Sugata Bose: ATHEIST, AGNOSTIC AND THE INTELLECTUAL BEING -- AN INCOMPLETE APPRAISAL, A PARTIAL ANALYSIS, AN ATTEMPTED INSIGHT INTO THE HEART OF THINGS

Friday 10 July 2020

ATHEIST, AGNOSTIC AND THE INTELLECTUAL BEING -- AN INCOMPLETE APPRAISAL, A PARTIAL ANALYSIS, AN ATTEMPTED INSIGHT INTO THE HEART OF THINGS

ATHEIST, AGNOSTIC AND THE INTELLECTUAL BEING -- AN INCOMPLETE APPRAISAL, A PARTIAL ANALYSIS, AN ATTEMPTED INSIGHT INTO THE HEART OF THINGS 

So many perfectly good people, sound in morality and ethical values, become atheists and try to cut themselves for the while from their divine source. Sanskara, tendencies stemming from previous births, the exigencies of evolution right now that allow them only particular perspectives, partial insights into the mystery of their existence -- this is how I see it. And then there is what may be termed reaction to one's experience of popular religion in all its political expression and reaction to exploitation of the masses by the cruel hand of capital to which religion provides no scientific solution. Also intellectual awakening and partial enlightenment thereof dazzles the soul for the while, obscuring the higher horizons in the fog of the very academic ascent. Last but not the least, perhaps, is the inability of spiritual preceptors to provide pertinent answers to their frequently arising queries of the soul that distracts them from the spiritual path to a more accessible path of sheer reason that blinds as it binds in providing a partial comprehension of the world around.

All said and done, the seeking soul will ever find its way to the river of immortality that silently flows by, quenching the thirst of the pilgrims to perennial bliss. And evolution does not rest nor do individuals stagnate forever. The historical wheel rolls, socio-cultural evolution flows unto the vast sea of oneness and individuals awake slowly to the inner call and transform spiritually despite resistance from their past tendencies, impelling them unto material ends. This is the complex phenomenon that we behold as vast numbers oscillate in faith and choose to reject a God whose existence they suspect and whose necessity they do not feel in the thoroughfare of their material life.