Why Hinduism has many Gods and Goddesses

Just a little clarification why Hindus have many Gods and Goddesses.

The world’s population is huge. It is impossible for a single person to oversee the hardships the billions of people, less alone grant the wishes of the masses. For efficient organization and management of these masses, the globe itself had become divided into nations.

Nations systematize themselves to bring about efficient rule and control of their populace. They have presidents or prime ministers or head of states with other names. Under them, they have other ministers or leaders, holding various port folios. They have leaders to oversee respective segment of the assignments, relating to the smooth running of the nation. A nation’s business sector will have its own administrator to deal only with the commercial aspect of the nation. So will the agricultural, military, education, health, just to name a few. Some nations even have ministers to look into the welfare of women in their realms.

Why such segmentation? It is absolutely impossible for one person to administer the operation of a nation all by himself, that’s why. Dreadful chaos will rein in which will definitely make that person go insane, just to put it mildly. So is the same case with our beloved God, though He definitely won't go insane, being the almighty He is. In this world of billions of lives, both human and non human how can God singularly focus his attention on the requirements and prayers of those souls? It is for this reason that Hinduism has allotted itself with various representations or representatives, if you may, of God.

Just for an illustration, below are some of the most common Gods and Goddesses, also known as deities with various representations:

Brahman (male) – Almighty God.

Brahma (male) – creation.

Vishnu or Vengkadeswara (male) – preserver or sustainer of life.

Shiva (male) – death and dissolution. Also creation.

Ganesha (male) – success, wisdom, wealth and also destroyer of obstacles.

Muruga (male) – remover of all kinds of negative forces.

Saraswati (female) – knowledge and learning.

Lakshmi (female) – wealth and prosperity.

Durga (female) - protector of righteous and destroyer of evils.

Mariamman (female) – fertility, health and good spouse

Election is coming! Money is coming!

Election is coming! Election is coming!

This is the daily cry in Malaysia, now. How do the people know? Well, the government is giving out money to its citizens left and right. That’s how! I've got my RM 500. Thank you, sir. My vote is for you! This came about due to the  newly and conveniently established scheme,  BR1M -Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia or if translated in English it is something like' assistance for united Malaysians'.

Election is coming! Money is coming! 

Another type of Transformer

Papers tell of people

Turning

Trash into Treasure

Waste into Wealth.

Oh, how I would like to

Turn

Rubbish into Rubies

Junks into Gems

Garbage into Gold

Scraps into Sapphires

Debris into Diamonds

Filth into Fortune

Peanuts into Pearls

Rejects into Riches!

And lo!

Would I be the world’s

Richest Recycler!

Malaysian Salary Increase - the actual situation

So the government is further increasing the salaries of its workers. Today’s (December 8, 2011) news in a Malaysian daily mentioned that Public Service director-general Tan Sri Abu Bakar Abdullah had said that 7% to 13% increment will be given to the civil service workers, also termed as government servants, from January 1 next year.

To me, there will be a ‘win-win-lose’ situation, taking the Major three races into account. Of the three major races in Malaysia, Malays being the mainstream of the population and being the concrete majority in the civil service, they will be greatly pleased. They will have extra money to spend. It will be a win situation for them.

The Chinese, who are the main business people in Malaysia to whose business premises the Malays will surely make a bee line for, will be rubbing their hands in glee; the money will gradually be filling their pockets and they will be laughing all their way to the banks. So it will also be a win situation for them.

The Indians, who make about less than 10% of citizens of Malaysia, do not have a really mentionable number, either in the civil service or in business segment. They are mostly employed in private factories and oil palm estates. These are the people who will lose out as others will have more money to spend, demands will rise and price of goods will undoubtedly increase. The income of the Indians will remain stagnant, as the private sector employers will rarely increase their employee’s wages. So at the end, the Indians will be at the losing end, thus making the situation a win-win-lose one.

How nice if the government can do something that will make it a win-win-win situation for all. My votes for you if you can do that!