Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Why Idol Worship

I asked what is "5+6"? A young man replied "11" immediately. I later went to a child and asked the same, he lifted his hands, started counting his fingers and after few seconds replied "11".

What did the child do? The young man having enough experience in simple mathematics, did not take any time and also did not use his fingers. But for the child, he visualized Numbers through his fingers to perform the calculation. Surely one day through practice, that child will stop using fingers but still be able to do the same calculation but also in a better and faster way. Using fingers for calculation has been one of the methodologies to understand mathematical calculations.

Now lets come to Idol worship. As the child used fingers to visualize numbers, we use Idols to visualize GOD. The child used fingers not to understand numbers but through numbers, understand the mathematical calculation. We need not understand GOD, we can use him to understand your SELF. At one stage surely, you will not require Idols to understand your SELF.

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