To be, or not to be, spiritual

For decades, we have been hearing of religion and spirituality. For many of those years, many of us probably believed it and some others among us did not. Those who take refuge in spirituality get what they wish for. A calm, a link to the "Almighty". Everyone likes to feel one is special - the chosen one, the one who had a special connection with the higher being. It is quite likely that you will be taken in by such emotions if you are fed them on a 24x7 basis.

As a school-going kid, I remember that my parents never forced me to go to temples to offer prayers. Yet there was a strong belief in the Almighty creator. More recently though, I have seen more of the world and begin to question the creator's existence. If He creates only to destroy, why would He create at all? Why would He manipulate the way a common human being does? In fact, if He is so all-powerful and all-knowing, why would He bother with such petty games? One of the following has to be true (i) He is not all that magnanimous, so he is just another human-like entity (ii) He is the Almighty, but our understanding of Him is flawed (iii) He is an artefact of our peace-starved imagination.

Our mind is such a complex machine, and certainly due credit to the Creator, whoever that it is. However, when it comes to handing out credit, I would like to be sure I am crediting the right entity and not the wrong one. And if it is not in my power to know who my Creator is, then perhaps that's the way it is meant to be and I should not be trying to get to know Him at all? So, in conclusion, it should not even matter whether I believe in Him or not, because the purpose of our life is clearly only to live.