God ~ What He is and Why He is?

Question

Please explain
1. Spiritually,
2. Religious,
3. Philosophically

As in Sanatana Dharma we will call God as IT neither He nor She

Answer 1

As Spinoza said to define GOD! is to deny him!

BUT...even the Enlightened BUDDHA refused to comment on it...he taught what he felt was useful for humanity but then....here's an exerpt from which you can understand a bit...

None the LESS! you will understand a lot more from this exerpt

From The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Question: Is God apart from the Self?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: The Self is God. ‘I am’ is God. This question arises because you are holding on to the ego self. It will not arise if you hold on to the true Self. For the real Self will not and cannot ask anything. If God be apart from the Self he must be a self-less God, which is absurd. God, who seems to be non-existent, alone truly exists. Whereas the individual, who seems to be existing, is ever non-existent. Sages say that the state in which one thus knows one’s own non-existence (sunya) alone is the glorious supreme knowledge.

You now think that you are an individual, that there is the universe and that God is beyond the cosmos. So there is the idea of separateness. This idea must go. For God is not separate from you or the cosmos. The Gita also says:

The Self am I, O Lord of sleep,
In every creature’s heart enshrined.
The rise and noon of every form,
I am its final doom as well.
-Bhagavad Gita, Ch.10, Verse 20.

Thus God is not only in the heart of all, he is the prop of all, he is the source of all, their abiding place and their end. All proceed from him, have their stay in him, and finally resolve into him. Therefore, he is not separate.

Question: Research on God has been going on from time immemorial. Has the final word been said?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Mouna (silence) is Iswara-swarupa. Hence the text : "The Truth of Supreme Brahman proclaimed through Silent Eloquence."

Questioner: Buddha is said to have ignored such inquiries about God.

Sri Ramana Maharshi: And for this Buddha was called Sunyavadin (nihilist). In fact Buddha concerned himself more with directing the seeker to realise Bliss here and now than with academic discussion about God, etc.

[Note: Sri Ramana Maharshi would often make remarks, which the superficial critic might take to be agnostic or theistic, just as has been done by superficial critics of the Buddha. For instance, Sri Ramana Maharshi might say: Why worry about God? We do not know whether God exists but we know that we exist, so first concentrate on yourself. Find out who you are.'

There was no agnosticism, since Sri Ramana Maharshi, like Buddha, spoke from perfect knowledge. He was simply placing himself in the position of the questioner and advising him to concentrate rather on what he knew than what he merely believed in. Sometimes he would tell people not to trouble whether there is God or not or whether realisation implies unity with God or not but simply strive to realise the Self, and when that was achieved they would know. Theorizing about it would not help them.]

Answer 2

1. God is an divine entity or aspect that calms people. It (God) reassures people that conscious does not cease to exist when one dies. It tells people that there is something more to the universe than what people perceive.

2. In a religious frame, God is the supreme being, the first thing to exist in the universe or God is thought to even precede the universe. God is the being that created everything that exists in the universe or even created the universe itself. God takes many different forms in different religions but is always known as the creator. God in religion or religion itself is meant to bring people together in one harmonious group where people work together, share ideas, and respect one another. Also God is seen as salvation or as the Savior when one dies. God judges people on how they acted during the time they were alive and judges whether or not people should be rewarded with Heaven( the place where God resides, and bask and revile in God's glory) or punished in Hell (the place where people if they acted evil in life). This view of Heaven and Hell is of course only the view of one religions afterlife, there isn't enough room to type the view of every religions view on the afterlife. God is the beginning and end in religion.

3. Concepts of God in philosophy are entwined with concepts of God in religion. Philosophically God is the being or force that permeates the universe, the force that moves it and runs it. With regard to the initiating cause of the world, Plato and Aristotle held God to be the crafter of uncreated matter, although Plotinus another philosopher regarded matter as coming from or being created by God. Also God is held to be identical with the universe meaning that the universe is God and God is the universe. They are one and the same.

In a scientific way of proving Gods existence think about it like this: I know God exists because of the special theory of relativity and the laws of thermodynamics (look it up) and you have to consider the fact that light is conscious (which some scientists have shown to be true). Then you must understand that everything is energy (God basically being this energy or the source of all energy) and energy can manifest itself in any form depending on its rate of vibration. So God could possibly be walking the Earth among humans by vibrating its energy signature into the physical appearance of a human.

Now just think this through: Light is energy; Light is conscious; so all light is God; God is a being that can think and create and destroy, which are also in fact all aspects of light as well.

Finally about Why he is --- If you accept that or believe that God is the creator and preceded everything there will be no answer; it is logically impossible. Because if God predated existence you can't ask why its there if its always been there. You instead have to ask God why humans are here or for that matter why the universe is here.

Answer 3

God is:

1. An imaginary (spiritual or non spiritual) friend.
2. The idea that create all the religions in this world.
3. The energy that move the Universe.

Answer 4

There are descriptions of God in the scriptures. Only a few come to mind.God is Spirit, God is Love, God is no respecter of persons,God is a fearsome God, God,s tender mercies are new each morning. As far as religeous or religion. I leave that to the individual. Ido think God wants us to be holy as HEis holy and to me that means righteous not religous. Philosophically there are only two things. To love God with your whole heart and your neighbor as yourself thereby hang all the law and the prophets. T4

Answer 5

God can neither be confined to any existence nor defined to any purpose. The question does not arise philosophically if we accept God to be all powerful, all knowledgeable and all present.... such a God has infinite identity and purpose.

Answer 6

God is. Thats simply the philosophical answer. In terms you would understand, it would mean. He is everything, everywhere at everytime. Dont think of God as a being, think of God as a presence of sensation.

The topic of why God is, may be hard for you to understand. Its something you have to study really, but I can try to explain that we aren't as human beings able to understand how God became, or why he became, becase we can never experience anything so complex, our brains just aren't capable.. God was always there and always will be. Even I dont understand that, but no one ever will.

Answer 7

Spiritually He is one who cleanses our soul.He is there to cleanse our soul only because he knows this is kaliyuga where even a simple effort of your's will take you further.
Religiously He is one has to be made a rule of life only because humanbeing is forgetting day by day the proper way of living.
Philosophically He is way of life.

Answer 8

In general, what He is is the unknown... what is beyond our capacity to make sense of. Why He is, is because we need confidence where we have no control.
Spiritually He is the unifier... that which is able to be all things.
Religiously He is who we owe worship to for our lives.
Philosophically, He again is the unifier.

Answer 9

the God is
Spiritually - mercy and love
religeously - Law and justice
Philosophically - the God is everything
Scientifically - Energy
Materialistically - the God is "Change of State of matter"

Answer 10

i feel GOD z nothing but our 6th sense..
it says every thing whether v r correct or wrong but v follow our own wayss.....
if one feels that v will be punished if v go in a wrong path ,
then they will be not supposed to do that
tatsy we people created god...