By: N.D. Ahuja

 A good number of people believe that, geographically, geometrically and physically God is neither tangible nor visible nor perceptible. Yet, simultaneously, almost the same person would like to seek Him or to be one with Him. People tend, by instinct or by compulsion, to grasp and physically feel what is perceived by the senses.

There are others who certify that there can be a satisfying and perceptible familiarity with God (the Self begotten, Imperishable, Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent) through an adept of scientific clubbing of Gyan (God’s knowledge), Dhyan (God meditation) and Naam (God’s Name). They stress that God can be sensorial conjectured, feelingly conceived and realised through knowledge, rationale and experience. Some advocate His being and a natural scientific reasoning stretched to encompass their plea.

Some believers vociferously vouchsafe that God, as an Entity, can be visualised metaphorically, philosophically, experimentally and through a knowledgeable Guide or Preceptor. He, they proclaim, can be clung to, or companioned constantly, through cementing prayer.

It is widely believed that there was nothing before God. He, alone, is Original and Eternal. He, Himself caused His own being and the primordial matter (call it by any name) as well as real or illusory forces and factors.

Science may have to come to a standstill in an answer to trace the ‘mother’ of the primordial existence. It is here that Spirituality i.e. philosophical beliefs and intrinsic Faith, have to tread in to the seeker’s rescue.

God’s being or self-existence, perhaps, cannot be proved in a laboratory or by a chemical formula. Still, He has to be acknowledged as the self-begotten Fundamental Force or Supreme Being and All-pervasive Unique Entity. It is only after this realisation or acknowledgement that a craving to ‘meet’ Him gets invigorated. This craving gets satiated only when a "solution-sweet" (in Keatsian metaphor) is effected between the seeker and the Sought, the lover and the Beloved, the made and the Maker i.e. between the Bhagat (devotee) and Bhagwan (Deity).

God reveals Himself to those who turn to HIM solemnly and solicitously, through the True Master.