Rahul Sharma
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S: Why do people believe in God?
K: That is fairly simple, is it not? Have you not noticed that when you are very happy and feeling full of life, you have no belief in God?
Then you just live. You see, it is only the people who are frightened, who have not understood this complex thing called life—with all its agonies, miseries, aches, despairs,frustrations—it is only they who believe, who escape into something which they call God.
And there are innumerable images of God in this country; you see them by the thousands. People believe in God because they are afraid of life. But it is only when you love life that you find out what God is. But most of us avoid life, just as all the saints, the so-called religious people, do. They—the saints—want to suppress life, they want to shape it, discipline it, control it, beat everything out of it, and the result is that they are dry, withered human beings who everlastingly talk about God; but they are nowhere near God.
To find out what God is, is quite a different matter. It requires amazing intelligence—not sitting around reading the Gita, or doing good works, or following some guru. To find out if there is God, the real thing, you need a mind and a heart that are completely mature, open, rich, and unspoiled by fear.
A timeless Spring
Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895 – February 17, 1986) was a philosopher, speaker and writer. In his early life, he was groomed to be the new World Teacher, an advanced spiritual position in the theosophical tradition, but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the organization behind it. Wikipedia