Faith

Is it necessary to believe in God? Birds, beasts and animals have no knowledge of God; yet they too eat, sleep, reproduce and die. Is it imperative for us to worship god? Wisdom and power of speech are the special privileges God has bestowed on the human beings, which distinguish them from animals. These are not meant for competition, selfishness or deceiving others. The proper use of human talents is to approach and realise the eternal reality. Faith is the inherent nature of the spirit. The Supreme Lord Krishna is the only object of absolute faith. Ignorant persons place their faiths in the perishable things and get deprived of God's grace. Divine culture is neglected, the human life turns out to be inferior to that of animals; since animals commit violence for food and fear, but selfish men indiscriminately torture others. Morality, kindness etc., of the atheists are useless as the baseless castle. The one who is ungrateful to the Universal Father is a misfit everywhere.

Atheistic persons think that, worship of God is an unnecessary activity; secularism alone is useful and worthy. They argue that if a person does not earn his livelihood, can believe in God that he will fulfil his needs? Without struggling for life, can one secure protection from calamities? These arguments seem to be correct to the superficial thinkers. If we enter deep into this matter, we learn that living in this world itself is not a matter of importance, but the way and final gain of life are of real consideration. Mundane activities are devoid of bliss, hence men cannot adhere to them for long. Here in this world, it is seen that similar works bear dissimilar fruits; even carefully done works often produce disastrous results. Without believing in the overall Will of the Supreme Lord, phenomenal variations cannot be explained. Religion does not compete with secular developments, it necessarily completes the same. Soul becomes bankrupt by neglecting divine culture. Foreign statisticians have discovered that most of the patients of insanity and mental disorders are disbelievers in God.

Every creation, naturally depends upon its creator. The equipments of our daily use are produced by different manufacturers through keenly conducted inventions, research and development. Similarly, this limitless universe filled with infinite wonderful dexterity is a creation of God, who transcends limitations, of time and space. A fool alone shall deny the existence of the Omniscient Creator. Numberless pleasing arrangements and accuracy are ever observed in this world. Beginning from microcosm to macrocosm, everything is extremely wonderful, beautiful, systematic and unprecedented, beyond human imagination. The wonderful brain of human beings is a tiny creation of God. How amazing and precise are the compoents of the solar and stellar systems! How magnificient are the galaxies and nebulae! These wonderful things belong to the uni-quadrangular majesty of Lord Krishna; the tri-quadrangular one being the Spiritual Majesty.

Faith is the inherent nature of the individual souls. A man without faith loses himself. In its pure state, faith depends upon God alone. When the Jiva undergoes fall and mundane bondage, his faith gets degraded and distracted towards men, money, lands, politics, violence etc. The human faith should be retracted and directed towards God. Those who are sincere among empiricists agree that, even up to this day we have hardly any more information on the vital problems of humanity, than what was known to the primitive man of stone-age. Darkness fails to guage the light; so also empiricism fails with the spirit. Hence the Upanishadic seer prays that, O Lord, kindly lead me from nescience to eternity, darkness to effulgence, and from death unto immortality'.

In the name of secularism today we have discarded God and religion. This anti-Godly feeling has sown the seed of doom. The western world has amply suffered the impact of Godless materialism. Western thinkers say, "start one good school and close one one hundred prisons." The duke of Wellington uttered: 'Divorce religion from education and all you will produce will be a race of clever devils".