The idea of this blog post has been running around in my mind for quite some time.  In this blog post I try to give a logical explanation to “God”.  I will try my best not to sound like the jogi baba (spiritual guru) giving a lecture. Note that I am not a atheist and strongly believe in the existence of a Supreme power. Here it goes, do let me know your comments…

First let us try to answer this simple question.  Who/Where/What  is God?

In my humble opinion, I think god is someone who can solve “ANY” problem. I would like to stress on the word again “ANY”.

Lets keep this thought aside for a while. We all face problems in our day to day life. Some are domestic, some professional and so on. That brings up the next question. What do we need to solve a problem?

The most important thing required to solve a problem is INFORMATION. With the proper information we can solve “ANY” problem. A person who know Maths, can easily keep accounts. A person knowing all the languages on earth can talk to anyone.

For the discussion so far we can conclude the following

“God is someone who has all the Information and hence can solve any problem”

With this thought lets move forward. Mere mortals spend their life engrossed in their day to day problems.  In the process they gather information and become adapt in solving their problems. For example the Accountant  becomes a expert in statistics, the musician becomes the Mozart. The point to note here is that, one can become an expert in only one or two subjects. The expert in one subject might not be adapt in solving problems related to another subjects. The following is a clear classification.

God has all the information

Expert (guru) has lots of information on one or more subject.

General public has some information about many subjects. :-)

The experts help the us solve our day to day problems. The Math teacher teaches us accounts. The Gym Trainer helps us keep fit and so on. All these experts are giving us more and more information. In a way they are guiding us towards god. Every great religion has a Guru, a central figure who shapes up the group of people. The central person teaches the common man how to lead a fulfilling life.  They give them more and more information which brings them closer to god.

Trying to reinterpret the statements made so far, In my humble opinion, I think that noone can actually reach god. We can actually treat the teacher to be god, who shows us the way to god. In other words who gives us information.

As the ancient Hindu Scripture point out. matha pitha guru deivam .  Which means, Mother, Father and Guru are Gods. Mother and Father are our first teachers. Guru represents all the teachers, Living and non living.  Books, Internet, TV.  Everything around us can give us some or the other information. And hence the whole world is god.

Now comes the catch. You can call it catch 22. Here it goes.

One also has the information within oneself which can help the one in solving ones own problem. In other words One is also ones own God. In fact one is ones most important source of information, as one can guide oneself to the correct teacher to give the one the proper information to get the one out of the current trouble. If one chooses the wrong teacher the one might end up in more trouble. So choose your teachers wisely, and believe in them. They will take good care of you.

I hope you are convinced with the explanation. I know that some of the points I made in this blog post are inspired by Hindu religious teachings.  The most probable reason why I came up with this line of thinking might be because I am a Hindu myself.  There can be alternate explanations too and I am totally open to them.

An interesting point to note is that, this blog post validates itself.  My teachers (Hindu religious Scriptures) give me information to solve the problem which we originally set out to answer. :-)