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!!srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha!!
!! srI krishNa parabrahmaNE namaha!!
!! srImAn nArAyaNa charaNau saraNam prapadyE!!

dear vaishNavAs,

Often a thiest is questioned by tresspassers to prove
the existance of God rationally. In the modern days,
it has been a strong notion in the society that until
and unless something is established with a tangible
proof, one should not claim it as a truth. Most
importantly those beliefs that are not established in
tangible ways are deemed to be mere beliefs and not
any truth. One can call this rational questioning as a
process of knowing truth. This process is also
mentioned in vedas as anumAna (doubting and testing
all the scenarios). However, in this article, an
investigation is made to check the consistancy of this
method.
 
In the first place, let us understand what a belief
points to. A child who goes to a school, studies
different sciences from his academic books and he is
conveyed that whatever he is studying "is proven and
is truth". Keeping this in view, the child accepts
whatever the book says without testing things on his
own or asking for any proof. He reads earth is round
and not flat, it is rotating around the sun with great
speeds. He practically observes none of these as
facts, but he puts all his belief in his books and the
scientists who wrote these books. His conviction on
his books improves as he perceives some of the
contents are now tested by himself. In this way, the
child learns "rationality as an important means to
understand truth" from his books. This very process of
rationality is a product of faith developed by the
repeated experimentation, this is the conclusion from
this paragraph. In other words, rationality is a
rational approach is in itself a belief. 
 
Challenge to rationalists:::::
 
Now let us analyse if this process is consistent in
dealing with all the problems. Let us consider the
example of a born-blind man. He has never perceived
light as there is no visual sense organ working in his
body. "How can a person with the faculty of vision can
convince to the blind man that there is blue colour,
when the blind man is a rationalist ?" 
 
This argument is not meant to nullify the reasoning
ability of human beings but only to highlight its
limitation. It is also not to conclude that every
thing that we donot perceive as existing. 
 
This article proves that not all things can be
explained by rational means, especially when we are
handicapped just like the blind man in this example.
The only way a blind man can see blue colour is by
gaining vision. This requires a big surgery and lot of
effort, in the same way, an athiest is also a
blindman, for he cannot understand the existance of
God. He needs to undergo a practise of strict rules as
prescribed by the Spiritual guru, and gradually gain
the sight to see God. 

dAsOham,
srIperumbUdUru vEnkata vinOd.



        
                
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