Where is God ?
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Dr. Hemant Gupta
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Where is GOD?
Where is GOD?
Seeking Divine
Mortality, Immortality and Immortal
As pleasant, uplifting, and freeing immortality appears, our reality is that we eventually die. Death is one of the few certainties in human lives. All living beings die. Plants, animals and most others die, but they may not be aware of it. Humans may be the only ones that are aware of it. Most of us believe that this awareness is at the root of all spiritual inquiry. As we get closer to death, our search for what is beyond death intensifies. Why do
we die? How can we live longer? What is beyond death? What is it like to be immortal?
Because of advances in medicine and better standards of living, humans are living longer. The average life expectancy for humans has significantly improved over the last few hundred years. Living longer is the obsession of current modern science. Death, however, continues to be a mystery. Most of us are confused on the issue of what happens to us after we die. Since no one has ever come back from dead, much speculation exists on this after-death state of our being, if at all there is anything like that. In his book, 90 Minutes in Heaven, Don Piper, a Baptist minister, describes an incident after he was involved in a tragic car accident. He was dead for ninety minutes. He came back live. During that time, according to Piper, he was in heaven. He saw beauty. He saw his relatives and loved ones. He describes how his senses were overwhelmed. Heavenly music, incredible beauty, and praise for Lord were everywhere, he said. It filled his heart with the deepest of joy and contentment. Many similar experiences have been recounted by those who have experienced near-death scenarios in their lives. Usually, such experiences are life changing and extraordinarily impactful for those involved. These experiences make most of us wonder, is there something that transcends death? Is there an immortal and immortality?
Anything that is born will eventually die, seems to be a law that our universe lives by, at least according to our perceptual reality. One may go further and generalize that everything in our visible universe is subject to entropic decay or one may say eventual death. However, in most cultures, there is one immortal entity and it is God or divinity. Only God is immortal; it is never born, and it never dies. It would be an incredible story if we could find God. Or just know for sure, is there a God?
Encounter with Divinity
Surveys after surveys have revealed that a great majority of modern humans believe in God. As high as 90 percent of the population, in many human societies, believes in God. By some estimates, there is more money spent in religious or spiritual pursuits than any other pursuits by human beings. Frankly, this comes as much surprise. Scientific ideology dominates today’s human society. With so much progress on the technology front, contribution of science to human survival and standard of living is indisputable. It is difficult to argue with this remarkable progress and the principles that have been behind such progress. Scientific belief rooted in old Newtonian paradigm demands physical material, experimental proof as the eventual truth. Adhering to such guidelines, no one has been able to prove the existence of God. Clearly, according to such form of science, the existence of God would be at best questionable. A nonvisible, nonprovable entity that has supposedly created all, controls all, as we know of, has sure managed to fool some of the best human minds, if it at all exists.
Wait a minute. Isn’t God same as digital divine or cosmic mind or informational whole? Hasn’t the new science based on quantum reality found God in entanglement, nonlocality, and quantum information processing? Isn’t God the supreme universal quantum-computing system or digital divine that I have described as whole or cosmic mind? Isn’t God the perfect mathematical creature, living in the depth of emptiness, a dancer with moves that manipulate every single bit or qubit to all the interconnected bits and qubits and everything in between, an informational Natraj?
The description of whole from a computational point of view does come close to describing the divinity as omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient entity that has created us and all we see in physical universe and transcends space-time. It probably will hold true on immortality standards as well. Nevertheless, there is a lot more to God than the computational model of digital divinity. Can it describe the God the protector or father figure? Can it describe the personal God that one can communicate with? Can it describe the God that answers prayers? Can it describe God that does miracles? Can it describe God that takes birth to protect weak and kills the evil? Can it describe the God that is always engaged in battle with evil? Besides, most important than perhaps most, can it explain the feeling of divinity by humans that is subjectively experienced through encounters with divinity, the grand feeling of love and oneness?
Clearly different religions have described different types and characteristics of God. The digital rendition of divinity may fall short of fulfilling many of these claims. However, some characteristics emanate naturally from the digital description are widely accepted as the characteristics of God. Most widely recognized is oneness with omnipresence, omnipotent, and omniscient. These characteristics at the most basic level represent a union of supreme love that unites all and grand cosmic mind that manages all.
Combining love and logic can only be done in a quantum bit. Where love is equivalent to superpositional state of quantum bit, and binary state is tied to logic. All quantum bits in our universe share one superpositional state of being. This is one God-like characteristics shared by many religious and spiritual descriptions of God. Since this state is also a state where intense parallel computations take place, it is also a state of supreme logic which coexists with eternal love in cosmic mind. It almost appears that we can describe such a God with logic or mathematics of quantum physics as an informational superpositional state of being. Since this state is also the state of emptiness, which occupies most (>99.99999999%) of the universe, it is omnipresent. It is empty because there is no material or energetic reality contained in this state. However, it is also the state of fullness as all quantum computations that run this universe take place in this state. It is also unifying state of grand love since all informational entities contained in this state act as one. Since humans are equipped with love sensors, can we experience this grand unifying state of love?
For human beings, combining the love and logic has always been difficult. We can objectively study logic, but not love. To understand love, we must transcend objectivity and take help of subjective understanding. Here knowing divine becomes a subjective, personal, or emotional experience; either you have it or not. Here is an old story that Prem Rawat or Maharaji shares with seekers of self-knowledge to start them on this path.
Doubt or Devotion
There was an owl sitting on a tree that had just woken up. It was dark all around except for the light coming from the stars. Suddenly he saw a swan landed on a branch of the tree right next to him. Swan was a little frustrated and muttering a few words, expressing frustration on what went on throughout the day. Owl, watching quietly, asked him about why he was so frustrated. Swan said, “You know, I started this morning when Sun was just rising. I thought I would reach here by the sunset. Nevertheless, look, it is already so late. I need rest before I start my journey again in the morning.”
Owl was puzzled. He asked what Sun is and what is this phenomenon called morning. “You do not know?” Swan was surprised. “Morning is the most beautiful part of the day. Light is everywhere. It comes from Sun. Sun is the most important to all beings on Earth, and no one can live without Sun.”
“What Sun! I have been living here for the past ten years, in fact, all my life and I have never seen Sun. When I sleep, it is dark, and when I wake up it is dark as well. Well I like light,” said the owl. “I love light coming from stars. Is sunlight similar to the light that comes from stars?”
“Nothing like that,” said Swan. “Everything looks different in sunlight. If you like, I could show you the Sun. In fact, you should see the Sun.”
“Wow, I would love to. Let me take permission from my parents and others.” So the owl went to his parents and asked, “Have you seen anything like Sun? This swan is singing the glory of Sun, and I cannot believe I do not know anything about it.”
“You are not alone,” the owl’s parents remarked. “All our lives we have not known of anything like Sun.” Therefore, they went to the elderly of the village and asked the same question. No one knew about Sun. The intellectuals of the village began heavy debate on the existence of Sun.
Swan very surprised said, “You do not have to debate. I can show you the Sun.”
“Really! How?”
“All you have to do is to stay awake, and you will see.”
“Oh! We cannot do that! It will bring the curse of “darkness” from our God.”
One old owl said, “I remember an owl tried it. He never came back.”
In this story, we are the owls, the enlightened master is the swan, and of course, Sun is God. Until the doubt turns into devotion, it is not possible to encounter divinity. Moreover, doubt does not go away easily. Roots of doubt are deep. After all, it is the key tool for scientific and objective inquiry that has been highly successful in guiding us to reach and understand our material or even digital reality. The doubt has to play out completely in a subjective mind. When one learns to doubt the doubt itself, a new understanding beyond doubt arises. It is devotion. An ancient path that led seekers to God!
Since ancient times, humans have been divided into ones that claim to have seen or experience God or divine feeling and the ones that have not. Even though different religions and spiritual practices differ in execution, the fundamental nature of what is God or divinelike is similar. Prayer, for example, describes a state of mind, which is a result of being in the company of God, is very common in many religious or spiritual practices.
