Is God a person, phenomenon or material?

Is God a person, phenomenon or material?

If we assume God to be a person, then starts the difficulty of answering questions like -what gender? What race? What color? And most difficult -who are his or her parents? Our experience tells us that every born person will have to have biological parents so most natural thing for us would be  to assume that God has parents. For example God Ganesha's father is Shiva, Lord Krishna's father was Vasudeve and likewise for other Gods. However once we make this assumption that God has parents then next challenge comes up- is the God who is having parents really a supreme God? or his parents are the real Gods? We can never answer this question because every parent will also have parent. But still if we continue to believe that God is a person then we also have to accept the fact that as he has parents and probably brothers sisters as well so he might not be absolute God but may be creator of some planets or may be some regions on earth planet. This would also mean that different regions on earth might be reined by different Gods how might be from same family or cousins or even enemies.

 

 

If we assume God to be a matter then things become little easier and also fit with general characteristics of God defined in more or less all cultures. As matter need not have parents but only ingredients so if our God is matter then it can be universal God. But if God is matter then it can be recreated or copies can be made, but that is not a problem as any way humans do not know yet how to produce God. However if we assume God to be matter than there are some questions to be answered like how this matter helps organizing or benefiting the world. One possibility could be that God is a mass of energy and humans and possibly animals also draws emery from this mass and gives it back when they die. Ok, so far so good. Now the big teaser.. How this matter created humans? Possibly humans grow on this mass of energy like fungus grows on wood. But this would also mean that God in form of Wood would be catalysts but not the creator. So There must be something else which created first life.



Can God be neither a person or matter but a phenomena or may be just an event or an illusion? Can this whole world be an illusion? Neither matter nor persons. When waves travel on the surface of water they have energy and mass, troughs and dips but technically sum is zero that is they are just disturbance on the surface. Can it be possible that this whole world including God is just a disturbance having positive and negative energy sum of which is zero? Every mass can be actually only energy e=mc2. Thus every cell or particle in our body is not actually matter but just packet of energy. We all are just vibrations some part in positive and some part in negative but sum is zero. Our thoughts, pain and joy we feel are also just vibrations having positive and negative energy in our mind?

Possibly we will never know what or who God is so it is our choice and individuals to understand God in our own ways.

Religion or God?

We do not know exactly when first religion came into existence, but we know that early humans started worshiping animals, rain, sun, moon, fire etc. to please them to protect them from things they were afraid of, like animals, fire, draught or going Hungary. With time humans also started a quest to understand big picture of life. Is there some one controlling their lives? Is there any after or before life? Is there a God? If yes, how can God be pleased? Slowly there were groups of humans who started praying to their deities  in various forms or started have a set of common beliefs which we now recognise as various religions.

As long as  religion remained a quest and means to please God, it served its purpose well to give a sense of purpose and a way to connect to God. However slowly humans started manipulating other individuals using religion as a tool. Religion became a means to gain power by forming groups. It results in creation of groups which hardly agree with each other, and creates communities which often clash with each other. It no more remains a means to connect humans to God, but become a means to differentiate people based on traditions or rituals, or looking alike. Religion thus started creating divide between children of God. It started creating communities which are stereotypes, which as an undesirable outcome, started creating a sense of fear and discomfort amongst those who are not part of these communities. This has finally resulted in a kind of chain reaction which starts turning every community more and more rigid and opposed to the ideology of other community and this breeds hatred which feeds on itself and grows. This hatred goes to an extent that no more trust remain between different communities and people even start killing each other to protect their own religion.

From times immortal people and communities have been tormented, some even wiped off only because of conflicts between religion. Number of people killed due to communal clashes would be much more  than people killed due to any disease or hunger. End result is that it forces people to do what is against their own religious beliefs. Every religion persuade people to bring peace , but there is hardly any religion in which followers have not killed people of other religion. Instead of serving God, people started serving a religion. Be it Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism or any other religion, every religion has a history of bloodshed, and people continue to be killed because of religious intolerance. Finally a religion which was supposed to bring humans near God ends up doing exactly opposite.

Unfortunately religion has this intrinsic flaw or limitation that it can only help those people who are already closer to God, who can differentiate between religion and God. At any given time, there will always be a majority of people who cannot differentiate Religion  from God.  For most of the people religion will always remain ends instead of means. We keep forgetting that if religion was the ultimate Identity for humans, then God would have created one himself for every one and every child would have been born with a stamp of religion on his forehead.

It is a difficult fact to accept that idea of religion has failed miserably and is actually the cause of great miseries to mankind. However things are not as gloomy today as they were 1000 years ago. Compared to middle ages, number of people who believe in God but not in any religion have grown, these people have the ability to understand human's  relation with this world, nature and God in their own ways? These people do not need an old Text Book written centuries ago to understand their purpose of life. These people are the key to a future with World Peace.