22 Jan 2016
Shri Swami replied: At this stage, before proceeding to scientific analysis for the existence of God, the answer for
“Dr. Nikhil's question: when atheistic ethical living with material prosperity is possible, what is the need for religion or spirituality?”
is given here, which takes the required appropriate position in this topic. As I have already told that such living is impossible like 'night sun' for major part of life in which the ethical side is rejected due to absence of the possibility of punishment to be given by government to the sin done by anybody, achieved by tricky intelligence. When the situation comes in which the punishment by government is unavoidable, both the theist and atheist behave in similar way by not doing the sin following the ethical side just for the publicity to show his/her best nature for getting fame. Such hypocrisy cannot be appreciated. But, once the situation in which there is every chance to avoid the punishment to the sin from the government comes, the atheist and theist defer. In such punishment-avoidable situation, the atheist will do the sin because in such situation also if sin is not done for selfish benefit, he/she thinks that it will be mere foolishness. When the sin can be done for selfish benefit and its punishment is surely avoidable, even an ordinary human being thinks “why should I loose the advantage if there is no harm at all in it?” Such thinking is perfectly justified by simple common sense also because there is no need of fearing for the injustice if the punishment is surely avoidable. Going one step further, we may say that it is not sin at all because sin can be defined as the act that is punishable by God even if you escape the legal punishment here. If God given punishment is absent due to non-existence of God, it is not sin at all. It means that sin, undetectable by government, is not sin at all. Similarly, a good deed like charity etc., need not be done secretly since there is no reward for it at least in the form of public fame. But, the mentality of theist is different in this situation. This mentality feels that even if he/she escapes the punishment of sin here, the omniscient and omnipotent God certainly will punish it there, if not here. Similarly, a good deed like charity done even without publicity will be rewarded by God here or at least there. I do not say that such mentality of the theist will totally control the sin because even theists do sins secretly if the punishments here are avoidable. But, I can certainly say that in absence of such mentality, sins will be done by theists to the fullest extent. What I mean is that at least such mentality controls the sin to some extent even if it cannot completely eradicate the sin. Something is better than nothing. Such mentality will certainly grow like a seed into a tree aided by the spiritual knowledge increasing the awareness of God more and more acting as water and fertilizer. It is the best to accept this strongest probability of existence of God, especially when there is no trace of loss even if God is non-existent as a result of 50-50 probability. The no loss on one side and several advantages on the other side will make this concept stronger and stronger resulting in strongest. Since this concept is developed based on the perfect foundation of theory of probability, applying all modes, any human being will appreciate this concept irrespective of the stage of his/her education and profession because this is a concept based on simple logical common sense.
You [Dr. Nikhil] asked Me to give a message to the students, who are allergic to the spiritual knowledge.
This concept-rope will bind over all the human beings provided minimum level of understanding the issues exists or let Me tell you frankly that this concept fails only in the case of non-human living beings like birds, animals etc., which cannot understand any human language. This concept is like the weapon of God (Brahmaastra) in the spiritual knowledge (Brahmajnana). Everybody becomes 99% theist because such 99% theist is practically equal to the 100% theist as far as the practical spirituality is concerned. The 1% difference is only that such 99% theist believes God based on the best probability selected by the best wisdom and the 100% theist believes God based on the full faith and certainty of the concept without the need of probability. The difference is only in the theoretical domain and in the practical domain of doing good deeds avoiding sins becomes one and the same for all the human beings. The fruit is always said to be for practical behaviour and therefore, the divine fruit is equally sanctioned to all the human beings. However, in the case of the 99% theist, the 1% weakness in the theory has the probability of affecting the practice sometime in the future, leading to the loss of fruit. But in the case of 100% theist, this future loss can never happen. But, as far as the balance of this society is concerned, the above theory of existence of God based on the probability has no deficiency in influencing the society. Therefore, inject this theory of existence of God based on the scientific theory of probability to any human being, be a student or teacher or anybody in any profession, whoever is allergic to the spiritual knowledge. An initial first aid treatment is essential in the case of every injury. Due to the resulting perfect practical behaviour, the human being starts experiencing the grace of God, who will in turn become a 100% theist.
One point that should be remembered here is that God does not care about your belief in Him (Nivrutti) provided you are perfectly ethical in practice in this world (Pravrutti). He will not discriminate the 99% theist from 100% theist in showing His divine grace and in rewarding the divine fruits. He does not care at all for His recognition in the public. Even if you are an atheist, if your practical behaviour is perfectly ethical in all the situations, God is never angry with you for your atheism. He loves you treating you equal to His best devotee to help you anywhere at any time. The only problem is that such maintenance of atheistic-ethical behaviour is impossible in all the situations. It is possible only in the situation where the punishment from government is sure for your crime and your colour to it as ethics is only hypocrisy to get additional advantage of public fame. Leaving this one exceptional event of time, the other events of time involving the possibility of escaping the punishments here from the government will encourage you to do the sin by providing the concept of no punishment-no sin, which is quite logical in all the angles.
I will provide certainly the scientific logic to prove the existence of God, who is the ultimate cause and not the energy. But, in such logical analysis, one may be fully convinced, one may be partially convinced due to his partial depth in logic and one may not be convinced at all due to conservatism closing totally the mind resisting the entry of even a trace of logic. But, no case is exceptional to the above concept based on probability that can turn anybody to enter a sinless life. In dealing with human beings with this concept, you should take care at every step to restrict the mind in not going towards the false concept based on the lie that existence of God is created lie, which can be respected since even a lie is not sin in view of its good fruit that develops a sinless society. At every step, this false concept always tries to attack the brains like virus. The attack of this virus is inevitable in the situations where the punishment of the sin by the government is avoidable, just like the AIDS virus is inevitable in illegal sex or blood transmission. Everywhere and at every time, you must refer about the attack of this false concept and avoid it carefully.
(To be continued...)
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