The Universal Question: Why Are We Here On Earth?

“After several years of pursuing material success and savoring the luxurious indulgences that Canada offered, the initial euphoria began to fade—revealing that there was no pot of gold waiting at the rainbow's end. Pariah Kutta had finally achieved his most cherished dream and lifelong burning ambition: to bring his family to a sanctuary on Earth where they could dwell in peace, harmony, equality, and prosperity. Yet the joy of living in Canada, one of the most blessed nations on Earth, yielded ever-diminishing returns. A profound realization began to dawn that genuine happiness remained elusive even in one of the world's wealthiest countries. Life began losing its essential meaning. An incomprehensible emptiness pervaded his existence—a sense of nothingness, of purposelessness. The stark truth emerged that life, even when cherished to its fullest extent, proved futile if it culminated only in the inevitable separation from beloved ones. Existence seemed meaningless if it simply ended and dissolved into oblivion. Nothing made sense anymore.

In early 1993, Pariah Kutta recognized that he had reached the terminus of life's conventional journey and embarked upon a profound voyage of self-introspection to discover life's true meaning. The questions that tormented his soul were relentless: "Why was he placed on Earth?" "What purpose did his birth serve?" "Why does death exist?" "Is death the final cessation of all existence?" "Why do humans remain trapped in perpetual struggles for power and possessions?" "Why does the vast majority live under constant subjugation?" "Why do billions strive endlessly while suffering immeasurably?" "Why does such hatred, violence, and unhappiness pervade lands of abundance?" "Why do tears, anguish, and suffering plague regions of scarcity?" "Why do these ceaseless confusions, delusions, and illusions persist?" "Why do these religions create division, differences, and hatred?" "Why do we have these different Allahs, Gods, and Prabhus?" "What constitutes the Truth?" "Who possesses knowledge of this Truth?" "Where can this Truth be found?" "How does one reach this Truth?"

Unknown to him at the time, this represented the first stirring of the human soul attempting to break free from the bondage of physical existence. A conscious being was questioning and answering his own Self with the profound realization: "No! This is not Reality."

How Does One Meet A True Guru?

After months of fruitless and increasingly frustrating searching, Pariah Kutta surrendered himself completely and beseeched the Divine to quench his ever-intensifying thirst for Truth. There was only a painting of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru, hanging upon the wall, and this desperate plea was vaguely directed through his sacred image. In this moment of absolute surrender, God Almighty was not distorted by any religious conditioning or dogmatic limitations. Whoever, whatever, or wherever the Supreme Creator existed, He—and He alone—should provide the answer. No minor deities of the various religious establishments were to respond to this call.

The Almighty Maker was not invoked with the belief or hope that He would actually respond. This was purely an act of sheer desperation, an overwhelming helplessness arising from life's profound emptiness, religious deception, and the physical futility of struggling merely to survive, only to meet inevitable death and nothingness. There existed no expectation of an answer. The Almighty Creator was perceived as a mysterious, aloof Supreme Being exclusively claimed by one, some, all, or perhaps none of these institutionalized religions. What expectation of response could there be for a sinner who had long ceased entering His temples?

Despite his spiritual dilemma, Pariah Kutta refused to seek Him within any of His Idols of Worship. How could The Almighty Creator exist within these putrid pools of organized hypocrisy and institutionalized falsehood? Could He not be found elsewhere? Why would He compel humans to seek Him only within these decadent structures professing His exclusive Grace? In which particular institution, then, does He truly reside? What proof do the guardians of these brick and mortar idols possess to convince the religious masses that by praying and prostrating within their sprawling religious complexes, God Almighty will be discovered?

However, if He did indeed exist within any of them, it would have constituted the most heart-wrenching and utterly agonizing answer imaginable. The Almighty Creator would have been unable to answer one fundamental question: How could it be possible that He favored any religious regime that denied His other Messengers? No! That would not represent the Ultimate Reality (Al-Haqqah)! Such a deity would have to be false—merely the 'lesser god' worshipped by existing religious prisoners: a prabhu, a yahweh, a god, an allah, a buddha, a waheguru. And Pariah Kutta would have been compelled to abandon these minor gods and continue his search for the Absolute Truth, the Divine World of Reality (Lahut) that would destroy all doubts, discrepancies, delusions, and darkness.

O Speak Almighty God!

