Today there are only 10,000 (ten thousand) religions and 4,000 (four thousand) gods in the world.
We will see in this article that our religious texts, such as the four Vedas, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Gita, Bible, Quran, Adi Granth, etc., are not as old as we think because there were no languages before 3,500 years ago. If language had not developed, how old can the creation of religious texts be? We will also see how the concept of God first emerged among humans? How did religion start? Then how was fear and greed cleverly used to spread religion? How did the 10,000 religions and 4,000 gods that exist today come into existence?
To understand this depth, we first have to understand human evolution. Along with this, the study of religion and philosophy cannot be ignored!
The era of Mahakal poetry – If we count from the current year 2025 in Indian Sanskrit, then only 2300 to 2600 years ago, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, which shaped the cultural psyche of Hinduism, were composed. It is historically estimated that Maharishi Valmiki, who composed the Valmiki Ramayana, was born 2500 years ago. It is estimated that Veda Vyas, the author of the Mahabharata, was born about 2400 years ago in present-day Nepal. It is mentioned that Veda Muni composed the "Shri Bhagavad Gita" in the sixth festival of the Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva. In Hinduism, the official name of the author of the four Vedas, one hundred and eight Upanishads, eighteen Puranas, Mahabharata and "Gita" is Maharishi Veda Vyas. It may be a myth that a single man could create so many books in his life span of approximately 75-100 years, historical truth is subject to evidence.
During this period, Mahavira composed the book of Jainism and Gautama Buddha composed the book of Buddhism, Dhammapada, in Pali language. The founder of Judaism,Musaed, published his religious book 'Torah' 800 years after his birth by his followers. One of the five books became the "Old Testament" of Christianity. The "Bible" was composed about 70 to 200 years after the death of Jesus Christ. The "New Testament" was composed in the first or second century CE. The Quran is believed to have been composed 40 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. To compose the Quran, the "Hafiz" people who had memorized the verses of the Quran were called and the decision made based on the oral final dialouges & discussion was considered the final document of the Quran. The book "Guru Granth Sahib" was published as Gurgranth Vani about 65 years after the death of its founder Guru Nanak (in 1604). Goswami Tulsidasji (born 1523 - died 1611) composed the three books Ramcharit Manas, Hanuman Chalisa and Ramlila in his Awadhi language, which are 400 years old. Tulsidas' followers prepared Ramlila in the form of a play and kept it alive in the minds of the people.
For general understanding, we can conclude that all the religious books of the world are about 2600 years old. What are the reasons that all these religious books could be created only in the last 2600 years? And could not be done before that! To find that truth, we have to study biological and human evolution in depth!
70,000 years ago, our first descendants 'Homo sapiens' in the wild state (Way of life) were fruits, tree-leaf gatherers and hunters. Now we have to find out when 'bread-clothes and houses( ROTI-KAPDA-Makan) were built' in the life of 'Homo sapiens'? About ten to twelve thousand years ago, humans started understanding how to use land for agriculture activities? The development of agricultural civilization gradually taught humans to live a safe life with the help of natural factors. From a wandering hunter - gatherer life, he learned how to live a group-social life safely in one place. Family, clans, order, security, etc. social units were formed as per the need. According to the concept of Hinduism, the existence of Satya, Dwapar, Treta or Kali Yuga were after agricultural civilization, that is, after ten or twelve thousand years, and not before. Because in the hunter-gatherer or forest dweller life, society or collective life system did not exist.
Around 8000 years ago, humans learned to use cotton and wool, after 6000 years, they learned to make and wear clothes. For building and construction, etc., with the development of agriculture, they learned to build houses of sun-dried mud bricks. Then after 3000 years, the practice of building brick houses with brick kilns came into vogue. Around 5000 years ago, samples of baked bricks were found in the Indus (river) civilization. This means that the creation of royal palaces and grand temples in the country or on the world stage was not possible before five thousand years ago.
12000 years ago, there was no agricultural production. 6000 years ago, humans lived in a sedentary state. 5000 years ago, the construction of huge palaces and temples was not possible. Then how old is the existence of any religion?
Mythology- There is a fundamental difference between mythology and history. Mythology has no scientific evidence. It is fiction. Whereas the truths of history are subjected to scientific evidence. If the invention of agriculture, clothing etc. is only ten thousand or five thousand years old, then how can any religion, God, Prophet, Avatar or Vedas be created before that? Therefore, it is considered fiction.
Part-2.
When humans got bread, clothes and houses, when did language come? When humans got agriculture, bricks and clothes, when did language come? Or when did language arise? Only 3500 years ago or only 1500 years before Christ! The question naturally arises in all of our minds that if mankind did not have language, how would it have communicated? The simple answer is like animals and birds. Before language, humans used gestures, sounds and signs like animals and birds (Sign Language) e.g. drinking water or feeling hungry, or screaming and crying to show physical pain, etc. Different nouns were used for this. Natural and instinctive feelings like sleep, food, pleasure and fear were shown through nouns. But thinking, imagining, expressing etc. So it became possible only after the development of language.
