From The Hindu perspective there are two aspects of this question:–
What is God? and Who is God?
(“God” is a troublesome noun and is not the exact equivalent of any Sanskrit term.)
What is normally translated as “God” is BRAHMAN, which is best translated by the English word “Godhead” and refers to the abstract Universal, Cosmic Absolute.
This idea is best explored through scientific cosmological concepts. The earth is the size of a grain of sand on all the combined beaches of the world. The Universe is VAST containing trillions of galaxies. BRAHMAN comes from the root which means “vastness”, “extensive”, “expansive” — so BRAHMAN refers to the entire Universe of quantum gravity and everything in it - which we believe to be pervaded by consciousness. So BRAHMAN is the physical universe of quantum gravity as well as the consciousness which pervades every particle.
This is the objective view – answering to “what is God”.
The question “who is God” is purely subjective and the Hindu answer to that is — “whoever you want him/her/it to be”.
How you personally perceive or contemplate or think about the Absolute is entirely up to you. Just as how you wish to view the vastness of time-space/quantum gravity - is also your choice.
So in Hinduism there is no “thought control” when it comes to thinking about that which is technically speaking beyond the capacity of the human mind to conceive or comprehend. - Rami Sivan
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