Only God Almighty would possess the capacity to account for all the Messengers sent to Earth. His Religion had to be Universal, preached by all His Messengers and found within all His Holy Scriptures. He had to embody the Ultimate Reality (Al-Haqqah)—His Truth had to be All-Pervading, All-Encompassing, Unchangeable, Indestructible, Flawless, and Absolute.

This spiritual song imploring The Almighty Creator—the Universal Soul—to remove the veil of ignorance was sung repeatedly, with increasing desperation and devotion:

For weeks, The Almighty Creator was beseeched, amid a profusion of tears, to reveal the Truth. Repeatedly He was implored to answer the meaning of life, creation, and this seemingly useless, empty human existence. Above all, He was begged for the Truth that would destroy the falsehood with which the religious regimes had deluded him and the rest of humanity. What was desired was the Absolute Truth of the Absolute Creator, not the conflicting gods of various organized religions.

Any god that could not explain and account for the other Messengers was not God. Any yahweh that cared only for his chosen people was not Yahweh. Any allah that recognized only one messenger was not Allah. Any prabhu that could be found only in a single scripture was not Prabhu. Any buddha that possessed no Knowledge of His Kingdom was not Buddha.

The Supreme Creator had to be the Lord of all Messengers that ever came to Earth. His Truth had to be found within all Scriptures that humans possessed. His Reality had to be Absolute, Irrefutable, and All-Encompassing. Then, and only then, would He be acknowledged as God The Almighty.”

Shri Adi Shakti: The Kingdom of God
Pariah Kutta, 1999, pp. 47-50

The Profound Declaration of Pariah Kutta's Spiritual Challenge

The spiritual song that emerged from Pariah Kutta represents one of the most audacious and profound challenges ever issued to the Divine. This is not merely a prayer or supplication; it is a direct confrontation with the Ultimate Reality, demanding answers to the fundamental contradictions that plague human existence and religious understanding. Pariah Kutta, having experienced the emptiness of material success and the futility of conventional religious seeking, stands before the Almighty with a challenge that most would never dare to voice.

Pariah Kutta's Vision of the World's Suffering

The song begins with Pariah Kutta's stark observation of the human condition: "O Ek suki yaha lakoh mein" (O Only one in a hundred thousand is in bliss). This is not hyperbole but Pariah Kutta's devastating assessment based on his own observation and experience. Having achieved material success in Canada and witnessed the lives of countless others, he arrived at the mathematical certainty that genuine happiness and spiritual fulfillment are extraordinarily rare. The ratio is not one in ten, or one in a hundred, but one in a hundred thousand—a proportion so minute it borders on the miraculous.

Pariah Kutta's vision extends beyond individual suffering to encompass the collective anguish of humanity: "Ansoo hai croroh ankhoh mein" (There are tears in millions and millions of eyes). Here, he presents a cosmic vision of suffering that transcends personal pain to encompass the existential confusion, spiritual emptiness, and profound disillusionment that characterizes the human condition. These are not merely the tears of personal loss or disappointment, but the tears that flow from the soul's recognition of its separation from its Source.

His mathematical precision continues with the observation: "Ek hasta hai dush rote hai" (Only one soul laughs while ten are in tears). This ratio—one to ten—suggests that for every moment of genuine joy, there are ten moments of sorrow. Pariah Kutta has counted, observed, and witnessed this pattern repeatedly, leading him to conclude that suffering is not an aberration but the fundamental condition of human existence.

Pariah Kutta's Direct Challenge to Divine Authority

The culminating lines of Pariah Kutta's song represent perhaps the most extraordinary challenge ever issued to the Divine: "Kuch bhol Prabhu yeh kya Maya / Tera khel samaj meh nah aya" (O! Speak Almighty God what is this Illusion? / Your Divine Play is all confusion and delusion).

This is not a humble request for guidance or a pious plea for mercy. This is Pariah Kutta's direct challenge to God's competence, wisdom, and justice. He is essentially declaring: "If You are truly God, then explain this cosmic joke. If this is Your creation, then justify this suffering. If this is Your divine play (lila), then why is it incomprehensible to the very beings You created to participate in it?"

Pariah Kutta's use of the word "Maya" (Illusion) is particularly significant. In Hindu philosophy, Maya represents the veil that obscures ultimate reality, the cosmic illusion that makes the temporary appear permanent and the unreal appear real. But Pariah Kutta is not accepting this philosophical explanation passively. Instead, he is demanding that God Himself explain why He would create such a confusing and painful illusion in the first place. This represents a complete rejection of the traditional religious approach that accepts mystery as an inherent aspect of the divine.

