What is God?

What is God? Where is He resides? Why He is not visible to us? If He is really there, why He can’t come to us and talk, why He can’t come to us and guide and shows the right path? These are eternal questions in minds of believers as well as non believers. The non-believers ask the believers that if the God exists, show us. Through the verse 30 of Shrimadbhagwad Gita, Lord Krishna himself answers this question very beautifully and emphatically that He exists and can be realized by those who possess the necessary qualifications and capabilities to see him.  He says;

यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति |
तस्याहं न प्रणश्यामि स च मे न प्रणश्यति || 30||

yo māṁ paśhyati sarvatra sarvaṁ cha mayi paśhyati
tasyāhaṁ na praṇaśhyāmi sa cha me na praṇaśhyati

Meaning:

For those who see me everywhere and see all things in me, I am never lost, nor are they ever lost to me.

In this verse, the Krishna himself directly speaks as the Lord, the God. He affirms that those devotees who see Him everywhere and see all the things in Him, He is never lost to them. He is always visible and available to such devotees. Such devotees are always in His sight and are never lost to Him as well.

Such devotees are God realized souls; either fully merged in the Almighty and became one with Him or can maintain dual identity as separate souls. The relationship between the devotee and the Lord is like the waves of the ocean and ocean itself. To the novice eyes of a child, the waves appear separate from the ocean but in reality, they can’t have separate independent existence. The waves rise and fall back into the sea; sometime appearing as the ocean itself and sometime appearing as separate waves. Can we say that at any point of time, the ocean loses the sight of waves or the waves lose the sight of ocean? Never! Both are integral part of the same ocean. Both are made of the same Water. The ocean water assumes the shape of waves due to blowing of wind and fall back to the ocean, the same water. Likewise, the Lord Krishna says that the devotee who sees Him everywhere and all the things in Him, such a devotee never loses the sight of Him and neither He loses the sight of such devotee. Like ocean waves, we have come from the same ocean, the Lord and would fall back and would merge with the same Lord.

How to acquire those qualifications and capabilities to see the Lord?  One has to become a perfect yogi, purifying his body, mind and action; walk on the righteous path. Like when a child grows, it can realize that the waves of the ocean and the waves themselves are made of the same water only and are inseparable, likewise the yogi when walking on the true spiritual path realizes that the Lord is everywhere and in everything and he too is not different from the Lord. Such a yogi achieves oneness with the Lord. We too can reach to a level from where we can see that everything is a part of the Lord and without the Lord, nothing can exist. In this state, we can say that we have already realized the Lord and achieved oneness with Him.

The God or the Lord or Ishwara is not a mysterious figure residing above the clouds or mountains or at some unknown world and would descend on the earth to on our calling to teach us some lessons. He is everywhere, in everything and at every time and is not separate from us. We have to simply amplify our inner vision and change the view point to see Him everywhere and in everything. He is there in you, me and everybody. He is in plants, trees, water, mountains, in every creature and everything that exist. That is why in Hinduism, people worship all forms of nature as God. We have to open our inner eyes to see Him within. If we can see Him within, we can also see Him in others and in everything. This is such a glorious state of being that one becomes a God realized souls.

This glorious state described in the Shrimadbhagwad Gita also offers a solution to the present day conflict ridden world? Can a God realized soul harm others? He will never do it as he sees the Lord in others too. He can never harm anyone in whom he sees the Lord; in the name of religion, class, sect or other manmade different perceptions. This is neither any Hinduism nor any “ism” and is beyond the modern theories of conflict resolution mechanisms. In such a conflict free phenomenal world, the eternal truth becomes evident to everybody that the whole world is encompassed by the Lord and the worship and admiration of the Lord can only offer peace and tranquility to the mankind. Such a world would be really glorious where the perception of difference between a subject and object, between nationalities and between boundaries will be eliminated and the world will achieve true oneness.  In such a world, everybody will be equal citizens of the world and nobody will have any superiority or inferiority establishing the true godliness, love and peace among one and all.

Can the world leaders strive for establishing such a world?
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