Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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God is Not a Subject of Inquiry, God is a Subject of Belief

 

Question: The ocean, the earth, the moon etc. it is born and

operating under an eternal order through the divine force

of " Nature " (Prakruti). Everything happening, is only through the

living force of Nature (Prakriti). Rather why must we believe God as

the powerful force behind this eternal order and this creation ?

 

(Cont'd) Anyone that considers anyone else as greater than himself,

has in reality accepted God, because wherever that greatness ends in

terms of heritage and ancestery, there itself is God -

" Poorveshaamapi Guruh kaalenaanavechedaat . " (Patanjali Yogdarshan

1:26). When there is a person, then there is a certainty that he had

a father at some time and that father also had some father. Wherever

this ancestery, this father-son chain ends, there is God - " Pitaasi

lokesya charaacharasya, " (Gita 11:43).

 

If there is a strong person, and there is another who is even

stronger than him; that greater strength wherever it ends, it's name

is God; because there is no One greater in strength than God. If

some one is very knowledgeable, then there exists someone more

knowledgable than him. Wherever this chain of even greater knowledge

ends, it's name is God. Because no One is more knowledgable than

God - " Gururgariyaan " (Gita 11:43).

 

The point here is that strength, intellect, knowledge, capabilities,

glories, beauty, and many wonderful qualities and characteristics,

wherever the chain stops (i.e. where no one greater is found), There

itself is God; because there is no one like Him - " na tvatsamosta

bhyadhikah kutonyah " (Gita 11:43).

 

In reality, God is only a subject of belief, not one of intellectual

inquiry. Inquiry is only possible where there is inner

inquisitiveness and quest for knowing and this inner quest to know

is only on a subject that we may know a little bit about and may not

know the other aspects. But that subject that we know absolutely

nothing about, on that subject there is no quest to know, there is

no inquiry on that thing. Regarding such subjects, it is mostly

about believe, and we are independent in whether we believe or we

don't believe. Just like this world that we are able to perceive

with our senses, but in essence what is this world, we do not really

know. In other words, this world is a subject of inquiry as we may

know a little bit about it and there is quest to know. But God is

not known at all through our senses, thus, God is not a subject of

inquiry; God is subject of belief (faith).