We have got stuck with the dead religion. So we face the music and dance to its deadly tunes (प्रेतगान के सुरताल पे थिरकने जैसा): we are greeted with acts of brazen hatred, unabashed cruelty, and ghastly bloodshed every now and then. Precious lives are wasted. Both the victims and the predators suffer…and humanity gets shocked and abused at a drop of a hat.

We in fact have not moved far from the early stages of totemism of the pre-historic eras and have blatantly shown how fossilized we have become from within. We are more like our own mummies than our real selves….cadavers creeping all along and at large.

Unless we learn to question cast-in-stone dogmas and hand-me-downs of the dead religion, and understand that relevance is more real than the realities of many creeds and belief systems, we will keep shedding blood and create an inferno on earth.

The rule is that if we do not grow, we decay, that if we dot advance, we beat a retreat; one cannot perpetuate one's ground for ever in this fleeting world. We must therefore cross the river of religion and enter into the sea of spirituality to remain sane, sensitive, and secure in this age of heightened turmoil!

© Raz Nawadwi

Bhopal, Monday 09.25 pm, 23/09/2013

'My original and unpublished piece of writing'