By Victor Kannan (SRCM Preceptor)
It depends on how you ask the question. If you ask “Who is God” It is a huge problem. It then begins attract, unite and naturally divide people. We unite to become a stronger division. The complexes set in and why would anyone believe in anything inferior. So, my god is superior to others. There goes the rut.
Since most of the human beings need a belief system to be empathetic as empathy is the corner stone of morality. But when they test this belief system and disprove it, then the religion becomes not only irrelevant but also the most exploited along with their believers by the leaders.
If you ask what is God instead, we hold a promise to discover what it is. If we discover we can harness the discovery to better our lives. So from that point of view, God is secular. If we define God as a principle, Nature as a phenomenon and the physics that govern the smallest of small particles to the entire universe as natural laws, then God is secular.
God can be defined in many ways. If we coin a name to where it all started, it may be a big bang. How did big bang start? We can theorize there was an imbalance in something that burst forth to create the universe. If there was balance, there may not have been any creation. We see this imbalance which seems to happen in cycles of the birth of a star in a supernova to a black hole creating its death. Where there is balance, there is steadiness.
When that imbalance corrected itself it set out all the gravitation, electromagnetic, weak and strong forces etc. We have been discovering these laws of nature for thousands of years and we will continue to do so.
The believers and non-believers are equally un-biased with their beliefs. We have to know as much to believe in something, as we need to know to disbelieve in the same thing. We in Sahaj Marg do neither. It is better to keep an open mind, though skeptical, but at the same time, with a sense of wonder and curiosity.
The philosophical definition of God as a reality behind this existence is one way of explaining that there is something "out there" or "in here" behind the manifested magnificent world. The other way to explain God is in the many expressions we see in life. But these are struggles to explain the unexplainable.
If one rejects the need for religion and just wonder about the magnificence of the universe, our planet and life on earth, then also one would perhaps engender the same feeling of respect and care for the creation. If we are able to appreciate the empathetic need to be in a long term harmony with all forms of life around us, then that understanding is better than the one based on fear of a religious god.
Thus, if one observes or approaches the concept of God in this way, as a Principle, it becomes easy to understand the secular nature behind the same. Now comes the most difficult question. Are Humans Secular? God Seems to be...
It depends on how you ask the question. If you ask “Who is God” It is a huge problem. It then begins attract, unite and naturally divide people. We unite to become a stronger division. The complexes set in and why would anyone believe in anything inferior. So, my god is superior to others. There goes the rut.
Since most of the human beings need a belief system to be empathetic as empathy is the corner stone of morality. But when they test this belief system and disprove it, then the religion becomes not only irrelevant but also the most exploited along with their believers by the leaders.
If you ask what is God instead, we hold a promise to discover what it is. If we discover we can harness the discovery to better our lives. So from that point of view, God is secular. If we define God as a principle, Nature as a phenomenon and the physics that govern the smallest of small particles to the entire universe as natural laws, then God is secular.
God can be defined in many ways. If we coin a name to where it all started, it may be a big bang. How did big bang start? We can theorize there was an imbalance in something that burst forth to create the universe. If there was balance, there may not have been any creation. We see this imbalance which seems to happen in cycles of the birth of a star in a supernova to a black hole creating its death. Where there is balance, there is steadiness.
When that imbalance corrected itself it set out all the gravitation, electromagnetic, weak and strong forces etc. We have been discovering these laws of nature for thousands of years and we will continue to do so.
The believers and non-believers are equally un-biased with their beliefs. We have to know as much to believe in something, as we need to know to disbelieve in the same thing. We in Sahaj Marg do neither. It is better to keep an open mind, though skeptical, but at the same time, with a sense of wonder and curiosity.
The philosophical definition of God as a reality behind this existence is one way of explaining that there is something "out there" or "in here" behind the manifested magnificent world. The other way to explain God is in the many expressions we see in life. But these are struggles to explain the unexplainable.
If one rejects the need for religion and just wonder about the magnificence of the universe, our planet and life on earth, then also one would perhaps engender the same feeling of respect and care for the creation. If we are able to appreciate the empathetic need to be in a long term harmony with all forms of life around us, then that understanding is better than the one based on fear of a religious god.
Thus, if one observes or approaches the concept of God in this way, as a Principle, it becomes easy to understand the secular nature behind the same. Now comes the most difficult question. Are Humans Secular? God Seems to be...
Nice write up. To observe nature with wonder gets us closer to God than to define God and follow a set of principles.
ReplyDeleteNice write up. To observe nature with wonder gets us closer to God than to define God and follow a set of principles.
ReplyDeleteNice article. As we move towards a grosser description of God trouble begins. There is no problem when we try to realize HIM (or IT) at the subtlest level. Sahaj Marg enables us to do that.
ReplyDeleteIt is very easy to understand God, by going into the heart where it beats from beginning till end or we may say birth to death and beyond that too. Who causes it to beat or vibrate and it is not any physical energy, that is definite, it is a subtle energy. This energy does not discriminate any of the living being on the basis of a religion , sect, sex, colour , nation etc.So that is the God . Brother Kannan has very clearly explained about Him based on the principles of Sahaj Marg.Deserves to be appreciated. Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteDear brother, Many many thanks for your comments. Your comments have cleared that the subtle energy is synonymous to God . Here i would like to add that the One who can transmit the subtle energy is God i.e. a living and Master of caliber is God. We are fortunate enough to have such a capable Master.
DeleteTrue spiritual yearning is similar to a scientist's quest to understand nature of Reality and reconcile it to physical laws that is known to govern observable phenomena. Br. Kannan has wonderfully elucidated what should be goal for spiritual pursuit.
ReplyDeleteThank you bro. Victor Kannan. The problem or concept of God has been an intriguing and baffling one from time immemorial. It has been a cause for much debate, battle--- vocal and physical, conflict, differences of all sorts in stead of creating unity among men.
ReplyDeleteThe Masters of Sahaj Marg have been trying to raise the humanity above every thing. A quick at the first chapter of Rev. Babuji Maharaj's " Reality of Dawn " gives us an idea in this regard.
Thank you bro. Victor Kannan. The problem or concept of God has been an intriguing and baffling one from time immemorial. It has been a cause for much debate, battle--- vocal and physical, conflict, differences of all sorts in stead of creating unity among men.
ReplyDeleteThe Masters of Sahaj Marg have been trying to raise the humanity above every thing. A quick at the first chapter of Rev. Babuji Maharaj's " Reality of Dawn " gives us an idea in this regard.
Nice article, approaching things in a logical way.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this wonderful Article
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this wonderful Article
ReplyDeleteKnowing God with experience and child like wonder,beautiful!
ReplyDeleteKnowing God with experience and child like wonder,beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWonderful article. ...
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing this article!!!
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