ARE WE ETERNALLY SINFUL?

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

One of the most fundamental questions that one goes on asking to himself is how one can be happy and blissful because no one wants    to be measurable and unhappy. It is that there might be some complications in it so that one is unable to drop it. Certainly there is the complication that is from the very childhood one is not allowed to be happy and blissful.

From the very childhood one is forced to be serious which implies sadness. One is forced to do things that one never wants to do but in the childhood one is helpless, week and dependant on people. Naturally one is to do what others are saying. One does things unwillingly, miserably with a deep sense of resistance. One is forced to do things against oneself so much that it becomes clear to all of that anything that is against us is right and anything that is not against us is bound to be wrong. So the whole upbringing of us is filled with sadness, which is entirely unnatural.

As to be healthy is natural, similarly to be joyous is natural. A healthy man never goes to the doctor to ask as to why he is healthy but when one is sick , he asks the reason of his sickness. So it is certainly right as to why one is miserable but it is not right to ask why one is happy and blissful. As one is brought up in an insane society, to be blissful without a reason is thought to be madness. If one is simply smiling for no reason at all as a child smiles, people will think that something is loose in mind. If one answers that one does not know the reason of his being happy , it will strengthen the idea of the people something has gone wrong in that man. ,but if one is miserable ,nobody will ask as to why one is miserable as if to be miserable is natural because everybody is so. Unconsciously the idea gets settled in us that misery is natural and blissfulness is unnatural. Therefore blissfulness has to be proved but misery needs no proof. It enters deeper into our blood to such an extent that one is forced to be schizophrenic. Something against one’s nature is forced into him, so that one is distracted from his natural self. This creates the whole misery of the humanity ,that everybody is where he should not be. Misery has been accepted as health, not a sickness.

It is also a fact that nobody wants to stand naked in the street. A very significant question is that ,If one is told to drop the suffering one is carrying unnecessarily , there comes the fear of a no-oneness as one will immediately loose his own identity. At least right now one is a somebody-somebody miserable, somebody sad, and somebody in suffering. The question of “Who am I?”Comes out that one cannot face, a void ,as one is a somebody with all his hypocrisy created by the society.

 There are two types of miserable people here-the rich miserable and the poor miserable and the poor are trying their best to reach the status of being miserable as the rich are.

All the culture, all the societies, all the religions have committed a crime against humanity that they have created a fear of nothingness in man. The truth is that this nothingness is the only door to richness, happiness and blissfulness. Because we have been conditioned that emptiness or nothingness is something bad we are being prevented by the conditioning from dropping  the misery. The moment one becomes a nothing one becomes the door to himself the door to one’s own home.

This blissfulness is not something to be achieved. It is already there as we are born with it but lost it just by going farther away. It that is just behind us; a small turn and a great revolution. All the fake religions of the world say that one is miserable as in the past life one has committed evil acts. Is it not all nonsense that putting the figure in the fire in this life the finger is going to be burned in the next life? Quite strange an idea it is. All the religions go on consoling people  not to be worried but just to go on worshiping an unknown somebody who would take  away all there miseries. All have found different strategies but the reason is the same. Thousands of years back somebody disobeyed God and was punished by being thrown out of the paradise .But why do we suffer? Is it because they are our fore fathers? If that is the reason of our miseries then why are our miseries different As the sin is one , our miseries must be the same but every man is suffering differently. Can for a singular cause the effects will be different?

The religions take another excuse that we are suffering because of our past lives If there is a past life then there must have been a first life having no past life .The first generation of humanity must have lived in blissfulness and their children are impossible to suffer and living in blissfulness as there their parents are blissful. How did misery enter in? If we are to suffer for the last life then in no life we can be a saint? Are all the saints hypocrites?

The so called religious people have become successful in managing these things that it is impossible to get out of the wheel of life so that one will be committing sins and coming back to suffer the punishment. If dropping the miseries becomes easy for the People, then all the fake religions will lose their business. So these religions make blissfulness difficult-almost impossible, so that people can only hope for it in future life after a long arduous journey.

The reality is something different .It is not a question of evil act or sin .It is a question of one  being taken away from one’s self, one’s natural blissfulness and understanding it this very moment ,one can see that there is no misery but only blissfulness.

Lecturer-in-English

Shreedhar Swamy College of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha, INDIA