God Is “Creation And The Act Of Creating”

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What is God?
Sundar: Are we asking – What is God or Who is God? Please read my answer to this question at the end of this questionnaire.

God or the Big Bang (or both)?
Sundar: When it comes to creation, then God is not the Creator in a sense, in that he is different from what is created. If we think that curd is created out of milk, then we will have to ask where does the milk come from and so on and so forth. But look at it like this, if both the milk and the curd are the same thing and only our perception makes this difference, then the concept of creation has disappeared. Our perceptions of different things come because of the concept of time. This takes us to the question, what is time? The facilitating “ability” which has made us see milk, and then curd is time. And, time could not exist if we could not have that consciousness. What then is that consciousness? It is our awareness…. so it is our awareness that has made us see curd as curd and milk as milk, and the mechanism inside us, which has prompted us to believe that curd has come out of milk, so creation is our mind’s manipulation.

God or Darwin (or both)?
Sundar: Evolution is also a phenomenon born of our of time and its perception.

God or Darfur ? (How can Darfur happen if there is God?)
Sundar: I think, we are too serious. We detest certain things, because we feel guilty about certain activities because of ego promptings. Humanitarianism seems like the offshoot of egoistic values, in the sense that it is rooted in man-made morals and judgment of ‘good or bad.’ If we are not going to be too serious about being alive, then the whole perspective on situations like Darfur will change.

Who is God’s God?
Sundar: God cannot have a beginning or an end, because time is an illusion.

Will the real God please stand up? (Why do we have so many religions?)
Sundar: The world’s religions do not really focus on God. If you want to realize God, then philosophy is a better place to find inspiration. Religions are made for the purpose of moral policing and to bring in some discipline to society. Some of the religions introduce people to philosophy and to the real questions, but many are institutions.

Is this just a big lab and are we just guinea pigs and God just a researcher?
Sundar: This is also a perception. If God is omniscient, then what will He learn from this experiment? No, this is not a lab and nobody is watching us.

Unexplained phenomena = God?
Sundar: No, unexplained means that those “unexplored” facets of existence are simply unexplained and nothing more. Once you start explaining the unexplained, your knowledge base increases, and the increase in knowledge base will lead to further questions which cannot be unexplained. Therefore there will always be a set of things which will remain ‘unexplained’ and this could be used by religious leaders to exploit the masses. On the other hand, the ‘unexplained’ is the stimulant for us to investigate further and it keeps alive our interest in the world.

Now coming back to our original question: What is God, or Who is God? These religious ‘gods’ are created to discipline and control. They are man-made with a mundane purpose. If we could go a little further in our discussion we could find God as an omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent phenomenon, in which case, there is nothing external to GOD, therefore the creator, creation and the act of creating is God; the seer, the seen and the process of seeing is also God and so on.