Come, see how they loudly declaim (With all of them, it’s just the same), That the Will of God they well know, Each insisting that this is really so, Based on books in which they hold God His message to Man has told.   It’s funny but their books don’t match, And here clearly lies a very big catch, For if all these books were from God (And not the writings of some fraud), Why divergent things would they say, Each against the rest in many a way?   If God had sent them, this cou

Ah! See with what gusto they loudly hail The many creeds they’ve put up for sale, Each of these available for a heavy price: That your freedom you must sacrifice, For they demand you hand over control Of your mind and your life as a whole To them, so that you do just as they say, Over your life giving them complete sway.   Don’t be so foolish to do as they say you must, Don’t, my dearest, in their ‘sweet’ words trust, For, if you do so, this fact you must know well: You’ll ca

I’ve been on this planet for almost six decades now, and I’ve been fortunate to see a fair portion of it. I’ve been able to travel widely, not just in the country where I was born but elsewhere, too. My penchant for travelling started early, in childhood itself. My parents took us children on numerous trips during our school vacations. Later, the sort of work that I took up was such that for me it often seemed like a paid holiday—I got to travel widely for a job that I then j

"Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."   (The Bible, 2 Corinthians 9:7) Of the incidents from my early childhood that I still vividly recall one relates to my maternal grandmother. This happened when I was little—around half a century or so ago—and so I'm not sure if my account is entirely error-free but maybe it went something like this: My maternal grandparents were returnin