Belief in God
To believe in God is to believe in something we already believe. Likewise, to see God is to see something already there for us to see.
As I stood in front of the India Gate in New Delhi, I thought what a magnificent specimen of architecture and sculpture it was! It is a structure that bears witness to man’s unique faculties. For a man to conceive of a thing like ‘India Gate’, he must think creatively before he can bring it into existence. He must make plans and then give them a concrete shape.
On observing this, the thought came to my mind that even if all the stars, planets, trees, and animals were told to make an India Gate, they would fail to do so, even if all of them put their heads together.
This is also the case with all other accomplishments of man. All of man’s performances are unique and are his exclusive prerogatives. No other being in the known universe can do the things that man can do by exercising his physical and mental faculties, be it the construction of the India Gate or operating a complex machine.
God desired that man realize Him on the conscious plane and recognize Him through his intellect. That is why God created man with such distinctive faculties. Just as man is superior to all the creation of the universe, so is God superior to man.
If man were to reflect on the difference between him and the rest of the universe, he would comprehend the difference between him and God. God is the final and ultimate form of this superiority, which man experiences over the rest of the universe to a very small degree. To understand God is as simple a matter as understanding oneself.
The truth is that to believe in God is to believe in something we already believe. To see God is to see something already there for us to see. Another name for intensifying what man is experiencing every moment is ‘belief in God’. (That is, belief in God involves only an intensification of what man is experiencing every moment.) The human being is not the “full stop” in this universe. When a high state of existence is present in the form of man, then why should the existence of another higher state in God not be a possibility?
