Paying a price to adopt ignorance!

 

In your life journey you will often come across few categories of people. The ones who are ignorant of facts and realities of life but care less because of various personal reasons. One of the primary reasons is there are no benefits of money and therefore it is not appealing to them. The second category of people are the ones who keep defying the truth and the life realities because they think they know everything and what they know is the final truth. The third category of people are the ones who are too lost in themselves and are existentialist; to eat and be merry for the day and live unconcerned for tomorrow.

King Solomon has written more than 3,000 proverbs, which can be found in the Bible. He raises a relevant question to our topic today. “How long, inexperienced ones will you love ignorance, how long will you scorners enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?”.  People want to just exist devoid of adopting the truth and continue to live outside the moral framework. Today, for a majority, it is just a mere existence with people’s goal connected only to money. Why is that everything should be connected to money, when it doesn’t have the exclusive power to add value to life? Have you realized it, yet? No doubt our basic needs are connected to it, but then it is craved to acquire luxury and pleasure, which are short-lived and unsatisfying.

We don’t want to know the truth because we are comfortable with our outdated traditions in the form of a religion. Let me quote Sati system for an example, The ancient Hindu tradition called sati, wherein a widow would throw herself on her husband’s pyre and burn to death, was initially a voluntary act considered courageous and heroic, but it later became a forced practice.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the great reformer from Bengal fought many societal evils prevalent in the Hindu society of Bengal and Sati pratha was one of the chief ones. William Carey, a Christian missionary was the first man who led the campaign for abolishing the sati custom in Calcutta. The first formal British law was imposed in 1798, only in the city of Calcutta but the practice continued in surrounding regions. When practices and traditions are tagged into a bracket of religion, even a cruel practice finds endorsement. Sati is one among may such practices.

Are we able to question our tradition and our practices? Or are we too naïve or arrogant to evade truth because we are comfortable with what gratifies us and discounts us from all moral obligations? The biggest truth is we are all going to die one day leaving all our wealth behind. But the truth beyond is that we are going to live eternally, just that the destination can be different for different people. Heaven and Hell are reality because the Bible talks about it. The fact that Jesus resurrected, and lives sounds like a tale for many because there are already many stories revolving around, some morally degrading, yet finds people’s appeal. At the end of the day many think why it should bother me much. But we fail to realize that it can cost our eternity. The other reason we don’t want to give a thought is because we have tagged this greatest event to a religion, and we have classified ourselves under various religions. Therefore, we don’t want to accept that salvation can give hope in this life and life to come. C. S. Lewis brilliant in his philosophy argued that people choose to go to hell, and they lock the doors from the inside. They continue to reject every offer. Ignorance and refuting truth both are dangerous. Jesus’s jubilant victory from the death is the hope to mankind. And this means His offer to inherit heaven is worth our effort to find it. The hope offered is the blessing eternal. Find a copy of the Bible in your language and read to find the truth.

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