Convincing the Adamant Atheist

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Phani asked:- How to deal with atheists, who are very adamant in every angle of discussion?]

Swami replied:- Such behaviour is the result of their emotion maintained from a long time. The reason for their emotion is the theist doing sins maintaining the external hypocrisy. These atheists detect such hypocrisy and become emotional. Their emotion is directed towards wrong side and they blame God to be responsible for such hypocrisy. The theists doing sins must be blamed and not the God. The idea of atheists is that if the concept of God itself is removed, the hypocrisy based on God gets removed from the basis itself. The atheists are ignorant in this conclusion. If the concept of God is removed, the quality of hypocrisy is not removed and in fact, the hypocrisy increases more and more resulting in doing every sin without any fear. I agree that theists are doing sins in the name of God. If the concept of God is eradicated, the sins done in the name of God may be stopped. But, how many types of sins exist in this worldly life apart from sins done in the name God! In the absence of faith in God, the theist-converted-atheist will do hundred times more sins in the regular worldly life. In such case, if the controlling agencies like police and court are managed using corruption and influence, there is no need of any more fear about the punishment. These theists doing sins are very much controlled by the concept of existence of God because the omniscient and omnipotent God is believed to punish the sinner even if the sinner escapes the law of land by crooked ways.

The omniscient and omnipotent God shows punishments of intensive sins and rewards for intensive merits in this world itself. One concept propagated by priest is certainly wrong, which is that the sin can be cancelled by worshiping God. The priest earns some money in doing worship to God and this is the basic reason for such fraud concept. Let us criticize such priests and remove such wrong concepts from the society through propagation of true spiritual knowledge. But, the atheist always sees at the basic level only for a permanent solution by removing the basic concept of existence of God. Is this not foolish? If rats exist in a house, you must adopt the methods to catch the rats and to remove the rats from the house. In this case, the atheist will advise to burn the house itself so that the problem of rats is solved forever! A medicine for the removal of tooth pain is advertised saying that the medicine will prevent the tooth pain forever in the whole life since it removes all the teeth present in the mouth once for all! The emotion always kills intelligence and this is the fact in the case of an atheist. He wants to remove all the sins committed in the name of God by removing the God once for all in the similar way suggested as above, which is burning the house to solve the problem of rats!

The atheist says that the sin can be controlled even in the absence of the concept of existence of God by preaching moral and ethical education. Will anybody here if you say not to do the sin because doing the sin is bad and not doing the sin is good? Will this concept work at all? This is the basic reason for removing the moral classes from education because such classes are only waste of time. Such moral education must be combined with the spiritual knowledge of God to achieve the desired goal. The person will ask you immediately that he will lose the profit by not doing the sin. He will also question you that what is the harm if sin is done and by that, profit is enjoyed in case the punishment of sin is escaped easily here itself? You will say that the person must fear for the punishment to be given by police and court. Then, he will say that he has techniques (corruption, influence etc.,) to escape the punishment. You will say that such techniques are not good and ethical. The person will say “let the techniques be bad. I don’t mind to use them to escape the punishment from courts and police to get the profit. As long as I am not punished for using these techniques, what is the harm if I follow these techniques to get the benefits useful for enjoying my life in this world?”. What is your answer to this question?

Becoming atheist is nothing but getting free licence to do any sin, if chance is got, provided the punishment of the sin from police and courts is avoided. If you say that you will be ethical without doing any sin even in the absence of existence of God, it is the biggest hypocrisy! If there is such an atheist really, God will congratulate him and declare him as far far better soul than the theist doing sins. The maximum expectation of God from any soul in this world is only the control of the soul towards doing any sin. He never propagated devotion asking the souls to worship Him since devotion is the concept discovered by the devotee.

The atheist need not pity the situation about control of sin and allow the concept of existence of God with broad mind based on the need for the solution of this practical problem of sin. The concept of existence of God is very very much true. Hence, there is no need of creation of any concept for the sake of practical solution for the problem of sin in this world. The concept of existence of God is million percent true. The atheist is attacked by the concept of unimaginable events, called miracles, performed by God in human form in this world. The atheist blindly opposes the miracles and always tries to interpret even the genuine miracle as magic. Certainly, there are certain events of magic used by clever people to cheat the innocent public by representing the magic as miracle. The atheist attributes every miracle to such magic. Shri Satya Sai Baba, the latest human incarnation, invited atheists and scientists to observe and disprove His miracles as magic. Several atheists, who are scientists, became His disciples after observing His miracles for a long time. If the atheist is scientific, he will have open mind to study and accept the truth. Atheists without scientific background are useless for such transformation, who are always adamant... adamant... and adamant only. Science studies the event without any prefixed opinion and believes whatever conclusion that is obtained at the end of the study of the event. Atheism is always with pre-fixed adamant conclusion and arrives at the same conclusion at the end of the study of event! You can’t do anything about such adamant atheists except to do salutation to them by falling on their lotus feet!! God allows them to exist in this world since they are useful as examiners for testing the strength of faith and devotion of a devotee!!!

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