Just a few days back I had a nice and a healthy discussion with my friends on our views pertaining to religion and spirituality. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it just struck me that I would like to share my thoughts on this particular topic with whoever is reading this blog.

Before starting with anything I would just like to make myself clear about a few terms

I am in no way saying that I am an atheist and that GOD doesn’t exist

I am in no way condemning one’s belief in GOD.

I am just trying to put down my opinion as any other individual would like to do.

Since birth, each one of is taught to believe in some things that we cannot see, things we cannot hear, things we cannot feel. And according to me the most predominant among these beliefs is to believe in that superpower, the one that controls everything, the one who is the creator of this universe, the one who will decide our doom.

As a child I too dwelled myself into believing this notion, but today at times a thought crops up; Why do we have faith in the existence of something that has always been so abstract? Why do we pray and hope that someone above is there to fulfil our wishes?

I am in no way denying the existence of the Almighty, but would like to present a different opinion rather a rational and more logical one.

According to me, the concept of GOD was created to give man hope; hope in situations where he has lost everything, where he has nothing in his hands, so that he doesn’t break down and still has the optimism that the Almighty is there to help him; that he will be his saviour. Had there been no such belief the very existence of Hope would have vanished. My viewpoint is simple; that possibly ages ago, a group of learned, wise men would have foreseen man’s weakness and would have built upon this concept of GOD. Those sages would have then written stories so as to teach mankind the importance of certain core values.

Let us consider for example the ‘Mahabharata’. Every character in the story symbolises a distinguishing feature of man’s character. Putting it forward in the form of an epic makes it easy for us to absorb things and understand facts that we would have not, had it not been demonstrated in this form. There is a very nice saying. ‘Do not try and find the Krishna in your life, Be the Arjun, Krishna will himself always be there to direct you’. What it basically means is that don’t try to work only to achieve success, keep working and success will follow you.

Similarly there are many such maxims that different epics and other small stories related to GOD teach us. Possibly, all of them were crafted by some individuals and have been passed down through ages to be believed as true stories.

Basically, what I want to say is that GOD might exist but there is this possibility as well.