GREAT is GOD
When I ask someone why we worship
lord Rama or lord Krishna, the one response I get most often is because they
are god. Few of us will say, because they
fought for goodness and because they were great.
Not many of us want or try to know
how they become a god and unfortunately our Hindu mythology did a pretty bad
job telling us why. Mostly we are told that they were avatars and hence we
worship them. That works for the most part of it and it unequivocally
explains their greatness. However it misses the whole point why we were being
told those stories and why we were told about god.
Let’s rewind our clocks centuries
back and for a moment let’s assume you are the first one who wants people to
have a concept of god. First of all why, would you want to do that? So that
people can read nice stories and gets inspired by them. Well, Mahatma Gandhi’s stories
do a good job in that, for most of us. Why do you need to invent god and not
another Mahatma? After all, you are taking a far more difficult and risky job,
by introducing people to a concept which cannot be proven at all.
I don’t know about the first man
who invented this concept or chose to call Lord Rama or Krishna or Jesus; God.
But if I would be that person, I would like to do it to tell people that there
were humans who achieved such greatness. They achieved it through wisdom,
knowledge and constant scrutiny. I would like to inspire them to fight with
themselves to be that great. I would not want to tell them that god is born as god,
as that will make them fear the god and not get inspiration out of it. I would
like them to learn from god, try to be like god, try to follow the teachings
god gave, and try to be as great as him.
The moment we say Lord Rama won
from Ravna because he was a god is the moment we declare we can never won such
a fight because we were not born a god.
To me that was a one sided fight
between a human and a monster-human hybrid. If I would bet on that battle at
that time, I would have bet on Ravna. It was Rama’s greatness as a human who
gave him that victory and gave rest of us a great lesson.
The truth is no one gets born a
god, but you can become a god. Being a Hindu, I do believe in the concept of
reincarnations. I believe it takes many lives to become a god. But if god
existed, he was one of us and he wanted to tell us that we can achieve same
greatness as him.
To me, the whole concept of god
exists to tell us that we should try to imitate him and try to be like him. If
god exists and watching us over he would definitely want us to follow the same
path he followed than to praise him or fear him.
But this one is just a thought, may
be fiction….. In the end, that is how I defined god for me……..
