What is God? God is truth
and God is love. Does He exist as a supreme alter, human like, or is a blissful
and perpetual source of power and goodness?
Since ages, man has
associated God with the zenith of pure goodness and selflessness. We connect God
to only the good things around us. We experience the love of God when life
smiles upon us. God’s presence makes itself visible in the caring love of a mother.
We see God as an embodiment of the most pristine form of true values and
morals.
A majority of people
associate God with love, because love in its true form speaks of selflessness and
care in disguise. What does this all point to? For us God is goodness and
kindness.
Many people while trying to
discover the path to God have shared that they have eventually ended up in
accepting that God resides where love and selflessness do. This points to a
major conclusion: because goodness and purity finds a room in every human being
which though may vary in magnitude, God as we call Him, resides in everybody,
even somewhere, in some part of a person who has committed utmost punishable offenses.
Every time, we do something, which our conscience disagrees with, there is an
inner retaliatory force which may be of considerable strength or may not be,
but exists nonetheless.
The way I perceive it is: God
is nothing but the part of our untouched conscience which does not lie
underneath the layers of diluted purity and goodness and which is clearly able
to distinguish between right and wrong. The more one works in sync with his
conscience, the more he finds himself closer to God. In some cases, the voice
of this conscience reaches us by far and large, but in some it is similar to
the distant cry of a subdued cat somewhere in the corners of a busy road. To
find ‘God’, all we need to do is to listen to our innermost cries, remarks and
thoughts.
At this juncture, one most
interesting question can probably pop up, equating the active/ latent goodness
in each human being to God, do I condemn the idea of God being a completely
unique alter by himself?
Even before I start thinking
in this direction, I realize that I enjoy picturing God as a person/alter so
that I can communicate with him like anybody else and can count on him when
going through bad days.
It is basic human nature to
seek for love, care and kindness and draw guidance from someone. I talk to ‘God’
when alone in the room; it rejuvenates me and leaves a consoling effect. The
fine line of suspicion remarkably exists in a jovial mood. A part of me knows
that God is nothing but our own conscience which is pure but yet another part
of me is thrilled at the idea of God as an alter possessing an infinite power
who has given me everything in my life I could have ever asked for and a
leading lantern guiding my progressing footsteps.
Divya Sanghvi
