PQ1 and Confused, I think I need to clarify this first. By saying I am an atheist, I was just professing my faith, hai. I did not mean to offend the theists. Bagawan kasam ! You might have noticed me recently telling in my kurakani with Ashu that although I am an atheist, I understand the value and power of faith. And I am an atheist only in a theoretical sense, to be precise. I simply don't believe in the conventional [notion of] God. In practical sense, however, I am as faithful as a theist could be. I have my own version of God. I do my own version of prayer and so on. My God is very close to what probably my conscience is. But often times, it's more than that. And my prayer is always in a form of a summon to my God, just asking Him to be a witness to my action and intention that are not visible to any other people beside me. Although I do not pray to God asking for a favor, it feels good to wish good things to people and not to mention to myself. That is how I like bhajans like 'Garaj Baras'. MM ji, 'Yatri' is one of my dearest poems. I would rather describe it as an anti-bhajan rather than a bhajan. Because in bhajan, you address God. In Yatri, Devkota is addressing humans. And you are right, this is a bhajan for the atheists. As a matter of fact, I think this is an anthem for athesists ! But again, like I described for my version of faith, 'Yatri' too has it's own version of God, it's own version of the way of worshipping. So, like myself, it is atheist in theory but theist for all practical purposes. So although it was kinda absurd to hear this song being played in Dharmik Karyakram sometimes, it is not totally misfitting either. ========= PQ1, WHERE DID YOU HATCH FROM? WHO CREATED YOU? WHO CREATED YOUR BACTERIA FOREFATHERS? WHO CREATED THE MITOCHONDRIA? WHO CREATED THE AMINO ACIDS & FINALLY WHO CREATED THE VACCUM? Profound questions indeed. I do have more complicated questions but essentially asking what you are asking here. And I must admit I do not have the answer that satisfies myself. However, I do have questions that somehow compensate for the lack of satisfying answer, thus bringing me to be at peace with these unanswered questions. The question is simple. Who created the creator ? If a creator is not required to create the creator, then why can the same assumption not be applied to the universe ? We don't know who did, why and how was done the explosion of Big Bang. However, everything since then can be explained as or rather assumed to have happened by the MINDLESS law of nature. Creation aside, if you are talking about the MINDFUL designing of the universe and life, I will not challenge people's faith. However, I will say this much- whoever designed life, the way it is sustained and the way it evolves in nature, that guy must be a lousy designer. If he had hired me as an assistance, I could have given him a better design. As a matter of there are people (scientists) who have been trying to find the way to fix God designed imperfections (for example genetic diseases), however President Bush would not give federal money to this kind of things, rey kya ajha last ma. He thinks it is insult to God to try to fix His imperfections by using federal money. Private money is fine. But again, most people including scientists agree for the time being that our knowledge is way to little at this point of time to go beyond certain things because the risks are unknown. See how difficult our life is the DESIGNER making by living in secrecy and keeping His designs as CLASSIFIED materials for humans. Tara hami pani ke kum, at a super snail's pace nai sahi, we are getting those secrets through our jasoos (researchers) working at their labs. It does not matter whether or not we ever be able to get all the secrets. What matters is we have got some mostly in the past century and will get more and more as centuries goes by.