MEETING WITH MAHASHAKTI

Sattar and his family

Sattar became a recluse and lived separately from his family.His wife Lubina and son Imtiaz were upset with him.I came to know that he had beaten up them both because they were idol worshippers which according to Islam was haram. Lubina Madam had told us openly she thought Narendra Modi was the greatest and the strongest Prime Minister India had produced.She was extremely bitter about Muslim men.But Sattar could never openly say in my face that I was trying to convert them into Hinduism.But he indulged in back-biting. He had never said that he didn't believe in the creation of an Islamic state. He still had a soft corner in his heart for Terroristan(Pakistan).

"The hard-core Mussalman doesn't and can't believe in logic and reason. But the new generation Muslim youths are challenging their elders who follow their faith blindly and rigidly. The supreme evil and a veritable lie called monotheism in the sense of the illiterate everywhere is going to blow off this beautiful earth.When humanity will acquire the insight and wisdom to recognise and respect the different manifestations of God,then alone can there be tolerance,peace,harmony and brotherhood in this world of mutual hatred and destruction and acts of violence. I don't know whether my religion says
'do this or do that.' I don't feel the need to go through those texts of ancient wisdom either. I am a living being and the original wisdom was already there deep within me."

Pranay got an opportunity to pounce on me for my self-contradictory remark.He asked me a silly question.I had told him to read different religious texts.I had to make it clear to him that I had instructed him to read those texts with a scientific spirit and with total detachment. My aim was to trigger doubt and suspicion in his mind so that he would enquire and investigate into the Absolute practically.The great scientist Albert Einstein said religion was blind without science. How great he truly was !

When I look at the Brahmin priests,
Christian priests,Maulanas and priests of others faiths,I get overwhelmed with pity.Alas they are all blind people who are participating in a driving contest. You know what and where they might crash into....I am struck with sorrow to see young people going to temples,churches and mosques with faith that is complete.They are the lethal nuclear bombs in the making now.

"Uncle, you have always told us that faith is always blind..!" This was Imtiaz,my dearest student ever.

"Imtiaz,I have always told you to verify the truth of something,be sure of it and then have faith in it. Don't you find it painful to see so many young people most obediently going to the places of their religion wishing to ask God for jobs,fame and splendid wives....?They themselves are immeasurable reservoirs of priceless gems,jewels, rubies and diamonds...! But they are mad after coals,gravels and stones.....?Can there be
anything more pathetic than this?Only if the young people could disbelieve! Only if they could develop an irresistible fondness for that scientific temper...!With which the saints of India had started their search for God and Truth !"

"Must we not read holy books..?" This was again a stupid question. I had got tired of answering this question. How many times had I told them to acquire some self-realisation first ,and then read our philosophical texts..? Without self-knowledge there no question of understanding the Absolute.

No one was in fact able to believe that they were a thousand times more valuable than the silly things they were asking God for....No one was able to realise that monotheism was a dangerous and fatal drug for the masses everywhere. The yogis and sadhus living in the Himalayas have full faith in One God.Their faith is not harmful. But the ordinary humans who always emphasize a Master-Slave relationship are caught in the net dualism of dualism.They are the short-sighted maniacs drugged with a fixed dose of dualism sufficient enough to slit the throats of their brothers..This dualism exists in the hearts of ignorant people who can go to impossible degrees to win the favour of their imaginary God.They are the stupid ones who actually believe in dualism but ignorantly claim to be the followers of monotheism and stride the Earth as superior to the worshippers of idols." There is no one or nothing called God in the sense of an individual..."

"Right...! Right...! You are right Uncle ..!"

"Eh...!As if you got the meaning...Ha..ha..
ha.." Pranay was really a bully. Imtiaz got upset and angry with the bully.

Imtiaz said,"Fool..Try to understand..What uncle says is, a true seer sees God everywhere and in everything including himself.Then there is no possibility of danger and violence from him. He is bound to see his enemy in his own existence...Got it you devil... ? After self-realisation,the seeker prefers to say 'we' and not "I."

I was puzzled because I was sure Imtiaz could not have uttered those words without the knowledge of the self.I said to him,
"Imtiaz,how come you speak like a philosopher? Did you have any kind of experience? I knew a long while ago Imtiaz was having strange dreams. I went to his house and talked to Lubina Madam. I came to that the boy stayed awake long into the night and read extensively. His mother further informed me that he was not at all sleeping at night and whenever she got up in the middle of the night,he found the boy's room lighted.There were altercations and verbal duels between him and his mother's parents.All of them were highly upset because the boy they thought was the doom of a large number of pious Muslim men and women....According to them,idol worship was the greatest and the most heinous sin in Islam. Now they suspected some foul play going on between me and Lubina Madam...Now Sattar avoided talking to me if at all we met by chance.