How many times have we heard ‘God is everywhere’ in our life? And how many times have we actually thought deeply about this simple eternal truth? God is everywhere – everywhere means not somewhere particularly - everywhere. If we really ‘understood’ this simple statement, it has the potential to change our life entirely. This simple truth has been spoken by almost all great masters who walked on this planet and is mentioned in all the religions on Earth.
If God created this universe out of ‘nothing’, then ‘everything’ that exists now must exist within God only! Whether it is air, pebbles, water, trees, birds, animals or humans. Hence we can refer to God as All That Is or as Life or simply as Isness.
God is in the entire physical as well as all other ‘non-material’ universes! God is in the holy place, outside the holy place, in the bedroom, in the bathroom, in the dust bin and in all our thoughts, including all bad thoughts. If we insist that God is only in ‘good’ things and ‘good’ places then we will be contradicting the very foundation of all religions and beliefs. Who ‘created’ and who is ‘controlling’ those ‘bad’ things, ‘bad’ thoughts, and ‘bad’ people? If nothing can happen without God’s will, how can so many ‘bad’ things happen without God’s will?
Let us meditate further on this statement. God is everywhere – means whether it is India, USA, China, Japan or Iraq or even a planet outside our solar system, there can be only ONE GOD in all these places. Whether it is a temple, a church, a mosque or any other holy place – the SAME GOD is present at all these places! If you say your God is different than my God – are you saying that the universe is running so smoothly by a ‘team of Gods’? And if at all we have so many Gods out ‘there’, why there is no ‘chaos’ in the universe? Which God runs which jurisdiction? Whether inside a statue or outside; whether inside a holy place or outside; whether inside you or outside, that same God exists everywhere!
If we say God is ‘here’ then what is ‘there’? Who is running ‘that’ part of the universe? If God is only in holy place, who is controlling the life outside the holy place? In human history of millions of years, can there be any place on Earth which has not seen wars, killings, rapes, hatred or other ‘bad’ things? How can we say a particular place to be eternally holy and a particular place to be unholy if All That Is is God? A stone that was first ‘tortured’ with chiesel and hammer to get a particular form, is worshipped after the stone is carved into a particular shape! But then what was there in it before that form was carved?
We are only fooling ourselves in seeing God ‘somewhere’ in some ‘form’ or ‘name’ and then fighting and killing each other over those various forms or names of SAME ENERGY. When will we really understand the meaning of this simple statement – ‘God is everywhere’? When will we follow our true religion?
What will happen when we start seeing God everywhere – in all humans, including our enemies and people of ‘other religion’ and all those whom we hate; in all animals (not only holy animals), in all plants (not only few plants), in all our thoughts (not only in good thoughts) and in all our actions (not only in good actions)? Can we start seeing God everywhere – (now)here?
If God created this universe out of ‘nothing’, then ‘everything’ that exists now must exist within God only! Whether it is air, pebbles, water, trees, birds, animals or humans. Hence we can refer to God as All That Is or as Life or simply as Isness.
God is in the entire physical as well as all other ‘non-material’ universes! God is in the holy place, outside the holy place, in the bedroom, in the bathroom, in the dust bin and in all our thoughts, including all bad thoughts. If we insist that God is only in ‘good’ things and ‘good’ places then we will be contradicting the very foundation of all religions and beliefs. Who ‘created’ and who is ‘controlling’ those ‘bad’ things, ‘bad’ thoughts, and ‘bad’ people? If nothing can happen without God’s will, how can so many ‘bad’ things happen without God’s will?
Let us meditate further on this statement. God is everywhere – means whether it is India, USA, China, Japan or Iraq or even a planet outside our solar system, there can be only ONE GOD in all these places. Whether it is a temple, a church, a mosque or any other holy place – the SAME GOD is present at all these places! If you say your God is different than my God – are you saying that the universe is running so smoothly by a ‘team of Gods’? And if at all we have so many Gods out ‘there’, why there is no ‘chaos’ in the universe? Which God runs which jurisdiction? Whether inside a statue or outside; whether inside a holy place or outside; whether inside you or outside, that same God exists everywhere!
If we say God is ‘here’ then what is ‘there’? Who is running ‘that’ part of the universe? If God is only in holy place, who is controlling the life outside the holy place? In human history of millions of years, can there be any place on Earth which has not seen wars, killings, rapes, hatred or other ‘bad’ things? How can we say a particular place to be eternally holy and a particular place to be unholy if All That Is is God? A stone that was first ‘tortured’ with chiesel and hammer to get a particular form, is worshipped after the stone is carved into a particular shape! But then what was there in it before that form was carved?
We are only fooling ourselves in seeing God ‘somewhere’ in some ‘form’ or ‘name’ and then fighting and killing each other over those various forms or names of SAME ENERGY. When will we really understand the meaning of this simple statement – ‘God is everywhere’? When will we follow our true religion?
What will happen when we start seeing God everywhere – in all humans, including our enemies and people of ‘other religion’ and all those whom we hate; in all animals (not only holy animals), in all plants (not only few plants), in all our thoughts (not only in good thoughts) and in all our actions (not only in good actions)? Can we start seeing God everywhere – (now)here?
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