“God Is The Epitome Of Ultimate Truth”
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What is God?
Abha: To me God is the epitome of ultimate truth, faith, light, knowledge, power and happiness. We refer to Him as the “Almighty” and that is what he is….All powerful and yet gentle and humble. Always there but invisible. Always leading and teaching but never with a book. Always showing but never felt. Always awake but never tired. Always giving but never demanding. God inspires but never expires. He is eternity.
God or the Big Bang (or both)?
Abha: God, for being the invisible force behind Big Bang and the Big Bang for being the evidence that God exists and need not be explained.
God or Darwin (or both)?
Abha: God, or the existence of life and the lack of it. Darwin because he explains evolution of species or living forms. Yet there are planets where life does not exist. Were those planets needed? Will they be used in the future?
God or Darfur ? (How can Darfur happen if there is God?)
Abha: Darfur, could be the will of GOD as sometimes tough lessons have to be taught…. the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, fair and unfair, is not simple for many mortals. Sometimes these learning experiences unfold as horrifying ordeals we must confront.
Who is God’s God?
Abha: This is not for us to answer. We need a “higher one” when we are not “complete”. Does perfection need super-perfection and does completion need a super-completed effort? God is almighty and in his wisdom, knowledge, love and goodness lies his GOD.
Will the real God please stand up? (Why do we have so many religions?)
Abha: God is not a captive of religious faiths and forces. The real God is for each one of us to seek within us. Some of us find our GOD in mortal humans or non living stones and yet others find Him/Her on the Himalayas or after fighting battles. GOD is the outcome of our own spiritual and emotional journey as we navigate the course of human existence. Sometimes we find others who like us, are in search of a near similar truth that they define as GOD. With this recognition comes the conviction that we are right and leads to the formation of religions. Religions are nothing but paths along the journey that help us in our search for GOD.
Is this just a big lab and are we just guinea pigs and God just a researcher?
Abha: Life could be a big lab for many of us but that is because we want to search and research. We are not guinea pigs unless we choose to be helpless victims of life and blame it on destiny or GOD. Life is a lab where experiments can be repeated and desired outcomes achieved only if learning and observations become a part of our practical existence. Things happen with a reason – sometimes difficult and not very easy to understand. During those vulnerable moments we can attribute the unexplainable to God’s playful research. But all that is happening is a phenomenon which we will all have the courage and the wisdom to reason in due course. So yes, life is a lab, where the only people who research are those who want to lead a satisfied and meaningful life and grow themselves and those around them in the process. The others live as if the world is one big party that would never end, they exist on the periphery of the “elixir of life”.
Unexplained phenomena = God?
Abha: Unexplained phenomenon is rare and when they do occur we call them “miracles”. Miracles are attributed to GOD because miracles come closest to that aspirational level of being which is called GOD. Many miracles of today become explanations of tomorrow so life goes on in search of that Ultimate Truth and point of self actualization that is called GOD. Many amongst us find this Nirvana in our 3D existence. Others transcend to the other world and never come back to answer if GOD exists on the other side of life as well.
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