The Existence of God

Does god really exists. If he does who is he? Krishna, Rama, Jesus, Allah, or Budha….Who is the real god among these. If he exists what are his duties or what he really does. Why most of the gods (except in Hinduism) are male gods. Is it something to do with male dominance in the old days?

In age old days people thought storms, lightning, forest fires, etc.. are the actions of God’s angriness and people started sacrificing things that they like or things that are important to make god happy. Mayan’s sacrificed their people, Africans sacrificed their pets, and we still see Indians sacrificing hens, goats, etc.. From the time we evolved the idea of god existed but in different forms. The form of god changed from formless to a specific human form in recent history of mankind. But the core idea of what not changed is that the people pray to god for the fear of god or by thinking god can do favor to them.

 

People in the olden days prayed to fire, sun, wind, moon….then later, as time moves, we started praying Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Allah, Buddha etc… Hindu’s even pray to all the nine planets in the solar system. With all this forms of god and all different ways the teachings go, how one can think the god is one super power that really exists, controls, and the responsible for whatever happen in the universe. If I look back some 3000 years or 4000 years the most prominent gods are humans with god’s identity and before that the god is identified with ocean, water, fire, sun, moon etc…So as the time progresses or as we find answers to different questions (why fire, why earth quakes, why lightening..), we find new gods.  

Lord Rama was not considered as god when he lived and ruled his kingdom. But during his time he set forth the benchmarks on how to live, rule and respect. There are several occasions in the Ramayana showing Rama praying to Siva or Vishnu. Does it mean God is praying to another god?

Look at Krishna, he was a king, lived life with others, and also died. We also know how he died and how his kingdom was looted after his kingship. Krishna taught with his doings on how to live life by following dharma. Jesus showed the love and forgiveness to the world. Buddha taught living in peace. Before Jesus it was Church, Before Rama, it was Siva, before Siva it was Knowledge, before knowledge, it was Sun, fire, moon etc…People in Egypt thought that their Kings are the Gods and they have super powers.

See the latest gods, Sai baba, Satya Sai, Swami narayan, Adhi Shankara Charyulu, … they all lived with us , but they are extraordinary people in their times who has shown things that is not possible by the contemporary people or set forth sensible teachings on how to live  ….

So I really believe all the gods are really are the people once shown us on how to live. Instead following them or taking the best out of them, we made them Gods and asking them to do favors in our lives. I myself go to temple and pray like any other but maybe I am paying respect to my elders for their work in the history.

Jawaharlal Nehru once said “if god really does not exist, it is necessary to invent him”. So the existence of god is still needed for the better operation of the society.

India is getting ready for a revolution

I always believed technology can answer the great problems of India and history proves that. Green revolution brought the self sufficiency to India, white revolution solved the problem of milk and made India as the number one producer of the milk. Educated-Unemployment of India was solved with IT revolution. Any problem, that can be corruption, terrorism, development, medical, educational etc., I believe technology can answer it. I still remembers the days in my child hood, if one has to call out of the district, they have to book a trunk call and wait for may be 30 min to get the call connected to them. It is so hard to get a phone connection, one has to at least wait for a year with highest possible recommendation. You see now, in less than 10 years time, every one now maintaining at least two SIM cards and takes minutes to get a new connection. It was made possible with telecom revolution. Take e-governance, some of the divisions in the government sectors were made at most transparent by utilizing information technology. Media should be recognized on their role in bringing out modern problems.
Indian media, most of the time is recognized as hyper active. Thats true for most part. After being looked at media with pessimistic eyes, and after making so much fun of media... i feel one should recognize what media contributed to the recent Anna Hazare's fight on corruption. The Lokpal Bill was kept undercover for more than 40 years. Many people fought for it and haven't succeeded to pass it in the Parliament. When all the crooked politicians of the nation are trying so hard to keep it under the well, how could a man like Anna on his demands got almost instant nod from the government? Thats where the media came in and played a crucial role. Print and visual media  across the nation, from national to local to ultra local, took the information so effectively into the masses. They motivated the people sitting and relaxing on lean chairs to move and act to support him. They created a sense of "this is the time to act" in peoples mind. People across the globe supported him on his fasting and demanded the Govt to act on it. I am not saying this all only happened with media, but I can see what they did for the nation. For a longtime, the people of India for most part were acted as spectators, they watch, feel and forget. Now I think that people has reached their limits in taking things fro granted. Anna being an activist for most of his life, he himself said, that he didn't expect such a huge response from the people. No body expected such a response, otherwise once again politicians would have grabbed it for their only use of votes. I would say, Government was just shocked seeing the peoples response. Remember, On the first day of his fast, Govt said, It is not possible constitutionally to accept his demands and his fast will not yield any results. You see how fast they took back their statement. Seeing the people united to support Anna, I was in blissful happy and my hopes on the nation had gained strength. Its always the people who changed the history. Now seeing them becoming active, I feel India is slowly getting ready for a revolution. I know lot has to be done, and what happened is nothing but a foundation, I am hopeful that with the peoples awareness on the importance of Lokpal and the support of media, we can see a good Lokpal bill passing in the parliament.