Believe in God’s Existence
Divine Life
Society Publications – May
I Answer That by Sri Swami Sivananda
What is the harm in not believing in God’s existence ?
If we have no faith in God, we
will be born 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 demoniacal wombs. They sink into the lowest depths, deluded
birth after birth.
Some one hundred and fifty
years ago there lived a very famous Yogi-Jnani (a self-realized saint) by name
Sadasiva Brahmendra Sarasvati in Nerur, near Karur, in the district of
Tiruchirapalli in South India. He is the author of Brahma Sutra Vritti
and Atma Vidya Vilasa and various other books. He has done innumerable
miracles. Once when he was absorbed in Samadhi (superconscious state) on the
banks of the Cauvery, he was carried away by the flood and thrown somewhere
else. He was deeply buried underneath the sand. Labourers went to plough the
fields. They hit against the head of the Yogi and some blood oozed out. They
dug out, and to their astonishment, they found a Yogi seated in Samadhi.
On another occasion, as an
Avadhuta, Sadasiva Brahmendra entered the Zenana (tent) of a Mohammedan chief.
The chief was quite enraged at the sage. He cut off one of the arms of the
Mahatma (saint). Sadasiva Brahman walked away without uttering a word and without
showing any sign of pain. The chief was greatly astonished at this strange
condition of the sage. He thought that this man must be a Mahatma, a superhuman
being. He repented much and followed the sage to apologize. Sadasiva never knew
that his arm was cut off. When the chief narrated to the sage what had happened
in the camp, Sadasiva excused the chief and simply touched his maimed arm.
Sadasiva Brahman had a fresh arm. It is the life of this sage that made a very
deep impression in my mind.
I came to a very definite
conclusion that there is a sublime divine life independent of objects and the
play of the mind and the sense. The sage was quite unconscious of the world. He
did not feel a bit when his arm was cut off. He ought to have been absorbed in the
Divine Consciousness, he ought to have been one with the Divine. Ordinary
people yell out when there is even a pin-prick in their bodies. When I heard of
the marvelous incident in the life of Sage Sadasiva from Apta (realized)
persons and when I read in the book, it gave me a very strong conviction about
the Divine Existence and a divine eternal life where all sorrows melt, where
all desires are satisfied and one gets supreme bliss, supreme peace and supreme
knowledge.
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Believe in God’s Existence - May I Answer That by
Sri Swami Sivananda
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