Way back in 2003, I had a discussion with some intellects on the topic if God exists or not. I felt my urge to put in the my opinion on the discussion over here. For the sake of readability, I am rewording the discussion. I have tried to be honest with the opinions from the opposite benches.
The discussion started, when somebody popped the question, does anything like the God exist?
My opinion was that I don't feel if there is anything like that has ever existed! This is a name given by the people to reason the questions they could not answer with logic/ science/ knowledge/ observations. People define God as a supreme spiritual power which controls everything in the universe. So, had there been an entity like GOD, there won't have been evils anywhere.
My last statement was bound to bring reaction. A believer countered "Had there been any entity like God, there wouldn't have been evils anywhere" is the biggest factor which makes many people doubt the existence of God. For getting the perfect answer you will have to study Atma, Parmatma and Prakriti. The purpose of God behind making this universe. A small example from "Atma, Parmatma and Prakriti" study:
"Jeev karm karne me swatantra hai. Karm ke aadhar par phal milega." (Every living being is free to work independently, he fate is decided on the basis of his work by God.). This world is just like an examination hall. Students are free to write anything. If a student writes something wrong the teacher will not tell him the correct answer. If he does so it will be injustice to other students. All the students will get marks as per their answers. Similarly, God does not interfere but gives reward or punishment as per our deeds.
I have an argument against this. If God does so, He is the worst entity. To prove Himself, He plays with so many creatures existing in the nature. I always believe that punishing is not a natural solution to evils, the natural solution is to correct the error. By doing so the concept of God does not abide to the natural laws. Hence the God does not exist in my opinion.
The only superpower is nature. Do abide by the natural laws. The is the way to live.
Another believer supported his fellow believer by treating God as special entity. He said that it is with our limited analytical knowledge we talk about God punishing or rewarding. For him adjectives do not apply nor do the laws of nature as they do to us ordinary human beings, because nature is created by Him, not vice-versa. He stated a so called true about renowned scientist Albert Einstein. "Einstein had a friend who was atheist. One day he came to Einstien's house and there was a beautiful model of solar system on the top of the table. His friend asked him who made this. Einstein replied, do you think that this was made by itself? Friend replied no. On this Einstein said, 'Our solar system is much more beautiful than this model and there must be some power who created it, that power is God'. His friend had to believe in that power after this incident."
You have all the knowledge about everything inside you. Observe yourself and you will get knowledge from doing that. It is not an easy task. It takes time. If you want some more explanation, read Gita. I am sure you will have answers to your question in Gita.
This idea is very practical and some scripture knowledge goes a long way in helping us under stand what is God.
For me He is given that special status even above the Nature, is the reason to the core of my argument. It is fine to have a faith, but we distort the facts. If argue that the solar system is part of nature and the power believers attributed to their God via Einstein's statement are trying to distort the facts. I have doubts to the level if he really said so? I treat such stories to which do not have documented proof as part of folk. Such things keep on creeping up as long as things goes. I state an example - Some close aide of Late Princess Diana of UK has said that she predicted her death. Now I say about someone known to me that he predicted 11 Sept attacks on US. It is sheer rubbish to state such things. Unless and until you witness and reason them.
Further even if Einstein had said so, it could have been his opinion. But that opinion does not settle the debate.
I feel that God is only a belief to cover and justify the things we can't reason. That's it. But really when we reason we will find that everything in the world can be reasoned through natural laws.
What I believe is that we should NOT fear the entity God- we should fear from ourself, so that we don't do the wrongs.
Again we should not leave anything to Him - we should do it our-self, because He doesn't exist.
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Sunday, 19 July 2009
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