Belief in God

Belief in God

1991 2 February 11 Belief in God (383) As I stood in front of India Gate in New Delhi, I thought what a very beautiful specimen of architecture and sculpture it was. It is a structure which bears witness to man’s unique faculties. For man to conceive of a thing like ‘India Gate’ he must think creatively before it can come into existence. He must make plans and then give them a concrete shape.

On observing this, the thought came to mind that even if all the stars, planets, trees and animals were told to make an India Gate, they would fail to do so, even if ail of them put their heads together.

This is the case with all other human matters too. All of man’s performances are unique, and are his exclusive prerogative. No other being in the known universe is able to do the things which man is a capable of by exercising his physical and mental faculties, be it the construction of India Gate or the operating of a complex machine.

God desired that man should realize Him on the conscious plane, that he should recognize Him through his intellect. That is why God created man with such distinctive faculties. Just as man is superior to all the creation of the universe, so is God a superior being as compared to man.

If man were to reflect on the difference between him and the rest of the universe, he would be able to comprehend the difference between him and God. God is the last and ultimate form of this superiority, which man experiences over the rest of the universe. To understand God is as simple a matter as understanding oneself.

The truth is that to believe in God is to believe in something in which we already believe. To see God is to see something which is already there for us to see. Another name for an intensification of what man is experiencing every moment is belief in God. (That is, belief in God involves only an intensification of what man is experiencing every moment) The human being is not the “full stop” in this universe. When a higher state of existence is present in the form of man then why should the existence of another higher state in the form of God not be a possibility?