WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE IN GOD ?

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE IN GOD ?
If we have no faith in God, we will be born again and again in this world and will undergo
considerable miseries. The ignorant, faithless, doubting self goes to destruction. He cannot enjoy
the least happiness. Neither this world, nor that beyond is there for the doubting self. Those who
have no faith in God do not know what is right and what is wrong. They have lost the power of
discrimination. They are untruthful, proud and egoistic. They are given to excessive greed, wrath
and lust. They hoard up money by unlawful means. They become men of demoniacal nature. They
commit various sorts of atrocious crimes. They have no ideals for their lives. They are thrown into
the lowest depths, deluded, birth after birth.
Belief in God is an indispensable requisite for every human being. It is a sine qua non.
Owing to the force of Avidya or ignorance pain appears as pleasure. The world is full of is full of
miseries, troubles, difficulties and tribulations. The world is a ball of fire. The mind charged with
attachment, hatred, anger, jealousy, is a blazing furnace. We have to free ourselves from birth,
death, old age, disease and grief. This can only be done by faith in God. There is no other way.
Money and power cannot give us real happiness. Even if we exercise suzerainty over whole world,
we cannot be free from care, worry, anxiety, fear, disappointment, etc. It is only the faith in God and
the consequent God-realisation through meditation that can give us real, eternal happiness and free
us from all kinds of fear and worries which torment us at every moment. Faith in God will force us
to think of Him constantly and to meditate on Him and will eventually lead us on to God-realisation.
Belief in God and God-realisation will give us Param Shanti (Supreme Peace). In that peace
comes the extinction of all pains. We will be no longer bewildered. We will be released from the
bondage of actions. We will become immortal. We will obtain eternal Divine Wisdom. We will
reach a place whence there is no return to this world of miseries, our sins being dispelled by Divine
Wisdom. Our minds will ever remain balanced. We will never rejoice on obtaining what is pleasant
nor feel sorry on obtaining what is unpleasant. We will have a cool mind. We will be ever
established in the Divine Consciousness. We will get ‘Akshaya Sukha,’ ‘happiness exempt from
decay.’ We will become one with God and get eternal (Nitya), infinite (Ananta), supreme bliss.
When we are established in the Divine Consciousness, we will not be shaken even by heavy sorrow.
We will get ‘Atindriya Sukha,’ ‘happiness beyond the reach of the senses.’
God will give us full security if we worship Him with unswerving devotion and undivided
attention. He gives us the Yoga of discrimination to enable us to reach Him easily. Out of pure
compassion for us He destroys the ignorance born darkness by the shining lamp of Wisdom. He
speedily lifts us from the ocean of Samsara (birth and death), if we fix our minds on Him steadily
with devotion and faith. We will cross over the three qualities and liberated from birth, death, old
age and sorrow, and drink the nectar of immortality. By devotion and faith we will know Him in
essence and will enter into His very Being. Through His Grace we will overcome all obstacles.