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What is God?

By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Question: To my dearest Master, both beauty and splendor and glory. What is God?
 
Answer: What is God? What is not God? What is the definition of God, if at all there is one?
See, the moment you say a word you already have a concept about it. What do you think is God?
That which is everywhere, that which is all powerful, that which is responsible for this creation to come up and for it's maintenance and for it's dissolution. Isn't it?
Omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient. But then people say, "I see God. I want to see God." When you want to see God as some thing, as an object, then it's not everywhere. The moment you are seeing God is... there is a distance. Then you are not God. You are seeing God. Then God is not omnipresent. God is not the object of sight. You can never see God. God is not an object of hearing, God is not object of smelling or tasting. God cannot be perceived\~through your senses, nor through the mind. God is the seer himself. Who sees, that is God. See what I'm saying?
Space is God. Space, in the space is everything. Can you see space, separate? There are three types of space. One is called bhuta akasha. The space, the outer space in which all the... this universe is hanging. Where is the sun? Where is the moon? Where is the earth? Where are the stars? Where is the galaxy? Where are they all situated? They're situated in the space, isn't it?
They move in the space. They dissolve back into the space. This enormous space is called Bhuta Akasha. And then there is another space that is called Chitta Akasha. Chitta Akasha, you close your eyes, your mind, in your consciousness. There is a world there. There are impressions, there are thoughts, there are dreams, all these things happen. You live in that world. It's called Chitta Akasha, the visions and all these that come into your mind.
And then, Chida Akasha. Chida Akasha is that sky of consciousness, that is all permeating, everywhere. All this talk about vision of God is only in Chiitta Akasha, in the mind. Chida Akasha, the consciousness, the basis of all creation, that is Divine. That is all knowing. You cannot make God an object of your sight. If you made it, then it is no more a God. Are you getting what I'm saying? You should feel compassion to those who say, "Oh, I see God." Or, "God came to me and told me this." Should pity at them, "Oh, poor fellow, they do not know what is God."
You can live God, you can be God. But you cannot see God, perceive God as an object.
Is it very complicated?
 

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