oh GOD, what art thou?!

After a couple of movie reviews, I am back to my pet topic. what is life and who is God? This time around, I am going to make use of two busy, insightful years that I spent at one of the premier B schools of Tamilnadu getting intensively and extensively trained as a manager. And instead of making any use of the little shreds of common sense that I have, I would go on beating around the bush and come up with a four-by-four matrix to capture the definition of the Almighty Himself! And state just what you already know, with the expertise that you can find only in a management consultant, and successfully refrain from making you any wiser than you are right now! God help us all!!! ;)

Note: in this post, from now on, 'he' refers to the entity that has the potential to be God.

Before we begin on this great quest, we need decide on two coordinates that we would employ in the creation of the trap. To do that, we got to identify what he can do and why he does that. More often than not, we worry about what he can do. And tend to look over why he does what he does. Mind you, both these coordinates represent a continuum of two qualities - Ability and Intent: from the ability to do nothing (which I think cannot be clearly defined as the true zero as we have on kelvin scale) to everything and from utter selfishness to total absence of self whatsoever. Now, it is child's play. God is the one with ability to do everything for the betterment of everyone. Now you can go on and do the exercise of defining the Devil. If you feel this matrix is too simple, it is because of the genius who made it possible.





The root of problems with God, as we know it, is the personification of God. For me, God is the not the creator, He is the very process of creation, which can never cease. The problem is more lexical than ideological, for Gods of almost all our religions are qualitatively very similar. If we were to believe what we have been taught, they are there, with their omnipotent skills, to praise you for the good you do and reprimand you for your bads. More like a kindergarten teacher!

It is us who have 'accepted' God as "the one who created the world one fine day and then rested", which has been propagated over centuries for the convenience of a chosen few. That way, they can go on with their lives without really bothering about Him as well as us. In a rather convoluted way, this has helped us too. By banishing God to some place high and far away, we have given ourselves the comfort of thinking about Him only when we choose to. Can God be a thing of the past and the distant? God is always the present. For me, God is more of a quality rather than a person. Being God is being above Self.

All beautiful things are essentially simple. But can we keep our God simple? G O K!!!

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My purpose would be defeated if you feel any wiser after reading this.