Definition of God
All the Messengers of God took
great care to see that the definition of God gets a proper
place in the scriptures. Let us see how beautifully the
Formless God has been defined in Balkand of Ramcharita Manas:
‘God is one; desire less; colorless; nameless; deathless;
He is the Truth, consciousness and bliss; the ultimate destination;
all pervasive and cosmic’
(ek aneeh aroop anama ……)
Ramcharita Manas, Balkand
- So the so called God
- has to be colourless,
- name less,
- beyond birth and beyond death,
- the absolute truth,
- super consciousness,
- ultimate bliss,
- origin and the ultimate destination of the existence,
- all pervading and a lot more, never ending list of His attributes.
Holy Quran talks about 99 attributes of Allah. Let us
have a look at the compiled definition of God taken from
various scriptures.
(1) DEFINITION OF GOD
- He is the Creator, Operator & Destroyer
- God is ONE.
- He has no beginning, no end.
- He was never born, and will never die.
- Fire cannot burn it
- Water cannot wet it
- Air cannot dry it up
- No weapon can cut it
- Beyond Change
- Formless and Colorless
- God is omnipresent
- God is omnipotent
- God is Omniscient
- There was no such time when He was not there, and there will be no such time when He will not be there.
Just look at the definition given above. It is a part of definition that the God is ONE. It can not be ‘TWO’. So how can then, my God be different from your God or from anybody else’s God, for that matter.
Look at the 4th point, that says that
God (Nirankar) was never born and will never cease to exist.
Of course, the True Masters or the avatars, being in physical
body, keep coming and going. Like Lord Ram, Lord Krishna,
Hazrat Mohamad, Lord Jesus, they came, did their job of
revealing the secret of God to their devotees, and
went away. But God (which is formless Nirankar)
has always remained, and will always remain.
Look at the characteristic of being present
everywhere, and Always. This gives us some
food for thought. When we say that ‘there was no such time
when God was not there’, what it means is, that God was
there even before Lord Ram, even before Sun took birth,
or even before our own Earth came to existence.
Srimad Bhagwat Geeta so clearly defines
the indestructible character of God. Now
we have to apply this definition to the various things that
we worship as God. In fact, this definition gives us a rejection
mechanism.
If we see anything that does not meet these characteristics,
we can simply say that ‘this can not be God’.
This had been one of the oldest methods of revealing the
secret of God knowledge, by saying ‘Neti- neti’,
means, ‘no, not this one; not this one also’.
(2) Let us apply this definition to:
- Sun, Earth
- Paper, - calendars
- Gold, Silver, stones or metals
- Water
- Air, etc..
For better understanding of this definition, let us apply
this definition to certain items that we commonly see.
Look at Sun first; is the sun creator of
the universe or a mere creation?; is the sun only one in
the whole universe? Is the sun omnipresent?
Has this sun no beginning and no end? Will this remain for
ever? So, the Sun does not qualify to be God. Similarly
all other items will not meet the specifications.
(3) Popular Myths..
- God is only inside the human body.
- He is only in the sky,
- He is only in the mountains, in holy waters.
- He is only in a particular direction,
- He is only in a particular place,
If we carefully apply the definition of God discussed earlier, we can easily make out that these statements are only myths. For instance, how can the God be only inside the human body when the definition says that He is omnipresent, He is everywhere. In fact, these types of myths emerge out of ignorance about the ‘substance or tatva of god’.
