I can't blame God, but I'd rather blame devotees

India is a strange country with people wandering around in their mystical beliefs. In India, humanity role plays less as compared to transparent beliefs which plays vital role in Indian society. God is the creator of world, God has created human beings, God has created animals and God has created our own livings. How will I ever believe this? I would feel pretty upset when I read some important stories on newspapers these days. Whenever I open newspaper I can see bold texts highlighting that “40 people were died during stampede at Allahabad railway station while coming back from the worship of God. I don’t understand whether God really exists but I would rather blame on devotees, who are outrageous in terms of praying Gods in temple.

News of Allahabad stampede is highlighting everyday due to the increase of number of deaths till 46 by now. I can understand God is really great, who created us. But why Indian people fail to recognize their own value??? Why do Indians never realize that God is among us, we are Gods, we should never be fearless. Last year I saw news on TV, which was about 6 devotees who travelled to Shirdi, for the sake of worshipping “Sai Baba”, were died when the bus fell down in valleys due to reckless driving. And another incident I saw with my own eyes when I was kid aged around 12 years. I went to Tirupathi with my family members, for seeking blessings from Lord Balaji. Tirupathi temple is highly recognized worldwide, even celebrities from different parts of the country would come to this place for seeking blessings. It is located high on mountains, and the experience would be great travelling up there. But my excitement will soon drain away the moment I land into temple and by seeing heavy crowd. For seeking blessings from “Lord Balaji” there are certain rules. We must come there early morning, and then we will have great opportunity to see the figure of great Lord through close-up view which is really sensational.

Lord is hidden behind curtains, the moment priests will open curtains to show Lord’s great figure to devotees, devotees will be excited and they will wander around temple with wild moves. And then, sudden blow of stampede took place, I saw devotees were falling on floor with huge force. Some of them were grievously injured but none of them helped him. He was suffering losing blood, because rest of all were running ahead and they were only concerned about their selfish desires. What about the person who is lying on floor? Who can help him??? I and my sister were taking deep glance at him, well we were still kids, we were shouting with fear, and we were completely scared. My mother was hiding my face, and my grandmother hugged my sister. My elder uncle was completely shocked while we were watching at heavy stampede. My elder uncle actually thought, this trip will turn out to be divine, but eventually, we were lost. Another incident, I still cannot forget when I saw my own mother paying “Prasadam” in Bangalore temples. Priests were really enjoying taking money from devotees it was just sounding like Business. Tell me one thing, temples are commercial buildings? Or is it built for the sake of experiencing spiritual values?

If people are really dying due to stampede which is taking place in temples mostly, then where is God? There are so many great Ashrams where people would come there often to seek blessings from Baba. People are actually asking to full fill their desires. I was one among them too haha. Whenever exams, arrived, I used to be so nervous that I always started praying God “Oh God! Oh God! Please help me, or else I will fail in exams”. When the results were declared failed, I blamed God that he is invisible, and he does not full fill my wishes. Enlightenment occurred to me, when I passed out exams with fantastic results through my hard work. No one helped me, not even my teachers, but I did studied by my own. That time I realized “God will live in us; we are Gods, as long as we persist, as long as we don’t complain with life, and as long as we are fearless we can achieve anything”…. Last year, I watched “Oh My God” movie, the plot relies entirely on this concept to be fearless to God. But unfortunately, this movie was declared as controversy I would really show mercy on films centric, because I kept wondering have they really understood the basic concept of this movie?

I feel so sorry for the stampede incident which took place in Allahabad. I hope people would come to temples for worshipping God with their peaceful hearts, rather than having millions of desires. I hope temples will be not crowded just like multiplex film theatres. Temple is meant for divine, purity and peaceful. But why is to sounding like metro centres? Even visarjan happens during Ganesha festive seasons, huge crowd gather around one place for mixing Ganesha idol in water. During that time, it will be like competition among devotees that which one’s Ganesha idol would appeal better in heavy crowd? So for that they will pain with different colours, they will use plaster of paris, and they will try to dip down in water which does not mix successfully. Does anyone realize how much environmental pollution will occur to the planet of Earth? Devotion is really good, but competition among devotees is like cruelty.