Where is God

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If every human heart could become an abode of God then we won’t need to build any more places of worship. Nor would we need to scream out loud God’s name from every corner, since a silent whisper within would suffice.

 

If the concept and belief of God must exist then let God be like water that we all need to drink to survive irrespective of our colour, caste, language, nationality, economic status, gender or beliefs or like that of air, which again we all must breathe without discrimination to sustain. These are the universal aspects of nature that binds us all into one unified code of life and so should be the idea of God. Instead of dividing it must polarize us into one.

 

Instead of more bloodshed, hatred and symbolic propagation of God what we really need at this hour is compassion and kindness, acceptability and the willingness to open our minds, hearts and souls to the possibility of oneness in this world. If each one of us capable of feeding just one more outside his own did, I guess far less would go hungry in this world. If each one of us capable of sheltering just one more outside his own did, then I am certain far less would be homeless on our planet. If each one of us capable of offering clothing to just one more outside his own did, then far less would go bare on Earth.

 

We certainly need revolution of science, medicine, knowledge, yet the biggest revolution that we need today is within ourselves. Why should we wait for the Golden Age to come or our Messiah to arrive or some other incarnation of God to purge us of our miseries when we all can end it right now right within ourselves! Why can’t we start building a good planet a human family worldwide ourselves? Isn’t that the evolution we all need to undertake as one race!

 

I doubt if even such holistic and altruistic measures can end human suffering since time and aging will continue to ravage us, yet I believe it would be a much better world than the one we currently occupy.

 

I would like to conclude with this offhand remark that a great thinker of the 21st century once made when asked about the existence of God. The great thinker guffawed loudly and uttered with conviction: absolutely my dear fellow, God certainly exists but alas God has now gone to Dog.


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