It is again one of the questions to which you will never receive an external answer. However, if you are an individual who is curious and open-minded you can experience few things that can take you closer to the answer.
Here is my six-point answer to help people find an answer.
1. I believe that there can be no creation without the creator. When we see the world, millions of life forms, billions of stars and galaxies we do tend to think who created them? How did the life force come into existence? It is also fine to assume it to be one giant accident, but what amazes me is the order in the accident.
2. It is also totally okay to consider creation and creator to be the same force. Indian Vedic scriptures do mention that the entire world is like a web that a spider creates, roams in and eventually eats it up.
3. My definition of God is every creation that is beyond the limits of human. Human ego is perhaps as big as the universe, and it tries to see everything the way it wants to see it. I am a big believer in science and how technological advancements make human life better. However, to me a tree, a human body, an animal, glaciers, oceans, solar system and the entire cosmos will always be more intriguing than any human invention or journey.
4. I also believe God to be the force behind all the unplanned things in life. Think of all the things that happened to you which you did not plan or understand. Go deeper than the surface level cause and effect relationship. Are you the cause of everything that happened with you? God decisions are better than human decisions, but we have to surrender ego first to understand this. I also make it very clear that I am asking you to surrender ego, not your curiosity and ability to take action.
5. I am not saying that human life form does not matter in the bigger scheme of things. I think it is the only life form that can explore the consciousness with right mix of curiosity and faith. Human experience is essential to understand and experience God or life-force. Maybe other animals and plants also experience this force but there is no cross specie language based interaction that can ever take place. I can name a dog, teach it how to sit or eat, guess what it wants, love it but I can never truly communicate with it like other dogs can. I can claim to know a tree and label it, but I can never really know it.
6. I think God is beyond language, and mind. Humans have the tendency to label things and then start believing their own label. We do not know much, but we like to believe that we do. Intelligence divides things on the basis of what can be labelled and what can be further sub-divided. I often get asked how come there are so many Gods and which one is most powerful. There are many man-made Gods, but for me oneness is God. Human brain gets silenced only once it reaches the state of oneness.
As Rumi said- “Silence is the language of God, all else is a poor translation”
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(This is second part of the series where the author will answer the 101 questions related to life, personal development, success, money, health that concern people at large in their pursuit of finding happiness and contentment)
About the author
Sidhartha Sharma is an author of 5 bestselling books like Love your Mondays and Retire Young, The Millionaire Entrepreneur, 60 Keys to Success with NLP, Mom I Got the Job and Thank God It’s Monday .
He is a 3 times TedX speaker, digital expert and a professional leadership coach. He writes and talks extensively on the topics of life, health, money, technology and economy. Over the last decade, he has spoken to over a million people across the globe and his work has been featured by many business magazines and newspapers. You can follow him on his FB page- https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSiddharthaSharma/