Solitude

Some people would complaint that their life is miserable. They are poor, they are academically stupid, they are ill-informed with worldwide issues, they have none or just pathetic friends, and some will say, their life is miserable because they are lonely.

Some, perhaps either faced quite different obstacles in life, would complaint of their meaning of life. They perhaps are relatively rich, have great friends, socially stable and practicing their faith religiously. So, why are they asking their meaning of life? Isn't it obvious?

For those with religions, their scholarly scholars would always say, your life is your obedience to the religion. The Christians are supposedly treat life as a time in which they would live the God wholeheartedly , and understand and acknowledge Jesus Christ as the true savior of humanity, and their meaning of life is all for this realisation. Buddhism teaches human to acknowledge the existence of soul that longs for inner peace and absolute pure actions, highlighting the need for spirituality . Hinduism promotes good way of life- to which by practicing yoga and live a morally good life would ensure that they won't be reincarnated in their next life- total emergence with the higher being itself. Islam advocates total surrender to God, acknowledge His power, His Oneness and His reign over His creation, to which the life of human are just to serve Him.

So, isn't the answer obvious? Why people are still searching for answers whereas religion has already existed for thousands of years to answer that. Isn't it ironic?

It is because some would find the answers generic.

History has shown human their own evolutionary spiritual path. From the time when polytheism reigns, the gods roam the earth, to the period when God or Yahweh or Lord is feared for His creeping and devastating capability like stated in Torah ( Pentateuch), to the time when the Great Mother with many names such as Cybele become a universal cult of devotion, transcending civilization and races,a feminine attribute to God, to the time of Jesus / Isa spread the happy news and for Christians save humanity by sacrificing himself, thus establishing back the masculine God, and continued by Islam, which stresses total surrender and again the masculine God reigns back.

Without a doubt, it is all about the same, one, God. For God speaks with many language, and has many names, as God cult transcends the religions itself. We are all aiming to serve the God, only our ways are different. So why some Christians and Muslims still have uncertainty then? Isn't these two religions say that their respective religion the true religion, and others not? Shouldn't people feel secured and safe? Why then?

The religions are the culprit. And faith are the victim. The very essence of God deteriorates in the names of religion. The witches of the ancient found absolute peace by their observation of nature. The nature is their cult-for Great Mother manifests herself in nature, for the Virgin or Immaculate Conception shows his absolute Beauty in nature and even the masculine God of monotheism can be seen in nature. For nature answers love and nature also answers logic and intellectuality.

Some feel lonely in the presence of others, yet some feel happy and serene in solitude. Why is that?

Because their faith screams for meanings . Faith , not religions and its practices. People are different. Some find enlightenment, peace, love, contentment, serenity, pleasure both spiritual or intellectual, euphoria, or whatever the words are through groups , yet some can't. They can only find it in solitude. The Christian Mass, or the Pilgrimage to Holy See or Santiago Road , or the Islam's Hajj, or the Immersion in Jordan river or Ganges river, all cater human longings for soul fulfillment. Yet without these practice, some of them can also find enlightenment. They see God's grace in the calligraphy, some see God showers His or Her love in Nature or, some find God in happiness of seeing a long lost pet and some find the Light through the pain inflicted to them. For ways to God are many, many indeed.

The uniformity of religions make it dry, and solemn, and again, generic. It weakens the faith. The religions are supposed to strengthen, not weaken. The absolute faith in Allah for Muslims, must be more important than a robotic 5 times prayer a day. For religion can't live without faith, vice versa.

So, whatever we yearn for, if it's love or intellectual answer, remember, the ways can be through group, but solitude may help. For God is everywhere, and sure it can dwell within hearts-certainly corresponds to Jalaludin Rumi's famous poems-

"I tried to find Him on the Christian Cross, but He was not there. I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas but could not find a trace of Him anywhere.

I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Kaabah in Mecca, but He was not there either.

I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding.

I then looked into my heart and it was there that He dwelled that I saw Him; He was nowhere else to be found."

God is very fond of us, and thus give us religion. Be proud of it, be grateful for it, but remember, religion is with its own stereotypes and idiosyncrasies. Islam is not a religion. NOT a religion.For as cliche as it is, it really is the DEEn- and sorry, deen and religion are greatly different. It's up to us, wether to make our religions 'religion' or our faith 'religion'.

For there is a journey and there is an end, and an end may not be the End.