Can you change God ?

When I picked up China Harayeko Manchhe by Hari Bansha Acharya, it was just his name on the cover of the book that made me pick up that book. But it turned out to be more than just that big name association. Not much disappointment though, with a big name or he being a new writer. Being a realistic person, all I look for is non-fiction books. Raw or polished writer won't make much difference to me, as flowery words or polished sentence which needs me to hold dictionary in one hand and book in another, is not my kind of book, they are just not for me. I am only interested in real story, how it flows and how it will help me to see the world.

Indeed, more than that, there in this book are so many one lines, I can pick and write an article and then make money out of those lines. My only fear is one day the writer might come asking for the fair share from the earning from my article. What can you expect from the man, who wants to change god !

Here, I am letting my imagination run wild, about his idea of revolution being in need, to replace God, as he ‘acted’ like aristocrat and treating us [human] as a slave. He is in search of a one is young and has clean image. Why ? he is angry with God and wants to do the revolution to replace because He didn't do anything to save the life of his wife when she was dying. One thing we have to appreciate about the writer is, he is very much clear on one thing that he never believed in god but thought him as a reserve power which he called for his help when he was in trouble.

This reminded me of Pastor Cho's understanding on this subject matter, when he had written in his book The Fourth Dimension about the doctor who was atheist only when there was no problem. About that kind of mind set the pastor writes “many people brag about their atheistic views; yet when these same people experience pitch dark night, and encountered the storm tossed waves, their atheism becomes very weak.”

I think he is not the first person who got this idea. Otherwise, why on earth we have 330 million Gods/Goddess ? There are stories in our religious literature, which tells us that there were time, when men wanted to be just like god and sure they did all, what seemed humanly possible to be like God.

Haven't we heard of a story of such and such sage doing all the meditation to get what he wanted ? Can we ever forget the story of Bhashmasur, who meditated for long and then ask for an special power from Shiva. With this power he could touch anyone and then the person would die and immediate after getting this power, he ran towards Shiva to touch him. What is worth paying attention here is that he wanted to kill the power giver first than anyone else.

There is also a tale by B. P. Koirala, about a man who meditated hard to shake the power of kingdom of Indra, the king of God ! What is interesting in this story is that Indra got scared from this sages meditation and sent one of the celestial nymph from his bank of nymphs who are at his service to do such work. Sure enough she did distracted her and fell in love with her, and then they married and settled down. For me here this is more interesting to pay attention, she was sent to distract his mediation as a staff of Indra but she not only fell in love but got married with that sage too. It sure did serve the intention of Indra but her decision to marry that man was not in her task. It was her own decision to remain married to him.  She showed us that she is much more than man can use us purely for their own benefit only.

All this again reminded me of an advertisement which Hari Bansha Acharya had played during the height of Nepal Bandha era. Even a drop of hat used to call Bandha in those days.  

In this advertisement he is seen holding a white rooster’s neck and saying that, “tomorrow there will be Nepal bandha, because this bhale [rooster] crossed my road.” Of course, he is very convincingly funny when he says that line because, he is a much loved comedian, loved by whole country including me; when he performs at his best.

But that crazy sounding line in that adverts and many of his stage shows, which I find time and again coming from him is what makes people laugh all the time. I agree, stupidity, illogical, irrational and insane talk is what makes us laugh; its the same with laughter, always. But, when he said he is angry with god when he lost his wife is what confused me. Was it his regular joke ? I should laugh when he said that God acted like dictator and he needs to be changed and replaced ? or he is dead sure about his wish to change God ?

Forget that whether he can or can not when it comes to changing God at this moment because he never believed the power of God before this wife died.

Although getting angry with god and believing he does not exist, is very personal opinion and this one feelings everyone of us must have felt once in our life. And that frustration is very much understandable. Honestly speaking, I am not the right person to advocate the existence of god and his power. Religion is not my subject and I am not even religious person. But the belief of God is something different. I strongly believe there is serious flaw in thinking, when someone voice it, the position of god is something which should be replaced. As if, he is not God but a mere politician or aristocrat, which needs to be changed as time change !

Its really hard to absorbed the notion that, everyone wants God as per his or her convenient, ready to worship God,  if only he serve them ! I also strongly belief  the view put Forth by pastor Cho in his book the Fourth Dimension about God, “you are the God .... and God wants to manifest himself through you, he is depending upon you. For a vision, for a plan, its not built in external world, but inside you.”

So when you are the God, tell me who you want to change ? What about changing your thinking about the concept of God ?