Let’s start with the assumption that there is no God
and no pre-defined destiny (this would make astrologers redundant though) and
then draw conclusion about what it means to be human. One of the conclusions would
be that we are doomed to be free and no karmic
retribution even if do injustice and malice towards one and all. Now, since
there is no God, we are born without any soul or atma (as believed in our Indian culture) and we are born with no
divine purpose or predetermined path. Just imagine (yes, please do try even
while you are reading this) the huge implications of this theory, that we are
absolutely free to do what we choose and build our life through our own actions
and we can be as unjust, mean and evil as we want and there is no such thing as
‘karma’, after all there is no God, no
judgment day or no next life where we get punished for our doing wrong. Now, as
you read this with assumption of ‘no God’ do you feel immensely powerful and
free? Do you feel taking the charge of your life away from God (because of our
assumption that there is no God) in your hand liberating or do you find it
burdensome? Oh, how I hate to be a
spoilsport, but do you realize with this freedom comes responsibility, because now
you are free, free to lead the life as you want, and you can only blame yourself
for your results since you are the cause of your actions. With ‘no God’ in a
way everyone is responsible for their own life and the end results. Whether you
are happy or sad, successful or unsuccessful, now you cannot pass the buck and
blame some disciplinary God above but ‘you’. For, good or bad, you made certain
decisions in life that triggered some events as a consequence of these
decisions that were not in your control. With this phenomenological analysis of
freedom from ‘God’ comes responsibility that for fortunate or unfortunate
events in your life you and only ‘YOU’ are responsible. Do you thinking Stephen
Hawking ended the God debate or was he in essence angry with God and in denial
mode?
Science and God are about fundamentally different
things. ‘God’ has never ever been rendered obsolete by scientific evidences,
facts or observations and in the absence of being given no substantial evidence
to the existence or shall I say non- existence of God, or prove it false, then
perhaps God is as real as anything else and will continue to exist. I’m not
sure how each of you feel-stressed out or relaxed-with this thought of ‘no-God’
but it does feel, in my view, that ‘God’ add to the essence of a being. God is
the greatest conceivable being. It is greater to exist than not to exist, after
all how would be the world where ambitious people do evil deeds!
God is accepted by people with belief without
knowledge of reasons but simply by a natural impulse. One of the proofs of the
existence of God is karma. God, as
per Hindu beliefs, lets ‘you’ choose your karma
with the knowledge that your karma
will bring its consequences and how you affect the world. In life, through
experience, you may see an unseen force that links a person with his karma. God is neither an entity in the
universe nor a mathematical object and cannot be quantified. God affects the
person's environment, even to its atoms; a closest in analogy it is to quantum
theory in science. I believe, before we put God on trial lets think isn’t the existence
of God probably important to us (please, I don’t mean religion here) and so
should one not take a leap of faith!
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