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		<title>My 100 Questions – Part 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Is it not a mistake of Creator not placing devotional interest in the minds of creations like sexual interest?

This question has been put forward by a Saint to make us think on the subject and so please answer it seriously.
All people are attracted towards the opposite sex without any compulsion from parents or priests, without going to any coaching classes, without a pray in Churches/ Mosques/ Temples, that we know. If all were blessed with such a strong interest in devotion also, what were wrong?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<fb:share-button href="http://rationalthoughts.org/2009/11/07/my-100-questions-%e2%80%93-part-2/" type="box_count"></fb:share-button><p><strong>11. Is it not a mistake of Creator not placing devotional interest in the minds of creations like sexual interest?</strong></p>
<p>This question has been put forward by a Saint to make us think on the subject and so please answer it seriously.<br />
All people are attracted towards the opposite sex without any compulsion from parents or priests, without going to any coaching classes, without a pray in Churches/ Mosques/ Temples, that we know. If all were blessed with such a strong interest in devotion also, what were wrong?</p>
<p><strong>12. Do you think that chanting God&#8217;s names will give you benefit? Please tell me how it works?</strong></p>
<p>In every Religion, we see chanting OR holy bath OR pilgrimage OR fasting as a custom. But we know frogs are also chanting something. What is the difference? The people living nearby holy river Ganga take bath everyday in it. Are they benefited? We see people die in accidents while they attend pilgrimage. We see beggars fasting almost every day. Are they also be benefited?</p>
<p><strong>13. Life is not Christian, not Muslim, not Hindu. Body also has no religions, then why do we fight for religion?</strong></p>
<p>God has not given anything special physically to identify a Christian from a Hindu or a Muslim from a Buddhist. He was able to do that if he desires so. He has given a trunk to the Elephant, wings to the birds etc. to differentiate them from other species. But see people all over the world quarrelling each other claiming that their religion is good and other religions are small. What nonsense?<span id="more-52"></span></p>
<p><strong>14. What is the difference between the life of a theist and that of an atheist</strong>?</p>
<p>We see good &amp; kind hearted people leading a peaceful life among non believers and rough &amp; worried people among believers, and vice-versa. Can we tell any specialty or achievement in a believer? He spends more time and money for his rituals but what he gets in return?</p>
<p><strong>15. Do the departed souls need food to survive &amp; shelter to live in peace? If so, how they receive our offerings?</strong></p>
<p>In death anniversaries of parents, people offer some food believing that souls will receive it. Since the souls have no physical body, do they really need food? It is a known fact that if we offer food by chanting some slogans, even our living father sitting nearby, is neither getting it nor his hunger being stopped. Then how his soul will get it in the sky after his death?</p>
<p><strong>16. Who was ruling this Universe before the existence of your God?</strong></p>
<p>If you believe in Karma theory, how it is possible to take birth in the first time, since there was no Karma in the previous birth!</p>
<p><strong>17. What were the hobbies of your God before he starts creation?</strong></p>
<p>Unnecessarily creating people, not providing sufficient infrastructure and killing them at the end, that is his hobby after the creation. But can you explain what was he doing before the creation?</p>
<p><strong>18. How can we believe that we can influence God? Is it fair to influence him?</strong></p>
<p>Please help to clear my doubt. I don&#8217;t know even to influence my Chief Minister or Chief Justice. Then how can I believe that I can influence God by doing some rituals? Moreover is it fair on my part?</p>
<p><strong>19. ‘One caste, one religion, one God’- What is the one cast? What is the one religion? What is the one God? Is it yours or mine?</strong></p>
<p>Narayana Guru&#8217;s above teaching was criticised by Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi. Do you agree with Sivayogi?</p>
