One of the biggest debates in the world today is this: Does God exist or not? Some enlightened beings claim to have found the answer, but m...
One of the biggest debates in the world today is this: Does God exist or not?
Some enlightened beings claim to have found the answer, but most people remain uncertain and confused.
Science has not yet accepted the existence of God, but it has not been able to deny it either. Even great spiritual figures like Buddha and Mahavira did not clearly affirm the existence of a personal God. Yet, there is still a huge community of people who believe in God.
So the question remains: What is God? Who is God?
Let us try to understand this mysterious question a little more closely today.
Among the famous spiritual teachers of the twentieth century was Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian philosopher, speaker, writer, and spiritual thinker.
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As a child, he was raised by a group called the Theosophical Society, who believed he would become a World Teacher. However, after attaining deep spiritual insight, Krishnamurti rejected this role and refused to become any kind of spiritual authority.
He spent his life traveling around the world, giving talks and sharing his insights. He also wrote many books, among which The First and Last Freedom and Commentaries on Living are the most well known.
Krishnamurti strongly emphasized that “Truth is a pathless land.” He advised people not to follow any ideology, discipline, teacher, guru, or authority—including himself. Instead, he spoke about choiceless awareness, inner freedom, and spiritual independence.
Once, during a question-and-answer session, a man asked Krishnamurti a direct question:
“Does God exist or not? Please give me a straight answer. Yes or no.”
Krishnamurti replied:
“I am not certain. In the Upanishads, God is not clearly mentioned in the way people talk about Him today. Perhaps the idea of God was a later invention. I am not denying God, but we must investigate whether such a thing truly exists.”
He continued by asking deeper questions:
Who invented God?
Did God create us?
Or did we create God?
This is the real question we must understand.
Krishnamurti said:
“God is your concept. If you say that God created us, then we must be part of Him. That would mean we are omniscient, generous, loving, and infinite—because God is supposed to be like that. If God created us, should we not also be like God?”
But look at human beings.
If God created you, why are you so ordinary?
Why are you not filled with beauty, joy, and deep enthusiasm?
Therefore, perhaps the opposite is true: maybe humans created God.
If we look carefully, we can see that human beings have created God in many forms. In India alone, there are said to be 330 million gods and goddesses.
So it appears that humans have created God.
But the tragedy is that God is created by thought—and what kind of thought?
A thought born out of fear.
People worship God because they want security.
Out of fear, they create God.
The truth becomes clear.
Inside you there is fear.
You want protection—something free, something always available, something always beside you.
People go to temples and offer money.
But does God need money?
You offer money, garlands, rituals, prayers. But do you offer love?
It is actually easier to love God because God is an abstraction. It is something vague and distant. But if you truly love—then that love itself is God.
You do not need to go outside to search for God.
Because God is not something created by humans. There is something infinite, something beyond time. But to experience it, the mind must be completely free from the burdens of life.
Then the questioner asked Krishnamurti about the soul.
Krishnamurti replied humorously:
“Which soul? The sole of a shoe? I don’t know which soul you are talking about.”
His point was simple: we are trapped in beliefs.
If we say that God exists or that the soul exists, it is often just belief, something we have heard from others.
But the one who truly experiences the inner divine becomes divine himself.
The old sages went in search of God. Today, people worship those very sages as God.
Mahavira went searching for truth—and later people began worshipping Mahavira as God.
Therefore, Krishnamurti emphasized one important thing:
Instead of believing whether God or the soul exists, it is necessary to experience it directly.
Do not get trapped in belief.
Do not rely only on scriptures or books.
Go beyond belief—and discover the truth through your own experience.
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