One look at universe proves how meaningless we are

Here on Earth, we are in constant conflict for power. Common earthlings do things, say things, and show things which make them feel superior, God-like. Some create wars, others end them. Some destroy lives, others save them.

They give us a sense of entitlement, make us feel that we are in control, and we are the ones who choose the subsequent consequences.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Do you know, if we held up a grain of rice to the night sky, we’d be covering approximately 10,000 stars?

That’s how tiny we are. One look at the universe will prove how unimaginably small, meaningless and irrelevant one is.

There is no better lesson in spirituality than the space. Sit through just one show, "How the Universe Works" on Discovery and it will make you a believer. Far distanced from religious paradigms, space puts forth theories and data, which can make you come to terms with the vastness of the universe and the futility of your own ego.

But it is so immense and huge that it is difficult for our mind to even contemplate its wholeness.

We now know that at this very second, there could be multiple Big Bangs happening in parallel multiverses, and somewhere, some Earth would be forming as a result. And we think our generations have mastered Physics.

These facts mess up my brain as if it were a mould of clay. I have grown up turning my back to ritualism and the conventional notion of finding God in stones and statues. I have always recognised the power but have never been able to appreciate one single form. And now, more than ever before, the limited understanding of space has made me believe in higher powers, things beyond what our conscious mind can register and energies that aren’t visible to the naked eye.

While I am made to believe that God and Science are separate, religion and physics are opposite poles, I have a sneaking suspicion that "science" was born out of a need to test "spiritualism".

To me science is just a human phenomenon, something that we created to give credibility to the existence of a supreme power that makes the world run.

Sample this: The universe, when formed faced a challenge. With the formation of matter due to the Big Bang, there also came into being "anti-matter", which was merely an arch rival, just negative in nature. It is a basic fundamental property that opposite forces must cancel out each other, so ideally, and theoretically, our universe should have been wiped out and bought to a void by the anti-particle. But there was "something" that resulted in matter’s victory. There was something that ensured that life, time and space formed at that moment, expanded beyond measure and that explosion wasn’t for nothing.

What was that something? Even the floating galaxies and stars don’t know.

It’s funny. This is one roof we did not construct, and yet it exists, gives us life and an instinct to survive.

Finally, to all the humans who are busy spreading death, violence and devastation in the name of religion, to prove their might, let me say that as a well-thinking and well-meaning human, I will never find solace in doing things which a tiny fledgling homosapien would do to feel powerful. I will derive my power only from getting to know the energy that "creates".

To sum it all, I’m glad to have been born a human - powerless and puny, yet with a mind which roams the deep, dark corridors of the night sky discovering my own version of God.