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How Big Is God?
So if God is just another name for All That Is in Creation, he must be pretty fricken’ huge! The universe is infinitely large, and there are an infinite number of universes. Yikes! That’s mind-boggling!
Yet there actually is no reality outside myself. I am the entire Universe, in a sense, folded in on itself. That would make the universe infinitely small. Nowhere, really. Here where I am, but nowhere else. Distance is an illusion based upon the dualistic idea of two separate objects with a measurable distance between them, a here and a there.
Is the universe everywhere or nowhere? Both seem to be correct.
Another paradox! Awesome! That’s a sign that we’re onto something!
How do we see through the paradox?
Even if we were to intellectually hear the “solution” to the riddle, it wouldn’t be enough. It isn’t until you become the paradox that it will truly click.
Spiritual awakening shows us that, “Oh yeah, of course this is the case.” That which we’ve heard many times finally makes sense. It clearly is the case. The way to understand the paradox is to raise your consciousness.
So I’m going to ask you. How big is God?
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WOW, it’s a hard question! How big is God? well! I think God is all the positive energy that we can find in the universe, so God is as big as all the things, stars, galaxies or universes and even more.
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November 25th, 2008 at 4:55 am
quote Bingo promotions: “God is all the positive energy that we can find in the universe.”
And all the (so called/labelled) negative energy as well. A least in my view.
How big do i see God?
I see it that God is all there is. So to me everything I see, feel, register is God. In my view this universe we live in, is within God. Like my stomach is within me. Except that God has uncountable amounts of stomachs, and can create more or distract as many as he wants.
So this universe is within God, but yet he also trancends it, because “he” is much “bigger” (since we’re talking about space) then this universe. Since he is beyond and without space also, so without beginning (or middle) or end. It’s beyond perception of my senses I think.
How I came to see it as this, Is because what is said in the Bhagavad Ghita. Which explains it pretty clear in my view.
Quotes from the bahagavad Ghita:
Chapter 7 text 12
I am, in one sense everything, but I am independent. I am not under the modes of material nature, for they, on the contrary, are within me.
Chapter 7 text 8 and 9
I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable om in the vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.
I am the roiginal fragrance if the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics.
Chapter 11 (as “god” dispalayed his universal form to Arjuna)
Arjuna saw in that universal form, unlimited mouths,
unlimited eyes, unlimited wonderful visions.
Arjuna could see the unlimted expansions of the unicerse sutuated in one place although devided into many, many thousands.
I see your body many, many arms, bellies, mouths and eyes expanded evrywhere, withoutlimit. I see you no end, no middle and no beginning.
You are without origin, middle or end. Your glory is unlimted. You have numberless arms, and the sun and moon are your eyes. I see you with blazing fire coming from your mouth, burning this entire universe by your own radiance.
So Who created “Big” and infinitely Big ? Who created small and infinitely small? Who can put the infinitely big inside the infinitely small and still have room ? How big is The One Who created size and was existing before its existence ?
Yes God’s BIG He is al Kabir and al Adhim in arabic .. the Greatest and the Unimaginably Vast .. but translations do no justice …
He is unimaginably big but as He is out of imagination .. how can we apply any adjective to Him Who is out of mind and imagination and beyond concepts ? Through His Divine Names we know that He is al Kabir and al Adhim but also He is not quantifiable … so …
How big is God ?