Today I received a beautiful mail from my Guru in my B School, Prof. JC Gandhi. The mail was a conversation between an atheist Professor and his student who had deep Faith in God. I have tried to summarize the dialogue in form of article and have added my views on “My God and My Faith”. This series of dialogues were very thought provoking and I considered it worthwhile to put it for all of us. Hope to have your comments.
An atheist professor of philosophy spoke to his class on the problem Science has with God, The Almighty. To make his point, he asked one of his students that whether he believed in God, the student replied, Yes, absolutely. He then asked, is God good and powerful? With an affirmative answer from the student, the professor continued the discussion by saying that, his brother used to pray a lot to God, yet he died miserably of cancer, then why did not the God came to his rescue?
He then further asked his student, if god is good and powerful then why there is so much evil in this world? Who created evil, the sickness, the Hatred and ugliness?
He further asked the student, since he believed so much in God, did he ever see or heard or smelt God?
The student kept his silence, while the Professor with lot of confidence thus inferred, that, hence proved scientifically God doesn’t exist and there is nothing called God and that it is all myth and our misconception.
Now it was the turn of the Student, he said, but Sir, I have “Faith”, and that God not only does exist but he is always around us with its divine force. It is the strength of “Faith” in us that keeps him around us and keeps us guiding
He then countered the Professor, Sir, is there any such thing as “Cold”, the Prof., said, yes, but the student said No Sir, there is nothing as “Cold”. In fact it is only “Heat”. He continued, Sir, we can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it
The Student continued, and asked Professor about “Darkness”. Is there such a thing as darkness?
The Professor, reacted, What is night if there isn't darkness?
The Student, exclaimed, you're wrong again, Sir. Darkness is the absence of Light. In reality, darkness is nothing but absence of light.
Similarly we view death as the opposite of life, but the fact of the matter is Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.
We have a perfect machine in form of our body, unlimited thoughts in the brains, dreams and ideas, beautiful eyes and lovely voice, but imagine a body without a “Soul”, it like all the limitless thoughts vanish, dreams evaporate, beautiful eyes closes and even the lovely voice is no more! A soul, whom no body can see, touch, smell can turn a live body into a dead wood, which we call “Nishkriya”
Whether it “Soul” or “Air” or “Gravitational Pull” or for that sake “Magnetism”, we cannot see them, we cannot smell them yet they are key ingredients of our mother earth, the very reason of our “life on our beautiful planet Earth and no other planet do have these combinations and key point is we cannot see them, yet they are very basic postulates of life support system on our Earth.
The link between me and my God is the “Faith”. My strong “Faith” that God is always with me, guiding me, communicating with me, showing me direction and giving me strength to cruise through this beautiful journey of life. And my personal belief, all that evil, war, fight, and hatred out there is “Man made” and is nothing but absence of Godliness, absence of Faith and Trust.
If you don’t agree, then watch a new born baby of any religion, any colour or any cast or creed, any where on this earth, she will pure and beautiful, just because, and only because she is very close to God and is far off from the materialistic ignorant world.
And one more important point, no matter, we human being, call this “Divine Faith” with different names, but it is alive and is within each one of us always. The question is, how much Faith we have in this “Divine Force”.
The more the Faith, the more closer we are to God and thus more stronger is our God.
My faith says he loves and cares us and is the most powerful force, no body is powerful then this “Divine Force”.
This is my “Faith”. What about you?
