Faith is a Business?

In the ‘Times Trend’ of Times of India, Delhi Edition on 03 Mar 06, an article talks about the statement of France’s Lourdes. He says, ‘not enough divine cures being recognized now’. The time has come when no one dares to spread blind faith unnecessarily because of availability of mass communication. Earlier because of lack of proper communication, it would have been easy for many people to have a control on the kind of messages they want to spread. This has resulted in a situation when I can claim with certainty that faith has been made a business by many people.

The advent of TV has shown the truth of life at the doorstep of every child born to this civilization. The child growing in a hut in Mumbai or Kolkotta slum today knows and sees from her own eyes that what all exists in the White House. The Panwala from a small town of Biharsharif (Nalanda) in India have a glimpse of the life of the richest man of the century Bill Gates of the United States of America. They witness all the happenings on the streets of New York including the demolition of World Trade Center on 9/11. They see everyday, how the people live? How the people are having a life? What are the basic means of life and societies? Above all, all these information are available free of cost at everybody’s reach. Whether water, electricity, road or even schools are available or not, TV and its 365X24X7 broadcast is available to the human beings of this civilization. By the time the child reaches the age of 10, they understand what all they are privileged and what all they are deprived off? These facts will make a difference. These facts are going to make a difference in the overall perception of every growing individual.

The availability of information at the door step free of cast will make a difference in even blind faith. This availability of Information has given indication of the future world. It has exposed the truth. The truth which was known to a very few rich and privileged people of society, today these are available to all the people irrespective of cast, creed, region or economic status. In these circumstances, it is very difficult to convince the people of their set course of fate. It is very difficult to convince them that their miseries are the result of their deeds of their previous life. It is very difficult to debar them from their basic amenities. They can not be fooled anymore.

As far as miracle happening is concerned, people are very conscious of their knowledge and its benefits. Today, when Goggle’s brother comes to limelight with their sheer ingenuity and knowledge, everyone takes notice of that. It is not miracle. It is the willpower of human to change with time. It is the quest of human to achieve their dream. It is the dream based of reality. It is the sheer ambition and efforts of individual. Today when Bill Gates earned more money every month than many developing countries in the world, it is not a miracle. Bill is not going to accept this as miracle phenomenon. Neither any conscious person is going to accept this easily as miracle. We all have seen the way; Bill Gates has risen from his sincere efforts and superb products. The consciousness starts from early childhood days. Today, a small child seating in the drawing room of a developing countries witness all what is privileged to the people and children of developed part of the world through star channels days in and days out.

Is there any surprise today, if the major decisions of a house are being taken by the children of this civilization? All advertisement agencies are going ahead everyday to show the power of children and teens in the society. Even if the question of service tax or home loan comes, there are children to encourage the elder of this generation to motivate them. The children are helping the family to take futuristic decisions. Have you ever thought, from where this knowledge have creped in the mind of children? This knowledge to the children has come from the civilization growth. They have emerged from the exposure of information to these children. They have originated from the availability of knowledge domain to these children. The children who are giving decisions today as a young will change the whole concept of civilization growth once they become parents. That will be the real outcome of civilization growth to the human beings.

We may have temples, Mosques and Churches all over the place, but the quest to achieve a better life will always rule the mind of the young to achieve their dream. We have medical facilities. We have medicines to cure the difficult diseases. We have vaccination. We have government’s plan for polio vaccination. We have qualified Doctors. We have researchers who are busy in researching medicine, vaccination and future treatment for human beings. We are ready to develop clones. We have seen the spread of ADDs. We have seen the efforts of people to save humanity from aids. We have seen spread of bird flue. We are witnessing the pain of dieing with killer diseases. We are witnessing the efforts of researchers to find the treatment and medicines for these new diseases. How can we marginalize the tremendous human efforts in this information age?

We have seen injustices on the name of religion in Muslims. We have seen the killings of female foeticide in the richest states of India - Punjab and Haryana. We have seen mercilessly killing of innocent individual in the mane of Jehad on 9/11. We have seen kind of injustice being forged in the society in the name of religion. In Hindu, we have seen father killing sons and daughters on the name of sacrifice to God. Do you think that children are not seeing them? Can we make faith as a business anymore? The children of this Information Age when grow top adulthood would generate a different kind of society where it would be difficult to spread faith as a business.