Who/where is Almighty?

All of us enjoyed the long weekend last week, with Mahavir Jayanti and Good Friday, falling back to back. Our country enjoys diversities in faiths and religions. We grow up celebrating every festival, not to mention that the holidays associated with these festivals are what we are more interested in. I remember, when my kids were younger, they both asked me the same question about God. “where is God?” “who is God?” “why can’t we ‘see’ him?”; are some common questions which I am sure every parent has dealt with. Sometimes, I’m able to convince them and sometimes getting confused and jumbled up ourselves while explaining, hush them away feeling cornered.

And this generation kids are difficult to be convinced easily. They need proper logical explanation, unlike the previous generation, when their encyclopedia and Google were just their parents. Whatever they told the kids needed no proof or further explanation. They were accepted. Well, but such questions keep haunting and remain unanswered even for most of the grown-ups too.

The reason I can think is, that we as humans want to believe only those things, which we can perceive through our sense organs; anything beyond that limitation, fails to ‘exist’ for us. If we can ‘see’ something with our eyes, makes some noise which we can ‘hear’ through our ears, emits out a certain odor which we can ‘smell’ through our nose or something which we can touch and ‘feel’ or has a taste which can be judged by our tongue passes the criteria of being present and apparent and hence, the truth.

He is an experience

But God is much more than what is perceived through the sense organs. God is an ‘experience’; one step further ahead of the direct perception of the sense organs. This can be understood something close to the ‘feeling’ or ‘experience’ by us through these sense organs.

Try to go deeper within yourself. You can taste, smell, touch, hear and see, but can you describe the feeling of these experiences? Can you describe the sweetness of the chocolate you are having to the person standing right next to you, who is not having that chocolate? Can you prove it? Can you put it in words? But does that mean that the chocolate is not sweet? The person who will see you eating the chocolate would know what kind of ‘experience’ you must be going through. It is hence not always necessary to actually eat the chocolate to know the pleasure which lies in its taste.

God and his presence is also similar, do not insist on the actual and physical evidence of it, but try and see what is not visible and experience what perhaps is not evident. God exists – in abundance – all around us, we only have to go ahead and ‘experience’ him.

He is the driving force through which the whole cosmos works in a perfect harmony. God is nature, which is sustaining life on this planet.

And when we say God is in everyone of us, that is true too, because the ‘goodness’ or the ‘divinity’ exists in each one of us; evident in some, a bit hidden in others. The definition of goodness and divinity is same for everyone because, God is truth and truth is persistent; it is the same for everyone. Hence, it proves that the divinity or that small voice which sticks to the right is always within you somewhere every time you are about to falter, is nothing but ‘God’ within ourselves.

Whom should I worship?

One may ask about the number of Gods and faiths we worship and choose to believe. But the fact remains that God is ONE only, but the powers and mediums through which he manifests himself are varied, because God is varied. God is in a gentle breeze as much as in a tornado. But to understand and appreciate this versatility of that supreme power, our small intellect falls short.

Truth is, that it’s not difficult to understand God, one only needs to do a few things. Firstly, we need to accept things which are beyond our knowledge and understanding. It’s not that whatever we know is the only perception and knowledge that exists. There are a few concepts, which fall beyond our periphery of understanding. Instead of trying to prove them wrong, try

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We may have noisy debate over supremacy of ONE ‘God’ over another; but the fact remains that these are only different ways to reach your own God within, your own divinity, and your inner consciousness. In other words, to reconnect with your own human traits, which are only of love and compassion for ALL.

So, let’s not waste our time in looking for evidences of God, let’s realise the power and magnificence of God with each breath we take, let’s try and ‘see’ God within ourselves, in each other. Have you ever realised the magnificence of nature and its harmony? How the entire cosmos is working quietly in a perfect coordination with all the elements of life and survival; have you ever wondered? All this power to sustain and persist around the entire cosmos is nothing, but manifestation of God in various elements, forms and ways.

Well, if you really want to know God, stop slotting out the human race on the basis of religion or beliefs. God and divinity is in each one of us, its high time we wake up to the fact, because life is too short and time is running out. Let us aim for own moksha while still alive.

So next time you wonder which God to worship or your child corners you to prove the evidence of God or when you and your partner from a different faith sit down to decide which faith will your child adopt, keep it simple while explaining or making a decision — Be connected with your own divinity and keep your humanity alive, your faith and religion will automatically be evident — that of a Human being. days are alike, I had mentioned this in one of my previous columns and had also stated that what we experience yesterday is much different to what we experience today and what we will experience tomorrow.

Why does this happen to me? A question we must have asked umpteen number of times when we find ourselves in an unforeseen situation during theses uncertainties of every passing day. What can be the reason that all of a sudden all good things happen to you? Or why in this month, the health issues have cropped up involving practically every member of your immediate family? It is often said that every situation you find yourself in can either make you or break you depending on how you handle it.

I intend to add one more word to it, besides make you or break you it can teach you. Yes! You learn a lot through experiences in life. But often we tend to ignore this learning experience by getting into forceful act of warding off the situation. Even if it’s a temporary phase, only to resurface again. Take a five second pause. Try not to think of anything you have read so far. Absolutely nothing. Now begin with a new question. What is this trying to tell me? This here refers to the events happening with you. Something that you have been experiencing of late at regular intervals. Is it trying to convey something? What if these re-occurrences are trying to alert you about the things in the future?

Many must have experiences in their life a kind of prewarning of it actually happened. For example, while getting down the staircase you missed a step and was about to fall and you didn’t. On the same day in the evening you skidded off from your bike and had a nasty fall. At times we complain of the entire day gone waste due to one bad incident at the start of the day. Similarly, if someone falls sick and is hospitalised after several tests done, it acts like an indication or a learning experience to remain alert for any such signs and symptoms that might lead to similar medical situation in the near future.

Incidents that happen to you knowingly or unknowingly are the signs of the days ahead to come. They are the hidden messages sent across to you to be alert, to be prepared and most importantly to be a medium of conveying something well in advance.

From now onwards every time something unusual happens in your life, don’t panic. Take a few minutes out from the existing situation, however good or bad it may be. And think upon what this situation is trying to convey. Who knows you may have something wonderful waiting at the other end.