The concept of God

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Ishvara (God) is an object as a tree is an object.

Your point of view in respect of the Absolute is

called Ishvara. It is a point of view only, it does

not really exist. If you cease to exist, it also goes.

You will not see Ishvara when you reach the

Absolute.

 

It is like an X in mathematics. It is a great help

in finding a solution but it is not in itself existing

there. Without it you cannot have the solution

and it in itself has no meaning. Ishvara cannot

be avoided as long as the world is seen with

your eyes.

 

The Ishvara concept is an automatic outcome

of your belief in the reality of the world and

when the world exists, Ishvara has to exist

as the cause thereof, but if the world does not

exist, Ishvara need not exist because if the

effect is not there, what is the use of the cause?

 

- Swami Krishnananda

 

 

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Facets of Spirituality

Complied by S. Bhagyalakshmi

Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986