All about GODS

I wanted to write about this for a long time. Today, i got a chance to sit down and type it out.

I was working in a client location in New Jersey in USA. We were practicing onsite - offshore model. One of my role was to coordinate the release management with offshore team. Every monday i used to attend a status review meeting with the client manager. We used to discuss the status of the action items from the previous week meeting and carry forward the action items for the current week.

One week, during the normal status meeting, i submitted the status report for only four days and explained that the offshore had one day holiday due to krishna jayanthi. She asked me about it. I explained that Krishna is a Hindu God and the celebration was on his birthday.

Few weeks later, again i gave a status report for four days accounting a holiday for vinayakar chathurthi. I told that Pillaiyar or vinayakar is one of the hindu gods. She was surprised by the statement "ONE OF" the gods. She asked about the hindu gods. I told about
Brahma - The creator
Vishnu - The saviour
Shiva - The destroyer
and the other gods and how they are related.

She commented telling that, you guys must be very lucky. In our case, there is only one god who has to take care of everything for everyone...but, in your case, there is a special god for everything and also there are so many gods to share the prayer requests. I stated it as a problem that if there is only one god, he will definitely hear and attend to our requests. On a contrary, since there are so many hindu gods, each one of them will think that the other will take care of the request and finally the requests go unanswered.

Isn't it a good cited example about perception?

regards...bright