Do you believe in Mom?
I saw the following write up in the web. It was categorized
as a funny story. I read it once; I read it many times. I found it to be
everything but funny. What a beautiful Metaphor about the unknown; life after
death. Each time you read it you get something more to ponder on. Do read it; and of course kindly share it.
Your views and comments are precious to me as well; so do share it; won’t you?
In a mother’s womb there were
two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”
The other replied, “Why, of course. There has
to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what
we will be later.”
“Nonsense,” said the first. “There is no life
after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but maybe there
will be more light than here.
Maybe we will walk with our legs and feed
through our mouths instead of this umbilical chord. Maybe we will have other
senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is
impossible. And feeding with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord
supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short.
Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is
something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this
physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “ It is all nonsense. And
moreover, if there is life, then why no one has ever come back from there? Delivery
is the end of life; and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and
silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but
certainly we will meet Mother and She will take care of us.”
The first laughed. “Mother? You actually believe
in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is she now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are
surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live.
Without Her this world would not and could not
exist.”
The first shrugged his shoulders and said dismissively:
“Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when
you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her
presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
good one. every death is a birth and every birth is a death too as these babies 'logically' reason out. mother , god all those concepts are nicely disproved with the effective use of 'logic' . beautiful
ReplyDeleteI had read this before. This was said to be similar to the existence of God, and /or life after death. The story can be classified both as funny and /or profound, depending on which side of the fence you are with regard to weighty, philosophical matters. Personally, I don't give such matters much thought clearly because they are beyond me, so why waste my time? I like to think everything doesn't have to be either black or while. There can be lots of grey areas too for which we humans don't have answers! And that makes the living more interesting.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your opinion;thank you. No, I have not composed the write-up nor I have claimed so. As mentioned you might have read it before. About the rest of your comment;you are right.Everyone have the right to choose his/her point of view. As long as we do not impose it on others, as long as you can be comfortable with your views, there is no problem at all.
DeleteOne way of interpretation of God which common man can understand.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sethu for registering your observation
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