I am a very recent believer. I don't know if it is me or the influence of my wife but I never knew I would become so. For a person who has tries not to go temple I have been to Shirdi and Shani Shidnapur twice. Both the places are considered by devotees to be a place where wishes come true. Just go there and ask what you want and it shall be granted.
Probably i found that something worked for me. Probably it would have worked anyways. However i went with the thought "As well believe it".
I am a rational human being with scientific thought and philosophical musings. God to me is not a figure. To me God is a system too elaborate in complexity for common human comprehension. Still I believe that a trip to a religious place does help you "wish and achieve".
A major driver of what we do and what we are able to do is our subconscious. We achieve only what we think we can achieve. Only a thought is deep rooted in our subconscious that we can do something and no shred of doubt exists there, there is very little that can stop us from achieving it (I didn't take that idea from inception, i took it from Kung Fu Panda). Lets say when I heard of it i thought about my life and saw how it really happened in a few situations and have come to believe in it.
To those wondering what I am doing digressing here and there let me tie the two threads- pilgrimage and subconscious. I would like to define the rewarding effects of pilgrimage as follows: Pilgrimage is a way of programming your subconscious.
It starts with a thought of doing it. The thought of just going to visit God makes you feel good thereby setting the base (there goes your # include).
1. Once you start planning for it you start setting yourself up. Well begun is half done you think, and when that half done is meeting God himself you are just sailing in the wave of self congratulation.
2. After planning starts the journey and hard work. Be it time and effort (driving or walking) or only time (Sitting in the backseat) you are investing yourself- committing to a purpose of meeting God.
3. The final step is when you actually end up in front of the deity itself. Just that it is only a view. Nothing apparently happens. Rather in order to be politically correct nothing manifests itself. Its just there in front of you and it is completely stationary. It is just then when you bow with respect and reverence that you take a leap of faith. You believe that God is in front of you and can listen to you. Mind you it is the conditioning in the first three steps that take you to this state you are ready to believe anything as you think God is in front of it. There is a heightened state which makes you feel powerful and there is nothing that you feel is above you. You can do anything, anything at all. When you make a wish in such a state you already have started believing that you can do it.
Therein lies the secret on how wishes are granted in pilgrimages. Or rather this is my theory on how prayers come true.
As usual do let me know your comments. Also do let me know if I have by mistake hurt any sentiments1
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Probably i found that something worked for me. Probably it would have worked anyways. However i went with the thought "As well believe it".
I am a rational human being with scientific thought and philosophical musings. God to me is not a figure. To me God is a system too elaborate in complexity for common human comprehension. Still I believe that a trip to a religious place does help you "wish and achieve".
A major driver of what we do and what we are able to do is our subconscious. We achieve only what we think we can achieve. Only a thought is deep rooted in our subconscious that we can do something and no shred of doubt exists there, there is very little that can stop us from achieving it (I didn't take that idea from inception, i took it from Kung Fu Panda). Lets say when I heard of it i thought about my life and saw how it really happened in a few situations and have come to believe in it.
To those wondering what I am doing digressing here and there let me tie the two threads- pilgrimage and subconscious. I would like to define the rewarding effects of pilgrimage as follows: Pilgrimage is a way of programming your subconscious.
It starts with a thought of doing it. The thought of just going to visit God makes you feel good thereby setting the base (there goes your # include).
1. Once you start planning for it you start setting yourself up. Well begun is half done you think, and when that half done is meeting God himself you are just sailing in the wave of self congratulation.
2. After planning starts the journey and hard work. Be it time and effort (driving or walking) or only time (Sitting in the backseat) you are investing yourself- committing to a purpose of meeting God.
3. The final step is when you actually end up in front of the deity itself. Just that it is only a view. Nothing apparently happens. Rather in order to be politically correct nothing manifests itself. Its just there in front of you and it is completely stationary. It is just then when you bow with respect and reverence that you take a leap of faith. You believe that God is in front of you and can listen to you. Mind you it is the conditioning in the first three steps that take you to this state you are ready to believe anything as you think God is in front of it. There is a heightened state which makes you feel powerful and there is nothing that you feel is above you. You can do anything, anything at all. When you make a wish in such a state you already have started believing that you can do it.
Therein lies the secret on how wishes are granted in pilgrimages. Or rather this is my theory on how prayers come true.
As usual do let me know your comments. Also do let me know if I have by mistake hurt any sentiments1
My Profile http://www.blogger.com/profile/01963566572793351742
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