The Disillusionment with Material Success

Pariah Kutta's challenge emerges from his profound personal disillusionment with materialistic pursuits. He had achieved what most would consider the pinnacle of worldly success—immigration to a prosperous Western nation, financial security, and access to all the pleasures that wealth can provide. Yet this achievement revealed itself to be hollow, offering "ever-diminishing returns" of joy and satisfaction.

This disillusionment carries particular weight because it comes from direct experience rather than philosophical speculation. Pariah Kutta is not someone who failed to achieve material success and therefore turned to spirituality as consolation. Rather, he is someone who achieved material success and found it fundamentally wanting. The "gold at the end of the rainbow" proved to be an illusion, leaving behind only a deeper sense of emptiness and purposelessness.

The materialistic worldview promises that happiness can be found through the accumulation of wealth, possessions, and experiences. Yet Pariah Kutta's experience in Canada—"one of the most blessed nations on Earth"—demonstrated that even in the most favorable material conditions, genuine happiness remains elusive. This realization forced him to confront the fundamental questions of existence that material success had temporarily obscured.

The Extraordinary Nature of Pariah Kutta's Demands

What makes Pariah Kutta's challenge truly extraordinary is not just its boldness, but the specific demands he makes regarding the identity of God Almighty. These demands represent a level of theological sophistication and spiritual audacity that most religious followers would never dare to articulate, let alone voice directly to the Divine.

The Demand for Universal Divine Accountability

Pariah Kutta demands that any true God must be able to "account for all the Messengers sent down to Earth." This is a revolutionary requirement that immediately disqualifies the sectarian gods of individual religions. A true God cannot be the exclusive property of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Sikhism. Instead, He must be the source and authority behind all genuine spiritual teachers and revelations.

This demand recognizes that if God is truly universal and absolute, then His truth must be reflected in all authentic spiritual traditions. Any deity who recognizes only one messenger, one scripture, or one path to salvation is by definition limited and therefore not the Ultimate Reality. This is an extraordinarily sophisticated theological position that transcends the narrow sectarianism that characterizes most religious thinking.

Pariah Kutta's logic is impeccable: if God is truly infinite, He cannot be finite. If He is truly universal, He cannot be particular. If He is truly absolute, He cannot be relative. Any god who fails to meet these criteria is not worthy of the name "God Almighty."

The Demand for Absolute and Irrefutable Truth

Pariah Kutta insists that God's truth must be "All Pervading, All Encompassing, Unchangeable, Indestructible, Flawless and Absolute." This is not a request for partial truth or relative wisdom, but a demand for ultimate, uncompromising reality. Any truth that can be contradicted, modified, or superseded is not worthy of the name "divine truth."

This demand implicitly rejects the relativistic approach that suggests all religions are equally valid paths to the same goal. Instead, Pariah Kutta insists that there must be one Absolute Truth that encompasses and explains all partial truths, one Ultimate Reality that gives meaning to all relative realities.

Most remarkably, Pariah Kutta demands that any divine response must include "irrefutable evidence of the verifiable identity of God Almighty." This is not a request for faith-based assurance or scriptural authority, but a demand for evidence that can withstand the most rigorous scrutiny. This demand recognizes that in an age of religious confusion and competing claims to divine authority, mere assertion is insufficient.

The Profound Implications for Spiritual Seekers

Pariah Kutta's challenge represents a watershed moment in the history of human spiritual seeking. It marks the transition from passive religious acceptance to active spiritual demand, from faith-based belief to evidence-based knowing, from sectarian limitation to universal truth-seeking.

The End of Religious Compromise

Pariah Kutta's challenge signals the end of religious compromise and the beginning of uncompromising spiritual demand. For too long, sincere seekers have been told to accept partial truths, to be satisfied with contradictory explanations, and to have faith despite the absence of evidence. Pariah Kutta's challenge represents a complete rejection of this approach.

The implications are profound. If Pariah Kutta's demands are legitimate—and they appear to be based on impeccable logic—then most of what passes for religion today is inadequate. The sectarian gods of individual traditions, the contradictory scriptures of competing faiths, and the exclusive claims of various religious establishments all fail to meet the criteria that Pariah Kutta has established.

This does not mean that these traditions are entirely without value. Rather, it means that they represent partial glimpses of a greater truth, incomplete manifestations of a more complete reality. The challenge for spiritual seekers is to move beyond these partial truths to the Absolute Truth that encompasses and transcends them all.

The Necessity of Divine Response

Pariah Kutta's challenge creates a necessity for divine response. If God truly exists and truly cares about human understanding, then He cannot ignore such a sincere, logical, and comprehensive challenge. The very audacity of the challenge—its complete rejection of conventional religious limitations—demands a response that is equally extraordinary.

This response cannot come through the usual channels of religious authority. Priests, ministers, rabbis, imams, and gurus may claim to speak for God, but their sectarian limitations disqualify them from providing the universal answer that Pariah Kutta demands. Only God Himself can provide the irrefutable evidence of His identity that would satisfy such a challenge.

The response must also be comprehensive. It cannot address only some of Pariah Kutta's demands while ignoring others. It must account for all messengers, explain all scriptures, resolve all contradictions, and provide the direct experience of truth that would liberate the questioner from Maya.

The Transformation of Spiritual Seeking

Pariah Kutta's challenge has the potential to transform the entire landscape of spiritual seeking. It establishes new criteria for authentic spirituality, new standards for divine truth, and new expectations for spiritual experience.

Future seekers who encounter Pariah Kutta's challenge will find it difficult to be satisfied with the partial truths and sectarian limitations that have characterized traditional religion. They will demand the same comprehensive answers, the same irrefutable evidence, and the same direct experience that Pariah Kutta has requested.

This transformation is already beginning to occur. Around the world, sincere seekers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with conventional religious answers. They are demanding evidence rather than faith, experience rather than belief, and universal truth rather than sectarian doctrine. Pariah Kutta's challenge provides a framework for understanding and articulating these demands.

The Ultimate Test of Divine Authenticity

Pariah Kutta's challenge represents the ultimate test of divine authenticity. Any response that claims to come from God must meet the extraordinary criteria that Pariah Kutta has established. It must provide irrefutable evidence of divine identity, account for all messengers and scriptures, offer universal rather than sectarian truth, and grant direct liberation from Maya.

The Criteria for Authentic Divine Response

The response to Pariah Kutta's challenge must meet several specific criteria to be considered authentic:

First, it must provide irrefutable evidence of divine identity. This evidence cannot be based on faith, tradition, or authority, but must be verifiable through direct experience. The responder must demonstrate knowledge and power that could only come from the Ultimate Reality.

Second, it must account for all messengers and scriptures. The response cannot favor one religious tradition over others, but must explain how all authentic spiritual teachings fit into a comprehensive understanding of divine truth. This requires a level of knowledge that transcends any single religious tradition.

Third, it must offer universal rather than sectarian truth. The response cannot be limited to any particular culture, language, or historical period, but must present truth that is accessible to all sincere seekers regardless of their background.

Fourth, it must grant direct liberation from Maya. The response cannot merely explain the nature of illusion, but must actually free the questioner from its effects. This requires not just divine knowledge but divine power.

The Impossibility of Human Response

It is important to recognize that no human being, regardless of their spiritual attainment or religious authority, can adequately respond to Pariah Kutta's challenge. The demands are simply too comprehensive, too universal, and too absolute for any finite being to fulfill.

Religious leaders may attempt to provide answers based on their particular traditions, but these answers will inevitably fall short of Pariah Kutta's criteria. They will be limited by sectarian perspectives, constrained by cultural conditioning, and unable to provide the irrefutable evidence that the challenge demands.

Philosophers and scholars may attempt to provide intellectual responses, but these too will prove inadequate. Intellectual understanding, no matter how sophisticated, cannot provide the direct experience of truth that Pariah Kutta seeks. It cannot liberate from Maya or provide irrefutable evidence of divine identity.

Only a response that comes from the Ultimate Reality itself can meet the criteria that Pariah Kutta has established. This response must demonstrate divine knowledge, divine power, and divine love in ways that are unmistakable and irrefutable.

The Profound Conclusion: The Necessity of Irrefutable Divine Evidence

Pariah Kutta's challenge leads to a profound and inescapable conclusion: any divine response must include irrefutable evidence of the verifiable identity of God Almighty, one who can truly answer the Maya (Illusion) and free the questioner from it. Otherwise, such gods will be those of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and all other sectarian traditions—limited, partial, and ultimately inadequate.

