Quest for God: What / Who / Where is God?

What is God? A mind-boggling question that has kept me in vain for the last 10 good years of my life. I have always had this question in my mind since I was a teenager. During my teens and early adolescence, I tried to find the answer to this question directly. It later turned out to me that there is in fact no direct answer to this question.

There are people who believe in the existence of god, whereas others are simply aetheists and there are agnostics. I have always felt I am an aetheist or somewhere between an aetheist and an agnostic. It was hard for me to digest the fact that people do believe in some "being" who is beyond our senses and call him a saviour or what not. But who do I go and ask? Who can give me the answer? I like reading but I am not too much into it. So I should say I didn't read too many books for finding the answer for myself. I did a bit of reading though- books, articles, whatever I could get my hands on but most importantly I did a fair bit of thinking on my own.

Buddha is known to be silent on the issue of god. He once famously said: "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

Upon self-observation, I felt the term "God" is rather obscure and ambiguous. Now I am far less confused about the existence of God than I was few years back. We have the entire creation in front of us. We are the creation, everything around us is a creation. So who is the creator? Creator is in fact a various phases of creations- sequences, processes. Creator is not one absolute entity, not a master, not a saviour, not a being. It is a process, a concept. Creator is in fact a creation itself.

So who first started the creation? I'd say no one did. It sounds like trying to find the peak of the sky. It is this never-ending cycle. No beginning, no end.

What is God?

  • God is a creation.


Who is God?

  • God is a personification of a creation. God is a manifestation of reality.


Where is God?

  • Creation is everywhere. All around us.


So does God exist?

  • Yes, if you look at it as a creation. No, if you look at it as a being.