Who is God?

Who is God?

“As the web issues from the spider,
As plants sprout from the earth,
As hair grows from the body,
Even so, this Universe springs from,
The Deathless Self (God), the source of all life.”
- Mundaka Upanishad

To understand who God is, we must begin by examining the origins of the Universe. Physics tells us that the Universe arose in a big bang, but it stops there. It cannot yet penetrate the veil and discover what came before this stage. Although science cannot reveal the answer just yet, it does tell us that something cannot come out of nothing.

The ancient sages of India however, were able to see beyond this frontier where science comes to a standstill. In their elevated states of consciousness they witnessed that before the big bang, from which sprang our Universe of matter, was the Ultimate Reality, the Absolute Force. We call this Ultimate Reality, God – the Universal Consciousness – the Supreme Soul.

This Absolute Force (God) is the source of all Creation. From this primary Force originate not only inanimate matter but also consciousness. Everything that we see in the Universe is a manifestation of this Absolute Force, whether it be the sun or the moon, rocks or stars, air or water, plants or animals.
And this is in agreement with science, which tells us that all processes of the Universe are simply energy converting from one form into another – everything is a manifestation of energy, even matter.

Om Namah Shivay