World of make-believe

Clinging on to the ancient traditions, regarded as a personified Kali Mata and worshipped by many Hindus and Buddhists, a girl is elected from a Newar caste of Buddhists in Nepal as a result of a meticulous edifying manner to be “living goddess”. And once she goes into the age of adolescence, she is retired. Hence, there is a process of “replacement” for such goddesses. 

Few years back a 3-year-old boy was slaughtered heartlessly into pieces in Uttar Pradesh by dreadful neighborhood lady and her two scandalous sons. This carnage was committed outrageously just on the heinous belief of a nefarious Tantrik, that all curse and ill fate would be removed from her only if she presented human blood to Kali Mata. 

   

During an academic research on one of the holiest Indian temples, Kamakhya near Guwahati, it was revealed that the awful rituals of Nara bali, human sacrifice offered in order to gain blessings from mother goddess Shakti, by one of the Hindu cult, have been recommenced and go on incessantly. Reportedly, the Kamakhya Temple attracts some 10,000 devotees daily, but certain aspects of the temple’s ceremonies, including human sacrifices, have been kept closely-guarded secrets (BBC News). 

It goes without saying that the majority rural population of India is extensively illiterate and ignorant augmented by its reckless fallacy. They imprudently believe that they can obtain their irrational asylum through fantasy, enigma and deceptive supernatural rituals. 

Ironically, even highly learned and privileged class of the urban society also falls prey to the false notions. A Professor at Post- Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, and her husband, serving in Amritsar hospital, pitifully nurtured a belief fed by a Tantrik who used to communicate with them in their dreams. The Tantrik had instructed that a direct blood transfusion from artery of 12-year-old Piyush, their younger brilliant son would make their mediocre elder son genius. Horribly, the procedure failed and Piyush breathed his last because of massive blood loss. 

Certainly uncommon, but absurd and silly convictions influence even people of so-called first world too. Some years ago, Dennis Lindberg (14) of Mount Vernon Washington, passed away as he refused blood transfusion to treat his leukemia, believing that it will violate his religious belief as he would get contemptible and impure(ABC News). 

Addressing Kashmir, false beliefs also dominate the rational ideas of common masses, though the extent of exercising them is not so sardonic. Under the influence of human encouraged futile assurances, people are turning sightless, from malevolent Taweez that they think would harm others to the denial of consuming medicines to treat their ailments on the ‘advice’ of their phony self-styled spiritual guides. These guides wickedly invade the mind of so many people leaving them in lurch. Duping them monetarily as well as exploiting shamefully, these sham Fakirs and Peers craftily con the ones who impugn the prevailing circumstances here for throwing up a deluge of problems for them. The problems that appear difficult to resolve except any so-called supernatural intervention. This is also mushroomed by the lack of appropriate religious awareness, whose ramifications are assuming alarming magnitude. 

Coming to false notions associated with false gods, nearly all stick on to them, no matter whether they are amiss and illogical. Perhaps because it is displeasing for a person if he does not brawl for his world of make-believe, as he wants to deem he is battling for ‘spirituality’. Distinctly, being ill-at-ease is not favorable for humans as they are frail, and they habitually support their false beliefs to prevent themselves from feeling erroneous of what they have been doing. Their tender naivety wounds them badly. 

Bottomline: False belief is an ephemeral conviction, yet cannot be transformed unless conviction is reformed. Substantiated by divinity, veritable faith is superior to a belief that eventually succumbs and has no blessed validation. As such, worldly authentication of false gods can be stunning as they are actually flimsy and tenuous. Nevertheless, it’s demanding and grueling to persuade those whose false beliefs get converted into fallacious devotion and, later to an illusory mystical perception, a world of make-believe.

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