This post takes inspiration from the great saint that this beautiful country, India gave this World Swami Vevekananda. The ideas here are a blend of this great man and mine. Religion is one among those beautiful things that humans started from the pristine period. People became disciplined and got motivated to relieve themselves of this worldly pleasures and started believing that they can sense that extra-sensory perception that remains beyond our five senses. Busy is the stature of human life now and people can spare time to meditate towards the concept of religion, only with low probability. But these small percent of people who do are the ones who are actually happy in this Universe, believe it or not! Realizing the truth relieves us of all the misconception that we have on this very existence.
Now plunging exactly into the topic, religion grouped people with similar thoughts. Similarity means masses who believed in particular preaching and that particular path alone leads to realization. Religions started in the earlier period, when man's intellect started developing. There are no newer religions. One amazing fact is that these religions have their followers multiplying rather than dwindling in numbers. This means more and more people are ready to search the true meaning of this existence and to get cleared themselves of as to who controls this massive structure of galaxies. Every religion sent a message to it's followers to spread love and not to argue which religion is the best in the World. No single religion can answer the question "who controls this Univers?". The concept of God evolved as follows.
Every single action of living thing in this Universe involves some amount of intellect involved. The mind co-ordinates beautifully with the body and thus manifests itself as actions. This leads to perception of intelligence by fellow creatures on this planet. We breathe in and breathe out air. We drink in water and also water drains from our bodies and one day we came here and one another day we'll go back. This makes sense as on one day this Universe originated and yet another day it will go back, both scientifically and philosophically. Even physicists claim that this Universe originated from a single compressed mass that exploded itself into it's constituents. Human mind has this serpentine habit of thinking of varied causes for an event and one possible solution that can satisfy human intellect has been put by.... ? Can you guess who or what was it, well it was the concept of 'religion'.
Earlier concept of religion proclaimed that every single occurrence on this Universe air, water, intelligence are the manifestation of a single force. Since life originated from a single protoplasm and this by itself composed of inorganic materials it can be traced back to a single entity that remains as the cause of every single event till now! As years rolled by many religions claimed this concept to be true, this should be because human intellect is limited and everyone that uses it to the fullest will arrive at one single logical conclusion. Since many got the similar conclusion and came up with their names, a Universal name "God" was accepted. The projection of that supreme is this existence, this universe. Religion is a collection of people who believe that particular practices bring them closer to realise this supreme, the supreme what these religions proclaimed was not personified. They personified only to make people more convincing, to make people come out of the miseries of common man's life and become one with the cosmos. The miseries are artificial and foreign to the creation and anything foreign would intoxicate human minds. So, as long as religion breeds realization and more refinement it will remain extremely popular else a similar search would continue but with another name, because the intellect is ever growing.
