipping Gods and Goddesses, offering prayers/namaz, formal worship with lit wicks soaked in clarified butter, chanting hymns, donating money, and going on pilgrimage. The question is, why do we do these and what for? By and large, it is for gaining material benefits or getting good husbands or wives for our daughters or sons or health and wealth. We also do these acts with the aspiration to attain peace, health and wealth.

Life and Truth

What is ‘Real Life’? We need to understand it objectively. What we call Life is essentially a perpetual struggle from womb to tomb.

Importance of Moment

When talking of life, we can say that ‘life is all about moment and decisiveness’. We witness that life goes from moment to moment, and the future moves into the past, or we can say the future becomes the past. And we end up not doing many things because of our indecisiveness.