My views on God

Day: 12; Post: 27;

16th Oct 2013; 11:50PM

When I shared my last post on the Ancestral Stories of Durga Puja in a Facebook group, some one asked me on my views on Durga puja. She was a female, an unknown to me. Well, I was not expecting such question from a female as I see Durga in each and every women. She says that she doesn't believe the fact that a woman can have ten hands with ten different weapons and other objects like Lotus, Veda, Rudraksh and more. Well, here in this post, I'll describe my take on Gods and Goddess and the way I see them in the real world.

Well, as like that woman who commented on my post, I don’t believe in any  god/goddess with ten or four or two hands nor do I believe in any supernatural powers. I’m a science student and I should not! As I do believe that every thing we see around is science and there in nothing supernatural in it.

Before starting my explanation of a ‘multi powered’ god, let me first describe the difference between a God and a demon in respect to our real life.

We have got heart, we have got feelings and the main thing which we have got is the spirit. In the spirit we have got two dogs. One, a good dog, that is loyal and does good for his master and the other a bad dog, which doesn’t do good for his master, he may be too much violent. Obviously you can picturise what may be the characters of a good and a bad dog. So, the good dog is the God, and the bad one is the demon. When we grow up, when we begin to understand the world, we get an option to feed any one of those two dogs  and make it a pet in our spirits and thus the one who chooses a good one becomes a good man and becomes a person like a God and the other who chooses the evil becomes the demons like we have in this world as rapists, terrorists, murderers, cheaters etc etc..

We know that  Devi Durga assassinates Mahisasura, the demon and thus we understand the meaning. A god killing a demon clearly pictures the fact of Victory of “Good over Evils”. And hence we call Devi Durga as “Durgati Nashini” and worship her as the Goddess of power and symbolizes the Victory of Good over evil.

Lets get back to the point of the ten hands of Devi Durga. As I have already said that I see devi Durga in each and every woman, I add up by saying that I see Durga in each and every person who does something right and fight against something which is wrong. Durga thus depicts a good woman or a person. The ten hands with ten different weapons and objects depicts ten different incarnations of a woman rather a good person in our real life. She is calm, she is quite, she is loving, she is caring, she is intelligent, she is strong, she is aggressive, she is undefeatable. The one more speciality of every woman is that she is a mother and thus Devi Durga depicts all features of a woman. We call her mother or Maa, the one who gives us birth and is ready to sacrifice herself for her children. The aggressive incarnation of a woman depicts the destruction of evil, the Mahisasura of the real world like rapists, murderers, terrorists.

On my final take, all Gods and Goddess depicts a real human being, Gods do not reside in temples, nor do they reside in any Mosque or Church, they reside in ourselves. We should not  see the ‘features’ of a God like Krishna who has got a Sudarshan Chakra (a flaming disc, a weapon, possessed by Lord Vishnu), or the 108 names he is called with, but we should try to understand why he posses the Chakra. He posses it to help others in distress and to destroy evils like he helped Dropadi in Mahabharata. We should understand his love for Radha and should learn what a real love is. We should get to know the meaning of the names Krishna is called with. Like ‘Murlidhar’, the name depicts a person who plays flute and thus it depicts Krishna. But at last he is the same Krishna for his mothers Devki, who gave her birth and Yashoda, the mother who cared him all his life!

 This is what god teaches us.  

May be it is a Bhagwat Gita or a Koran or a Bible, they teaches us the same thing to be good to oneself and to others too. Gods teach us to be in peace, in harmony and not in hatred and wars. Waste no milk to make a Shiva linga bath with milk, waste no candle in church rather put in a house of a poor who cannot afford it to make his kids study, Don’t waste your scented incense sticks in temple or Mosques, put them in a slum near the high drains where people leave with those foul smells of your wastes.

Swami Vivekananda said “Don’t waste your evening praying to God or reading Gita, use it for playing football that will develop your health and make you strong and so that you can help anyone you see in distress”