To Reverend Pundits, Mullahs , Priests and Gurus
by mazHur



O my reverend Pundits, Mullahs,Rabbis, Priests and Gurus
I beseech you to teach me something new
Or just stop delivering me your sermon;
Sorry, I am not impressed.
I have heard such talk since a toddler;
In the Montessori and the kindergarten
My teachers taught me
To read and write alphabets, counting
The way to understand and tell
The colors and shapes of things
Living and Non-living;
Then as I advanced in studies,
More of arithmetic,social studies and general science
Were ingrained in my pulpy brain;
By the time I had finished my high school,
I had learnt most of what you say in your sermons.
Resting not at what I had so far learned,
I went for higher studies
only to find that what ever I was being taught
Was just an elaboration and extension
Of what I was taught in my childhood;
Anyway , I graduated in my studies,
Then put some years in specialization
And here I am now before you.
So, please don't regurgitate what I already learned
All those long years,
The basics as well as the advanced,
Tell me something new, please!
I know I have to thank God
For all He has bestowed on me;
For His mercy and magnanimity,
For everything , all he's cause of;
But for extending all my gratitude and prayer,
Why do you urge me to periodically attend,
In a set style and artificial form,
The temple, the mosque, the church, the gurdawara
And all that Men have built to gather
On Fridays, Sundays and Saturdays
All round the year?
I told you I spent a lifetime
In my academic pursuits,
Studying the necessary in's and out's of knowledge;
But I never went there again
After I completed my educational pursuit;
Why, Why , then you sermonize
Men to attend the self-nominated places
Of worshipping God
When the God is Everywhere
Or Nowhere??
It troubles me to find that to worship God
Why the believers are driven into a ritualistic habit
Of wasting time ;
If the Believing Men can thank the Almighty
All the time (which they are supposed to do )
Why then all this suffocating binding to congregate
At a specific place, at a specific time and day??
Well, I don't do that after leaving my alma mater
Or the college or the University
After I left it
I also don't go there again to learn
What I was already taught
And acquired as knowledge;
By Joe, I fail to comprehend
Why you keep beating about the bush
All the time?
Why the mortals once taught
And who believed in your respective faiths
Are directed to congregate and chant
Choirs of thanks and gratitude to the Almighty
and waste their time and deafen their ears
By the burden of listening to your rote ,
When they could do it in their hearts,
Everywhere, at any time?
Think over it my dear clergy-heads
And tell me the logic behind your lessons
Which everybody has learnt since his childhood
And could never forget all his life;
You certainly don't have to remind him
Of his business towards God
For God's sake leave us all alone !