What is God?

Question

I dont believe in religion but i feel as if i am close to God. But why, what compells me to it. What is God?

Answer 1

The scriptures of Hinduism can give some mystical answers.

Who is God? Where is God? How can I come to know God?"

God has no names, but all names are the names of God. Whether you call Him this or that, He remains Who He is. But in our tradition we call God by the loving name Siva, which is only one of His 1,008 traditional names. Supreme God Siva is both within us and outside of us. Even desire, the fulfillment of desire, the joy, the pain, the sorrow, birth and death -- this is all Siva, nothing but Siva. This is hard to believe for the unenlightened individual who cannot see how a good, kind and loving God could create pain and sorrow. Actually, we find that Siva did not -- not in the sense that is commonly thought. God gave the law of karma, decreeing that each energy sent into motion returns with equal force.

In looking closely at this natural law, we can see that we create our own joy, our own pain, our own sorrow and our own release from sorrow. Yet we could not even do this except for the power and existence of our loving Lord. It takes much meditation to find God Siva in all things, through all things. In this striving -- as in perfecting any art or science -- regular daily disciplines must be faithfully adhered to.

Siva is the immanent personal Lord, and He is transcendent Reality. Siva is a God of love, boundless love. He loves each and every one. Each soul is created by Him and guided by Him through life. God Siva is everywhere. There is no place where Siva is not. He is in you. He is in this temple. He is in the trees. He is in the sky, in the clouds, in the planets. He is the galaxies swirling in space and the space between galaxies, too. He is the universe. His cosmic dance of creation, preservation and dissolution is happening this very moment in every atom of the universe. God Siva is, and is in all things. He permeates all things. He is immanent, with a beautiful form, a human-like form which can actually be seen and has been seen by many people in visions. He is also transcendent, beyond time, cause and space.

That is almost too much for the mind to comprehend, isn't it? Therefore, we have to meditate on these things. God Siva is so close to us. Where does He live? In the Third World. And in this form He can talk and think and love and receive our prayers and guide our karma. He commands vast numbers of devas who go forth to do His will all over the world, all over the galaxy, throughout the universe. These are matters told to us by the rishis; and we have discovered them in our own meditations. So always worship this great God. Never fear Him. He is the Self of your self. He is closer than your own breath. His nature is love, and if you worship Him with devotion you will know love and be loving toward others. Devotees of God Siva love everyone.

This is how God Siva can be seen everywhere and in everyone. He is there as the Soul of each soul. You can open your inner eye and see Him in others, see Him in the world as the world. Little by little, discipline yourself to meditate at the same time each day. Meditate, discover the silent center of yourself, then go deep within, to the core of your real Being. Slowly the purity comes. Slowly the awakening comes.
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Answer 2

Absolutely!!! It was something more formal, yet I used to talk to Him whatever the reason and because I kept forward to my own ambition and desires, when He gave me avertisements I saved none and did my way going into more and more trubles! Into an end, within a deep depresion, He saved my life (!!!) the very second I left away of all my deep desires... There, empty heart, I was filled with God's Light and Peace and Love - a complete New LIFE, a new body, a New Vision over the past and the future :) :) :) Yes, He is my Saviour!!!

Answer 3

God is shepherd and a king. He is a creator, a friend, and a father. God is the most amazing being in the universe. If you feel close to God, then you can feel him protecting you, because he is always there when you are frightened, alone, or confused. He's always there when you need to someone to talk to. He takes care of all of us. He wants all of us to be with him, to be saved, despite the fact that we don't deserve it. Why wouldn't you feel compelled to such a wonderful being? I most definitely do!

Answer 4

God is a Spiritual Being, pure Personality, Intelligence, and Emotion. He exists within and without the spacetime continuum, like the zero point field posited by physicists. He is Creator and Sustainer, and He knows each of us personally.

Answer 5

God is what Man concieves as a result of his mind. A charecteristic of the mind is to question what is around you and create illogical assumptions when there is a lack of evidence present, leading to tragically misguided conclusions. For example; There is a lack of evidence present for the creation of the universe, and so Man draws the illogical conclusion that God exists. In conculsion God exists only in the mind and is not an external reality.

Answer 6

The best way I can explain is God is everything. He created everything and I mean everything. In human, God put as I like to call it "a hole in your heart" (It's not a real hole). That's why people get to a point when they feel like they is missing something in their life, but don't know what. The "hole" can only be fill with Jesus Christ. He want to have a relationship with you and deep inside, your spirit want to have one with Him.

Answer 7

Oh my goodness God is so many great things. But first of all. God is our savior.God is all the good that one can ever know and see. God is all the beauty that anyone can see. God is perfect. God is a smile when no smile can be fond. God is the light when only darkness seems to be all around. God is great and God is good. I could go on and on. Their is no end to God. thanks and God Bless you.

Answer 8

I agree totally with jc, God is love. All these wars and hate are man's doing, not God's. People just seem to always want to blame him for everything terrible that happens in the world.

Answer 9

not what but who. hes is a spirit that created earth and the universe and holds everything in his hands even your life, he loves you and is our glorified Father that loves us when u are not loved and is ur guidence when u need to be guided and he is the light in the darknes and he is the king of all kings and is our heavenly father and he...............will always be there for you when u need someone and he is is never wrong all things he are for a cause and he will save ur life when u call out to him and will hear your cry and will answer it.

Answer 10

God is the begging and the end,he is what true love, his he is the joy we look for when we are sad,he his a friend when there is no one to turn to,he his the spirit that dwells inside us. most of all he opens are eyes to the truth about him.that's what God is to me. my best friend, my guide, my rock my every thing.