Ritesh’s Blaagh(!)

I am an atheist, but “without god” does not mean “without any spirituality”. I suppose my beliefs can be equated to Einstein’s “god”: the divinity and awe of the natural universe. Further, I find the law of conservation of energy to be rather salient in its statement that energy can not be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

So where is this going? Many years ago (high school), I had written some paragraphs about what I believed. Although today I’m critical of the colorful metaphors, the underlying message and belief in what I wrote is probably worthwhile. So without further ado, here is an excerpt:

There are no gods; there is no heaven with endless delights, nor hell with hideous terrors; there is no everlasting punishment or reward. As a single drop of water sinks into an endless sea, no matter the droplet’s journey, its wanderings or paths, it returns without prohibition, angst, or trial. The droplet in an instant becomes magnitudes larger and greater than can be imagined: it is no longer a droplet but part of a mighty sea whose path is carved into the stony shore.

If the droplet had not been in its purist form, if it had been dirtied and polluted by its worldly travels, this is all dross. The droplet’s water is the energy and spirituality; the teardrop form is the superficiality of substance; and the impurities are the trappings of mortality. All of these are shed upon entering the ageless and endless expanse of our spiritual sea.

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