Atheism (Part I) by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

It is difficult to see God as formless and it is difficult to see God as having a form. The formless is so abstract and God in a form appears to be too limited so some people prefer to be atheists.

Atheism is not a reality; it is just a matter of convenience. When you have a spirit of inquiry or when you search for truth, atheism falls apart. With a spirit of inquiry, you cannot deny something that you cannot disprove. An atheist denies God without first disproving God’s existence. In order to disprove God, you must have enormous knowledge and when you have enormous knowledge, you cannot disprove it.

To say that something does not exist, you must know about the whole universe. So you can never be one hundred percent atheistic. An atheist is only a believe who is sleeping.

For a person to say, “I don’t believe in anything,” means he must believe in himself so he believes in a self that he does not even know.

An atheist can never be sincere because sincerity needs depth and an atheist refuses to go to his depth. The deeper he goes, he finds a void, a field of all possibilities, and he had to accept that there are many secrets he does not know. He would then need to acknowledge his ignorance – which he refuses to do – because the moment he is sincere, he seriously starts doubting his atheism. A doubt-free atheist is nearly impossible. An atheist can never be sincere and doubt-free.

When an atheist realizes his ignorance, what does he do? Where does he go? Does he go to a guru? What does a guru do to him?

Atheism (Part II) by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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