Spinoza On God Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

God is not the creator of the world
But the world is part of God, the substance.
The God and the world is the same thing,
Which contradicts the western religion.

There is only one substance, infinite,
Absolute and self-caused eternal.
The whole universe is made of this substance.
Any part of the universe is God.

The mind is the part of the infinite
Intellectof God and any object
Of idea constituting the mind
Is body with the mind as extension.

Thought and existence are two main attributes.
Thought is how the substance gives to a thought.
Existence is how the substance extends.
The connection between idea and thing is same.

How can you be blamed if you do or say
Something out of that which God put in you?
How can you be punished for yo being
As you are if God is the one who made you?

Miracles and God's averments are wiles
To manipulate you, to control you,
To create guilt on you and have a hold,
In the name of God made for this purpose.

Stop praising God; stop offering Him things;
Stop asking favours; stop asking forgiveness,
Ten commandments aren't made by God.
Scripture are man-made; sins are man coined.

Hell and heaven are born of imagination.
Sins and punishments are made as a threat
To the people to be bound by the religion.
Don't waste time and money for religions.

(Based on the teaching of Baruch De Spinoza - a Dutch Philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin, a rationalist and lives in 17th century.)
30.09.2019