In defense of vanishing secularism.

 It is a good thing that secularism is vanishing. We have made a religion out of secularism today. Just like Communism or Capitalism which has a lot of die-hard followers who are prepared to fight and even kill to propagate their ideology, so too today there is a constituency of people ready to fight for secularism. Anything that you resist will persist.  

Covid has one message for all of us. It does not know any religion. It does not discriminate on the basis of cast, religion, status or money. It has narrowed down all divisions based on these discriminations. It just needs someone with breath. It can travel free of charge at a great speed.  It has spread faster than anything else in history. It has claimed more people in a very short span of time than any religion or -ism.

Covid can only be conquered by narrowing down all divisions and coming together to negotiate, rather than fight the virus. Every negotiation is a give and take. Negotiation with Covid too must be a give and take between the demands of progress, development and the preservation, sustenance and care of our earth. We have sent the earth to the ICU. The earth will spring back. Life forms have been here on earth for millions of years. It is you who have come on this planet just the other day. Life will stay. It is you who go.

You cannot hope to destroy the earth and you continue to live. Where do you live? How do you breath? What do you drink? Where do you get sunlight from?

Covid has come to you with this message. Stand together if you want to survive. It has come to promote this unity.  It has come to tell everyone there is no other religion than humanity. It has come with this message that all those who breathe, those who feel the sunshine, those who drink water whether you are animal or plant or human, you have to unite. There is only one life. All share in that life. So don’t be like children on the sea beach trying to protect your little castle of sand and crying over its destruction when there is so huge an ocean and a vast beach out there.

Covid is not something we must fight against. It is something we must make friends with. It does us a great service by narrowing down the divisions and bringing us back to our basic root of one humanity. It is telling us to come together at least in the name of a common enemy since nothing else will make us come together. Once we are united Covid will withdraw, the earth will be greener, more birds will fly, more flowers will bloom, the sky will be bluer.

Every major religion has made a case to impose it on others. The history of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism is a bloody story of domination over others. May be today Hinduism too is feeling an inferiority complex and want to try world domination as others have attempted. The more we fight, the more we resist, the more we divide, Covid will have the last laugh and will flourish. Instead, if we can break down all barriers and divisions and come together,  we can conquer, even Covid.    

 God is at the depth of each being. God is in every life-form. Let us worship that God.  Covid has come to preach to us that one religion called -  humanity.