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A Contemplation on the Divine Mystery

Is There a God? This question has stirred the human mind since the dawn of consciousness. We look to the skies, to silence, to scripture, and to the stirrings within, seeking something greater than ourselves, something we often call divine energy.

Yet no one has seen God in a definitive way. God does not lend Himself or Herself to direct perception. Still, across time, mystics, sages, and seers have spoken of glimpses: an inner light, an all-pervading presence, a stillness beyond the senses.

For some, God is a personal being who is loving, guiding, and responsive to prayer. For others, God is an abstract principle or simply a hypothesis. This leads to a perceived divide between believers and non-believers. But perhaps this divide is not absolute. The question of God’s existence may not be one of right or wrong in nature, but of faith and perception.

The Upanishads describe the divine with quiet precision:
"Yato vācho nivartante aprāpya manasā saha"
"Words turn back from it, along with the mind, unable to grasp it."
(Taittiriya Upanishad, 2.4)

God cannot be proved or disproved, not because He is absent but because He is beyond conception, beyond form, and beyond logic. Hinduism embraces this mystery, recognizing God as both saguna (with attributes) and nirguna (without attributes).

The Isha Upanishadic vision affirms the boundlessness of the divine through a timeless invocation:

"ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते।
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते॥"
"That is whole. This is whole.
From wholeness arises wholeness.
Even when wholeness is taken from wholeness,
Wholeness still remains."

This is not a deity defined by limits but a wholeness so complete that nothing lies outside it.

The Bhagavad Gita offers another perspective. Krishna tells Arjuna:
"He who sees Me in all beings, and all beings in Me, he never loses Me, nor do I lose him."
(Gita, 6.30)

This is not a God observing from afar but one who pervades all of life, including the seeker’s own heart.

Such perspectives echo across other traditions. Some, like Buddhism, do not focus on a creator. The Buddha offered no metaphysical claims about God’s existence. Instead, he turned the seeker inward toward awareness and liberation. Taoist sages spoke of the Tao, a nameless, ungraspable source that nourishes all things without ever being possessed. In Greek philosophy, Plato envisioned the Form of the Good, an invisible and eternal truth underlying the world of appearances.

Modern science, while explaining how the universe evolved after the Big Bang, remains silent on why it emerged at all. The question of whether such order and precision could arise without some deeper intelligence remains open.

And perhaps that is where the essence lies. Not in whether God exists as an external entity, but in whether we are open to the possibility of a presence that transcends mind.

Sanatana Dharma offers a profound insight. The Atman, the innermost Self, is Brahman, the Infinite. That which we long for outside may, in truth, be the light within. This is not merely belief but the fruit of direct inner realization.

In moments of devotion or quiet reflection, we may begin to sense that God is not somewhere far away but so close, so deeply within us, that we often fail to notice. As we turn inward, the divide between belief and doubt may begin to soften, not because the question of His existence is resolved, but because something wordless begins to stir within.

As Rumi says:
“I searched for God and found only myself.
I searched for myself and found only God.”



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