“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.
