what's happened
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gautama the buddha you heard of him
everybody heard of gautam
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so buddha is not his name
his name is gautama siddhartha
he became a buddha
so he is not the only buddha in the
world there have been thousands of them
and they still are
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so gautama i was sitting in a large
congregation of people one morning
an early morning earlier than this
a man arrived and stood there in the
shadows
this man is a great devotee
he's a devotee of rama you heard of rama
not ramming rama
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rama is one of the most popular deities
in india if you do not already know this
in india we have 36 million gods and
goddesses
it's a very rich country
so
he's a great devotee of rama
the devotees in india not now and
not everybody but those who take this
seriously they will not utter any other
word
than the name of god that they believe
in
so if they want you to come they'll say
ram wrong
they want something no other word but
ram
the clothes are all printed ramram they
utter only ramram they live
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they devoted their whole life to god
you're smart you'll not like that you
get
you kept god like insurance just in case
something goes wrong i have also paid my
premium
everything that you need to do you do it
yourself you kept god like insulins
your smart but this man invested his
whole life in god
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total age is passing away
little doubt has come
other people here who don't believe in
god
nobody no leftists
no only one
what's your name john only john
nobody else
so this doubt has come he knows there is
god
just a little doubt suppose there is no
god
i'm wasting my whole life doing ram ram
ram
see this doubt will come to you only if
you invest all your whole life
you invest just 10 minutes in a week
then you will not get this doubt it's
all right what's the problem
if you invest your life completely into
god then within three days doubt will
come
am i wasting my life just doing this
and there are other people who don't
believe
if you look at this john he doesn't
believe
but him also son comes up in the morning
but him also flowers blossom
from him also life happens looks like
he's having a better time than me
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it's a little dark he knows there is god
just a little doubt
now there is an enlightened being here
he wants to confirm
but after being a well-known devotee for
a long time because he did not just go
to the temple he built many temples
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at this stage in his life how to ask
whether there is god or not now
so he came early morning stood in the
shadows there
and asked this inevitable question is
there
god god looked at the man
and gave a clear emphatic no
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here this large congregation of
disciples
this has always been a struggle in their
their mind is their god or no god is
their god or no god
one big relief whenever
they ask such a question to god he just
becomes
silent he doesn't say anything for the
first time he gave a clear
answer no god
joy spread across the congregation
just the struggle is that god or no god
is over the enlightened one
has declared there is no god the message
spread across the town
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through the day celebrations happened
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because just imagine the freedom
of it no god means
nobody sitting up there keeping accounts
of what you did and what you did not do
to punish you
burn you in hell or do this or that life
is completely yours
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so through the day celebrations happen
everybody
is in great joy the evening once again
the congregation is sitting
another man came
he also standing in their shadows this
man is a char
charvaka means in india they're groups
of people who are known as charvakas
these charvakas
are out and out materialists
they don't believe anything other than
what they can see
probably this the only culture that
allows this
you will see actively missionaries of
god going from village to village
spreading
their god message and missionaries of no
god
going from village to village arguing
with people and proving to them how
there is no god
probably this only culture that allows
that anywhere else they would be killed
so if you want you can spread god or if
you want you can spread no god
this is true democracy you know
this has been there like this for
thousands of years people come
and set up arguments in the village and
they prove to you how there is no god
so this is an expert charvaka whatever
kind of believer you are
if you talk to him for 10 minutes he'll
prove to you no god
but thousands of people he's proved no
god no god no god
age is passing little
doubt has come suppose there is god
when i go there will he leave me
and all these believers say that he's
got all kinds of torture equipment up
there
so because i went about proving to
everybody that he doesn't exist
he may torture me much more he knows
there is no god
he's proved to thousands of people there
is no god just a little doubt
now there's an enlightened being here he
wants to confirm
so he appeared there in the evening
and he asked the same inevitable
question
is there god gautama looked at the man
and said yes
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once again turmoil started this
morning he said no god they were all
really happy
in the evening he says there is god
so what's the game gautama is trying to
play
see if you believe there is god
or if you believe there is no god you
are in the same boat
you believe something that you do not
know
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i believe this you believe that it
doesn't make any difference
you can believe whatever you want
yes everybody can believe whatever they
want
it need not have anything to do with
reality as such
if you see i do not know the longing to
know will arise within you
if the longing arises the seeking arises
the seeking arises the possibility of
knowing
exists
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