Promises of religion

An eternal life is the stick and carrot

That religion offers as bait to people.

Follow religion; Heaven is assured.

Stray from religion; Hell is threatening.

Gone all souls either to Heaven of Hell,

Where are the new souls coming from all time?

What about the new entrants, consequent

To constant increase in population?

Holding Soul as eternal and timeless,

Could we brand souls as Past, Present and Future?

Self exists in continuum with other selves

And form consciousness uncountable.

After life is a poetic allegory

As much as those spun in mythology.

Soul of every organism comes

As extension of parental bodies.

What we call ourselves are shaped by others

And the selves of others are shaped by us.

Many atoms that circle in our bodies

Might have been constituents of the dead.

There are no eternal individual souls;

No Heaven or Hell; no incarnation;

There is only on cosmic consciousness

Which we dwell  in, and which dwells in us.

03.09.2015

( Inspired by ‘The World as Will and Idea’ – Schopenhauer)