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There is no God. But still I Pray...

1. Who is God?
Simple. God is an imaginary and cultural entity!
No God in the world sprang up suddenly. There is a real story behind every God. Believe it or not...Gods too evolved and progressed, influenced each other... Story of religions is a simple example. For that I need to elaborate about the Gods of West and later East. The concept of "prophet" and "son of God" is an example. Judaism is one of the oldest of all religions. It is the first to introduce the concept of prophet/son of God. Moses liberated Jewish slaves from the clutches of Egyptian Imperialism. It is believed that he received ten commandments from God and he is a blessed one. And the concept of prophet/son of God starts here. Great culture of Egypt believed in multiple Gods, it is no wonder that their slaves believed in one God and expected a liberator an exact opposite to their master's belief. Now large number of Jews live around the world. Israel is a Jewish nation. Their important book is "Tanakh". Tanakh is nothing but the "old testament" of Christian Bible. Jesus is himself a Jew. And the old testament is part of christian Bible. Jews and other people who believed in Jesus as the son of God became Christians. And here is the remaining part of the story. The Mohammad nabi came after the era of Jesus. Historically in Medina there is lots of Jewish and Christian clans living with Pagan Arabs. He is very much influenced by the Judaism and Christianity. Jesus is also a nabi in Islam. Mohammad nabi says that Jesus is a very revered important nabi (prophet) in Islam. Moses is also an important nabi. Concept of son of God has became prophet in Islam. Kuran says that there is only one single God and it is the same God on whom Christians and Jews pray upon.

In Eastern world there is multiple Gods...Like Egyptians here there is Hindus who believe in multiple Gods. Like a Moses here is our Mahavira of Jainism who opened a separate path out and founded Jainism. It is the first differ strikingly from Hinduism on concept of God. Jainism says there is no all mighty powerful creator or destroyer God. It says enlightened people reach the state of Godliness and became Gods. Buddhism came later to Jainism and it also has no supreme creator God. According to Buddha there is no God. This is known as Sunyavata or emptiness. There was numerous religions in India which are gradually annihilated or assimilated by Brahminic Hinduism. The ones that can successfully resisted is Jainism and Buddhism. Very young religion of India is Sikhism which born out of marriage between Hinduism and Islam.
2. What is God to me?
Simple. He is the one to whom I pray!
My God is same as Atheist's God. He is same as what Karl Marx says. He is also only one single God, he is not a man or women. He is the same as Koranic God. He is not a omnipotent creator/destroyer God. He is same as Jainism says. He is also a 'no-God' God as Buddhism says. He may be The Krishna or Vishnu I used to worship or Aham-Brahmasmi. He may be the same God Abraham/Ibrahim refers to. He is the same Azura Mazda that Zoroastrians worship. He is the same Pantheons of Ancient Egypt. He is same as primitive Mayan God. He is the same non existent God Periyar and Atheists talks about. He can be 'She' or 'He-She' or 'She-He'.
I pray when I am in Joy... I pray when I am in a hopeless situation... I pray just for praying too... There may be or may not be a God. It is of no importance to me. But whenever I need him... I pray...Because he is "My God"!

Comments

Umesh Sakolkar said…
God is not god, mother is not mother, father is not father, world is not world, self is not self, Vedas are not verdas, eyes are not eyes, sound is not sound - this is the state of the realized soul as per veda. This state can be possible to the person who achieved the realization of god himself. Again this state is realized by birth for only few like shankara, madva or ramanuja or later in life by vivekananda. To achive this again we need same veda, mother, father, eyes, earth etc. this looks very frightening but these makes sense when we keep on study and practice the vedic way of life, which is an effort to rejinuation.
Rajesh said…
I completely don't agree with you... But really I don't want to offend your religious beliefs...personally I like people practicing religion...and I talk religion with my old relatives...the thing is, we need to be able to dissect reality from imaginary... for example if legend says ravana had 1000 heads ..we know it is simply not possible...imaginary... same way vedic way of life is not possible... because vedic way of life is a primitive agricultural culture... thats why cow is sacred... u know why every part of cow is useful... because it is highly & efficiently domesticated animal... Do you know there was Hindus who very very very strongly opposed on Vedic authority ? If you dont know read Siddas poems...

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