The Sanskrit language developed around 1500 BC. Panini's grammar was developed one thousand years after the development of Sanskrit language, around 500 BC. Language developed the thinking power of humans and the power of imagination very quickly. How to store and share the accumulated knowledge became possible. The creation of all religious texts became possible only after 3500 years of language development! At the same time, language gave wings to fly in the sky to explore philosophy and contemplation in the world.
Immediately, humans started thinking about unsolved problems related to creation. Who created this creation? How could the sun, moon, stars all be created? Sometimes there is excessive rain, sometimes there is a storm! Why does all this happen in nature? All these were not just questions that arose in the human mind, but all those natural factors made the human being afraid. The human being also found the dark scary. (Even today the fear of the dark has not diminished.) He was also afraid of fire. Due to all these fears, gradually the human being started worshipping all those celestial powers. He started considering all these powers as gods but naturally superior to man's power. For example, the Sun God, the Fire God, the Wind God, the Moon God, the Indra God, the Varuna God, etc. During this period, the theory of polytheism was born. In India, its people created thirty-three crore gods. At that time, the population of gods was more than the total population of India. Along with the invention of rituals like mantras, tantras and magic spells to worship all those gods, the parasitic Brahmanical thinking of those who practiced them was also born. Shruti and Smriti became a part of life.
Over time, these Shruti and Smriti became the basis of the Vedas! Maharishi Veda Vyasa divided them all according to subjects and composed four Vedas, Yajurveda (rituals of sacrifice and rituals), Rugveda, Samaveda (music and Yajna mantras) and Arthaveda (disease prevention and Tantra mantras). The composition of the Vedas is only 2600 years old.
Talking about the birth time of Shri Ram and the Ramayana, there are many fanciful assumptions prevalent in the public mind. Based on the constellations of the birth time of Shri Ram in the planetarium software, Shri Ram was born only 7000 years ago (5114 years BC). Other legends are associated with the historical character Ravana along with Ram. Ravana's reign is shown to be from 2054 to 2017 BC. According to all the assumptions about the birth of Shri Ram, it is considered to be approximately 4500 to 7000 years old. The Vedic Mahakal in which the Ramayana was composed by the sage Valmiki has shown the time as 2500 years ago. There is a gap of thousands of years between the birth of Rama and the composition of Valmiki Ramayana.
Fact of the composition of the Mahabharata - It is believed that Shri Krishna was born 5000 years ago. Mahabharata The Departmental Archaeological Survey of the country has not found any historical, scientific or physical evidence of such a devastating war. The conclusion of the Department of Archaeology is that the Mahabharata war must have taken place around 1500 BC. If the Sanskrit language was not born 3500 years ago, then how could these two epics have been written in Sanskrit thousands of years before that! In 2001, the Indian Historical Conference was held at the Alipore campus of Calcutta University. In its last session, Nobel laureate, economist and Vice Chancellor of Nalanda University. Prof. Amrit Sen concluded that (1) there is no scientific historical evidence or proof of the existence of Ramayana and Mahabharata. (2) both the epics are just mythological legends (Mythology) (3) The characters of Shri Ram and Shri Krishna are also characters of fictional legends.
Part-3.
Religions were created in society to serve the interests of the parasite people by using both fear and greed?
Religions were created in society to create a system of life based on order and morality by using both fear and greed. In that era, imaginary enlightenment was presented through mythological stories. We find examples of this in the "Panchatantra" and "Aesop's" fables. For example, "Ganji's dog, pigeon-ant, vicious fox, some demon drank the ocean, some king drank fire, some kings had 60,000 sons, some kings ruled for 10,000 years, etc. All these stories are fictional, but their teachings were reasonable. In this context, Ramayana and Mahabharata also proved to be very great texts that give lessons on the moral-honorable-family-relations of society. Those texts have proven to be the basic building of the Hindu way of life. The characters put in them by the creator of both texts are absolutely alive, even though they are timeless, they still bind the fibers of individual and collective life. Similar mythological characters are also available in every religious text like Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Jainism. To consider those texts as true or factual, it is of the same coin. There is another side. We have to accept the fact that no religion was created 13,000 years ago because before that man lived in the hunting era. The body for the creation of family and society was not formed. Along with this, it is also necessary to accept that the language for the creation of religious texts was not developed. Language was not developed 3,500 years ago.
So how did the idea of God, God or Allah first arise in the mind of a black-headed man? How was the creation created? Who created it? Who is managing the sun, moon, celestial bodies and natural factors such as rain, sea, river, mountain etc.? To find the answer, man will not be able to go back millions of years. An intellectual discovered from his fertile soil that God, who lives in the seventh heaven, created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day. These are all mythological stories of the creation of the universe. Someone said that the living organisms were created from water. Another said that first there was a flood on the earth and then there was the creation.
