Is God a Reality or a Creation of Human Minds?

 The entire creation in the universe is made of matter and non matter. Matter is one which in scientific terms does not have life and non matter is one that has life; though visibly it also has matter as a constituent but there is another additional invisible constituent which is called consciousness that pervades through it. We, the human beings possess that consciousness and so the animals and other creatures too. The matter is inert and does not have consciousness. However, in spiritual terms the entire creation, the matter and non matter have come into existence through the same common Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Source which we human beings call as the God. Since we ignorant people and every spiritual master say that the creation, and the entire universe has come into the existence from the God, this raises a doubt whether we have created the idea of God or the God has created us through His own idea. 

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This builds a new premise which can claim that the God is just a creation of the conscious minds of human beings, the non matter. Or is there really a creator, a Supreme Power which is the ultimate creator and the cause of everything, the matter and non matter both? Sometimes it appears that only the human mind is the source of the creation of the idea of the God. The materialistic world also believes in this. They say that the creation of the universe and the life is merely a result of an accident of the nature called the Big Bang and there is no real force or a God behind it. If so, then is it the fear of the conscious human minds that has invented God as a support system, a fall back mechanism to get a mental relief from life's uncertainty and constantly looming crisis? All the living creatures like human beings, animals, birds etc.  face constant uncertainties and dangers in life. Animals and other creatures whether in forests or elsewhere face dangers of hunting and slaughtering every day. Animals have not invented God to save them from hunting and slaughtering but they fight till their last breath. However we, the human beings with more developed minds and power of imagination have created an idea of God as an escape route to fall back on a support system or to make an excuse and conveniently blame it for our miseries.

And when we have created the God, a Supreme Power, we try to please Him by worshiping, praying and making offerings as per our own rituals and traditions, which also have been formulated by us only. We even slaughter animals and sometimes human beings too and offer them to the deity we worship in our efforts to please our Gods. Is it not a pure irony that we try to bribe the God by sacrificing His own creatures through our offerings to fulfill our wishes? Is He, the God so corrupt and selfish to accept our offerings to get pleased and fulfill our wishes and deny it if we don't make such inhuman offerings? If so, He cannot be A God!

It is also true that we, the blind believers of the God many times will not perform our assigned Karmas, (our prescribed duties) and instead pray to the God sitting idle to help us and come to our rescue. Animals never act in this manner. They always act as per their basic instincts in their own natural ways and in case of any danger to their life; they either fight till their last breath or take a flight to save their lives. However, for us, the human beings, there is a Karma philosophy scripted by spiritual scriptures that the human beings are supposed to perform their duties well and leave the outcome to the God. The very often quoted statement that the God helps those who helps themselves also reminds us that we need to perform our prescribed duties first to reach to  our goals in life. It means that we should not become slave to rituals and past evil traditions for fulfillment of our wishes.

Then, what is the reality about the existence of the God, the Supreme Power? Is it just a mere  idea, the creation of human minds or is it a reality that He exists but since we are ignorant, we can’t see his presence or He is beyond our perceptions. The spiritual masters and the God realized souls say that no one could realize and reach the God through the logical conclusions. God is a power which can be realized through truth, devotion and surrendering one to the ultimate reality. Many Masters’ claims to know the God but we, the common people try to build logics in our search of the truth. We generally try to derive the presence of God or deny it totally; or may remain even in a confused state.  Swami Vivekananda, the Indian Yogi and Hindu monk at his very young age as Narendra was in search of a spiritual master who could tell him the truth about the existence of God. But he faced disappointments repeatedly. Nobody could give him answer satisfactory. His question to the masters used to be whether they have seen God. His restlessness for God was increasing day by day. One day his quest led him for the first time to Ramakrishna Paramahansa at the Dakshineshwar Temple at Calcutta, the modern day Kolkata. He repeated the same question to Ramakrsihna. He asked; “Sir, have you seen God?’ Paramahansa emphatically replied to him saying that; “Yes, I have seen God. I see him as I see you here, only more clearly. God can be seen. One can talk to him. But who cares for God? People shed torrents of tears for their wives, children, wealth, and property, but who weeps for the vision of God? If one cries sincerely for God, one can surely see Him.” When Narendra heard this answer his was astonished. He was facing a man who was very categorically asserting that he has seen God. He was hearing for the first time in his life from somebody that the God could be really seen. There was no question of any doubt in Narndra’s minds as the words came from the depth of an inner experience of Paramahansa. Paramahansa sensed the relentless stirring of the earnest soul of Narendra and decided to open the door of the spirituality for Narendra. This incidence became the turning point in Narendra’s life and set the foundation of the relationship between Ramakrsihna and Vivekananda. His quest for finding the God has made him a great monk who later became Swami Vivekananda.

The quest for God in the human mind is the beginning of spirituality and beginning of his journey towards the Him. When human mind starts struggling with the questions like; “who are we, are we our name, are we our bodies, where did we come from, where will we go, why we are here, what is the purpose of our life, what is within us that gives us consciousness, what happens after we die, do we come back again and take rebirth, who is behind the universe who runs it smoothly with predefined laws? And finally does God exist?

God is and God exists!

We are amazed to see the reality of world around us which makes us to accept the fact that the God really exists. The intelligence created in the every cell of body and the entire universe is not amazing? It is marvelous, beyond the capabilities of a human being! Who is the designer behind this intelligence? We know the reality that if we see a paper and there is a line drawn on it, we have to believe confidently and claim that there must be someone, some force who has drawn that line. We might have not seen him or we might not know him. The entire intelligent and orderly universe has been drawn like this line on the canvas of the time and space and there is somebody, a Supreme Force who has drawn it. What is it within our body that gives us consciousness? What is it that when leaves our bodies, we become motionless, a heap of matter only and we die. We must be a tiny part of the same Supreme Force. And He must be always and eternally working through our bodies and our consciousness. He is the God. God is and God exists!

The Hinduism believes in the theory of Karma. If we perform good Karma, we get rich dividends of better life, in this life or the next one. If we perform bad Karma, we will certainly have to bear the burden of the same, again either in this life or the next. The cycle of birth and death continues till our past transactions of Karmas remain unsettled. We are here only to settle our past transactions. We take birth; get parents, family, friends, acquaintances and other people only to settle our past mutual transactions. What is the cause because of which one is born with a golden spoon in his/her mouth and one is born as a beggar? Why some people in spite of lots of hard work fail in life while some with very little efforts greatly succeed? Why some children, even in the same family are born as super intelligent and healthy whereas some are physically or mentally handicapped? The ultimate reality is that the universal law of the governance of the entire universe prevails. The laws of cause and effect prevail and the laws of Karmas prevail. And the all these universal laws are the creation of the ultimate reality, that is the God. And, yes! The God is and the God exists! The God is a Reality and not a Creation of Human Minds?

And as in any worldly mission, one has to make efforts to achieve the desired results; one has to make efforts in the pursuit of finding God. Many masters have realized and seen the God; so we can also realize and see the God. Follow your Dharma (the righteous cause) and do your Karma. Think of the God and tune yourself with him. He will certainly catch the signals and appear before you, in one form or other. He is Nirguna (formless) and Saguna (with form) both. He is in a 'dot' and so is in the entire universe. He is in you, me and everyone. He is here, there and everywhere. Trust Him. He trusts us. And in God we trust.