God and Odds

Who is God? It’s a Strength!

Today, Science might have reached the Zenith. Technology may have advanced so much that the definition of ‘impossible’ is being re-written over the years. But both Science and Technology have failed to convince the reasons why we, as humans or mortals, should believe in God/Religion and vice versa.

In this mini-thesis, I am trying to convince people why one should believe in God/Religion. (Before proceeding let me make it clear, I consider being a follower of a particular religion itself means that you believe in God. I will be taking the Hindu religion as the reference simply because I am adept and well familiar with it.)

Lord Krishna, during the Mahabharata was conversing with Arjuna. Arjuna had objected to fight and shed blood of his owns, i.e. during the Kurukshetra. Lord Krishna’s conversation with Arjuna formed the basis of Bhagwad Gita and it acts like a bastion for all Hindu religious matters.

Lord Krishna clearly mentions that one is not imposed to believe whether God exists or not. Rather he says that one should find God in one’s own self. God is someone who you believe in, has a ‘relatively’ greater knowledge, power or understanding than you. Note the word relative because, the sense of saintliness changes as per your need. In short God is the energy with you in the core. The last sentence has an extremely profound meaning. Consider the Solar System our galaxy or even an atom…all symbolize the same theory. To condense the last few lines, I mean to say that, search for God within you (the nucleus, or the Sun to personify) and start believing and worshipping it, surely you will lead to a better understanding.

Then why worship idols? In Hindu religion, idolatry is an integral part. The reason is extremely clear-cut. Let me get the answers from you. When do people usually visit a temple to worship idols? They do so when they need moral strengthening (e.g. before exams) or need help in some venture (e.g. start of some venture) or due to some ritual (note that every fast/’mangat’ is done with some intention). So basically people worship God or idols when they fail to find some person, mortal, human to seek God into. In simple layman words, idols are worshipped as ’Gods’ simply because we tend to bring the ‘God’ status into inanimate things like Stone Idols. As stone symbolizes inanimate objects, we ’make-believe’ that stones have that Godly strength. It is as simple as it gets because we don’t find any mortal to fit into that category.

To conclude and use a few technical terms in (esp. to my engineering friends), God is a strength that has relatively higher power than you. In our quest to gain more energy/understanding we need to have a source which has a greater energy than you. We worship idols only when we fail to find any animate object to look into as ’God’. We worship our parents and teachers whenever we want to seek their blessings (i.e. get more energy), meaning we consider them as our God. Using an idol as a symbol or incarnation of God only generalizes the point of view considering the people, in general. That’s why we have the concept of temples and worship places, both being classified as public.

I am pretty sure other religions like Judaism also have nearly the same logic. Comments! Ignore grammatical errors, written within an hour.