Saturday, April 11, 2009

By- Manu Gupta (manu.gupta.iitm@gmail.com)

e-Letter to GOD
Dear Mr God!
I am not sorry if you are offended when I call you a Mister.
After spending almost twenty one years of my so called life, which has just been a long long series of incidents, I
just wanted to talk to you. So here I am. Well, its not the first I am talking to you...but ofcourse its the first time
when I perceive you no more as the so called ALMIGHTY.
Things have happened to me...as they do with others. Not boasting for my hard working deeds nor calling myself
lucky...I would just like to conclude that this fate, on an average, has been just a NEUTRAL, & I hope you
understand what I mean by this NEUTRAL. There large number of arguments I can provide, to tell you that I have
been quite unfortunate and my bad luck has deprived me of so many things I wished for. But...at the same
time...you can give an equal number of arguments for what all I have been provided and privileged with. So lets
not argue about that. Lets just forget what the hell or heaven you might have written...or thought to be written in
my fate.
I recall from the beginning of my childhood..being brought up in a typical middle class vaishya Hindu family..you
have been given quite a lot of verbal importance in every context, no matter what it might be. So, the influence on
this poor man writing this letter to you, had been quite a lot.For so long, I believed that you certainly do exist
somewhere in the seventh sky or some galaxy or somewhere else in this universe..and observing all of us. And
trust me...for most of the cases ..its was the fear for your presence and not the encouragement..that we had to do
good deeds. That very belief in my subconscious mind, I have not been able to remove it completely from my
head. And you know what, I hate you for all this non sense. Your presence or absence, practically, has not been
effective at all. Infact the faith has been degrading my performance quite a few times. There have been times
when I had cried recalling you...demanding something..in lieu of keeping my faith. There have been other times
when for a long duration I didnt care if you are there. You were indeed an irritation for my thoughts.
So why am I writing all this today???
All of a sudden, what happened that I am talking all this non-sense, or may be sense.
Its just that I want you to know...and I want the others to know......that I cant digest your conception any more. It ll
take me some more time to remove you completely out of my mind.
Its just ridiculous...when at times I used to call you ..or recall you....assuming that you will help me out. I was so
wrong. I mean think practically, out of more than 6 billion people on this bloody earth, what would be the
probability of you listening to me...even if you actually existed.
This life around me has been running so well or unwell...just because of the humans around me are messed up
in all the things- good or bad. I dont have to talk about if you control my fate or anybody's fate for that matter.
My knowledge & wisdom, how so ever small it may be, has compelled me to draw this conclusion, atleast for
myself, that...you are nothing more than an imposed composition and illusion.
Things happening in life, events taking place, incidents & accidents caused so far...they just have been...I dont
want to call them destiny. They just happened....you know just like every other thing does.
I am capable of doing what I can..and react accordingly of what I am. I cant recall you or pray you anymore.
Neither can I devote 1001/- prasadam for you at the temples. If I do something good..I dont expect from you to
tap my shoulders. And if I do something wrong, neither do I expect you to blame me. I shall do the things I want.
You may wait and watch..if you are so jobless....OR..you may simply lie down in front of your devotees in
thousands of temples and chuches and mosques and god (you) knows where....and have free lunch.
But take it from me...I dont have a single penny to give you...I dont have a single second to remember you.....and
I dont have a single word to praise you...and I dont have a single word to criticize you either. I just dont care if
you are...or if you arent. But for sure I want my belief of your non existence to be preserved and protected. I dont
want some Tom Dick n Harry coming to me and telling me that the GOD says....blah blah blah....Its my belief or
non belief...and I shall fight to protect it. You may feel jealous..after all you are loosing lots of prasadam from
me..which you, so happily, could have feast upon while millions of other creatures keep on fighting for the single
grain.
Events happening here have been related to me...problems are mine...and I shall do my own efforts to solve
them out. I dont need your leverage at any step.
I hope you might have clearly got the idea of what I want to convey.
Good luck for you Mister.
And yeah, by the way, GOD bless you...(you may bless yourself, ofcourse).

See you again on earth.(I dont want your hell or heaven)

Good Bye