Somewhere in India there was city, where people from all over the country come to work and earn there living. In that city was an apartment complex where people from all religion and different parts live together. They celebrated all festivals together, party & play together, to an extent that they used to fight together for a cause. They had a common mail group where everyone cribbed about the builder, share their thoughts, and ask for advice. Everyone had loads of fun on all festivals.
Someone suggested building a temple in the complex. Thought there were few who didn’t like the idea of having a temple but didn’t spoke thinking it will hurt others feelings. There was a grand celebration when the temple was constructed. Things were going on smoothly, until one day one old man installed two loudspeakers on the temple and started playing loud bhajans in early morning and evening. This was disturbing for many residents living close to temple and while many thought that it was refreshing in the morning.
Many people over the week requested to keep the volume low but no one listened, until one day few people came forward with a suggestion that the loudspeakers should be removed. There was a huge argument on why the loudspeakers should be there. People getting disturbed were outnumbered by people from all over the complex. Different people had different reason for the loudspeaker to be there.
- Someone said it is the ritual in the state – is God deft?
- Someone said it is refreshing in the morning to listen to bhajans – then why not play in you home
- Someone said that people from one community played dhol in one of there festivals so loudspeaker has to be there
- The extreme was when someone said that people who want to remove the loudspeakers have a hidden agenda… Agenda? ISI? Manybe?
Well, there were many more arguments as well but that issue was left unresolved. Once a peaceful and harmonious place to live was now divided between stupid and logical people.
So what is the moral of the story?
When it comes to religion, people can become irrational & stupid!
