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BLINDFOLD
Every religion of the world propagate faith and belief
in the hearts of its followers, which on other hand give us strength and hope
to fight the complication and distress of the different perils of life and to
come out victorious from it. The famous adage says, “God help those who help
themselves first”, so with the prayers in our heart we make efforts to swim
across the perils of life thinking that in midway, when we would be exhausted
he will be there to hold our hand and make us swim across safely.
But what if we go into denial mode and plead him to do
everything for us on pretext of being a surrender soul showing all faith and
belief that he asks us to show to him? Then what? Whether he will still hold
our hand or just abandoned us for our foolishness?
THE DENIAL MODE
There is this famous, big temple which conducted weekly
kirtans {hymn singing gathering} and the star attraction of the kirtan that
pulled a lot of crowd was this thirteen year old girl.
She sang so well for her age and she spell bound all
the audience and surprisingly she had no formal training, it was like a god
gift to her. Few people complimented her to this extent that Goddess Sarasvati
herself resides in her vocal cords while she sang.
The swarthy lean girl enjoyed the fame she got and eagerly
waited for Tuesday’s kirtans in the temple. But suddenly she started to feel
sick and as the anti climax to her perfect life she was diagnosed with
Pulmonary Tuberculosis {T.B of lungs}. The good news was that it was totally
treatable disorder and since it is endemic disease of our country, the government
have set up DOTS centre distributing free medicines for the treatment of
disease.
It came as the shock to everyone when she refused the
treatment and for the most wearied reason. According to her that she has served
lord very well and without missing any rendezvous sang his praise, therefore it’s
the payback time for him to cure him miraculously without her popping any of
those pills.
Everyone tried to explain her consequence of her
irrational step but her obstinate mind stood there firm on her demands. She strongly
denied the treatment.
The night sweats, the low grade fever and the persistent
weight loss along with the rattling cough and excessive sputum expectoration
got more and more worst, but still she didn’t change her mind to seek medical assistance.
One day while singing with her hoarse voice, she
started to cough incessantly and gasping for air, ultimately fainting. She was
taken into emergency in the hospital and after the thorough MRI scanning showed
that the bacteria had infected the hilar lymph nodes {lymph nodes of lungs} and
still making inroads into the healthy lung tissues. The immediate surgery was
done to remove the affected node and immediately after the surgery she was put
on the more intensive tuberculosis treatment for one year.
The denial cost her life but it was the mercy of the
god that she was saved and was able to sing again.
CONCLUSION
There is a very thin line difference between faith and
blind faith, belief and superstition. The religion propagates faith not orthodox
superstition. And once we start to decipher between them than we will find god
very near to us, just like our best friend helping us always in our hour of
need.
PHRENOLOGY OF SUPERSTITIOUS PEOPLE
Raised eyebrows as if dividing the forehead equally in
two parts
Scarce hair filling in the eyebrows
Big wide and protruding eyes as if always giving the
expression of being astonished
Round and protruding ears
MORAL
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