GOD:
A three letter word, probably the most debated ever. What is God? Or who is God? Would he be somewhat similar to a human ahh! Can I even call the God ‘him’? Or is it something beyond understanding of giant human mind? People have always been debating over this topic ever since they got the ability to interact. A class believes in no God, we know them as atheists, and another believes how anything can exist without the supreme power, everything in the universe is controlled with this omnipresence of power.
I often wonder how the first man on the earth had ever started his belief or no belief on God. Why anyone would think about something ever if he has not seen it or anyhow not sensed it. We think about something when we know about it from some means, considering myself, I believe on God because I have heard of him via elder members in my family and also I have heard stories about Rama, Krishna, Paigambar Mohammad and many other forms whom I worship as God. But suppose I was the first man on the earth, how can I even think of the God without hearing about him from anyone. The question remains a mystery in itself; it’s not about belief in God rather it’s about the start of belief or disbelief in God.
Was the first man or group of men named their fears as God and started worshiping whenever troubled, as they might not have answers to many of their fears that time? May be that’s why different cultures consider air, water and fire as a form of God as the men then also, like us, could not have any control over these factors and must have often faced natural calamities. Was that the start of God, is it nothing but the name of our fears. We also know names like Rama, Krishna and many others who are worshiped till date. Did they possess the virtue that was worth worshiping? We hear many good things about them, also that was the time when man was considered mature enough to analyze anything around him. So quality of being good, rationality in decisions, compassion and care for others, being against the evil and many more traits like those might have made those good quality people to be worshiped amongst their society. Fear and belief of rational judgment looks very interesting factors which might have started the belief in the God.
Every human being has different level of intelligence than any other, some have much more curiosity than others, they believe in the reason of everything. That’s why we have big bang theory, gravitational law, E=mc^2 and many other discoveries. A group of men among these don’t believe in any form of Supreme power over human being, they can trace out the reason for almost everything that happens and thus remains no reason for them to believe in something above humanity. Atheist, we call those people who don’t believe in God. They claim that the evolution of human being or any form of life can be totally explained with the help of science. But some questions are unanswered for them also, like how the first ever form of life came into existence. What was the cause behind it? Moreover how this universe came into existence? Theories says that it all started with an empty space and our universe is the result of a huge explosion that released the energy which caused the formation of matter that condensed over time resulting into the formation of planets like sun and earth. Further discoveries revealed that the planets are in the groups called galaxies where each planet like earth revolves around one fixed planet like sun for our galaxy; these galaxies are incessantly moving apart from each other with time and with some acceleration. So with this known fact if we go backward in time, something must have been there which must have caused this explosion or imparted a force to these ever moving galaxies, but still unanswered. Was that God who did this, if no then who did?
We are still living with many unanswered questions, many things unexplained and this being one of them. Is there anything which is indeed controlling the whole universe or its mere imagination of human mind just because we are unable to demystify some things and we need a generic reason for our unresolved mysteries? Is it our fear that we worship or is it the belief on goodness that builds our faith on the deity? Who is God?
Is it a creation of human mind or is he the creator of it??
beautiful expression of an unresolved mystery...
ReplyDeleteGood one...
ReplyDeleteSome waters are to deep to swim in...
ReplyDeleteAfik
nice thoughts !!!
ReplyDeleteit's really gud
ReplyDeletevery well written, nice piece of work..
ReplyDeletekeep it up boss
Thoughtful and thought provoking!
ReplyDeleteAll wise men have tried to find answer to this question, but mystery still continues. For sure, it is something beyond science and to understand one needs to break the limitations of logical or mathematical reasoning.
Beautifully expressed/question the spiritual side of our life which generally we forget in the materialistic world. Believing on GOD just like believing on unexplored region of Universal which we believe on the facts of science or some piece of scientific study which we never did.
ReplyDeletegood thinking
ReplyDeleteNicely put.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I have a question which has been bothering me for quite some time now( it is on similar lines).
People have tried to identify biological as well as scientific timeline when the soul, if there is any, leaves the body by conducting obnoxious experiments.
Can someone please help me understand when does the soul actually enter the body ??
Nice article. For me, the only reference to god is the other people from whom I've heard stories. I never believed in god after I gained consciousness, neither I do now. Of course, just till now I used to think every thing in this world can be explained with the help of scientific and mathematical theories. Till now. Till the time when I watched the Matrix for the first time.
ReplyDeleteOur holy books have talked about "The one" which always comes to the rescue of the world. Maybe there are some things are are unexplained. But if we make a single assumption, it all makes sense : "NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS REAL".
Kudos,
Chirag.
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ReplyDeleteThanks all for the comments :).
ReplyDelete@Manish Harodia: Really interesting question that u hv put up, I also know about some experiments that have checked the time when soul leaves the body, few experiments also claimed to have weighed the soul that according to them is 21gms. But the territory of a soul entering the body is still untouched probably. However there is some mention of it in the Buddha culture, which says that a soul enters its body in 40days.
There are beliefs which suggests that it takes 12 weeks for a soul to enter into human body.
But one strong argument over this is: if death is considered as fleeing of soul, which is marked by stopped heart beat, then the start of heart beats has to be considered as entering of the soul into the body.
@Chirag Deshpande: "NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS REAL", this is really a deep thought to ponder upon.
ReplyDeletejust came across a stupid sounding thought, thought to share.. have some crazy imagination and think this.
we know that structure of our giant solar system is quite comparable to very basic atomic structure. Planets revolve around the Sun in the same way as electrons revolve around the nucleus, and there is life on earth and we, its residents, are controlled by something unexplained who might be the GOD.
Now as our body is composed of atoms, is it possible that those atoms are kind of solar system for someones, and their lives are indirectly controlled by us, which means for them, if they exist, we are kind of GOD which they may never conclude.
More interestingly is there someone as big as one which composes our sun just as a nucleus of an atom for his body, who is indirectly controlling our lives and he is probably the GOD for us.
"NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS REAL"
Really well written article. The article is very cogent and nowhere does it seem you have presented any half baked ideas. I could feel that you had given a lot of thought on this topic before penning it down.
ReplyDeleteI just felt that the title should have been different. I initially thought on reading the title that you must have written about/analyzed on some recent tragedy.
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ReplyDeleteI case if you are 1st person on earth.....
ReplyDeleteFirst you will observe your surroundings (mother nature)....
Its beauty and danger.... How it provides you food and create circumstances so you have to struggle for that.... In that way you start believing if you continue to do whatever you meant to do for betterment of yourself or society, there is always a hidden force watching may be giving you strength and blessings in good and bad times.....
^ nice thoughts...but why anonymous ??
ReplyDeleteMy Opinion: For centuries people are in search for resolving the mysteries of the universe, formation of life, etc. One after the other these mysteries are uncovering at a fast pace, based on the human being's evolution of brain and advancement in the sceince and technology arena. Best example is, early scientists considered earth to be flat and sun was revolving around the earth. Now we are at a stage where we are replicating the formation of solar system through Large Hadron collider experiment. Since the Universe is so big and uncomprehendible to human nature, whatever mystery still has not been uncovered, we attribute that nature of mystery or fear to God. I am sure that Humans are capable enough to find out the rest of the mysteries too and we are inching closer day by day in finding the answers about God, soul and life. This process is never ending.
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