Do you believe in god?

“There is no believing in God. We either know God, or we do not"
~Sheik Abdul Khader Khan, Shantaram

Now, isn’t that a bit philosophical? Or is it? Give it a thought, my friends, for the answer to this might well change your outlook of the world! I would ask any person, and he/she would reply saying that God is formless, and omnipotent and omnipresent etc., and as it has always happened, I would dismiss such talk as gobbledegook and move on with my chores. But then I came across the quote mentioned in the beginning, and it churned my thinking gears. It was then that I started thinking about what God might really be like? Or could the phrase “God is adjective” be valid.
Each religion has its own interpretation of term ‘God’. But lately, I’ve come to realize that ‘God’ is a term that humans use to denote ‘Harmony’ in the most perfect sense of the word. Harmony is when everything around oneself blends into one homogeneous flow of matter and energy (not literally but as our mind sees it) and though in the midst of the cosmic swirl of material and non-material connections, the self remains detached from it, unaffected and undisturbed. One can almost feel the ripples on the surface of the mind smoothening out, leaving a glassy smooth plane. The only conscious feeling in the mind in such a state is a sense of tranquility – like the quietness of solemn music (‘soul music’, as some call it), or the stillness of the pulsating ocean. When the existence of the self itself vanishes, leaving only a quiet space within the mind, one is said to have met God.

Such a space, once created, persists, and by virtue of its own strength, repels all disturbances. The longer it stays, the stronger it becomes. The stronger it becomes, the more it blends into our lifestyle and we all achieve what Jennifer Yuh describes in her movie Kung-Fu Panda 2 as ‘Inner Peace’. We become more attuned to our own self and live in a happier state of mind.

One interesting and noteworthy fact is that many of these revelations come when one is at the extreme minimum of his life’s troughs. The human mind will never let a person suffer beyond a certain limit – one of the beauties of creation.
If we see the sync with which the universe moves, the way in which its innumerable fragments are assembled – from the tiniest amoeba to the largest of galaxies, and the intricate details of the most minuscule to the minimality of even the most monumental of objects that exists – is in itself the best ever example of harmony that we can ever see. Some people call it God. Some, a result of the big bang (and the rest don’t care)!


So, do you know God, or do you not?