“We Are All God”

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What is God?
Kaustav: This is God. You are God. I am God. We are all God. Everything around and in you and me is God. The infinite cycle of creation and destruction of innumerable ‘big bang’ universes, each with a subtle difference, where every single possibility is eventually “real” – is God. God is not an intelligent entity separate from you and me. We, You and I, are IN God and OF God, and therefore ARE God. It is impossible to separate a molecule of water from the other molecules of water around it, and study the behaviour of that molecule in isolation. There is no meaning to such an exercise. If the Universe were to cease to ‘exist’ in its current form, so would you and I, instantaneously. Therefore we have no separate identity from the Universe. Which means, we ARE the Universe. The Universe – GOD – expresses itself in many ways, including us.

God or the Big Bang (or both)?
Kaustav: Is there a difference? God exists for ever. It is theorized that each Big Bang eventually leads to the next one, in a virtually unending sequence. God has no beginning and no end. Neither does this Universe. God exists in everything, and in nothing. Which means, God is all the Matter, as well as the Space that contains the Matter, as well as the Time that defines the Matter. Perhaps the real question is, does the Big Bang have a purpose?

God or Darwin (or both)?
Kaustav: Think of God as the laws of the Universe (i.e. the Universe itself). Evolution is merely an expression of these laws, unfolding in a grand sequence. Thus evolution loses its meaning when ‘Matter’, ‘Space’ and ‘Time’ lose their meaning.

God or Darfur? (How can Darfur happen if there is God?)
Kaustav: Darfur, though unfortunate, was inevitable. Conflicts are not the product of one man’s greed, or a few people’s selfishness. They are inevitable flash points that occur when much larger and deeper socio-political issues collide. Fear and greed are endemic to human nature, and we will unfortunately have many more Darfurs until we raise ourselves as a species beyond the petty considerations that create wars. And we are but a product of our value systems – which in turn are shaped by incidents early in our life as well as survival rules of the species – which again obey the laws of the universe.
Moreover, we must put Darfur in perspective. Darfur, though terrible and unfortunate by human values, is a conflict happening in one small region of a very small planet, that orbits a very small and relatively young star, which is situated on the edge of one of the outermost spirals of a galaxy that contains trillions of such stars, in a universe that contains probably quadrillions of such galaxies. Do you see the magnitude of GOD? From this perspective, Darfur will eventually play out according to the same laws that govern the rest of the universe. What will happen, will happen.

Who is God’s God?
Kaustav: In mathematics, when you remove Infinity from Infinity, the answer is … Infinity. God’s God is itself. God works as per the laws that it creates for itself. Why? To answer this question, ask yourself another: does a rock need a “purpose” to be a rock? No. It just ‘IS’. As also with God: God ‘Is’. There is no further purpose or meaning to God.

Will the real God please stand up? (Why do we have so many religions?)
Kaustav: Just as all five fingers on a hand are different, so also each individual is different in his/her likes, dislikes, preferences, values, beliefs, perceptions and habits. And so, as it is said somewhere, “God created man in his image, and then man created God in his image.” What matters is not where we differ in our opinions, but where we can work together, with each other, to achieve our common goals.

Is this just a big lab and are we just guinea pigs and God just a researcher?
Kaustav: Attributing intelligence and individual motive to God that is separate to the intelligence and motive of human beings, signifies a duality of existence – where the Human and the Divine are separate. This implies that God and Man might someday have a conflict of interest. This further means, that someone will win, and someone will lose – which means, that there are rules based on which this conflict will be resolved. Which then begs the question, who makes the rules when God is playing the game? This an absurd question.
Therefore the only plausible explanation is that there is no researcher, and we are not guinea pigs at the hands of a ‘separate’ God.
Does unexplained phenomena = God?
Kaustav: Precisely which phenomenon