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.