Ques:- WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN GOD ?
Posted on : 12-01-2012 | By : Krishna Yoga | In : FAQ
Tags: Chanting, questions, radhanath swami
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Answer :There is a general confusion amongst people whether to believe or disbelieve in the existence of God! Many people are faithful and have a belief in some sort of God for various reasons as described below.
1) DESIRES – to fulfill desires,
2) UNKNOWN – fear of the unknown,
3) SOCIETY – fear of society and peer pressure,
4) TRADITION – blind following of traditional rituals.
This can be explained by an example as below :-
Once upon a time, a saintly person visited a village. The villagers invited him to give a discourse. Just before beginning his discourse he asked them, “How many of you believe in God ?” No one raised his hand. The saint said, “If none of you believe in God, what is the use of my giving a discourse ?” He then got down from his seat and started walking away. Some villagers ran after him and persuaded him to come back. Again he asked the same question, “How many of you believe in God ?” This time, all of them raised their hands. On seeing this, he said, “If all of you believe in God, what is the need for me to give a discourse ?” And he got down from his seat and started walking away. He was again brought back. When he repeated his question again, this time, by previous agreement, half of the people raised their hands and half of them did not. When the saint saw this, he said, “Those who have faith teach those who don’t have faith” and walked away.
In this way we can see that most people don’t have proper knowledge about God and so they neither disbelieve in Him, nor have complete faith in Him. Even those who profess to be theists maintain some faith only due to fear of the unknown, social pressure or to fulfill some desires in a pious way.
Thus to fulfill their desires or due to fear of the unknown they keep visiting many different temples on different days of the week.






Pareshan is troubled by his inability to chant attentively. He feels frustrated as the chanting session leaves him tired and dry. He’s heard in classes that the Holy Names of Krishna is sweeter than the sweetest. 
Very true! Most of the people believe in God for reasons mentioned in your article. Very few people have a clear picture of God.
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Most of the people are like this only, who due to materila desires, fear of unknown or like rituals believe in God.
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Jai jai!
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Amazing, very simply the exact and crystal clear message was put down. Thank oyu for sharing
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Truly said: "Even those who profess to be theists maintain some faith only due to fear of the unknown, social pressure or to fulfill some desires in a pious way."
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We might laugh if we hear above narration but fact is that we actually don't know why to believe in God and people like this may misdirect society further more. We have to therefore search about genuine sadhus intelligently and inquire from them submissively with service attitude.
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A beautiful story illustrating how even people claiming to be sadhus are actually fooling people ! We are so fortunate to have association of genuine sadhus like Srila Prabhupada and His Disciples like Radhanath Swami !
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