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There was a NEWS channel debate. Two representatives were debating whether God Raam ate non-vegetarian food or not. One was adamant that Raam was a vegetarian and the other was fixed that Raam was not. None of the two had ever met God Raam and probably did not even feel his Tattva but both of them were sure about what they knew. In Hinduism, this state is called Mada. Mada (मद) is a state where one is stubbornly confident about his alignment regardless of what the truth is. There is also a word Mada-Masta, which translates as getting uncontrollably excited in the Mada and performing selfish or pleasurable activities without consideration from another. There is also the term Maha-Mada, Super Mada, generally, it is used to define Muhammad.
Religious fantasy author Devdutt Patnaik explains the concept of multiple truths. He explains my truth versus your truth kind of thing. For me, there are no multiple truths. There could be truth, assumptions in the pursuit of truth and fallacies. There could be multiple explanations of truth and these explanations must converge to similar understanding. True truth can remain undiscovered and unapproachable but it shall only be one. It’s not a matter of philosophy. Till Kundalini came to me, I was adamant that nothing like god could exist. Once Kundalini came, I began to wonder what it was and the implication was that there exists a field of life which was completely undiscovered and unapproachable till that point. Maximum human beings will die without experiencing what I experienced and that truth will be unapproachable to them.
Faith and belief are the assumptions that are somewhere between truth and lie. The problem with faith is that it becomes an intricate identity and people feel discomfort or threatened when their identities are proven wrong. What if the God you worshipped for years, in the ignorance of your faith, turned out to be the actual evil? The possibility of being wrong is lost in faith and that is the biggest problem. The wide concepts of God, the creation and the creator, are supposed to be the most complex topics and even in this age of science people believe that people a thousand years back understood these concepts completely. Even scientists can not boast of understanding the universe completely but some people who were told the stories by other semi-literate people take these stories as the complete truth. The secret is only revealed to the people of “faith”. Schizophrenia is considered a non-communicable disease, I must as if it truly is. Schizophrenia is transmissible by faith.
I am not an atheist. I know about the holy spirits, angels, malaikahs and the Devtas but my understanding comes from my experiences. I do not allow second-hand statements to become the definition of my life. In my understanding, these things are metered and these are not incomprehensible. You are free to call it my opinion or insanity but this is my faith. You have the full right to criticize it, I do not harm people, those who question me. Kundalini is not my property either. Many people describe it and I give my explanation too. You could also feel it if you can gain it by Shatipaath (Given by Guru), Dev Kripa (Given by Devta) or if it happens spontaneously. Neither I own it, nor I am the only source for it. For me, truth is the sanctity of life.
I am not against fantasies, faith and stories but if a fantasy defines your life then it is an issue. I am against selective acceptance too. I often met people who say that there are no ghosts, spirits and similar entities and in the next statement they say that there is something like a power that governs the universe. See to me atheism is completely fine but this hypocrisy of selective acceptance is the highest of the mischief. Let me explain why. The idea of central authority comes from religion. God is a product of religion and belief. The literature from which the “power that controls the universe” comes from that very literature defines these other entities. If someone does this selective acceptance in fear of the unknown is understandable but if someone just accepts the creator and not the creation, well such a person is just full of Mada.