Most of the scientists down the centuries have been in a doubt about the existence of God. Recently, the last book in the name of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking got published \u2014 \u201cBrief Answers To The Big Questions\u201d. This modern scientist proclaims that \u201cthere is no God. No one directs the universe.\u201d And he adds that \u201cFor centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God. I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
These statements as answers to eternal questions by Mr. Hawking are merely logical and intellectual conclusions; not any subjective experience or the realization of consciousness. But God and Godliness cannot be tested in science-laboratories as objects. Science can examine objects as they are material things, but it cannot treat living beings the same way. The same process cannot be applicable to the spirit. And the spirit does mean the spiritual phenomenon, something alive \u2014 something that pulsates in all human beings including Mr Hawkings and other beings, and the wholeness of nature. This experience and realization of spirit pervading all beings in the cosmos and the vastness of nature is Godliness. This Godliness is not something that will curse anyone \u2014 as it is a blessing, and its realization is blissfulness. God does not inflict such curses as deformities or disabilities \u2014 God does not interfere at all. Such things do happen naturally \u2014 as one finds both healthy fruits and rotten fruits on the same tree. We all are born out of the same existence and nature \u2014 Ram and Ravana, Krishna and Kansa, Buddha and Angulimaal, and Jesus and Judas. It is an phenomenon of energy and its manifestation in various forms. Nothing good or bad \u2014 simply inclusive of all dimensions and aspects of one life. Existence at its inner core is advaita \u2014 non-duality.<\/p>\n
In his discourses on the upanishads, Osho says: God is existence \u2014 it is not that God exists; God is simply synonymous with existence. Really, to say that God is, is to repeat. God means is. It is bad language to say God is, because the very \u201cisness\u201d is God. God means \u2014 \u201cisness\u201d. To say God exists is wrong. God is existence.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod is not a person. That is one of the greatest misunderstandings, and it has prevailed so long that it has become almost a fact. Even if a lie is repeated continuously for centuries it is bound to appear as if it is a truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Let us make God free from all concepts of personality. Osho concludes: God simply means Godliness. It is because of this fact that Buddha denied the existence of God. He wanted to emphasize that God is a quality, an experience \u2014 like love. You cannot talk to love, you can live it. You need not create temples of love, you need not make statues of love, and bowing down to those statues will be just nonsense. And that\u2019s what has been happening in the churches, in the temples, in the mosques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most of the scientists down the centuries have been in a doubt about the existence of God. Recently, the last book in the name of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking got published \u2014 \u201cBrief Answers To The Big Questions\u201d. This modern scientist proclaims that \u201cthere is no God. No one directs the universe.\u201d And he adds … Continue reading Mystic Mantra: Does God exist?<\/span>