Indeed! The term god has outlived its importance. Most of us have almost forgotten what god really is and are just stuck to this one word. So much so that we are even ready to become extremely violent for ‘god’s sake’ and create bloodshed all across the globe! Another major handicap that this word has given birth to is guilt. Rather than being loving towards god, we are always scared of this one name. We always feel that we are sinners and we deserve punishment for all that we do. And imagine how well do these ‘caretakers’ of religions, i.e., the babas, etc. make use of this handicap as well as keep reinforcing it in our minds all the time.
It is time we remind ourselves what god really is. The name god is just a misnomer. Let me explain. Just as electricity runs billions of instruments across the globe and yet is the same, similarly, this life energy called god runs through all the animate and inanimate objects in the universe and runs them. Just as the electricity in a lamp and a fan is the same and not two different electricities, in the same way, this life energy runs you in the same way as it runs me as well as any other being. The purpose of a human life is to understand this very fact and consciously live as that god.
This means that we have to realise that this body is just a mixture of some chemicals, largely hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon and oxygen. That is not who we are. We are the energy that is running and sustaining this very body including the brain which thinks of us as the body. We have to realise that this energy that we actually are, inside this body, is the same which is running all life as well as all events on earth’s surface and inside it, and everything else in the universe. And this is the same energy that we call god, isn’t it? That is why ancient texts have said – aham brahmasmi, i.e., I am god (and so are you). But we have been conditioned in such a way that thinking ourselves as god could rather be a sin and we would be punished to have thought like that. Think about it and introspect on the same.
I said the word god is a misnomer. I will tell you why. A lake of water is made up of drops of water. But what do you think is real in the lake – the drops of water or the lake? If the drops of water weren’t there, do you think the lake could have existed? Lake is nothing but a name given to a group of drops of water. But we start thinking of lake as a separate entity, a noun. Similarly, god is just a name for the group of life energies operating at a unit level in the universe. It does not have any separate existence or importance by its own self. We all are also that same unit of energy, that is, god. We therefore need to stop considering god as some entity away from us while god has created us in his own form. Someday for sure we will stop and introspect on this aspect of life.
To summarise, as electricity operating in so many instruments does the electricity in the house of a hindu hate the electricity in a muslim’s house? Or does the electricity in Mukesh Ambani’s house hate the electricity of a streetlight in a slum area?
It is time that we understand the real essence of the word god and
introspect on this aspect of our identity and our relationship with the creator !!
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