Thursday, January 17, 2008

Two Short Stories : For Atheists

There was a king who wanted to test his ministers and learned brains in his kingdom. He once puts up three questions
1. Does God exist? If yes why cant every one see him?
2. Where does God see? In which direction?
3. What does God do?

To this he gave one day time for any one in his Kingdom to answer. One of the poets’ son comes to know about this quiz. He asks his father to permit him to answer these questions. The poet himself un-answerable to the questions is afraid if his son does not satisfy the King then he will be put to death!
The next morning the poets’ son bows to the King and requests the king to allow him to answer his questions. The king looks at the boy with doubt, but allows him to speak. The boy asks for a pot full of milk and a small lamp. The courtiers bring them to him. The king thinks that the boy might be hungry. But the boy starts to look in to the pot very anxiously for a long time.
The king asks the boy what he was looking for in the pot. The boy says I was looking for Butter! The king laughs at the boys’ ignorance and tells him that “unless the milk is made into curd and then churned, will not get the butter.”
The boy smiles and asks the king in which direction does the lamp spread its light? The king again tells the boy “not in one but in all directions, my boy.”
Now the boy tells the King that he got the first two answers. The king is astonished at the boys’ intelligence. The boy explains “Unless we add the fermented curd to milk we will not get curd. We need to churn the milk rigorously to get the butter from the curd. Similarly we need to add “bhakti” to our life and churn it with "knowledge" then we will get the butter as "God". As a lamp cannot direct its light in one particular direction even God do not show partiality to any one. He is constantly viewing each and every being in this world.”
Very impressed with the boys’ explanation the King praises the boy that he is his guru who removed his ignorance. The boy says “oh king you called me your guru and how come you sit in a higher seat when I am standing before you.” The king stands up and offers his throne to the boy and sits before him on the ground.
The king suddenly remembers his third question and asks the boy what about the third question. The boy says “this is what God does.” The king does not understand and asks “what?” The boy says “this, he makes people go up and down. One moment before you were on a high seat and me on the ground now I am on your throne. He gives each and every person what one deserves.”
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This is one more interesting story about Gautam Buddha. An atheistic came to Buddha in a morning and said, 'I don't believe in God at all. Can you prove existence of God? If not agree with me.' Buddha agreed to him. He left. In the afternoon one more person came. He said, 'I totally believe in God. There is no way these universes exist without God. Prove to me that God does not exist or agree with me.' Buddha agreed to him. He left too. In the evening one more peasant came. He said, 'Buddha, I am ignorant if God exists or not. I really don't know much. But I have a strong urge to find out. I came to you to find the truth!' Buddha smiled. He asked the person to stay with him. Buddha's disciples saw the whole thing. Confused they went to him. "Master" They said. “How can you change your words twice a day? In the morning you agreed that God doesn't exist, in the afternoon you said exactly opposite and evening you make an ignorant person your follower?" Buddha said, “The persons came in morning and afternoon did not come here to find the truth but to debate! They had a firm belief on something which they wouldn't leave but they search for people to challenge. They are not open for anything. It is not possible to improve with such attitude. It is waste of time fighting with them also. So I agreed and kept quiet. The person who came in the evening was in search for Nirvana. He was open and he did not have ego to show his knowledge. So I accepted him." source
Many Atheists always put up “arguments” in many places say Communities or books. They always have the urge to put up a argument citing many “scientifically” and “rational” examples.
But in true sense never put up an effort to “find” the truth.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good work Raghav...
Excellent gathering...
Short stories are really good...
Stories are short and has got in depth of knowledge...
Please keep adding more of such stories....

Al-Chemist said...

so being agnostic and actually being in the middle of something is way better than being atheistic or theistic ..

and of course i cant forget to mention that stories one and two completely negate each other ..

story 1 : God is almighty ; all knowledgable and omnipresent

story 2 : Question Gods every attribute and dont believe the morals u learnt in story 1

:D

Komila said...

Excellent post raghav,

Well said, it is easy to question than to find answers...

treasured_creatives said...

Hi,
I have a question. If god is not partial, then how come there are so many inequalities in this world. For example a billion people pray to god in India while only 300 million pray in America. God seems to have heard their prayers and granted them prosperity and power. While Indians are steeped in poverty and there is all kinds of retail individual level corruption, cheating, deceit etc.