If many believe in the existence of the God and
a few don’t, it cannot be crucially linked to the subject of spirituality. As
long as billions and trillions of living beings ‘think’ and conduct themselves
to live together without causing any harm to their surroundings and the fellow
living beings, knowing full well that if they do so they will be endangering
themselves; the thought of the God or the Godly thought would pervade the
universe.
Whether
the existence of human beings is caused by the God and the welfare of the
universe is His will or the concept of the God was evolved by the human beings
for their own benefit, it does not make a difference as long as human beings
conduct themselves according to the will of the God. Yes, it is only the human
beings who have the duty to conduct according to the will of the God;
notwithstanding the two assumptions, viz. there is a real God who wills or
there is something like the God’s will, which has been imagined by the man;
for, while the other living beings have no choice but to act ‘instinctively’,
but the man has to learn to conduct according to that will, real or as imagined
by the man.
This
can be unhesitatingly concluded that there is a ‘will’, real or imaginary; and
that the man has to ‘conduct’ himself according to the said ‘will’. We can
neither skip the ‘will’ part, nor can we neglect the ‘conduct’ part. The
concept of spirituality stipulates strict adherence to both the parts. Once
this conclusion is accepted unconditionally, unnecessary arguments about
someone being a theist or atheist only cause avoidable confusion in the context
of what is good for humanity.
Having
faith in something imaginary that does not harm us is far better than having
faith in nothing or something that appears as real but harms us. However, the
faith in something that is a product of human intellect and abilities of his
mind to imagine cannot be flawless and free from many kinds of dualities like
that of happiness and sorrow, life and death, real and unreal and loss and gain
etc.. At this point, the man comes face to face with a mystery that he has been
endeavouring to resolve since time immemorial. The mystery is, who created this
universe and who takes care of it. Undoubtedly, the man has complete freedom to
make utmost efforts to erase the slur of such ignorance. The man finds that he
cannot resolve the mystery using his intellect, senses and mind; he, therefore,
begins with his extraordinarily positive ability of having faith in realizing
something that, on the face of it, is not realizable. The true believer in God
convinces himself that if the existence of the God cannot be proved, then, the God
must be realized to give the proof of His existence.
If
conducting according to the ‘imagined will’ of the ‘imaginary’ God could be a
spiritual thought, why can’t the desire to know as to who made the man think in
those lines be a superior kind of spiritual act? As long as the man thinks of
and conducts himself for the welfare of all, he is free to think of his own
good in this life and, if possible, even beyond it. Spirituality begins with
what is necessary and culminates into the freedom of the soul to reach to its
destination.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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