If they say love is blind, it should rather be because when it has eyes, it becomes selfish and obnoxious..... And if love is blind, let humanity also follow the league lest world will not be a happy place to stay. Religion is nothing but a way of living your life, a set of beliefs that you follow , but when you decide to live a life of a selfish person and forget love and humanity you become a atheist no matter how many times you revolve around temples or visit a Mosque or attend morning prayers in church.
Let me tell you a story, the best friend of my mine happens to be a Muslim. When we all were in college and started our first semester, we were still not in a defined friend circle, slowly and gradually as time passed, we all started to form groups as per our common personality traits. At that time, my friends group was as big as ten members and we all used to have food together, block class seats for each other. Boys used to be even better friends and never hesitated to use each others shirts, shoe polish, and for that matter deo and shampoos too. This was the friendship and love for each other. We were still unaware about each others cast and religion. We were just friends, and we enjoyed that. My best friend used to be show stopper among female seniors and they all liked him for his knowledge of travelling and religions specially- Hinduism. He knew everything about what Bhagwad Gita preaches and what exactly led the Mahabharata Yuddh. He had traveled more temples across India than all of us and knew about all the Gods existing in India. He was the only guy whom I have ever seen listening to popular chants of Hindus, 'The Hanuman Chalisa'. His love for religion and humanity was impressive as he could never see anyone in pain or problem. Whenever someone needed help, he used to be the first one to volunteer. This is called being religious. It was the third semester when He told me his full name and then to my surprise he told me that he is a Muslim. I was glad to hear that!! He was the first one who never acted like a typical religious person but his heart was pure and full of compassion. He was truly religious.
You know, sometimes we need to really lift ourselves above the levels which people around us, the society has set for us so that you can actually follow what a true religion want us to. The color of the skin can fade, the memory that remembers what is being taught to us can vanish but what remains for eternity and people remember is what we did to others, how we made them feel good and how many hearts you have won. If we can be a that religious, we are the people of GOD, else the whole meaning of it becomes fake. And truly dangerous for the society.
Let me tell you a story, the best friend of my mine happens to be a Muslim. When we all were in college and started our first semester, we were still not in a defined friend circle, slowly and gradually as time passed, we all started to form groups as per our common personality traits. At that time, my friends group was as big as ten members and we all used to have food together, block class seats for each other. Boys used to be even better friends and never hesitated to use each others shirts, shoe polish, and for that matter deo and shampoos too. This was the friendship and love for each other. We were still unaware about each others cast and religion. We were just friends, and we enjoyed that. My best friend used to be show stopper among female seniors and they all liked him for his knowledge of travelling and religions specially- Hinduism. He knew everything about what Bhagwad Gita preaches and what exactly led the Mahabharata Yuddh. He had traveled more temples across India than all of us and knew about all the Gods existing in India. He was the only guy whom I have ever seen listening to popular chants of Hindus, 'The Hanuman Chalisa'. His love for religion and humanity was impressive as he could never see anyone in pain or problem. Whenever someone needed help, he used to be the first one to volunteer. This is called being religious. It was the third semester when He told me his full name and then to my surprise he told me that he is a Muslim. I was glad to hear that!! He was the first one who never acted like a typical religious person but his heart was pure and full of compassion. He was truly religious.
You know, sometimes we need to really lift ourselves above the levels which people around us, the society has set for us so that you can actually follow what a true religion want us to. The color of the skin can fade, the memory that remembers what is being taught to us can vanish but what remains for eternity and people remember is what we did to others, how we made them feel good and how many hearts you have won. If we can be a that religious, we are the people of GOD, else the whole meaning of it becomes fake. And truly dangerous for the society.
