God As A Creator
Logic tells us that spiritual and material energy in the form of souls and
matter didn't just suddenly appear out of nothing. The First Law of
Thermodynamics states that energy can't be either created or destroyed. Matter
itself is a form of condensed energy. Souls are also conscious points of
energy. Both are uncreated and therefore eternal. The Second Law shows us
that energy, when in use, moves from a potential state, in which energy is
available, to a spent state in which it is no longer available. Putting
both laws together we have what appears to be a system in which the basic
components have neither beginning nor end. They move towards a state of energy
exhaustion (entropy). If time were linear (a straight line) and there were no
external intervention, then over an unimaginably long period of time the
universe would just fizzle out.
Fortunately for both the souls and the elements of matter,
there is one supreme energy source which is external to the process of entropy
(unaffected by the process) and thereby retains its original potency or power. When
things reach a certain stage of weakness and chaos, the Supreme Soul plays out
His role of re-energizing the souls. The recuperation (recovery) to their
original state, in turn, has a direct effect on matter. It also comes back to
its own original state of perfection. If, as has been shown above, God's
presence, power and knowledge are purely spiritual, then creation has to be a
spiritual act and not a physical one. Creation can be understood as the regeneration
or reshaping of what is already there and not one of creating something
physical or non-physical out of nothing. God recharges the souls' spent
spiritual energy.
God As A Sustainer
We need to understand God’s role clearly as a
sustainer. We have to understand the difference between physical and
spiritual sustenance. We may think that God is the sustainer in the sense
that He gives us our goods, wealth, health, food, water, air and so on. If that
were so, why should He give more of these things to some and not to others? Why
do poverty, starvation and disease exist if God is a sustainer and provider of
all in the physical sense?
Whatever I do or do not possess I have earned for myself. It
is not God who pays us our salaries. Whatever fruits I earn are the results of
my own efforts. As a spiritual sustainer, He fills us with His power and
virtues like peace, bliss, purity and happiness. He also shares with
us spiritual knowledge and bestows his love and blessings on us, all
of which help us in our spiritual effort, so that we can transform (change)
ourselves and does not provide us with food and wealth.
God As A Destroyer
There are many mythological stories all over the world about a revengeful God,
destroying whole armies who dared to stand in the way of His chosen ones. The
‘Mahabharata’ in India depicts the same, where Lord Krishna helped the
‘Pandavas’ defeat the ‘Kauravas’, because ‘Pandavas’ had love, devotion and
respect for Lord Krishna and ‘Kauravas’ did not. We have even gone
to war, praising the righteousness of our causes and counting on God's support.
Somehow the heart rejects the idea of a violent God who is a destroyer of life. He
is the destroyer of evil (and not of life) and the creator of virtue.
The story of the ‘Mahabharata’ is obviously symbolic. It can
be applied to the present moment in the World Drama, when the Supreme Father,
the Incorporeal (non-physical) Father is with us and is helping us in our war. Our
war is not a physical one, our enemies our not our brothers, but our own
weaknesses. The weapons (‘shastras’), which are shown in the ‘Mahabharata’
in the physical form, are actually the weapons of knowledge and spiritual power
acquired through meditation; with which we are able to bring down our enemies,
our vices and shortcomings e.g. the discus (‘chakra’) has a spiritual
significance. It is shown in a physical form but is actually a discus of
self-realization (‘swadarshan chakra’). ‘Swa’ + ‘darshan’ means
self-realization. Self-realization is achieved when one receives spiritual
knowledge. The Supreme Father possesses this discus, which he gives to us,
along with other weapons (‘shastras’). We, the chosen ones, the true followers
of God, make our path easier for us through His powerful guidance. We leave
suffering behind and make the journey to the other side - to a promised
elevated world. Our former captors (those who had imprisoned us), our
weaknesses, try to follow us in the elevated future but are destroyed
completely with God's help.
Trust in GOD; GOD is Great!