Humans have made as many assumptions as possible for the creation of God, and that work is still ongoing for humans. But thousands of religions and their countless scriptures have been created in its support. The God of each religion is independent, supported by its separate scripture and the birthplace of its God - pilgrimage - pilgrimage place.Jerusalem for Christianity, Mecca-Medina for Islam and as many religious places as there are branches of Hinduism such as Mathura, Ayodhya, Amarnath, Shatrunjay, Palitana, Amritsar etc.
On a global scale, three types of concepts of religion and God are in circulation. Monism such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Polytheism, Hinduism and Shintoism of Japan and Atheism ( Agnosticism) includes Buddhism, Jainism and Taoism. There are 1000 religions and 4000 gods on our earth.
Two important factors, especially "fear" and the other "greed", have played a special role in the spread of religion. The fear of hell and rebirth and the greed of heaven, paradise and salvation. Eventually, religions became a business of superstition and all kinds of exploitation among the people. Gradually, all these religions started doing organized business activities. Today, the scope of business run by religions has become three trillion American dollars.
For political authorities, the use of religious sentiments to gain and maintain their power and through it, they have gained an unfettered right to control all kinds of citizens. Religion has become a scapegoat for state power. Religions are like political tools for spreading hatred, violence and wars in society. It has become a toy of the authorities. People started killing each other in the name of religion! It has now been proven that religion is nothing more than a man-made concept, a concept. It has become an organized established interest.
Part-4.
Last articles on Origin of Religion.
The general conclusion of the three previous articles on religion is that the concept of religion is man-made. Moreover, God or Allah is nothing more than a human being's imagination. Then are nature and the Supreme Soul one or different? Then what is truth from the point of view of philosophy?
From the point of view of philosophy, two directions have been considered to solve this problem.
One is Dualism and the other is Monism.
Dualism – In this school of thought, the concepts of materialism and spiritualism, nature and its controller Supreme Soul, body and soul have been developed. In the early years, there was a puzzle for man in the form of human curiosity. Who would be managing the different factors of nature such as the sun, moon, rain, fire, wind etc.! The effects of these factors were felt as heat, cold, fire, etc., but at that stage, it was not within the power of the human mind to understand who created and how it was managed. Thus, one was nature and the other was its manager, giver of birth, God or doer, whatever name one wants to give. Dualistic thinking and its close relationship with each other prepared fertile ground for the formation of different religions. Sow the seeds of superstition, fear and then greed in this fertile ground and reap its fruits and crops for centuries.
But philosophy challenged dualism that if the creator or author of nature is God, then who is the creator of God? Because the foundation of the dualistic building is made up of two elements like nature and God. If God is self-sufficient, why is nature not self-sufficient! With this argument, the concept of nature itself becomes self-sufficient, and the concept of the omnipotence of God becomes impossible or non-existent. Since then, gradually, by understanding the laws of nature, man has made the struggle for survival easier with the cooperation of others.
Advaitavada –
Both nature and God are not different. There is only one, which is known as Monism.. There is absolutely no need for an external power like God for its creation and management. Understand the laws of nature and become prosperous! However, even today there are groups of people all over the world who worship nature as the divine. In which they worship the sun, moon, fire, rain, sea, land, etc. They worship the factors of nature. Another name for Monism is Materialism. Which denies the existence of the body and a soul separate from it. Man himself is a part of nature. Therefore, like all the factors of nature, functions of the human body & its management are also subject to the laws of nature. Like other laws of nature, the laws of body management can be understood and its problems can also be solved!
There are causes for human problems. Those problems are not created by God. Therefore, they can be solved without the help of God alone! Just as nature is physical and non-dual, similarly the human body is also physical and non-dual.
Concept of soul – The human brain (human brain power) has a role in the management of the body. The human brain cannot be called a soul! It has the importance of communication through the five senses that helps in decisions like consciousness, decision-making power and enlightenment. When the human brain dies, the body also becomes dead. The human brain is also a part of the physical body like different organs such as the heart, lungs, kidneys. In it, there is no place for an immaterial element like the soul in the human brain.
Human Religion – The violent damage that all the so-called divine religions have done to humanity and are still doing in the 21st century is immeasurable. To strengthen their established interests, the organizations of divine religions divide human groups into different groups, instigating hatred,discrimination, etc. They keep humans anywhere in the world in an atmosphere of unrest, violence and war by inciting hatred,discrimination, etc. Human civilization as such by political power is kept in an atmosphere of unrest, violence and war. Human wealth is created,& its valuable savings-income-welfare research is used to spread destruction instead of human happiness.
Human religion( Known as Humanism) says that all the humans of the world are one. Therefore, their problems and interests are also the same. There is no difference between any human being on the basis of religion, region, nation, language, color, gender, etc. It is necessary to get out of all this narrow-mindedness and strive for human-centered empowerment. The use of all the world's resources is to create a prosperous, peaceful world, not one created by God, but one created by man, with the help of human values such as freedom, rationality, and secular morality.
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