BASUDEB DAS, KOLKATA

A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they chatted. When on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."

 
"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realise that God doesn't exist. If God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain."

The customer didn't respond. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. 

Just outside, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How can you say that?" asked the surprised
barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And 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 and untrimmed beards, like that man outside." "Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me." "Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point ! God, too, DOES exist ! That's what happens when people do not 

go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there is so much pain and suffering in the world."