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What if God was One of Us?

My Wandering Wednesday Series. Check the previous posts here.

10 days have passed since we have welcomed our most favoured guest. Today we bid HIM  a ‘large’ goodbye. Revelry is at its loudest. The streets are lined with strewn flowers, broken bottles and splashed colours. In our enthusiasm, we have little or no respect for the guidelines that govern the state. 10 pm is the deadline for music. Our festivities get into the mood at 11 pm. And all the chart busters make it in order of their lewd lyrics. With chest thumping, leering and claiming stake on the streets, yes, this must appease the gods, I am guessing.

On the other hand, I can simply imagine HIM wanting to have a quiet word with his visitors. After all, what better way to make guests feel welcome than with a heart to heart. I imagine HIM taking in HIS surroundings and wondering, when ever did this become about pomp and show, and unimaginative decibel levels? I imagine HIM feeling the agony of losing mankind and gaining ‘devotees’. I imagine HIM heartbroken at who we’ve become and wanting to take away HIS mothers, sisters and daughters, far, far away. Into the sea, with HIM, to safety, the Vignaharata ends our troubles.

And as a first, I leave you with a simple question!

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 What if God was One of Us?

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17 responses to “What if God was One of Us?”

  1. Rainbow Hues avatar
    Rainbow Hues

    What a pertinent question! I have always believe He is one of us! He’s as much a slob like one of us….just a stranger one of us, trying to make His way home!

    He makes as many mistakes as we make, He forgets and forgives like us, He messes up big time sometimes and makes us fix it ourselves. Yeah…He’s one of us!

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    1. blogwatig avatar
      blogwatig

      Sometimes, I just wonder if he has resigned from his job and given up on us………….!

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  2. asteria avatar
    asteria

    That is one concerning issue we have at our hands, be it durga puja, ganesh chaturthi or bada mangal (in UP), every year i dreaded october month since it was exam time and durga puja time, while cramming up for exam i had to endure several unwanted loud announcements and songs.
    And if you complained you were the non-religious scouth..
    As per the question, i believe god is one of us, walking among us, watching, observing, deciding, lamenting.

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    1. blogwatig avatar
      blogwatig

      I totally get you girl………and unfortunately there is truth in every word you have stated. :/

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  3. Hrishi avatar
    Hrishi

    I personally am comfortable with the idea of filmy and pop songs being played. Festivals are also for people to enjoy. However I get your point of playing lewd and crass songs..

    If you look at the roots of the festival, the idols were made from clay and herbal paints which were easily soluble in the water bodies and din’t cause harm.. It’s not the same. It is now more about big idols and show , instead of actually embracing the purpose.. So we end up doing all forms of damages to the water bodies when the idols and paints start dissolving or sinking, and roads with the kachra.. Not to mention the sleep of the people that is disturbed due to the loud speakers..

    If God was one of us, he would either be in one of the processions.. dancing and mingling with the people who feel most for him.. or he would be just away wanting do nothing with this seeing as to how much we have depraved it all

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    1. blogwatig avatar
      blogwatig

      I just wrote to Namrota, that films songs with the festival in mind I understand. Fun times I get it too………..but the crass lyrics really get to me.

      And yes, if God was one of us, I think he would just be indifferent like us, fed up of the situation but at his wit’s end as to how to finish something he started.

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  4. Namrota avatar
    Namrota

    I believe He is one of us. Within us. We have given Him so many shapes.. forms and names…and designations for our own convenience and he doesn’t need to be bribed to listen to us.

    P.S. I detest playing of filmy songs during any kind of puja.

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    1. blogwatig avatar
      blogwatig

      Yup Namrota, to have a convo with him, all you need is to be there. Filmy songs in the arena of the festival, I can understand…..but the ghagras and fevicols and munnis…………I don’t get it!

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  5. Alka avatar
    Alka

    Is there nothing we can do about all the unnecessary crass tamasha during religious ceremonies? Five crores for dahi Handi, chikni chameli for Devi puja and opium consumption during Kanwad yatra. God and goodness are far away from this frenzy.
    A pertinent post.

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    1. blogwatig avatar
      blogwatig

      Alka, it gets crazier by the years. And no, there is no ounce of visible devotion. Even an ‘aarti’ need the presence of a celebrity or local goon to happen. Seriously, sometimes I wish we were atheists!

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  6. Rickie avatar
    Rickie

    Dekho bhai, complain not. We are doing what the likes of Asaram Bapuji and his ilk teach us. We have no brains of our own, as you know.
    The more mature modern India becomes, the more immature it gets.

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    1. blogwatig avatar
      blogwatig

      And anything in the realm of religion is sacrosanct so can’t be touched………yeah, I hear you! Nothing more political than religion.

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  7. Roshni avatar
    Roshni

    Aren’t we supposed to find God in each one of us?! But then, maybe that’s a ridiculous idea altogether!

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    1. blogwatig avatar
      blogwatig

      Of course, we already do, and hence we love to think that our choices are the same as theirs. So we go ahead and do what we want, anyway………..Sigh!

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  8. Deepa avatar
    Deepa

    I actually love the festivity but lately it seems to have touched a new low. Everywhere I go I hear Chikni and Shiela and all those crassy item numbers. Last year, during Gokulasthami I had penned a similar post. Here’s the link.

    I do think and hope God’s one of us. It would be nice to have God see the world through our eyes and that would only be possible if God were here, amongst us. I sometimes think if God’s too far off, then how will I have conversations with God?

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  9. Surya avatar
    Surya

    I’m Bengali, so our major festival is Durga Puja… And, yes, sometimes I ask the same question. But sometimes I feel, maybe the world isn’t SO bad, you know? There’s still a lot of humanity left 🙂

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  10. Sriram avatar
    Sriram

    Every time I think of this question I try to see the funny side. Imagine his mouse stating that he is quitting the job because there are too many potholes on the roads or quitting because the food is not upto the mark :D.

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