Existence of God cannot be demonstrated. But it is possible to infer the existence from certain pragmatic factors. The existence of God is known from the fact of its being the SELF of everyone. For everyone is conscious of the existence of his self and never thinks “I am not.”
Close your eyes and imagine for a moment that you are dead. You can never do so. You can never think that you will not exist after death. You will imagine that your dead body is lying flat and that you are witnessing the dead body. This definitely proves that you are always the witnessing subject.
By whose command are the earth and the sky, the sun and the moon, upheld in their places? By whose command do the seas not overstep their limits? By whose command does the sun rise punctually in the morning and set in the evening? By whose command do the seasons, solstices and the years not transgress? By whose command do Karmas and their performers and their fruits not likewise go beyond their appointed time? It is by the command of God – the Inner Ruler, Controller and Governor.
What is common in trees, ants, birds, stones and man? Existence. A tree exists. A bird exists. A stone exists. A man exists. Existence is God.
Some are healthy, some are born unhealthy. Some die at eighty, some die at ten. What is the cause for this variation? This clearly proves the theory of Karma that there is one Omniscient Lord, who is the dispenser of fruits of actions of human beings, who fixes the span of life in accordance with the nature of their actions, who knows the exact relation between Karmas and their fruits. Karma is insensible.
In sleep there are no senses, no objects, and no mind and yet you experience the highest bliss. Where from have you derived the bliss? The mind rests in God during sleep and it is from God that this Bliss is derived.
“I think, therefore, I am.” This is Descartes’ fundamental basis of philosophy. Sri Shankara says: “This Atman cannot be illusive, for he who would deny it, witnesses its reality even in denying it.”
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