The notion of learning and knowledge really amazes me sometimes , its not ‘just’
because it had a huge impact on us humans but the fact that new knowledge is
not created by itself but it’s always a combination of the existing
knowledge that creates it. Something similar to the game ‘doodle god’.
If anyone has played that game he would know what exactly I am talking about. It’s
a game where you are given 4 basic elements (fire, water, air and earth) from
which the player has to make new elements and materials. That’s exactly the
notion of new knowledge is, based on the existing processes and facts, humans
have created new things, they have answered a lot of doubts about life and
nature. But here’s the thing, what about the questions that are still not
answerable?
What is god? If there is god, where does it exist? It pinches to
accept the fact that what if the answers to those questions are not answerable
through the existing knowledge and processes. Scientifically Speaking, these
answers are not yet put to a closure. We can argue all day long about the
different religions which have different answers to these unsolved questions.
But the fact is they are not.
It is sometimes discouraging to accept this because our
brains demand an answer, that is why we follow religion, to get that mental
stability in order to sustain and move forward in life, which brings me to an interesting notion known as ‘religious stability’. By religious stability I mean
and I describe it as a “mental balance of humans that self-answers and
self-convinces them about unsolvable questions so that they can move
forward and think about other more important things in life”. Its something
like this, as a kid grows up to an adult, he comes up with these questions about god and meaning of life and other
(unsolvable) questions , their families
who already follow some religion inculcates the answers in the kid so as to
grow a mental stability among those questions. We as humans have taken an
easier way out to these questions because that is not affecting us directly in
our day to day life, but because they demand to be answered (one way or the another),we take the path of religion.
PS-: Its a bit short and needs more elaboration but its something to ponder upon.