Ancient Ayurvedic seers spent extensive efforts to develop the knowledge that led them to divinity. Knowing the God, for them was the most supreme of the knowledge. According to them, the following are the paths to know God:
Devotion, Prayers
Action
Self-knowledge
Meditation
Many following paths shown by such knowledge arrived at the divine feeling of grand love. It, however, was subjective; the biggest challenge the ancient seers faced was that God could be felt but could not be fully described. For many, who arrived at that knowing, there were no words or behavior patterns that could describe what was felt. Therefore, many simply became quiet and did not break their silence even in their death, fearing the inadequate oral or written description will corrupt or misguide others to arrive at the true nature of what was felt. Many others tried the description. The books after books could not do justice to description of what God is. Songs after songs could not do justice to what was felt as a true feeling of knowing or dancing with divinity. In the Christian traditions, it was clear that not enough could be said about the glory of God. No matter what or how much was said, it fell short.
The Hebrew word for glory is kabod; it means weight. In science, it would be the mass of an object of matter. It is the essence of a person or thing. For God, it is who he is, his character and influence. We know that God is love (1 John 4:16); love is God’s character and influence. God’s glory manifests and reveals his love.
Moses asked God to see his glory. This was God’s response, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion” (Exodus 33:19).
The word gracious in Exodus 34:6 means to show favor, mercy, kindness, and forgiveness; longsuffering means to be patient; goodness means to show loving kindness; truth means to be faithful and trustworthy. All of these characteristics are seen as characteristics of love. All the other characteristics of Exodus 34:6 are contained in this compassionate love of God.
In Exodus 34:7, God reveals that he is just. Even justice is a characteristic of love; love must be fair. God is the great equalizer. We know God through experiencing his love, so we may be may be filled with all the fullness of God. The glory of God is the expression and revelation of his love.
A vivid account of the immortal God is attempted in Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita that means song of God.
In verse number 1 to 3 of chapter 7, Krishna said to Arjuna, “Oh Arjuna! I am going to tell you Tatwa Gyan,” knowledge or eternal wisdom. It is the knowledge of stuff that makes the universe or existence. Two types of matter create this universe. First makes earth, water, fire, air, sky or universe, mind, intelligence, and even ego. It is called form, matter, or Apara. The second is vibrations or nonmatter which is formless. It is also known as Para or
Chetan (verse 5). All are created by merging these two. “I am the creator and destructor of these creations where vibrations and matter merge.” The description of vibration comes remarkably close to describing the wavelike nature of the quantum universe, the vibration being the entanglement or the wave of guidance.
“There is nothing beyond me. All are part of me. I am the feeling of thinness in Water. I am the light of the Sun and the Moon. I am ‘Onkar,’ I am manliness of men, I am pure smell on earth, I am the heat in fire, life in all creations and intelligence in intelligent persons. I am the strength of the strong, I am the sexual feeling (Kam), and all other emotions in creations.” Krishna further says, “Oh Arjuna! I am Atman (soul), and I am in the heart of all creations. I am the start, midpoint, and the end point of all creations. I am mind in Indriyon or senses. I am vibrations or Chetanta in Creations. I am Om Onkar in words. I am silence, and I am Tatwa Gyan or knowledge of everything. There is no creation without me.” This would come close to the description that the informational entity whole or cosmic mind would provide about itself if it could talk like a human being.
At the deepest level, the experience of meeting God or Maha-Samadhi is accompanied by extraordinary feeling of timelessness and love. A feeling of oneness, with universe, where all dualities merge, a freedom from space and time and entry into grand divine which allows one to move in space-time that is to go anywhere without actually physically going there. The poet Kabir (1398-1448) described the duality of this absolutely extraordinary spiritual realm with extreme clarity. Kabir was illiterate and never wrote anything himself. He merely uttered his feelings to the best of his abilities. In describing God, the art or skills of listening is as important as the art or skills of describing. Even if one could provide a perfect description of the ultimate reality of God, the listener or the recipient of the description may not understand with that perfection. He or she may induce his or her own prejudices to the interpretation of the description. Therefore, even a self-realized master may not be able to penetrate an imperfect listener.
