An open letter to Maai Baap

Dear GOD,

I heard that the Senator of Nebraska, United States has sued you. Well, I think he knows that it doesn’t work this way. But I am sure that justice would take lesser time than what the judiciary in India takes. But that is besides the point really.

The Senator has accused you in a burst of antediluvian alliterations of "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like."

That’s unfair on you, isn’t it? I am positive that when you initiate these calamities there must be a bigger plan in the cosmic nature of things. I am sure the lives that you have taken away have been put to better use, so to speak. And I am sure that you don’t play dice, as more beautiful minds than mine have confirmed. As the CEO of this cosmos wide enterprise, I am sure you see the bigger picture better.

My only concern is why did you have to come to earth in 20 different forms? When you know that logically there can be only one YOU (power sharing does not sound a divine enough concept), why did you have to spread the myth that you have multiple releases with multiple versions? Why couldn’t you restrict your entry to a single space and time and let the stories about you spread across different spaces and times?

I think you know what this has done to the world that you have created so lovingly. Muslims say that there God is the real McCoy and anyone who does not believe so is an infidel. Hindus say that there faith is the bigger, stronger, much improved version and rest all is hogwash. Christians believe their’s is the only God, and the non believers can be converted to this only faith.

Though you have blessed us humans with some intelligence, you haven’t blessed us with a sense of proportion to go along with it. So we tend to think in terms of black or white, their’s or ours, big or small, this or that. We were intelligent enough to devise a word called ‘and’, but we were not wise enough to use it. So when people talked about ‘our faith’ or ‘their faith’ they dint realize that they were talking about the same stuff. The same sets of people never talk about ‘our sun or their sun’ and ‘our sky or their sky’. However when it concerns YOU, they tend to become possessive…. and binary.

Why are you allowing your name to be dragged in multiple slush? Why cant you come and clear it once and for all that you don’t have an alter ego? And tell everyone that what the muezzin at the mosque is pointing his hands skywards to and the pundit in the temple is folding his hands before is the same fellow… indeed the ONLY fellow. Why cant you go for an Arabian sortie and tell those misguided folks in the middle east that it is a waste of precious blood and not so precious RDX, fighting over YOU. Why cant you come over, sip a Koffee with Karan and tell those cretins in saffron that the God who resided in Babri Masjid was not much different from the king who ruled Ayodhya.This world is too small for so much hatred in your name.

Once you do this, you can always go back and pull those levers for earthquakes and floods and watch the fun prime time.

Thanks and Regards,
A believer