God is a man made hypothesis. With the growth of civilisations over many millennia, most of the unexplainable things were put in the ‘God’ box. None objected when told, “that’s the way God wanted it”. Initially people saw God in thunder and lightning, then, in reptiles and animals and thereafter in fellow spiritual beings.
Some smart people started introspecting life, the reason and purpose of it. Whatever they understood, they started explaining. They pointed out living as the response to one’s own activities and behaviour. The cause and effect theory, the life response theory, the action reaction theory etc. came to be explained. Those who did the explanations came to be viewed as prophets, seers and spiritual heads. And they taught how to become realised. As time went by centuries, some of these people got placed by the followers into God position. Those who followed such “Gods” came under the group of religion and communities. Postulations propagated by the so called “God” became the law (God’s saying) and followers accepted it without question. The faithfuls went on to blindly believe these postulations as the only truth and those propagated by others as the ‘wrong ones’. The right and the wrong started getting seen from the prism of the religions that each was part of.
The ‘Gods’ could not sit inactive (if so, what ‘God’?!) so those mighty, representing the God within the community (the priest, clergy, the kings & the rulers) went on taking his name for all sorts of self-made judgements & justifications and had them pronounced as the Gods’ discretion. Fear, uncertainty, adversity and unknowns were used effectively by these ruthless middlemen to keep the people under control. Poor gullible, vulnerable but hopeful people!
As the civilisations progressed, as the people numbers increased, resource mobilisation started (as homes came into being) and as people became urbanised, the self centered-ness increased and social behaviour such as love, compassion, empathy, helpfulness etc., diminished.
But God went on becoming more active and more powerful through the middlemen leaders and they created the instances of hatred through their pronouncements of the good and bad. The logic and reasons went to dogs, and selfishness, intolerance, nonacceptance prevailed and fatwas (in all religions) came to be pronounced.
So where is God?
He is in heavens (a place beyond the clouds). It is such a freaky place. Depending upon which faith is followed, the place have dancers, virgins, houris, angels; all living in eternal bliss, drinking nectar, aided and monitored by the Chitragupt’s & St. Gabriel’s. It became an unseen but hopelessly hopeful place for the men on earth. Earth came to be viewed as a transit point where one spends some time before reaching eternal abode of heaven !
However did anyone ever try to find the God while being here? The majority didn’t bother! While lots of people are waiting to reach the heavenly abode to be with God, a few tried to see the God here. As he contemplated the scriptures & philosophies, as he found the inference & insights, as he observed behaviours & actions of others, as he saw the life responses happening to his fellow being; he understood the action-reaction and the cause-effect. This realisation gave him peace. And he searched further.....
And as he started managing himself, it slowly dawned on to him that his God is within him. It resides inside him and makes him behave with love, compassion, empathy, positivity, altruism, helpfulness and happiness. All these feelings, he realised as nothing but the manifestations of the God within. The more he behaved in this manner, the more Godly he became. His thoughts went into higher planes, he became calm, contented and happy. In his fellow beings he saw God and his respect for them went up manifold and in their collective welfare he rejoiced. And, as he realised the meaning of his existence, he said, “Aham Brahmasmi” and he called out to his fellow beings; “tattvamassi”
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