On the sides of some double-decker buses in London a slogan, inspired by the writings of the famous atheistic professor of biology at Oxford University, Richard Dawkins, is prominently displayed. It reads, “There’s probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

Now in fact many people, whether they travel in that bus or not, actually do stop worrying when they harbor the idea of God, in one form or other. One of the Hindu scriptures says that the idea and name of God is more powerful than God Himself: Rama se bara Rama ka nama. So, keep repeating the name of God—using whatever name you prefer—with full faith and perseverance, and perform all your duties in this world to the best of your ability and capacity. Also, help and serve other people in a holistic spirit and manner (not in a condescending way). In this way you will become (or rather realize, for you are already ‘innately’ divine) a living god indeed.

The kind of issue raised by Dawkins will then become a superfluous question for you.

In this regard it would be instructive to recall a conversation
that the well-known nineteenth-century Vedantist of India, Swami
Vivekananda, had with the noted American agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, during the former’s sojourn in the New World. (It really was new for the swami at that time!) The swami reported, “Ingersoll once said to me, ‘I believe in making the most out of this world, in squeezing the orange dry, because this world is all we are sure of.’ I replied, ‘I know a better way to squeeze the orange of this world than you do, and I get more out of it. I know I [as the Atman] cannot die, so I am not in a hurry. I know that there is no fear, so I enjoy the squeezing. I have no duty, no bondage of wife and children and property [he was a celibate and complete renunciant, having no personal possessions], and so I can love all men and women. Everyone is God to me. Think of the joy of loving man as God! Squeeze your orange this way and get ten thousand fold more out of it. Get every single drop!’” [1]