Since subjectivity is the key element of knowing the God, there is a distinct dividing line between believers and nonbelievers. For believers, the path to know God involves acceptance, love, and trust. Ultimate communion with God is a feeling of eventual joy, oneness, and liberation that is experienced in a deep state of prayer, meditation, and Samadhi. For nonbelievers, a proof positive based on objective material and perceptual reality.
One of the pioneers of quantum computing David Deutch said, “The hardware matters!” In this amazing game of existence, the observer or self seems to matter. What is observed, how it is observed, what is understood, or what meaning is eventually assigned to the observation seems to matter. The love, kindness, empathy, curiosity, logic, anger, greed, separateness, or oneness is part of the personal reality of self. The relationship of self to whole is also a very subjective to self. The relationship on one self to the other selves is also subjective in meaning and significance. Is there an experience of oneness buried in all of us that is beyond subjectivity? Is it love that brings the experience of oneness? Is it when heart is full of gratitude, appreciation, love, empathy, and kindness the oneness arises?
At the most fundamental level, the whole transcends space-time that is the tiniest and the largest have no meaning. At this level, the cosmic mind is abstract, pure mathematical, quantized, and informational in nature. In its purity, it has no space and time constraints attached to it. It is everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. Information, knowledge, and wisdom all merge into instantaneous knowing or known.
Can we understand our universe from this bottom-up approach where immaterial reality results into a material reality? A reductionist view may imply a yes. However, the answer is no. No matter how accurate our scientific or mathematical models become, a true understanding of comic mind needs a holistic view, involving experiential reality. How is that possible? You may ask. Universe is infinite and transcends outside space and time, all of us; our measuring instruments are all stuck as mere parts of space-time and have only an inside view of the system. You are right. If cosmic mind wanted to stay hidden from its inhabitants, there would be no way for us to know its true nature. However, it is not so. The cosmic mind is a constant companion and participant of all actions taking place inside this grand mind. In the spirit of a true grand computing system, the cosmic mind incessantly calculates all its aspects, all entities living in, and their interactions at both physical and abstract level at all times. The results of such computations, the wave of guidance, are made available or sent back to all quantum, micro, or macro entities residing in the cosmic mind. Once tuned to this wave of information, it becomes a portal or door to enter or to know the mega computing system, the whole or the cosmic mind.
Saints and mystics throughout the world have described their experience of merging with this wave of guidance as the key step to commune with God. Because the wave of guidance is nonlocal information wave, its description had been a challenge. Whatever was truly felt, it was difficult to describe it in terms of normal physical experiences. Most described it as a special sound. Most sounds heard by us have a source that produces them. Most of these sounds have intensities that diminish with distance from the source.
This sound, these masters claim, comes from no source. It has no origin, and it never ends. Its intensity never lessens and is independent of distance, time, or location. All masters, from all different era in time and location, have the same experience of hearing this sound. Ayurvedic spiritual masters have described this as a sound, an eternal sound. The Hindu word om, really represents this sound. The sound of om comes from the experience of this wave of guidance by the spiritual masters. In their deep experience of Samadhi, the sound of om is heard. Christian and Jewish masters heard this as “amen.” Hindus consider om to be the supreme divine source, which created this universe.
For all the unconscious entities, the wave of guidance directs the entity to a preferred state of being. All entities, by default, follow the wave of guidance except for the ones with consciousness and free will such as us humans. We may choose to ignore messages from cosmic mind at will and follow the cue from our local rational mind. Once tuned, the wave of guidance projects a persona of personal guide or God to such entities. Such experiences are commonly reported by followers of many religions. The connection to this wave of guidance results in the description of the cosmic mind as the omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God illusive to many and a constant companion to others. This waver of guidance and our ability to tune to it are the root of all religions, spirituality and mystic experiences, in my view.
While trekking down the road to digital divine may paint a mental image of what may potentially be divine, the perception of true divinity can only come as a feeling. It needs a subjective self with a knowing of its true quantum nature. The subjective experience of “deep joy from within” is at the core of this reality. It is nothing short of enlightenment. May all arrive and get to drink this intoxicating divine sap.
An excerpt from the book Road to Digital Divine, Computational Nature of Mind and Matter
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