Monday, July 23, 2007

Divine Being-Male or Female?

This is not the first time I am writing something which one of my readers have asked me to ponder about...

When there is a scarcity of good thoughts the only way you can replenish the supply is by borrowing a thought or so for sowing the seeds in your brains farmland!

The question in question today is the eternal question in debate as to whether our most revered divine being's sex, and not sexuality... now that had caused much more debates in an established curriculum of religious edicts, which proposed god as man or woman... for instance say Hinduism, which accepted same sex marriages in a very polite way as Shiva and Vishnu bearing an offspring called Ayyappan whose birth was a result of the seductive beauty of Mohini, one of the forms which Vishnu used to take, in once instance to get Elixir of life from the Asura's (Demon clan) and on another to kill the asura called Bhasmasura through a tricky enchanting dance! All said and done, vishnu was a male god, who bore a male god's son.

Also in Hinduism god's were also in the form of half man-half woman too, like the Ardha Narishwara (Meaning Half male and female eshwar=divine being), and in a way helping the enunch's get some respect in a society where they were battered often.

So much of my writing till now holds for the hindu aspect, as being a hindu devotee, and someone who have learned hinduism from my grandmother, I think I am only in a position to talk a lot about something which I have some amount of knowledge, although I don't claim it to be perfectly right either.

As to christianity, God in his divine form was always male, even when it came to the holy trinity, the father the son and the holy spirit, same case in hinduism also the trinity here too is all male... Bhrama Vishnu and Maheshwara (Shiva). Islam although doesn't present god in such a context, but the gender for all purposes when framing sentences in the same is also mostly male.

So what do I think? Now that is the question someone asked me... When I think about it, god needs to hold no gender, gender is his instrument for us to copulate and head on with our lives as a diverese genetic pool!

Why should god have a gender? He/she is not looking at a having sexual pleasures, God is a divine being who is above all the materialist values of sex, life, happiness and distress. We paint him/her in our colors of human urges as we want to identify ourselves with god, again a small materialistic pleasure by us selfish humans. I am not refuting the fact that even hermaphrodites (beings who have both sexual organs have their way of enjoying the act of copulation (like snails).

Here the idea goes a bit further, I feel god will not have any sexual organs to term himself/herself male or female.. he/she will be pure energy, can we classify pure energy as male or female? When you are not interested in sexual pleasures, you have no reason to introduce new divine beings into this world, why do you need a sex?

In all I feel god is only pure energy which maintains an equilibrium of things, we might want to cry and pray to him/her for our feelings, and expect him/her to alter the world for us, but then when we ourselves talk of the greater good as intelligent beings, I suppose being the most intelligent being, god would only take those steps considering the greatest good... an equilibrium of all things present to be maintained as per the plans god holds for all things living, dead and non living objects!

I have used him/her to refer to god, the more appropriate word should have been "it", but as the english language refers to something which does not hold life... How can I use it from someone who is the orgin and ending of all things living?

Friday, July 13, 2007

Pleasure the ultimate convincer!

Starting to wonder, what motivates this world? The only answer that comes to mind is that it is the carnal desire, to achieve pleasure.

How much so ever a saint you try to be you cannot but think that in your insticts it is coded down to the minutest of your components.

When do I think like this? To be precise it is not the greatest of the moments that lead me to think, its the toilet to be precise! Why is it pleasurable to be doing my waste dumping? Might be because if it didn't give us a slight amount of pleasure, we guys might have never wanted to keep our system in order.

Yes, I know it might be gross for some section of my readers, but then in the end of the day, when you think about it, this is what you have to do regularly to keep your body healthy! Or else your body will be filled with toxins, leading your liver and kidney to fail, and then later on your heart and ultimately to untimely death.

How much so ever any mother would want to say it is her love for her child which keeps her to breast feed her kids, everyone knows that the same also can be associated with a slight amount of pleasure. Although there are the really terrible baby bites after he/she has grown some teeth!

I am sure we guys would have never been so prominent as a race, if we too had heat periods like bitches? I am sure we would have had a litter in every heat period, but not the kind of population explosion as of now, as if all the kids happen to be born within the same month, I am sure if a beubonic plague or any other kind of distressing contagious disease comes through the whole human new generation, who are of the same age, as they are born around the same month, would have been easily wiped off! Not simply the plants in rainforests have ways to disperse thier seeds wide and far, either as excretements of animals, or thier own transport devices (like coconuts, which can float on water), or like some seeds like cotton which can fly with the wind.

Instead of space dispersement of our seeds ( I mean offsprings in our case), one of the biggest achievements in evolution as a race we could have, was that our sexually active periods are throughout the year, hence a constant chance of different people concieving at different periods, so we can easily and boastfully say we are the first species to have crossed the time barrier for spreading our clan. We can have offsprings at anytime of the year, unlike all animals or plants who have restricted time barriers.

Anyways the whole point being, as pleasurable as sex is... that I think is the only reason we guys reproduce for the first instance. Yes, true being an advanced species we have parental and other needs to be fulfilled, but that too rests on the personal pleasure of seeing your kid grow up.

So all is about pleasure guys! So pleasure it up! I have not in anyways ribbed, dotted or perfumed my subject for your pleasure... as I think the whole topic is all about pleasure.