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Is God a Reality or a Concept ?

Day in and day out. All over the world , wherever there is human race , there is God , in one or the other form and way. Now that I am an Indian Hindu , most of my illustrations or presentations will be based on my way of following and adopting God but I strongly believe and a bit of few minutes ponder over other ways in other communities , one may find same or almost similar systems and practices  (in broad overall context) everywhere.

OH My God !  What a wonderful view !

Today , only God saved me. The truck was going to hit me directly.

Oh God , please take this off from us. Only You can do this……..

I do not believe I will be getting top grade. It was all His (God) blessings !!!!

Like this , so many times in our lives , we express ourselves in this way on day to day. It is a part of  our natural expression when we are struck by various types of happenings around  or within ourselves. A quick review will show that all such happenings and their intense impact on our mind is not pre-envisaged.

 Now who is this God we remember and refer to so frequently ? To understand this , it may be more appropriate to understand first human nature and influence of several  factors , external and internal , on human psyche. Once this is understood , our realization on God will become self clear.

Human-beings on this planets are perhaps,  the most powerful in terms of brain functions in understanding various systems with principles governing them. From the formation and working of Universal systems to a small household good , human mind has been able to understand millions of systems , their existence and utilization. But is everything absolute ? Are we able to understand and explain everything ? With so much development in science and technology , we are able to find perhaps the smallest particle and named it ‘God Particle’. But there comes the limit of brain. How this particle is formed ? Not able to explain this , we called it ‘God Particle’. Only recently , I faced such un-explainable situation in my own house. My elder grad- daughter , six year old , told her four year old sister that this planet earth has been created by God. And the question raised by younger one was-How? Obviously , none of us could reply. 

So  the brain has limitation. The more complex and fine situation is , the less is the or no explanation. The extent of ignorance and therefore limitation on understanding of a very large number of systems vary from person to person. I , in my experience as Petroleum Engineer, may be understanding Petroleum systems well but may be zero in Medical Sciences. So whatever is not  explained , it is left to God to conclude the issue. Sahir, my most favorite poet  explained this approach  (though in a different context) :

“Woh afsanaj Jise anjam tak lana na ho mumkin,

 Use ek khoobsoorat mod they kar chodna acha’

( if it is not possible to conclude a story , better give it good twist and leave it there) . 

So by this explanation , God is a concept which is used to explain the systems which we , the human-beings realize but  can not explain.

I am sure many people will not agree with me if I leave my blog here. What about God – A Reality ? To go ahead on this , let us revise my expression on human psyche in various scenarios as given above. Brain’s capability to understand many systems and issues vary from person to person. Also brains response to absorb, adopt and respond to a problem also vary not only from person to person but also from time to time and also depends on the severity of the problem. A soldier may not be afraid of firing bullets but certainly not a normal man. One person is able to absorb big financial losses and move ahead with cool mind further to correct the situation. Other may commit suicide even.  A system which is posing threat to human society at large like brutal actions of  cruel king, terrorism , environment degrading , natural disasters etc. also create fear in the general human-being and all look to a solution for relief.  So the severity of the situation in terms of risks,  its time or probability of occurrence also impact behavior of  human beings.

In such a situation , any person with some extra-ordinary qualities of leadership in system development and its effective implementation to correct the odd situations and provide relief and confidence in normal human beings, individual or society is treated as Saviour or  God. In Hindu scriptures , many such Gods and Goddesses have been described. A read about each of them will clearly show you their extraordinary power and intelligence to manage and control some situations which were causing large destructions to society or even to individual one. For normal persons , these situations were surely going to destroy their existence or going to give them huge amount of sufferings. Just think , when you or some one your loved  suffer , say due to heart attack, the doctor who treat and successfully restore life is treated as  ‘God Sent’ or ‘God’ himself.

So God by this discussion is a Reality also.

One thing that appear from total is that we the human-beings define and nominate God. We do it to have , as we believe , a very strong anchor to support our life in a balanced normal way. Again quoting Sahir (in his famous qawwali in Bollywood Hindi movie- Barasat Ki Raat) :

Khak ko buut or buut ko devta karta hai

Inteha hai ke bande ko khuda karta hai ye Ishq

( we make an idol from the clay and call it our God, the other extreme is that we call a person as our  God- all this is because of our deep faith and love for him/her)

Sahir in these four lines has described very beautifully that God may be a Concept or a Reality – both. All depends on our faith in His powers for running the systems smoothly and to the welfare of all.

 

N K BANSAL