SUBMIT TO GOD ? NO WAY, SIR. SHOULD CREATOR MAN SUBMIT TO CREATED GOD ? MUST THE SUBSTANCE FEAR THE SHADOW ?
Do not fear a creator God who rewards and punishes and has His love confined exclusively to His fearful followers. Reject Him for He does not exist. Be free of tyranny and breathe the fresh air of freedom.
Did not Rousseau say, "Man is born free but is everywhere bound in chains." ? He was right, although, he said what he said only from the material perspective and, hence, was not altogether right in his assertion. The Vedanta goes further. It declares Man to be the highest God and the God who he worships to be the image of his own highest Self in a projected universe which is his phenomenal dream in which his projected finite self is also a part and participant while his eternal, absolute, infinite Self remains ever the witness to all this panoramic, phenomenal, relative existence. Therefore, give up this vain clinging to this imaginary being you call God and fearfully worship, ever trying to please Him by doing His scripturally dictated biddings. It is all in vain for He simply does not exist.
Give up these archaic notions which you cling to on account of your fear of death but which you can easily cast off if you mediate on death and the impermanence of life itself. Be bold enough to start dehypnotising yourself and, so, breaking free of this imaginary dictator and His earthly servants who have made life hell of you. Throw aside all such arrant superstition that goes by the name of religion and become self-possessed for once. See how the wonderful current of life flows everywhere, free of the restricting hand of religion and its tyrant God but obeying rigorously the laws of Nature in all their arrayed beauteous order.
Be rational, be free, but then try and go beyond all such bindings of the latter as well. Individuality must be expressed in each one of you for each one of you are uniquely endowed to comprehend in some measure at least the intricate and the beautiful laws of Nature, both external to the body and internal to it.
This is no propagation of atheism but is an exhortation unto you to quit slavery and become free men. Then investigate the truth and, for sure, you shall find it.
Written by Sugata Bose
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