WHAT IS GOD?
What is GOD? This question asked around the world will give you hundreds of different answers. As per our cultures and the religion we follow, we all have different gods. Some people, however, don’t believe in the notion of an almighty being that created all life and looks after us from space. It is a rather ridiculous notion to think of a grand puppet master who has nothing else to do than design scripts for the life of miniature beings and creatures that roam on a large sphere. In our Hindu culture, we have separate gods for separate things. We have gods and goddesses for wealth, health, air, sun, water, rain, creation, destruction, studies and everything else. In Christianity and Islam, they have messengers (or children) of gods who preached the almighty’s protocols of decent living to the mortals.
But how about a concept that divulges from the existing ideas of God and descends from a more natural explanation. I am not an atheist but I also do not conform to the popular beliefs of gods that have been carved in the representations of humans. How can someone or something so grand be so similar to us feeble humans? Besides our amazing brains, every part of our body is feeble and prone to harm. God is supposed to be the creator, immortal and resistant to harm. God is supposed to outlive chaos and destruction unaffected. I do believe there is a god. And I believe all of us are a part of that god. A popular sentiment states that God lives inside all of us. I believe we all live inside God; much like how a billion cells and micro organisms live inside us and make us. We all, not just humans but plants, animals, birds, bacteria, planets, stars and the entire universe make up GOD.
Most religions preach that god is looking upon us and that we will be rewarded for the good deeds we commit and be equally punished for our sins as well. I agree to this but slightly differently. I don’t believe god is a single entity that individually chooses rewards or punishments depending on a single person’s actions. I believe since we are all a part of god, we are all connected. The actions of one will eventually affect the other. We are all connected, similar to how all our body parts are connected to make us. A bruise on my leg does not necessarily hurt my other leg but affects how it functions. In the same way, how we treat every other living entity in this world affects us. Our connection to living things is obvious. The emotions and physical sensations we feel when sensing living things around us is an everyday occurrence to us. The feeling of joy when a small puppy plays in our arms or the cringe we feel when we see an injured animal or human being is blatantly apparent.
In this sense, everything we do is directly affecting god and hence affecting ourselves. Much like how when a virus enters our body we feel sick, when we take actions to harm each others, the entirety of us falls sick. Immoral, inhumane actions are like viruses that spread and try to multiply among beings by spreading more of such actions. Acts of kindness are like medicine that spread cure around the world. This concept is important to me because it makes me realize there is no amount of praying that will get me out of trouble. There is no temple where I can find my solutions. Since god is made up of all of us, solutions to our problems also lay among us. We are all part of the problem as much as we are all part of the solution.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not against praying. Pray to your hearts fill but do not request god for anything. He cannot give it to you. Why? Because he is not aware of your existence! God is as unaware of you as you are unaware of the blood that flows inside of you. You only realize you are full of blood flowing through you when you have a cut and it seeps through a wound. But every single moment of your life it runs through every part of your body transporting everything your body needs. You are unaware of the neurons firing in your brain right now to read this text yet they are as real as anything you have touched or felt with your hands. God exists but he exists beyond the physical dimensions that you know of. So when you pray, do not pray to demand or request for things you desire or for solutions to your problems. Do not cry in front of god for the ill fate you believe he has burdened you with. Pray to keep yourself humble, pray to be thankful for everything you have and pray to remind yourself of where you need to go in life and what you have to do to get there. If you accept this theory of god, you will no longer debate or fight over religion because religion exists only in the brains of people who were brought up with a set of similar beliefs. What is true in your religion is false for someone else born in another religion. But god does not have biases based on your thoughts. God doesn’t waste time pondering over whose argument makes more sense. God doesn’t care. God simply exists, as you do.
