Faith, Miracle & Mythology:
"Lord, if it's you", Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water."
"Come," he said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord save me !"
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him, "you of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
(
Matthew 14:28-31)
Faith an Instrument:
Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency !
(
Emily Dickinson, w.c 1860, p 1891)
Those Who Can See & Hear Divinity:
"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand."
"You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving."
(
Matthew 13:13-14)
Divinity Inside:
The people who could see the divine luminous form of Jesus were simple weavers, farmers, simple and innocent villagers. They were not men of words and scriptures. They trusted Jesus. They could see. It happens many times that the more layers of knowledge gather on your intellect, the less is your capacity to see. The world is less religious today - and it is not because there are more irreligious people , it is because of the increase of knowledge. The more knowledgeable you are, the more difficult it will be to have a contact with the divine.
(Osho, Kathopnishad)
Knowledge, A Lowest Activity Of Cognitive Domain:
Blooms's taxonomy which divides learning objectives in to three domains: Cognitive, Affective & Psychomotor.
And 'Knowledge' is the lowest most kind of activity of the Cognitive domain and so are the knowledgeable people, who forms the lowest most kind of person as for the Cognitive activity is concerned.
Life. Illusion & Faith:
And some quotes from this beautiful book:
# And he said unto them, "within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and to sickness, to riches and to poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another."
# "We're iron, wrapped in copper wires, and whenever we want to magnetize ourselves we can. Pour our inner voltage through the wire, we can attract whatever we want to attract. A magnet is not anxious about how it works. It is itself, and by it's nature it draws some things and leaves others untouched."
# You don't do anything. Cosmic law, remember? Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well."
"But that takes a lot of faith, and you get pretty lonely."
(
Richard Bach, Illusions, 1977)
But the sanctity of this place has been corroded deep in our heart by the recent report of the News Papers, which says that firing broke out between two rival groups of priests, involved in dispute over properties and wealth being collected by temple from devotees, resulting in death of one person and injuring two !!
