If God is not a hypothesis, if God is not an idea, then what is God?

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If God is not a hypothesis, if God is not an idea, then what is God?

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God is not a hypothesis because there is no way for science to discover God. Science does not move inwards, it moves outwards, and there you will find the world of things. brbrSo God is not a hypothesis. brbrGod is not an idea because an idea is a philosophical concept, and philosophers only go on weaving thoughts, ideas, rationalizations and they create great systems of thought....brbrIf you look into their systems of thought you will be immensely impressed. For example, Hegel or Kant... if you are not alert, you will be surprised at what a palatial system they have made but there is no base. And it is not a palatial building either if you come closer you will find it is made of playing cards. A little breeze and the whole palace falls down, because there is no base to it. brbrPhilosophy is baseless. It makes castles in the air. brbrIdeas are just ideas. You can project an idea you like, nobody can prevent you and once you project the idea you can find all kinds of rationalizations to support it. There is no difficulty. brbrGod is not an idea, although philosophers have tried... because philosophers are trespassers they simply dont believe that any territory is not their territory. They will enter into every direction, into every dimension, and they have some idea for everything. A philosopher never says, quotI dont know.quot He knows! And not only does he know, but he will give you all the arguments and proofs that his knowledge is valid. So how can they leave out such an important area like God? brThe first argument I have talked to you about is that everything needs a creator hence God is needed. Now it is clear that this is not an argument. Immediately the question is shifted back who created God? And then there is no end to it. But this is thought to be the most important argument brought in by philosophers in support of God. brbrIt has been so easy for the atheists to laugh at these philosophers and these theologians quotWhat kind of arguments are these people giving?quot But atheists have not been very different either. brbrOne very famous atheist, Diderot, was speaking and he stood up and told the audience, quotIf God exists and you say He is allpowerful then let Him stop the clock, this very moment. I will wait one minute.quot He waited one minute. The clock did not stop. He said, quotNow you see He is not powerful. He cannot even stop the clock. He is not even courageous enough to accept my challenge.quot brbrBut are these arguments? Some cunning person can manage to fix the clock so that at nine it will stop. And when it reaches nine, he stands up and says, quotGod, prove yourself If you are real let the clock stop within one minute otherwise it will prove that you dont exist.quot And the clock stops God is proved.... These are arguments? Neither the stopping of the clock nor the not stopping of the clock can make any substantial contribution to the proof of God. brbrHence I say God is not an idea. brbrYou ask me Then what is God? brbrIt is simply a word, a meaningless word, hollow inside, with no substance in it. It is simply a word without any meaning at all, so you can play with it.brbrNobody has seen Him. brNobody has met Him. brNobody has heard Him. brbrStill everybody is waiting for Him... that now He must be coming, that it is time, He should be here. brbrWhat are the Jews doing? Waiting, waiting. And they were angry when Jesus said, quotI have come.quot He was disturbing their waiting.brbrThats one thing which should be clearly understood. When Moses sees God, nobody asks him, quotHow did you recognize Him? because you have not seen Him before.quot brbrRecognition needs you to have seen Him before otherwise some charlatan or somebody may be deceiving you. brbrWhen Jesus hears voices of God, or Mohammed hears them, how do they recognize that those voices are Gods? Have they heard Him before? Their recognition is not valid. They may have heard some voices, many mad people hear them. They may have seen somebody, many mad people see somebody. You can go into any madhouse and you will see a madman alone talking to another who is not there, and not only talking, but answering also from his side.brbrJust pure hallucinations, imagination, continual listening to idiotic sermons... millions of people waiting with great expectation the imagination fires up just a little effort and you will see God. brbrBut remember, whatever you see is not you. Whatever you see is some object. And religions basic concern is not objective. Its basic concern is your subjectivity. When all seeing disappears, all hearing disappears, and all thinking disappears... when all your senses are silent, in that it transpires.