Man made God or existence sees God?
By – Pamarty Venkataramana
God, then, is the name given to that mysterious mechanism of functioning at the heart of ‘nothingness’ encapsulated within any object, phenomenon or Being which weaves out its own body in tune with its inner logic of existence in perfect concordance with the logical pattern of its universal presence. .
– this proposition of modern day woke thinkers,needs close examination.
Be it the Jijanthopithicus or Hawkins or anthropologists or an array of researchers of religion, physics and metaphysical occurrences in life on the planet we inhabit ,God has been a fascinating answer and study to determine the actual ‘x’-factor which is the real and prime source of life in a being , in the shine of an object or in the striking feature of a phenomenon.
Civilizations developed and decimated over the ages of evolution of mankind but the idea of ‘nothingness’ has intrigued one and all ,without any definite answer being accepted by one and all. Mysterious indeed are the ways of Nature – be it a fruit fly which is born, grows, breeds and dies –all within a space of 24-hours duration or be it the fact of the wealthiest man on earth not being exempted from the hand of death ,what is the actual ‘mechanism’ or ‘mechanics’ whereby the beings /objects/phenomena function ?What is the logic and who writes the algorithm of life itself? Does there exist any ‘ logic’ or does ‘rationality’ lend itself in an erratic manner and which alone can be the just ,fair and right explanation for one creature living longer on the face of the earth in comparison to another ?
Such is the melodrama and mystical essence of the terms-‘nothingness’ , ‘god’ and ‘presence’ that the endeavours of scholars in Ancient Indian Studies and from Hinduism [that most ancient dead yet alive religion of the world today ] postulated the theory of ‘Re-births’ and karmic-re-incarnation as a sine qua non to the culmination of the soul of a being trapped into any form of life – be it animal , bird , insect or man !. . . So much so that even inanimate objects do bear ‘life’ and testify to the existence of ‘god’ such as when you hear the Niagara Waterfalls dashing down and being heard miles away across the borders of Canada/ USA or when you watch the resplendent Ganga River pouring life-energy and supplying drinking water rich in life saving , disease-curing minerals despite several superstitious folk dumping dead bodies into it day in and day out …!!
Universal presence is the proof of the existence of the ‘ nothingness’ itself . Call it by the all-encompassing ,all-embracing and ever soothing and often revered term of ‘GOD’ or by any other description of the ‘unknown factor of cosmic equations’ ,fact remains that there is a set pattern to the way and manner in which different life forms come into being on earth and in the way in which various objects lend meaning even as unexplained phenomenon unnerve the settled theorists in the world today .
Technology has developed , researches are being undertaken , woke-thinkers are applying their intelligence,blind believers have fixed notions and disbelievers too have blocked visions about the very existence of God .
Yet, be it through yogic asanas [penance] or by transcendental meditation or by alternative forms of spiritual or empirical studies , the state of bliss , nothingness or vacuum or nirvana[enlightenment] may be attained – each unto his own method and path .
However , the poser remains – whither the real source of life in an animate or inanimate object ?
Here again am but drawn to the wonderful [supposedly mythological happening] of Lord Vishnu taking the form of Narasimha [a lion-man beastly-being] so as to end a dreaded and wicked demon Hiranyakashyapa .The moral of the specific incarnation of ‘God’ there was to show that life exists even in inanimate objects and be it dawn or dusk , nightfall or day break , be it man or beast , be it lifeless nails of a human being or the lion like face and head–form of a beast , the presence of an ‘unseen’ force or phenomenon variously termed but happily and commonly worded as ‘God’ cannot and ought not to be avoided.
The tuning of the being ,the object or the phenomenon referred to by such a protagonist is to be set by one’s own self and the individual composition and mental make-up of the ‘self’ constitutes and determines the ‘tunes’ one plays in life .
Here again, I would say that any statement relating to the divinity of the human bodily form is inter-linked to the day’s observation of a perfect harmony being drawn by the ‘nothingness’ within oneself to the outside ‘universe’ .
That alone is existence, undoubtedly.
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