Saturday, October 11, 2008

Existence of God

We can come across several people who go to temples and who really do all prayers and offerings to God but still when you ask them,” Do you believe in God?" There will be a big ?(question mark) on their faces. Does this really mean that they don't believe in the existence of god, or does this say that they are in a dilemma?
Who is God? When it comes to Hinduism there are three main gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and in other religions there are prophets and there are people who considered being the sons of god and people believe in them, this means that these are all the powers that are given the position of god. When it comes to the belief of few he is the Savior, he is the ruler and creator of the world and he is the one who runs the world and is the supreme power. When I took the same question to few people I found interesting answers which I'm giving here.
Bala Murali Krishna- name really sounds good for telugites and tamilians because it is the name of a popular carnatic musician and even my friend's name is the same. We call him murali who walks with a smile and who rules out peoples affection with his patience and love and he always says I have a lot of love in my heart which I'm spreading to all those whom I meet every time in every way. This man is an atheist and popularly sticks to this. Once I was sitting with him in Birla Mandir, Hyderabad. We came out after making darshan we were just chatting about the temple and the Venkateshwara suprabhatam which was being played and I asked him who is god and how he actually looks?
He said ,"I don't believe in god as far as my knowledge is concerned I can say how Hindu gods would have originated, when primitive man was having fear towards water air fire and sky he believed that they are the faces of god and when he have started wearing skin around him he gave a face to the god whom we call as Shiva and when time passed he used ornaments and added the same to god which we will find in Vishnu in the same manner as time passed he gave a family to him and when creativity increased he added stories to them and made them the saviors of the planet earth and universe." I was really surprised with this answer and it had such an impression that the feeling of atheism in my heart was increased.
God is a strong feeling which makes you to feel yourself secure in the world despite the disasters that are happening around. Belief of god will be injected into one's veins when he/she is a child of months so we feel god is the one whom we are answerable to and he is the one who looks after everyone, so when there is a problem people will first rush to the nearby temple to make their mind to feel free and then they start thinking about the problem. Even atheists who are living with believers of god gives a pray to god when they are in problems because there is a little feel in them regarding the god or we may call it as the influence of theists over them.
But this fear towards god is appreciable because those people who are committing mistakes are giving large sum of amounts to the growth of country in the manner of offerings to god, which will be used in the local area development, development of educational institutions and in several other things by endowments department. But why do they offer huge sums? As they did blunders they are feared with the existence of their soul after their death like going to hell after death and facing several cruel punishments, so they go to near by religious places and requests god for the mistakes they have committed so that they can again make a fresh start.
Existence of god is truly left to the feeling or belief of that particular person if you ask an atheist he firmly says there is no god and if you ask a priest he says he exists every where despite these contra arguments or statements it is stated that god is a belief that's why we call it belief in god.
Though one believes in god or not he has to lead the same life in the same atmospheres

2 comments:

Unknown said...

besides the entire view, the last two lines are superb."Though one believes in god or not he has to lead the same life in the same atmospheres". but i don't under stand why the people will fight to say that there god is great, while staying in same environment.

Dawn said...

I said even if a person believes in god he has to live his life and it is the same with an atheist.......