God exists in each and everyone and everywhere - Swami

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At one time, Hiranyakasapa of our tradition was moving about with great pride saying that he was the only God and that he was all powerful. Even such a Hiranyakasapa had the need for God on one occasion. Are these proud people of today who proclaim that there is no need for God, cleverer or stronger than Hiranyakasapa? If with all his physical and mental strength, he had the need for a God, these proud people will certainly need the help of God and will one day recognise this.

 

God exists in everyone and therefore to say that God does not exist is to show one's own lame hand and say that he himself does not exist. To say that God does not exist is as ridiculous as saying that he has been born to a barren woman. To argue that there is no God is as bad as insisting that the one that is arguing cannot speak. All these are meaningless words intended to make up meaningless arguments.

 

- From Swami's Divine Summer Course Discourses in May 1974.

 

Om Sai Ram

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A common argument from atheists and skeptics is that if all things need a cause,

then God must also need a cause. The conclusion is that if God needed a cause,

then God is not God (and if God is not God, then of course there is no God).

This is a slightly more sophisticated form of the basic question “Who made

God?†Everyone knows that something does not come from nothing. So, if God is

a “something,†then He must have a cause, right?

 

The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came

from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the

question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell

like?†Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the

question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things

that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.

 

How do we know this? We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were

ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would

have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could

never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in

existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused

Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated

Creator who created the universe and everything in it. Sairam.