Does God exist?
Most of the scientists down the centuries have been in a doubt about the existence of God. Recently, the last book in the name of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking got published — Brief Answers To The Big Questions. This modern scientist proclaims that “there is no God. No one directs the universe.” And he adds that “For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God. I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.”
These statements as answers to eternal questions by Mr Hawking are merely logical and intellectual conclusions; not any subjective experience or the realisation of consciousness. But God and Godliness cannot be tested in science-laboratories as objects. Science can examine objects as they are material things, but it cannot treat living beings the same way. The same process cannot be applicable to the spirit. And the spirit does mean the spiritual phenomenon, something alive. This experience and realisation of spirit pervading all beings in the cosmos and the vastness of nature is Godliness. This Godliness is not something that will curse anyone — as it is a blessing, and its realisation is blissfulness. God does not inflict such curses as deformities or disabilities — God does not interfere at all.
In his discourses on the upanishads, Osho says: God is existence — it is not that God exists; God is simply synonymous with existence. Really, to say that God is, is to repeat. God means is. To say God exists is wrong. God is existence. The writer is editor of Osho World