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CHAPTER 8. GOD IS NOT A SOLUTION BUT A PROBLEM
When I say God does not exist, I have no grudge against God. I don’t care a bit about God, whether
He exists or not – it is none of my business.
When I say God does not exist, my purpose is to give you your lost beinghood; to show you that you
are not a thing created by somebody arbitrarily.
Why did He decide, on a certain day, four thousand and four years before Jesus was born, to create
the world? What caused the idea of creation? Was there something else that was forcing Him to
create? Was there some serpent seducing Him to create? Why on a certain day, and not before? I
want you to see the point. It is arbitrary, whimsical. If the story is true, God is insane. What was He
doing for the whole of eternity? – the idea of creation came so late to Him.
The very idea of creation makes us arbitrary, whimsical, whereas evolution is not arbitrary, whimsical.
Evolution is eternal; it has been always going on. There was not a time when existence was not,
there will never be a time when existence will not be:
Existence means eternity.
God makes everything silly, small, arbitrary, meaningless, whimsical. Just that old man... and He
must have been really old, really, really old, and then this idea of creation came to Him... and in six
days He completed it. That’s why the popes were against Charles Darwin: ”You are saying that it is
not yet completed, it is evolving. You are against the Bible, the holy scriptures. You are against God,
against the idea of creation.”
Charles Darwin was saying simply, ”I am not against any God, I don’t know any God.” He was a
very fearful person, and he was a Christian. He used to pray; in fact he started to pray more after
he wrote the theory of evolution. He became very much afraid: who knows, perhaps he was doing
something against God. He had believed that God created the world, but the facts of nature were
telling a different story – everything is evolving, life is never the same again.
So if anybody believes in God, he cannot believe that you are a being.
Only things are created; they have a beginning and an end – beings are eternal.
Because of this fact, two religions in India, Jainism and Buddhism, dropped the idea of God –
because to keep that idea simply meant you were dropping
the idea of being, which is far more significant. They would have liked to keep both, but it was
logically impossible.
Once you accept that you have been created, you accept the other part of it, that the same whimsical
man, any day, can un-create you. So what meaning do you have? – just a toy in the hands of some
magical old man? So whenever He wants, He plays with the toys, and whenever He wants, He
destroys them? It was really a great, courageous step on the part of Mahavira and Buddha to
choose being and drop the idea of God – and that too, twenty-five centuries ago. They could simply
see that you cannot manage both; they are against each other. But they were not aware of evolution;
that was a later development. Now we know that creation goes against the idea of evolution too.
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