Fake Fruits and Flowers

Fake Fruits and Flowers T hese days, people have started manufacturing plastic flowers and fruits. They look just like real flowers and fruits. But if you smell a plastic flower, it has none of the fragrance of a real flower. If you bite into a plastic fruit, it has none of the taste of a real fruit. In just the same way, absurd forms of religiosity have appeared these days. On the face of it, they appear really grandiose, but if you examine them closely, they have none of the true essence of religion – which is, fear of God and genuine concern for other human beings. In this age of plastic, perhaps religiosity has become plastic, too. Many people may appear to be very pious, but they are unwilling to accept their mistakes. They are not willing to sacrifice their egos for the sake of God. For their personal interests, they may get together with others and sink their differences and complaints. But in this entire world, there is no one who will set aside his differences and complaints and join hands with others for the sake of God. The true religion is this: that a person attains to the truth that there is but one God of this entire universe. This God is the Creator of all things. He will gather all human beings after their death and take account of them. And then, on the basis of their deeds, He will put them into eternal heaven or eternal hell. This is such a serious fact that if it really seeps deeply into one’s mind, his entire life is completely transformed. He becomes very careful about all things that lead people to the