There is a scene in the movie climax of 'Minsara Kanavu' where Kajol is in a dilemma and wants to forsake love for Prabhudeva when Aravindhswamy proposes to her. A typical love triangle. Incidentally, Prabhudeva helps Aravindhswamy since he is supposed to know romance better but he himself starts loving Kajol. Kajol also has a wish from her childhood to enter the life of the nun. So when there is a lot of disappointments, she decides to take up the austere life. Eventually it turns out that Aravindhswamy becomes a father while Kajol and Prabhudeva get married.
In another movie, called 'Anbe Sivam' (Love alone is God), Madhavan feels revolted at the sight of blood and when there is a train accident, Kamalhassan asks him to give blood. But madhavan is concerned about what will happen to him when he gives it. The Christian sister then tells him that God doesn't take the life of one to save the life of another. What Madhavan could do was little but it could still save someone's life.
I cannot personally accept a God who asks one to sacrifice without giving a reason that is rational and acceptable to oneself. No one can know who God is because God is beyond the reach of the senses. If anything, I take small steps with whatever reasoning I get but I never make any foolish sacrifice in the name of God. But then, I also understand that if there is anything that can loves and protects me 100%, it is God. I know that this body of mine will oneday definitely get destroyed but then I also make the transition easy. Since I have nothing to lose, I live day by day with whatever is adviced and with every day, I do keep losing a bits of fear which gets filled in by grace. My counselor adviced me this...when you are in unfamiliar territory, walk like how you would in unfamiliar waters. Lift one step and place it forward and when you are sure that it is stable, bring the another and go on like this. If it is unstable, go back and try in another direction. This is like walking safely in a land mine using some prod.
But do we have to walk? Why not just stay where we are? I saw a National Geographic video on the Wilderbeast migration in Serengity. They are too large in numbers running into thousands and thousands. And they have to migrate because the grass will run out and maybe for other reasons like mating in a safe place etc. So they come to cross a huge river. Initially a few come and they are hesitant to cross because there is the swift current and the crocodiles waiting there. So they just stop but then, as the pressure starts building up from behind, they realize that it is do or die. Today I have nothing to complain materially and I have no diseases (maybe not even depression). But then I'm well aware that whatever safety and comforts I enjoy is there only as long as the situation warrants. Okay...it's not as if I'm standing on the banks since I have taken the plunge a long time back. The other side, whatever one calls it..heaven or afterlife or rebirth or reincarnation or liberation etc. is partly chosen and partly forced. The effect of someone dying of hunger or whatever in the streets may not be obvious to someone far removed away in a land of wealth but then like a tidal wave, it gets transmitted because everything and everyone is connected. I trust God because I trust my mother. I had thought when I had grown that even my parents were not to be trusted because they couldn't do anything in my time of need. But then, now I realize that when I had grown up, I was too big for them to take care of even though they still loved me the same way. And so my trust in God is not so much a trust in God as it is on my mother. It's because I trust my mother that I can trust God.
And let me tell you one more important thing...you don't need to always go on trusting God. Trust is needed only in the beginning and as time goes by, one gets evidences to support the plunge one had taken which makes things easier and after a point, all the fear is gone.
In another movie, called 'Anbe Sivam' (Love alone is God), Madhavan feels revolted at the sight of blood and when there is a train accident, Kamalhassan asks him to give blood. But madhavan is concerned about what will happen to him when he gives it. The Christian sister then tells him that God doesn't take the life of one to save the life of another. What Madhavan could do was little but it could still save someone's life.
I cannot personally accept a God who asks one to sacrifice without giving a reason that is rational and acceptable to oneself. No one can know who God is because God is beyond the reach of the senses. If anything, I take small steps with whatever reasoning I get but I never make any foolish sacrifice in the name of God. But then, I also understand that if there is anything that can loves and protects me 100%, it is God. I know that this body of mine will oneday definitely get destroyed but then I also make the transition easy. Since I have nothing to lose, I live day by day with whatever is adviced and with every day, I do keep losing a bits of fear which gets filled in by grace. My counselor adviced me this...when you are in unfamiliar territory, walk like how you would in unfamiliar waters. Lift one step and place it forward and when you are sure that it is stable, bring the another and go on like this. If it is unstable, go back and try in another direction. This is like walking safely in a land mine using some prod.
But do we have to walk? Why not just stay where we are? I saw a National Geographic video on the Wilderbeast migration in Serengity. They are too large in numbers running into thousands and thousands. And they have to migrate because the grass will run out and maybe for other reasons like mating in a safe place etc. So they come to cross a huge river. Initially a few come and they are hesitant to cross because there is the swift current and the crocodiles waiting there. So they just stop but then, as the pressure starts building up from behind, they realize that it is do or die. Today I have nothing to complain materially and I have no diseases (maybe not even depression). But then I'm well aware that whatever safety and comforts I enjoy is there only as long as the situation warrants. Okay...it's not as if I'm standing on the banks since I have taken the plunge a long time back. The other side, whatever one calls it..heaven or afterlife or rebirth or reincarnation or liberation etc. is partly chosen and partly forced. The effect of someone dying of hunger or whatever in the streets may not be obvious to someone far removed away in a land of wealth but then like a tidal wave, it gets transmitted because everything and everyone is connected. I trust God because I trust my mother. I had thought when I had grown that even my parents were not to be trusted because they couldn't do anything in my time of need. But then, now I realize that when I had grown up, I was too big for them to take care of even though they still loved me the same way. And so my trust in God is not so much a trust in God as it is on my mother. It's because I trust my mother that I can trust God.
And let me tell you one more important thing...you don't need to always go on trusting God. Trust is needed only in the beginning and as time goes by, one gets evidences to support the plunge one had taken which makes things easier and after a point, all the fear is gone.
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