my path to self realisation...... part 1

To all those who believe in god....those who don't..(include those who don't feel the need for god).. those out to discover god.. and those on the path to self realisation...!! experiences of probing into the essence of the cause of why one is born.... lives and dies.... and beyond.....

Though the idea of god,rituals,prayers were ploughed into me at a very young age.. an age very young to question things... when my stupid brain started thinking on it's own.. things began to turn a different way... lots n lots n lots of question.. many unanswered till date.. a few answered.. led to arguements n debates.. which got me nowhere or rather progress was too very slow...

So now am on a diff path of analysing things and it's helping me so far..

reason this post is out here.. one of my good buddies turned a atheist.. (congrats!!!)..... n i was discussing what an atheist's view was .... god... who..? why..? how...? howcome? necessary....? bullshit... n all these stuff.... guess i've been thru these questions.. and mayb i cud just post my learning..

.... err.. so who's this god... can we define god.... No we can't... an exact definition of god can never be given... one of the learned people i asked this question shot back a question @ me...
"what is a line ?"
what is a line..sounds dumb right.. for a person who's done Engg. .. so here i was defining a line..."it's the locus of points..which starts with a point and ends with another point.. with a straight curve...and is uni-dimentional".. pat came the next question.. "define a point..".... i had no answers...(all i remember telling him was it was 0 dimensional)
i had to go back to my basics of geometry to search for answers... and i found none properly satisfying.... definition of a point is an axiom which needs to be accepted.. without which all theorems would fail.. so i shud say... maths assumes the entity of a point for all practical purposes....we can only describe the nature of a point... but not the point in itself...
Similarly i learnt we can describe the nature of divinity..or god whatever.. but cannot define him in finite terms...

is god the faith that people have in him...? yes..no.. maybe... faith is something that is inborn in each and every living being..a child has faith in it's mother.. a pet in it's master... a patient in d doc...passengers in d driver.. so on n so forth.. so there's no denying the presence of faith... but y faith in god..? after all all people are human.. and if humans could control everything.. they'd really be super powerful right..?

so is this god super powerful..let's consider the universe.. who created it... if the big bang theory created it.. then who created the big bang theory... which in turn led to the chain reaction of creating it's smaller entities by itself...? the atmosphere.. galaxies... planets.. their orbits... the extent of the atmosphere wherein it holds the gases that sustain us.. why is the earth not any closer to the sun.. where it would have got all d water on earth evaporated.. or any farther where all heat and light would have ceased, and water frozen... there are things natural to us... so we call them part of nature... but the architect behind this... who'z tat...

consider the 5 elements of nature.. colorless,odourless water...a necessity for any living organism...air with d right composition of hydrogen,oxygen nitrogen ..CO2 and other gases,rocks(earth) which contain the minerals required to sustain vegetation...fire... that provides heat and light.... and the absence of all these.. vacuum... these were discovered by man.. but created by some supreme creator....

some supreme creator also created this biological body of ours... a brain that can process a million thoughts per second.... a body with blood vessels whose total length put together is close to 35 Km...a heart that sustains this body thruout...all the other systems.. respiratory.. excretory.. reproductive n stuff... bio mechanics...bones.. joints.. tendons and ligaments that support 'em.. which stand our body weight and much more...

Mind you.. all these were created by that supreme creator... not just for man... for all the supposed 84000,00,00,000 living organisms.. right from an amoeba to a mammoth... so how small would the heart of an ant look.. how does it work....? doesn't it not have a mechanism of it's own..?? is man capable of creating the same....

surprisingly these 84000,00,00,000 organism's reproductive cycle is classified into just 4 types... all this is scientific proof ok......
1.those that give birth/reproduce by seeds sown into the soil
2.those non-vertebrae like worms,lizards .. and their reproductive ways..
3.those that reproduce by laying eggs
4.the ones which give birth by gestation of the new born in a womb....

i tried to find something outside these four.. just for argument's sake.. to no avail...

As lord kelvin once cited that the more longer and deeper he delved into science he could not help but admire the creations of the supreme.. which went beyond the purview of scientific explanation..!!!!

god is thus the supreme creator,a supernatural power..which cannot be explained.... but what of his qualities... he's omnipotent, being the supreme creator.. he'd be knowing everything.. so he'd be omniscient..( i do not wish to bring omnipresent into the picture here.. 'coz that's realisation of the self)... he transcends knowledge....

now to the other qualities attributed to god... all of us have a basic sense of right or wrong.. or morality in other words... all qualities attributed to morality... kindness,generosity,righteousness etc etc... are attributed to him... as all religions prescribe these values as the way of the world.. so thus he's also credited with omnibenevolence.....
we do not have to believe in sin .. hell or heaven to be morally right..right?

To be contd...

P.S:Will get back after dinner tonight.. or tomorrow probllly....
Cheers!!
S