Does God exist?

This post is part of the my blog series non-duality. 

The question - "Does God exist?" has been debated by humans for millennia. As the number of people identifying themselves as Atheists, people who claim that God doesn't exist, have been increasing in the past decades, this question of God's existence has been more visible in print and social media. Many wars have been fought over the centuries and are still being fought in the name of God. According to some estimates, more than 25 million people might have been killed in the name of God.  

Why does one want to know whether God exists or not? 

Before we answer the question about the existence of God, one should inquire why we even want to know the answer to this question. Why is this question even relevant to one's life? 

The idea of "God" comes into most people's lives at a very young age because of the way God was explained in the religion their parents or families followed, or from the culture and traditions followed by the communities around them. 

As we grow old, every aspect of our life is increasingly driven by logic and rational reasoning. We were told from early on that for every single thing that happens around us, there is something or someone responsible for it. Our minds are trained to look for the root cause of every action, either to blame it or to give it the credit. As time passes by and we grow older, we are convinced by the "Cause and Effect" approach, and this idea is strongly cemented into our logic that for everything that happens in our life there is a specific cause. 

Depending on one's religious traditions and beliefs, people are told to follow certain guidelines or commandments that would guarantee an outcome that is in their favour, and make them happy in this lifetime and also after death. As the years pass by, we see that this is not the case. We follow all the rules of the society, rules of our religion, follow all standards of what is considered to be the standards of a "Good" person, but even after that, we see that our life has hurdles, suffering, loss, heartbreaks, and many other painful situations. Even after following all the rules our hearts and minds don't seem to be happy and peaceful at all times. Using the training we had all our life to use logic and reason, we look for the root cause of our suffering. We find a person, an external situation, or a thing to blame for our suffering. This approach works for some time, but we increasingly find ourselves not being able to find the root cause of our suffering in many cases. We start looking for answers everywhere. But the options seem to run out, we start looking towards God.  

Religions say that God exists, our rational mind says -- show me the proof! 

All the religions and many cultural traditions lead to the answer that all the things that can't be explained by our logical and rational mind, are the acts of a powerful being, and we call it God. As humans, we created God in the image of our own self, as a super powerful being looking more like a human and behaving like a human. Some people whose hearts are ready to devote and believe in the idea of God, feel comfort in this idea, and become believers of God. 

Others, whose minds are logical and want proof for the existence of God, either continue their search through other rational means (science, mathematics, reading etc.,) or make a conclusion that there is no way anyone can conclusively find out whether God exists or not. And they call themselves Agnostic. 

And some others give up their search to believe that there is no God, and our life and the universe is a random phenomenon. And they call themselves Atheists. 

Can anyone stop being amazed by the incredible creation around us? 

Whether one is a believer of God, or calls themselves an Agnostic or an Atheist, one can't stop being amazed by all the incredible creation around us.  There are trillions of cells just in our own body, there are no two humans who look alike, no two animals look alike, no two plants look alike, there are billions of species, and even no two snow flakes look alike. There are millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, zillions, gazillions of unique creations in this universe. No one can disagree that all these are not created by humans and our minds. Then who created them and why? Just because we don't know, our logical mind doesn't automatically want to agree with the presence of a single creator or God. 

Is it possible that we are trying to understand and know about something that is more complicated than our own minds? Can something understand other that is more complicated than itself? Our minds have their own limitations. Even a simple drug, excess alcohol, or minor influences of substances have known to clearly show that our ability to perceive through our senses and understand through our minds gets severely convoluted. Are we trying to use our mind to know something that is possibly trillions of times more complex than our human minds? If so, what other tools do humans have to understand the creation around us? 

Is it possible that, while searching for the creator everywhere with the logic of our minds, we are somehow overlooking the possibility that the creator might be closer than close to us? Might there be a possibility that there is no need to search for God anywhere? 

Whether you believe in God or not, I think these questions might intrigue you as much as they intrigue me. We will do an inquiry into finding out possible ways to answer these existential questions in my upcoming blogs. Please stay tuned!

Peace! Aum(OM)! Amen! Inshallah!  

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