Who is God?

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There is only one God, None equals him. He has no end .He is present in all living beings.

-Sri Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Well we always look up for help, starting from the poem that you did not remember, in your recitation exam in pre-school, to a presentation pointer you forgot at your work place.

Did this habit imbibe in us from our earlier specious or the early man, or did we inherit it from the apes? The first species to show dexterity.

There is record that the Mayans and the Incas the oldest tribes in the world, followed a ritual to thank the five forces of nature for helping them.

In ancient India in the Vedic period, the Rishis or the learned men, offered prayers to the five forces of nature vayu (air) ,jala(water), agni(fire), bhoomi (earth) and akasha (sky).

What does God mean to us, a mythological figure, a statue, a Messiah or the holy books? Well it means so many things to different people depending on what God they believe and to which faith they belong to.

But basically when we analyse this word ‘God’ in any belief or reliance God is given a superior position, and the key takeaway would be, he is considered as a heavenly being who knows all the secrets in the world and bound to help you at the time of crisis.

Adi Shankaracharya the great visionary who was born at a period when there was unrest among the different cults in Hindu religion. He wrote some of the world’s biggest commentaries at a very young age, can we consider him as God?  I am asking a question as a student of science and logic.

My answer would be yes, and my submission to substantiate my answer is: the amount of works written by Adi Shankara, takes many years to write, so is he a heavenly being, I would say may be, but when we talk about Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva who are the main Gods in Hinduism, they are universally knowledgeable to the extent that, they control forces of the nature, So even Adi Shankara was universally knowledgeable, So it turns out that even he possesses all the qualities of God.

I continue my research, now Adi ShankaraCharya’s the first historical proponent of Advaita says ‘Aham Brahma Asmi’ here he says I am  “Brahman” so it simply means I am God.

So is Adi Shankara claiming himself to God? No he says each one of us are heavenly beings.

Let us put our thinking caps on, meditate on that statement for few minutes, the great pontiff said you and me are Gods. Well is that true? The next question that comes to our mind is that, we do not have powers, so how can we be even close to God?

Going back to beginning of the passage, I had told you that God is real mature being and the he is universally knowledgeable.

When the pontiff said ‘I am God’ he means that we should all develop such a level of maturity, that you reach a heavenly state.

According to him we get close to become heavenly or attain liberation by first realizing “Atman” your soul and then the “Brahman” the heavenly factor in you.

We talk about intelligence quotient and emotional quotient, then what about the maturity quotient?

Well this is the answer Adi Shankara wants all of us to be more mature in life, by accepting its facts. Whether you believe in God or you are an atheist it doesn’t matter, because already  have a chunk of heavenliness in you, which  we all are made up of the five elements of nature, so the sooner you realise the reality advised by the great Gurus like these, we will all stop  cribbing without any reason in life, We realise it very late when we are old that , we cribbed all through our lives and couldn’t even be happy .

For you your God can be the sun , moon , the earth or any good thing in this world that you feel have the power to show you that beam of concentration that leads to whatever goal you want to reach. So we need to start believing in ourselves inturn you start believing in God.

I don’t buy this idea of we  making mistakes and blaming God at the end, because the person who is at  fault is you and you are God so how can you blame anyone else.

We all are responsible for our own actions.

I bow to Sri Shankara Acharya, and the Rishis, whose wisdom has made this world survive till now.

Thank you very much for your time, let all the great forces in this world shower their blessings on us.