Does God exists or extinct or never existed ?

When the question about my not believing in god was posed to me by my would be daughter-in-law’s mother (in 2014), I explained my stand. I said that I am neither against those who believe in god nor in favor of those who didn’t believe in god.

I said that goodness is not related to our belief in god or not. Religion is a personal belief & nothing to do with our social relations. Anybody can have any belief but should not impose anything on others. I told that I believe in people who didn’t harm others if not help others.

Ultimately we have to spend our life with people only as we can’t live with god. Hence it is not a matter for discussion at all if our relations are good.

The single truth we all wish to ignore is the destined death that will remove us from the earth permanently. Whatever we may think we are discussing so intelligently, life after death is not perceivable to anybody. Lot of discourses by so many people (so called saints, gurus, pseudo-scientists etc.) could not give me a satisfying reply. Ultimately what I conceived life is;

-        Life is simply living till death like any other creature on the earth

-         It is quite natural to die after birth. Timing & nature of death differs from person to person

-         There is no super natural power in the universe. Whatever is happening is natural as it is happening to other creatures.

-        Human beings by virtue of their abilities, making the life comfortable or miserable using science & technology in a right or wrong way and many times creating problems to themselves & other creatures in nature.

-       Society will go on even after our death & at one point of time human beings also may get extinct like other creatures as it was evident from evolution.

-      There is no creation by anybody & whatever is happening is due to the evolution and is based on cause & effect principle.

-       As life after death is a mirage that nobody can chase, life on earth has to be made comfortable & worth living.

 -          First, one has to learn to live a happy life & allow others to live happily. We cannot get happiness if all people around us are unhappy. Here comes the necessity to help others to achieve happiness. Of course, happiness means different to different persons which itself is a vast subject which I don’t want to dwell upon now. Here I am speaking of socially acceptable happiness one can get. As Lincoln says “your freedom ends at my nose”, our happiness should not make others unhappy.

 -          I don’t want to go into the jargon of things in which I never got any soothing reply w.r.t. the basic questions of life & life after death. I am very simple person with simple thoughts about life, i.e. leading a meaningful life to me & to the people who are with me (Friends or relatives close to me).

 -          I had undergone the melancholy of losing my life partner in a horrible way & I am still trying to overcome that grief. I know pretty well that I lost her forever & I can’t meet her again by no means. But this knowledge never helped me to overcome the grief I am undergoing.

 -     It is not that I fully believe in what Marx said but I feel there is some reality as it is based on facts in history as a theory and tried successfully in some areas.

 -     In fact, I was a strong believer in God till 10th class. But my habit of reading books on various topics lead me to think rationally & came to the conclusion that science and religion cannot go hand in hand and the attempts to do so are deceiving or misleading. If fact I read many religious books written by varied authors and western books on spirituality from which I learned many things. They enriched my knowledge & strengthened my concept on the life and our role in it.

 -   I always take good things from all books and never discount any particular ideology basing on whether it is religious or atheist.

I think living a life means different to different people like;

 ·       Some people live for the sake of living itself.

·       Some people live to be happy and like to enjoy the life,

·       Some people live to be happy and make their near and dear happy,

·    Very few people live for the wellbeing and happiness of other people. They will be ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of others, social good, fighting against social evils etc.

 I feel the fourth type is the highest form of living as death is certain to all in whatever way you live and life after death is only in the form of living in other's heart.