the other side of BELIEF

What is belief? Tough question!! Believe me there can be more than as many definitions as there can actually be. BUT one thing is loud and clear… THEY ARE MAN MADE (not a gender bias statement, jus following the universal belief, which states, quoting “MAN” means all humans and quoting “WOMAN” is referring to the feminine HUMANS).
What does the other side of belief mean? Can be the conflict of various things in which we believe with the SELF & other’s self.
For example (I would consider this as a belief because I believe it is so): a person can see a corporate as
1. A bunch of people who are self centered considering the fact that they are the cause for most of the social damages that happen
2. A group of intellects who help in the progress of every human’s life style
3. A place where you would get a good STARTING salary
4. ETC…..ETC ETC…..

There are various ways of seeing the same thing, which apparently doesn’t remain the same if it is viewed differently.
But the main thing which we should understand is “we need to understand other’s view of looking at the thing”.
If we don’t believe in something we tend to call the followers an IDIOT, failing to realize that we are the idiots refusing to RESPECT other’s view of the same thing.

Let me quote two examples from what I have experienced.
1) The Vinayak Chathurthi ritual: I and my friends met at the beach as we usually do, one of my friends brought a GANESHA idol to put it in the water and practice the belief. She asked me to put it in the water. I took it, casually, went near the shore and threw the idol in to the water, by general belief I wasn’t supposed to do that. When I was questioned on my action, I asked “when we are anyway putting the idol in to the water, how does it make a difference if I throw it?”
2) The second instance is again religious, sorry if had hurt anybody’s sentiments. This is about offering flowers to the deity. As a practice in my house, we offer flowers to the deity’s photo; our maid one day accidently swept previous day’s flowers with the broom, my mom got furious on her. But I had a doubt, as usual, if any way we are going to throw the used flowers along with the rubbish. What s wrong in using the broom??

When I gave it some thought, I was behaving idiotic; what s the problem if the idol was not thrown?? What if the flowers were not swept?? Is there something wrong in doing a thing in a better & cleaner way? Is it a flaw to give some extra respect?? Considering the fact that, respect is similar to education, THE MORE WE GIVE, THE MORE WE GET.

There are lots of things we believe and others won’t, there are a lot of times when we believe something is right, where others would say it’s not. There are a lot of times when we believe what we believe is not belief.

>WHAT EVER IT IS, I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT EVERY BELIEF SHOULD BE RESPECTED.
THE OTHER SIDE OF RESPECTING THE BELIEF should be a collateral mirror image.


THIS is MY PERSONAL BELIEF.