Nature of God – My Perspective
Nature of God is misunderstood by masses. While my own understanding of God is ever evolving, I have established a few truths for now. It may change in the future. There is this widely spread idea that God, or the ultimate creator, can do anything. This statement itself has loops. It cannot be true. Say if God can do anything, he can get defeated. But if there is some power that can defeat God, he automatically becomes weaker than at least something. Which does not make sense.
Other idea can be that he can be defeated only when he wants to, so this is how one can try to establish the fact that even if he gets defeated, it was his wish, so he remains God. Okay right, but defeat fundamentally means something which is against what you wanted. So if he wanted to get defeated and he gets defeated, he was not actually defeated, which means he was not able to do anything. In a way, this reveals the flaw in the very concept of omnipotence. We define it as absolute power, but our logic cannot contain such absolutes. Every absolute folds into a paradox.
What I feel is, God cannot do anything. God can do what I call "Bhagwat Karya" or simply "Work of God." God cannot do bad things. He simply cannot do that. By definition, he does everything which is supposed to get done by Lord. This is not a limitation; it's the nature of divinity. A knife cannot heal, and fire cannot freeze. In the same way, God cannot act outside the nature of divinity. The problem starts when people confuse potential with purpose.
People say if God exists, why is there suffering? But isn’t that assuming that the role of God is to prevent pain? Is that what a creator does? Is an author cruel if a character suffers in the story? What if pain is not a bug in the system, but a tool, sharp and uncomfortable, but necessary for shaping something deeper? If God truly acted only to please, the world would be a shallow place. A God who only grants desires would be indistinguishable from a vending machine.
The more I think about God, the more I feel he's not a being who interferes with everything. He is more like a law, unchanging, ever-present, silent. Gravity does not shout, but it holds galaxies together. Fire doesn’t justify itself, but it transforms everything it touches. God, in this sense, is not in the miracles or the exceptions, but in the consistency. In the balance. In the code that runs reality.
If God could do anything at any time, laws of nature would dissolve. History would be chaos. Cause and effect would mean nothing. But that is not what we see. We see order, subtlety, rhythm. That rhythm is God. Not thunderbolts. Not whims. Rhythm.
The idea that God is good not because he chooses good, but because he is good, is difficult for some to digest. We are used to choices, free will, moral dilemmas. But God is not choosing to be just. He is justice itself. He does not avoid evil; it simply does not exist in him. The sun does not avoid darkness. It just emits light. Darkness only appears where the light is absent.
And maybe that’s the point. God doesn’t step into our world to fix everything. He simply shines. And where his presence is felt, clarity begins. Not always comfort, but clarity. Not ease, but alignment. His work is not always visible, but it is inevitable. A seed does not look like a tree, but the tree was always in it. Maybe that’s what faith is, believing the unseen process is still part of divine order.
Sometimes I wonder if the mistake we make is imagining God too much in our own image. We want a God who reacts like we do. We want a God who takes sides, punishes our enemies, gives us rewards, answers all our questions. But maybe God is not a parent. Maybe God is not a king. Maybe God is not even someone. Maybe God is simply truth. His true form is beyond our powers to understand, his true nature is beyond comprehension.
And truth doesn’t panic. It doesn’t argue. It waits.
Jai Shri Narayan.