[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ The Concept of God...

The concept of God!     God once was part of nature, the continuous experience of nature, by breathing, which transformed into continuous flow of emotions. All that has ended.God no longer is experienced but logiced,discussed,argued,debated,like say discussing sex without sex.From the natural flow of feeling, one needs concepts of God to connect for some bounded understanding.   Today, there are as many concepts of God as there are people. The number of designations may be a few hundred, but the personal concepts differ. Your Jesus is not my Jesus, your Rama is not my Rama, and in fact your atheism is not my atheism. God or absence of God is both personal and particular individual concepts. Prayer practices, rituals, customs, traditions etc may be standardised but the actual contours of belief are particular to each person. In fact there is belief flows.Beliefs change mainly with the needs of the moment.   God is mainly experience. So is atheism. In the case of the former, religious texts provide rough paths to lines of belief. In the age of belief, the existence of the ever vigilant God was taken for granted. That God defined a strict time table, routine, dos, don'ts, and deviations were punished instantly. The believer actually spoke with God for hours together. God was available for consultation. Earth quakes, cyclones etc indicated God's anger. Belief motivated the building of huge temples on the inaccessible peaks of big mountains and sculptors spent life times doing sculptures of the God on the peak. People trudged thousands of miles to get the darsan of the God on the peak risking their lives. The pilgrims had rest houses and receptions in every village.IN THOSE DAYS GOD WAS NOT A PERSONAL CONCEPT AMENABLE TO LOGIC AND REASONING. Religion and the priests defined and people followed.   With the advent of science and the acceptance of the need for personal liberty, belief has become particular, personal, vacillating and changing. In India for most criminal devotees, God is an accomplice that connives. For the priests, ministers and MLAs are more powerful than the Gods in their temples.Economics; the dismal science has eliminated belief, but has created a big market for the God concepts. Temples have become engines for urbanisation. Today 99.9 percent of the urban population really do not believe in a good and noble God. They just try prayer for the fulfilment of a need or want. Wants and prayer go together.   Strangely while the belief in God is low, the fear of God to do harm is great. Most people believe in the capacity and actual implementation of harm by God.

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