(depricated post) What is God?

After a lot of searching and research I am more than convinced that the "concept" called god is needed for humanity. But religion is a curse on humanity.
prophets and gurus created god to get control and order into the barbaric humans. but ironically that has added more barbarism in the so called cultured humans as we are still figiting in the name of religion.



When was god created?
well if we look at the history of religions, you will understand this.
lets take the most modernmajor religion. Islam, this was a reformation of christianity and judaism.
reformation means both social and changes to the concept of god. similarly christianity was a reformation on Judaism. Judaism itself was based on beliefs in zoroastraism and some more imagination to the conditions in which Abraham lived.
Zoroastraism itself was an offshoot of the vedas (concept of god/devil, i.e., dualism evolved) with some more non vedic concepts.
similarly in the east we had a similar thing happening, with vedanta dharma(modern hinduism) borrowing from jainism(vegeterianism), buddhism(non violence) and other pagan beliefs(idol worship) and western concepts from zoroasrtianism(dualism), judaism(god as an entity) and christianity which had come into india by 1st mil a.d. and reforming ancient (vedic) hinduism giving less importance to spirituality and more to bakthi cult. buddhism itself was a reformation of hinduism and borrowed from jainism. buddhism and jainism were contemprory and had some the same effect and were the best interpretations of the vedas regarding god. they are atheistic and wrote dharmas for people to live a righteous life and not about religion and religious worship etc.

So we can see that the concept of god itself comes from the vedas. and vedas did not have god as an entity. vedas only had demi gods, worshipped nature objects(not in the bakthi/devotion sense) for thanking them and believed everything is brahman. brahman is not god but the creation itself(advaitha). brahman is not worshipped or needs any devotion. Brahman is ultimate truth. i.e., everything is the universe.

Now we can see that this concept of Brahman was confused by various people thus creating god as an entity and various religions and the original idea has been blown out of propotions. So is god any kind of entity like a super power or creator or almighty or trinity or what ever. no. there is no entity called god. There is notthing called god or god(Brahman, the source in "the matrix") is another name for the creation. Theistic interpretation of god is technically and scientifically incorrect, though it could be socially correct.

This is also my interpretation of true advaitha, if you remove all social, political and other aspects of it.

So my do people believe in god, why dont they realise/accept the truth. why does humanity need god. the answer was given by Morpheus in movie "The Matrix" when Neo asked the same question about why people live in the matrix and why cant they get out. This was the reply from Morpheous "You have to understand that many people are not ready to be unplugged, and many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."

You get the idea? God has formed the basis of our civilizations.

Ok. in simpler words, I believe god represents the good part of us and is just a funcion of the 6th sense of the brain, just like what we call the mind and heart.
To live a ordered and cultured life without god is very hard. one needs to get to a cetrain level of maturity, independence and control to do that. Until some one reaches there, belief in a super power or what ever called god needs to exist.

An ignorant person is made to imagine a god, this imagination is made possible because of the brain's thinking capabilities. This god is just inside you and a part of u, the good things learnt by you.

Most of what people call god is because of ignorance. When ignorance is removed you realise truth. If this truth is called enlightenment or atheism whatever be it. The truth is that there is nothing as god. It is just a guide line like the latitude and longitudes. It helps you in navigating life until you become a good sailor. After which you can continue to use if you feel. I dont feel the need to use it anymore. So I am Atheist or Buddha(some one with buddhi/intelligence/ knowledge), you can decide what I am. If I am a buddha, I am a Pratyeka Buddha trying to be a Samyaksam Buddha, hehe ;) .


So why do knowledgeable people like saints and prophets and other intelligent people even after realising this truth, continue to profess the concept of god and say they see god in everything and every one. Think about it. the answer is social reasons. To avoid the implications of a godless ignorant society and to build a amicable society by saying every one is the same.

Godless ignorant society? When the truth is known how is the society ignorant? that is the question.
Well reason
No 1. just by preaching the truth, people and society don't change (how many of us follow religious preachings or even know it. remember what happened to islam because of wrong interpretations of preachings). They are so immersed in their worldly thought that they cannot so easily break out of it. It take not just knowledge, experience but fearlessness and courage to do that. i.e., the agents in the matrix control u and u need to fight it. Not every one can do that.
No.2 not all knowledgeable people good. they use this to expolit ignorant people in various ways. No.3 This truth cannot be preached or taught. it needs to be realised by one.

So why do I tell this? Just to tell u that when u have realised the truth, don't be afraid ur alone and don't confuse yourself further.



PS:- ofcourse I am not against god or a blind Atheist. Blind belief in anything be it in god or being atheist is not good.