Saturday, December 18, 2010

God


Since the beginning of human history, man always believed in a power greater than his own. Take every civilization, Indus valley, Mesopotamian, Mayan every one of them believed in God. There had been senseless holy wars to capture holy relics and monasteries. We can find many killings, deaths and sacrifices all on the name of a god.
Did our ancestors perform all these on the name of someone who didn’t even exist?
Then after these deaths within the religion, there had been deaths due to the endless debates of “my god is better than yours.” There was a time when a war of religion vs. religion proceeded. Our own home land was divided into India and Pakistan after such a war. Many had to suffer due to the fact that their belief was different than that of the others.
All of these deaths and sufferings were due to the customs within the religion and the wars between the religions. Were they on the name of someone who didn’t exist?

Then in the European continents, when the Catholic Church was at its highest power came some revolutionary thinkers, the men of science. The men who searched for a greater truth.

In this case also we can see nothing but more deaths and sufferings. Socrates was killed after weeks of torture. Copernicus was excluded from society for saying that the earth was round.
That was another period of lots of deaths and killings. A battle between science and religion. Science had a reason for almost everything. Science and religion had different views, because of different views, more deaths.
All of these deaths due to the doubt in the existence of god. There exists and endless battle even today. The only difference of battles of yesterday and today is that, today the battle fields had been reduced to black boards and swords to chalks.
From all we can conclude that people of different religion and people of religion and people of science are fighting each other. (Though the war between science and religion is not so active now, it exists. The debates between religious people and rationalist in an example.)
So does god exists? If so is he Shiva, Christ or Allah?

WHAT IS GOD???
To understand god we must first understand that science does not undermine the existence of god, but rather reinforce it. Both science and religion are two different languages telling the same story. A story of perfect balance and symmetry. (Galileo)
Balance and symmetry, that is god. It is a mystic energy present all around us.
Science is not telling that the god does not exist. Science and religion are seeking the same truth.
God does exist. But he is not someone who can pull out the spine from one and create another. He is not sitting on the top of any mountain.
God is nothing but a connection, a bond, a matrix that connects us with each other, with the nature, and with the very fabric of the time-space continuum. There in no heaven and hell, but there exits an energy that connects us in a million ways, we can never even begin to understand. All the religions are telling the same thing in different ways. In the philosophy of Hindu mythology, it says that god is present everywhere. Science is also telling the same thing when it comes to the flow of time and space. To understand the concept that the god is everywhere, consider this – in our body there are many cells. Imagine that the cells can talk with each other. For them we are the god all mighty. Wouldn’t they say that the god (we) are present everywhere? That, we are there in the top most of the brain cell to the down most of the foot cell. The individual ‘I’ am present in every single part of the every single cell in my body. All the cells are in a perfect harmony to keep me breathing. This is the same case of the god. All of us are the part of one single big system. We are struggling to keep the system (the time space continuum) in a harmony. That system, that harmony is nothing but the god. See how we can connect an ancient philosophical idea from the Vedas to the latest idea of Stephen hawking? The thing is that philosophy has emerged from physics (here physics is meant as the most modern ideas of the universe NOT dynamics or electronics) and physics is going back to philosophy. Instead of realizing that we HATE each other in the name of god. This is leading us away from god rather than towards it.

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