Materialism and Spirituality

There is usually a lot of debate whether spritualism is any better than materialism. We as Indians always feel that spirituality is the better philosphy. But I have huge doubts on that. First of all, what is the purpose of life? That is the question posed by any philosphy. I don't think that any God would want his creations to worship him or just keep on thinking about him. Instead he would be quite proud if his creations could utilize the talents bestowed by him to make the life of other fellow beings easy and comfortable.

Some hundred years back, fans were definitely a luxury. They were not the kind of electrical fans that we use today but were operated by the hands of the servents of the kings. Today technology has enabled everyone to use fans which are far more comfortable than the fans of that era.

A few years back, when I was a kid, phones were a luxury. They were the high maintenance items and hence were used by the upper and upper-middle class of the society. We did not have a single phone at our home and hence depended on our helpful neighbours to provide us with the information. Today every member of my family has a mobile phone. We can communicate whenever we want. Would not God, who is our creator, be extreamly happy on watching what we have been able to achieve with the fabulous brain that he gifted us with. I think he would be, and he should be.

We as human beings are here for a certain period of time. All of us must be born for some real purpose. We must be changing something in here, we must be doing something which outlasts us and becomes our legacy. That thing does not need to be spiritual to be classified as a good thing. That thing can be a beautiful piece of architecture, a wonderful book or even a marvellous computer.

Although sometimes materialism can be bad. The examples of nuclear weapons, attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki etc. are glaring examples where technology has played with the society in a massively destructive way but on the whole the impact of technology has been very positive for the development of humanity. Today, we live a quality of life that could only be dreamt by our forfathers and we have the hard work of engineers and scientists to thank for that.

I think we have made earth, a living heaven!! Atleast some for some of us !! And God would appriciate us for that !!