Sri Yamaka,
The below is your quote, asking me to give you my theology..
"Then, why this man didn't get his hair cut in your view? Purely negligent, or he has no money to pay for the barber or what's his state of mind? If as per the post#1, barber is the God, then is God expecting monetary offerings to render the man any "service", as Mr. Nara asked? Please give your theology."
To give you my theology, based on the story line, I have first extracted the concluding part of the story for better focus..
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The customer turned back 'n entered the barbershop again 'n he said to the barber:
"You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber.
"I am here, 'n I am a barber. 'n I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair 'n untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
"Ah, barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me.
"Exactly!- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! GOD, too exist!
What happens, is, people don't go to him 'n do not look for him. That's why there is so much pain 'n suffering in the world.
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With the level of my sense and belief, I could well find the above concluding elightment by the customer as, much sensible. As per your counter argument, and as per Ayya's question, let me detail my theology step by step.
1) Asuming a man with long hairs and untrimmed beards, have sufficient money to pay but didn't bother to make them look better/decent to present himself in a acceptable manner in a society..
- In such a case he would not look for a barber/barbershop, because, either he is ignorant of the society’s standard rule of decent appearance or he is just happy with his appeal. He wants himself to look that way and he knows that, the choice of his appearance would not harm/spoil others.
“A person who is happy with what he have, what he believes in and he is no way spoiling/harming and making loses to others with his willful choices, would not go in search of God. He is happy with what he has and what he likes.”
2) Assuming a man with long hairs and untimmed beards, have no money to trim them off and look better, and need to spend whatever money gets for his food, as the priority (he is a beggar). He wants to look better but helpless.
- In such a case he will not decide to spend money and obviously would be focused on making money to feed himself for the day and keep the reserve, if poosible, to eat the other day. Because for him there is no certainity of earning.
But if he determines to trim them off and present himself well and for that he keeps explaining his condition and keep requesting barbers one after the other, day after the day with patience and hopes, he may be pleased by any one of the barbers to trim his hairs off, free of cost (or may ask him to pay him later, when he could, and if possible).
“A person in need, if approaches God, he will certainly get something to be relieved of as what he deserves as per his Karma. He may get an enlightment within his conscious as what the best righteous ways can be adopted to achieve what he wants. He may get a stranger as a passer by to comfort him some way, that he could be relieved of his grief. He could be made to feel at ease and composed. He may be powered to not to go out of way in a wrong manner out of his dire sense of wanting and end up hurting others and accumulating bad karma for himself. He may learn to accept his life and still be happy, making the best of everything he could have."
As per the moral story, moral message, that the customer has attenpted to make the barber realize the existence of God, the barber may become equivalent to God, ready to help a person in need, who comes to him asking. Being inspired by his customer, he may decide to offer a free hair cut and trimming or shaving of the man’s beared, free of cost.
He may do so, without the dirty looking man requesting the barber. For, the purity of the heart/good intentions/good deeds of the man may fetch him the gratefulness of a stranger (customer) as indirect help, to have his hairs trimmed through a unknown barber, without making a request for free services.
The Fee, the God want’s from humans is nothing but “BELIEF ON HIM”, that too only for the soul to get the higher realization and attain liberation.
For the rest of your queries, I didn’t find any valid reason to keep going round and round in a circle. But one thing I would like to make clear to you.
I didn’t say that people shold not pray as that would be considered as bribing God. I said, the way of prayers differs. A person 1) who spends hours together in prayers without spending time constuctively, working hard and 2) who do some strange sacrifices/spending money a lot etc, considering pleasing God to achieve what he wants, are all equal to, lazy and greedy peroson (for a former case) and a person attempting to bribe God, thinking he can win his grace to fulfill whatever he wants within his own quick time frame (for a later case).
Just because he couldn’t succeed bribing God, doesn’t on its own confirms that, God doesn’t exist.
As I said in my earlier post, a person need not to pray God. He can just be a true human, honest, unharmful, unhurtful, doing only good deeds with all his consciousness, not too self centred, warm, gentle, loving and caring all and ever be happy with what he/she has (if he could be so ever in all given situation, as per the maturity and enlightment of his soul), he/she will ever be blessed/protected by god and would be liberated, dosent matter what was his/her education, what was his/her profession, what was his/her economic standards, what was his/her physical appearace and what was his/her acheivements in the physical and spiritual world.
