Abstract: Born in a Sikh family, a young man questions the existence of God. The following reply is a response to that.
I am intrigued that with parents, wife and in-laws who are all believers you have remained deprived of the Supreme Gift, that of the blessed appreciation that there is a Creator.
The fact that you have inquired about the existence of God itself is perhaps a realisation that there is something which you cannot quite explain, despite your knowledge based on the works of Richard Dawkins, i.e. there is more to life.
If you permit me, I will try and explain this without the help of ‘spiritual jargon’ for a better term, which you may not appreciate at this stage. So I will take a lay person’s approach.
If you look at the world as you see it, there is nothing in the materialistic world that does not have a creator. All the comforts of life we enjoy have been created, manufactured or produced by someone.
For a creation there has to be a creator. Even the logic of our mind (which is not always right for all spiritual deductions) tell us this much. Therefore, there is a supreme power that created the world and the planetary network with such precision.
Our Earth interacts with other planets (Moon, Sun etc) in the outer space. Earth orbits the Sun roughly 366 times, it rotates about its axis – this takes a year which is equal to 365 solar days. The point I am making is the precision with which the mechanics work, just like a clock. Such precision cannot come without an architect, an engineer or a scientist of infinite talents. This Primal Architect is the Super Power we refer to as God (Ik O’nkar – One Universal Force/Energy).
Scientists claim the Earth and the other planets in the Solar System formed out of the solar nebula, disk-shaped mass of dust and gas left over from the formation of the Sun.
They say it took millions of years for the Earth to cool down to form a solid crust when water began accumulating in the atmosphere. The Moon and the other planets followed soon afterward.
Now, common sense tells us that such fusion of dust and gas cannot result in such precision if this was merely an accidental act of nature. The planet Earth and life on it are the creation of a Master Creator with no equal. We refer to this Master Creator as God (Ik O’nkar – One Universak Force).
Guru Nanak refers to this Ik O’nkar as ‘Karta Purkh’ and he says Truth is His Name. He is the One Universal God.
Sir, sometimes the answers we are looking for are much simpler than we think. Going into detailed analyses only tend to cloud the issue and carries us further away from the Truth.
I am an ardent disciple of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and I will certainly not question his Bani (Word) under any circumstances. In Japji Sahib he says:
“As he was in the beginning – the truth, throughout the ages he has been – the truth. Even now he is the truth; O’ Nanak, forever he will remain the truth eternal [1]”.
Therefore, rest assured God was there BEFORE the ‘Big Bang’ or any other event you can think of, and don’t forget the so called science also owes its existence to the creator, i.e. God.
If someone refuses to put his or her trust in Guru Nanak’s prophetic philosophy, then he or she is going find it very difficult (if not impossible) to appreciate the existence of this Super Power, we normally refer to as Ik O’nkar.
I wish you luck, irrespective of whether or not you believe in God.
Posted 28 September 2016 (Written June 2009)