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Why do people do this? It can be to seek out for solace, comfort, to escape from the harsh realities of life, because of crises and issues, for strength, moral and spiritual support, political agendas, public relation stunts, inspiration, resonation of their beliefs in another faith, wanting something new, change, trends, media attention, fame, guru's and spiritualist's advice and the list goes on.
Faith and religion do not require labels. Some of the teachings and preaching across religions and practices are a mirror of each other as you can see above. Faith as such was meant to be a way of life, something to hold you together through the tough times, to guide you during doubt, to protect you when you fear, to strengthen you when you feel vulnerable and to instill a value based system.
Religion was not meant to be a destructive double edged sword like it is today. It was meant to connect us and unite us to be better individuals and a better collective society keeping in mind the multi factorial influence a religion or faith would have on our communities. Why then are we fighting over fault finding, pointing fingers, waging wars, shedding blood and discriminating based on the differences? Look at the tenets above and see what religion and faith's true purpose was meant to be.
- Dr Rathi Prabhu
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