FINAL FAITH? NO MORE MESSENGER? ARE YOU SURE?

FINAL FAITH? NO MORE MESSENGER? ARE YOU SURE? 

There can be no final faith nor a final Messenger of God as God continues to appear in every Age whenever virtue subsides and vice prevails. In keeping with Krishna's prophecy in the Bhagavad Gīta, the Divine assumes human form to deliver the Eternal Message in altered terms to suit the exigencies of the times. He, the Divine, Himself appears as the Prophet of the Age, destroying the vicious and rescuing the virtuous, and reestablishing Dharma for the maintenance of the world order. This has been going on since the inception of human civilisation in India and, as prophesied, will continue to go on for ages to come. Thus, to posit that fantastic claim that Islam does of being the only true faith and the perfected last one at that, with its founder on earth being the final prophet, is untenable from the Sanātan standpoint or from any standpoint whatsoever, for the Book of Divine Revelation, like the Divine it reveals, is of unnumbered pages and cannot see such an arbitrary end as medieval misconception will have us to believe. The entire basis, the very foundation of such an extravagant claim is heresy from the standpoint of enlightened reason and the Hindu will have none of it. Tribalism creeping into religion and using religion to suit political ends or fabricating faith to induce absolute allegiance among followers in order to fulfil one's sociopolitical ambitions cannot be force fertile in an age of rapid rational advancement when inquiry and investigation is dealing sledgehammer blows against the edifice of arbitrary assumptions masquerading as religion and holding its own by slaughter of dissent. Its day is done and within the next few decades will have seen its final day on earth. No doomsday for the world but doom itself, sure enough, for the fanatical faith which will have witnessed its own demise at the hour of final expiration. Meanwhile, God's revelations continue unabated and His Messengers keep multiplying as ages pass, He Himself assuming human form in every Age to give the lie to the Abrahamic averment in its Islamic inspiration.

Written by Sugata Bose