And you meet God

Disclaimer: This post proposes a new theory of God, it might offend you.

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There is an old saying-

Allah meharbaan toh gadaha pahalwan! [Even a donkey can be mighty by the grace of God]

God usually refers to either the single deity in monotheism or one of the plural deities in polytheism. God is often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of humans and the universe.

Countless arguments have been proposed in attempt to prove the existence of God. There are many philosophical issues concerning the existence of God.

Some definitions of God are sometimes nonspecific, while other definitions can be self-contradictory.

Then we have atheism. Atheism is the rejection or absence of belief that any deities exist.

Above lines are taken from Wikipedia. My belief in God has not been constant*.

When I was kid, I had a picture (similar to the one my mom used to worship on Thursdays) of Goddess Gayatri in my mind. I had complete faith in her – that she’ll protect me and my family from all the evils. There was no doubt about that.

I grew up and came to city from my small village. I was a teenager in high school and that’s when I saw human suffering, corruption, crime, injustice, disease closely; I started questioning my faith in God.

There were many similar phases where my Gods or rather my faith in God kept on changing*.  I believed in one theory and later came across a better theory and that process continued. And I am still open for new theories.

Anyway I went to college, travelled across county, interacted with people from different faith, religion; read 10’s of books on religion and science. I stayed away from family, totally independent for more than half of my life. And the latest theory that I believe in is here -

The theory:
There are two kind of interaction that you participate in throughout your life.

One is interaction between you and rest of the world. There is second kind of interaction where you interact with yourself and in this interaction, your faith, belief are formed.

In this second kind of interaction you actually interact with your Master. Here, by your master I do not mean the almighty God, as we believe or taught to believe, who did things related to Genesis creation and all. By your Master I mean - the part of you; your inner voice that tells you good things from bad.

This second kind of interaction – between you and your Master, is crucial when you have conflict; crisis or you are not sure what to do in a particular difficult situation.

Your Master is other self of you who tells you what’s wrong and what’s not. When you do something that your Master wants, your Master becomes stronger. And next time when your Master tells you to do something, chances becomes high that you’d follow Him and in turn your Master becomes stronger. It’s cumulative. The more you follow your Master, your Master becomes stronger.

When you are in dilemma, a part of you (your heart or mind) tells one thing (constructive**) and other part of you tells other way (destructive**). There are two things that you do-

1. You follow the constructive part of you and you make your Master constructive and destructive part of you becomes week. You keep following constructive part and you have a constructive Master and destructive part of you dies.

2. You follow the destructive part of you and you make your Master destructive and constructive part becomes week. You keep following destructive part and you have a destructive Master and constructive part of you dies. When Nietzsche said ‘God is dead’, I think he meant this. He meant people have started following their destructive self and constructive part in them is dead.

There is 3^rd scenario where you sometime follow the constructive part of you and other time you follow the destructive part of you and so you have a weak Master.

I believe our Masters are our Gods. Everyone of us has our own Masters; our God. There is no God out there anywhere. We all have our Gods inside us. We make our Masters strong or weak. We create our Masters and we make our Masters, almighty!


Should not the saying be as my friend Vikram puts it–
Gadaha meharbaan toh Allah pehlwan. [God gets strength from His follower]

I hope, one day you’d meet your God!

* I’ll write a separate post on this; probably with title – ‘Evolution of my God’.
** What is constructive or destructive, that also you get to decide.

Horn Ok Please: HOPping to Conclusions – not a book review

Disclaimer: This is not a book review. Read it (this post or the book) at your own risk. This (again I mean this post or the book) is only for fun.

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I read this book last week. Yes I was vella for the day!

I’d directly come to the point. Here are my recommendations-

1. For Boys and Girls under 18:
Please wait till you become eligible to exercise your adult franchise to choose a government only to scold it later and make several other similar mistakes. In short  wait till you become 18.

2. For Boys above 18:

You should read it for it'll enhance your sense of humor and in turn it'll increase your GPI (Girl Patao Index) and probably enhance your chances of you getting Leh’d. (Author keeps on using  this word in the book)

3. For Girls above 18:

You can enjoy it too for it’ll make you laugh (I know even you have sense humor. Sarcasm is your speciality.). Please refrain from reading this if you do not like ‘F’ word ‘cause the book is full of that and similar words of the F word family; probably more than they have used ‘F’ word in movie Pulp Fiction.

4. For those who hates reading books and do not come under category 1 above:

This one is especially for you. ‘Cause this is very light and full of masalas. After reading this book you might start reading.
Note: I used to come under this category but after reading this, I fall under category 2.

5. For editorial lovers:

You can just read the ‘HOPping Conclusions’ part (will take only an hour) of the book skipping rest of the book and still enjoy it.

6. For those who does not like the book or this post:

Please do not kill me. You can investigate the matter - “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

God and the Holocaust

Sometime back my niece (she’s in 9th grade) and I were having discussion about world war I & II. And all of sudden she asked me if there is/was a God.

I did not expect this question from her. I asked her how do you define God?
To her, God is a supreme power who looks after good over bad.

I did not know what to reply and I did not exactly understand the context.
So I asked her that why she is asking about God when we’are discussing history here.

To this, she tells – “Six million European Jews – over one million Jewish children, two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men, were killed after long inhuman torture.” History is her favorite subject. She was talking about The Holocaust.
She continued “Where was God then? Why did not (s)he listens to prayers of those million people. There were dozens of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler. (S)he’d have made one of them successful and perhaps some of them would have lived.”

I did not know the answer to her question and till now I do not.
I do not know if I really believe in God anymore.

All I need is a simple answer to a simple question – why God, if (s)he really exists, did not do anything when 6 million people were being tortured & killed.

PS: It's merely questioning existence of God or belief in God, the way we question ourselves; the way we question authorities, the way we questions our teachers and the way we question our loved ones.