On Faith and God


Who is God? The idol in temple ? Sri Satya Sai baba ? The Holy Cross ? A lot of us would question these images of God. And yet a lot of us derive unquestionable strength out of them- a lot of us sail through seemingly unbelievable situations because of the blessings of God. Some of my friends would say “I don’t believe in God” –“I can’t call a living person as God”—“I refuse to bow down to a Guru”-- “ I believe that I if I do good to others, good will be done to me—I don’t need a God to help me out”

I relate to God as that power in whose care and blessings I have total “Faith” or “Trust” in. That power for different people could mean different images. For some this power manifests itself in their religious Guru’s blessings in whose teachings and directions they totally trust. For some their family deity holds this power. The faith in the point of worship is so much (so unquestionable) that no matter what the situation a person is in, they have the faith that they will sail through their problems.

I believe that more than the “Divine Power” that one relates to, it is the “Faith” that one has in it that sees one through.

If one trusts that “My Guruji will see me through this and I trust his decision totally on this situation”. He will. A prayer bereft of “I”( “I hope Guruji does this for me”,“ I hope this business deal works”), personal benefits always bears fruits.Total submission to His decisions gives one his peace of mind --“I am in this situation, which is difficult for me. Help me.” No matter what the results, they must be accepted as God’s decision. Whatever a person achieves in his life is due to His divine Grace and whatever he finds difficult to attain is because he is not meant to achieve it. He has different plans for the person. God for me is “Enjoying every moment of your life” and the trust that “some force around me is taking care of me and I trust this force totally”.

Is there a God? -- Do we understand force around this world? Science has evolved so much and yet, the more we discover, the further away from the “Ultimate Truth” we seem to be. Do we understand why some people seem to have everything and yet some seem to be continuously suffering. Lets call that incomprehensible entity that controls this--- “God”

There are people around us saying-- “I believe that whatever I accomplish is because of my hard work, my doings , why acknowledge an external force for my hard work”, “ Why do I have to suffer so much because of somebody else’s wrong doings--- what wrong have I done” “Why did I have to go thru this” Yet what I believe the attitude is that “Any good done is because of Me and Me alone”, anything that doesn’t work out for me is because of “him”, “her”, “them” or even “God”


One should attribute all the “Positives and Negatives” in one’s life to either totally themselves. i.e. take full responsibility for situations that don’t work for themselves else give up everything to Him. Submit oneself totally to Him and accept that whether good or bad it happens because of Him. For ultimately its your faith in God that will carry you through.