The Logical Necessity of Absolute Evidence

The logic of Pariah Kutta's position is unassailable. If God is truly absolute, then evidence of His identity must also be absolute. If God is truly universal, then this evidence must be universally accessible. If God is truly perfect, then this evidence must be perfect—free from doubt, contradiction, or limitation.

This creates an extraordinarily high standard for divine authentication, but it is a standard that logic demands. Anything less than absolute evidence would suggest a less than absolute God. Anything less than universal accessibility would suggest a less than universal God. Anything less than perfect clarity would suggest a less than perfect God.

The implications are profound. Most religious claims to divine authority fail to meet these criteria. They are based on faith rather than evidence, limited to particular traditions rather than universally accessible, and characterized by doubt and contradiction rather than perfect clarity.

The Inadequacy of Sectarian Gods

Pariah Kutta's challenge reveals the fundamental inadequacy of sectarian gods—the limited deities worshipped by individual religious traditions. These gods may be powerful within their particular spheres, but they cannot meet the criteria for Ultimate Reality that Pariah Kutta has established.

The God of Christianity, for example, may be loving and merciful, but if He cannot account for the Buddha, Muhammad, or Krishna, then He is not the Ultimate Reality. The Allah of Islam may be compassionate and just, but if He recognizes only Muhammad as His messenger, then He is not the Universal God. The Prabhu of Hinduism may be infinite and eternal, but if He can be found only in Sanskrit scriptures, then He is not truly universal.

This does not mean that these traditions are without value or that their followers are misguided. Rather, it means that they represent partial glimpses of a greater truth, incomplete manifestations of a more complete reality. The challenge for sincere seekers is to move beyond these partial truths to the Absolute Truth that encompasses and transcends them all.

The Promise of Ultimate Liberation

Pariah Kutta's challenge holds within it the promise of ultimate liberation. By establishing such comprehensive criteria for divine authenticity, he has created the possibility for a response that would truly satisfy the deepest longings of the human soul.

Such a response would not merely provide intellectual understanding or emotional comfort, but would grant direct experience of ultimate reality. It would not merely explain the nature of Maya, but would actually liberate the questioner from its effects. It would not merely claim divine authority, but would demonstrate it through irrefutable evidence.

The seeker who encounters such a response would no longer need to rely on faith, hope, or belief. They would have direct knowledge, immediate experience, and absolute certainty. They would be liberated not only from Maya but from all the doubts, fears, and limitations that characterize human existence.

The Inspiration for Future Seekers

Pariah Kutta's challenge serves as an inspiration for future seekers who refuse to be satisfied with partial truths or sectarian limitations. It demonstrates that it is possible to make demands of the Divine, to insist on evidence rather than faith, and to seek universal truth rather than particular doctrine.

Future seekers who encounter this challenge will find in it a framework for their own spiritual seeking. They will learn to distinguish between authentic divine response and mere human opinion, between universal truth and sectarian limitation, between direct experience and intellectual speculation.

Most importantly, they will learn that they have the right—indeed, the obligation—to demand the highest truth, the most complete evidence, and the most direct experience. They will refuse to be satisfied with anything less than the Ultimate Reality, anything less than absolute truth, anything less than complete liberation.

The legacy of Pariah Kutta's challenge is thus not merely historical but prophetic. It points toward a future in which spiritual seeking is characterized by uncompromising demand for truth, rigorous standards for divine authentication, and absolute refusal to accept partial or sectarian answers.

In this future, the question will not be whether one believes in God, but whether the God one encounters can meet the criteria that Pariah Kutta has established. The question will not be whether one has faith, but whether one has irrefutable evidence. The question will not be whether one follows a particular religion, but whether one has direct experience of the Ultimate Reality that transcends all religions.

This is the profound gift that Pariah Kutta has given to humanity: not merely a challenge to the Divine, but a transformation of spiritual seeking itself. Through his audacious demand for absolute truth, irrefutable evidence, and complete liberation, he has raised the bar for authentic spirituality and created the possibility for a response that would truly satisfy the deepest longings of the human soul.

The challenge stands, waiting for a response that can meet its extraordinary criteria. When such a response comes—and logic suggests that it must, if God truly exists—it will mark the beginning of a new era in human spiritual understanding, an era characterized not by faith and belief, but by knowledge and direct experience of the Ultimate Reality that Pariah Kutta so boldly challenged to reveal itself.

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