<p><strong>20. How the 18 chapters of Gita were finished before the short interval of war? Was the war stopped for 1 or 2 days for teaching Gita?</strong></p>
<p>I am surprised how Lord Krishna explains all those hard philosophies to Arjuna in the middle of kurukshtra war. Anybody thinking like me will get the answer please?</p>
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		<title>My 100 Questions &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creation starts when necessity arises. But God is Almighty, religion says. He has no necessity for anything. Then why did he create the Universe? Is he Mad? Or is he a fool?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<fb:share-button href="http://rationalthoughts.org/2009/11/04/my-100-questions-part-1/" type="box_count"></fb:share-button><p>1.<strong> We select everything by checking them good or bad. But why did we select Religion without a check?</strong></p>
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2. <strong>Is God having a necessity for the creation?</strong><br />
Creation starts when necessity arises. But God is Almighty, religion says. He has no necessity for anything. Then why did he create the Universe? Is he Mad? Or is he a fool?<br />
3. <strong>Why should we pray to God?</strong><br />
How much long we pray, God will never come and take us to the other side. It is our duty to walk and reach the other side. God will never come and brush our teeth. It is also our duty to clean our teeth and mind. Then why should one pray?<span id="more-20"></span><br />
4. <strong>God didn&#8217;t help Jesus or Arjuna in trouble, then how can He help us?</strong><br />
Jesus Cried of pain when he was punished in the holy cross- &#8220;Oh! God, help, help&#8221;. But God didn&#8217;t answer his pray.<br />
In Hindu Mythology also Krishna didn&#8217;t help Arjuna in his last hours.<br />
Then how can we believe that God will help us?<br />
5. <strong>How Nishkama karma possible as mentioned in Gita? Can there be an action without a wish?</strong><br />
There will not be a Karma(action) without a Kama(wish). If one pours water on an inverted pot, we call him Mad. Even a Mother&#8217;s love to her child had a wish behind that is to get happiness out of it. We are taking breath unknowingly, but sill it has a Kama &#8216;to live&#8217;. Similarly, to every action there will be a wish behind. Then, how did Krishna, the Hindu God advice Arjuna to do the war without thinking the result? He was cheating Arjuna, actually. Krishna had a wish behind the war. That was to make the Pandavas ruling the Kingdom, Hastinapura. What nonsense! Krishna can have a wish but others cannot! Any scholars of Gita can give me the answer to this?<br />
6. <strong>What is meant by liberation? And who needs it, the Body, Mind or the Soul?</strong><br />
From the books of Vedanta, I could understand that Liberation is Mukti. But Mukti is from what? Please note that I do not believe in Rebirth. Also, the Vedanta says Body is not eternal, it is Naswara. Mind is also Anatma according to the theory of Vedanta. And the Soul is always liberated. So I am confused. Please help me to know which of the three needs liberation?<br />
7. <strong>Why did Jesus, Allah, Vishnu or any Gods could not invent a Computer, Mobile phone, Train or an atom Bomb?</strong></p>
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8. <strong>How the sacrifice can please God? Is He a sadist?</strong><br />
Almost in all Religions, sacrifice has an important roll. Christ, Mohammed, Budha, Rama are examples. Fasting is a common sacrifice in Hindu and Muslim Religions. Is it not a Ragging? Smashing ones own head also can please God?<br />
9. <strong>Which Religion can convert an Atheist into a believer?</strong><br />
Friends, I am an Atheist. I could not follow blind beliefs. Someone help me to convince me logically or by their prayers that there is a Creator God. Atleast they help me to shift the black mole in my left arm to my right arm by their prayers. I heard their God can do such miracles. I will be thankful to them and am ready to accept their religion.<br />
10. <strong>Why the Omnipotent God needs a prophet, son or incarnation to save people?</strong><br />
Why can&#8217;t he change the world by a fractional thought?<br />
Why can&#8217;t he make the world free from all sins?<br />
If he did either of these two, then he need not take pain to send his son, prophet or take different incarnations again and again.<br />
Shall we conclude that God is not omnipotent?</p>
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