IT'S THE OTHER WAY ROUND, DEAR DEVOTEE

IT'S THE OTHER WAY ROUND, DEAR DEVOTEE

God depends on man for His existence. Be it the imaginary God of crude dualism or the God who is pure consciousness, it is ever man who conceives, realises, reports about Him and lends Him existence. Beyond man there can be no God. Imagination, refracted perception and immediate realisation are all centred in man, and, hence, the existence of God is dependent on man. Only in the non-dual state of transcendence of relativity the human is dissolved into nothingness and with it the divine also vanishes. What is left is pure consciousness and absolute existence which is the pure man, no different from the pure God. Here man has finally self-focussed and emerged in his own self-brooding as God. So, whichever way you see, the mythical creator God depends on the misapprehending man's imagination, the immanent God in Nature depends upon man's enlightened rationalisation and realisation, and the Absolute God in nirvikalpa samadhi is man in his spiritual essence. In all these man is the experiencer of God whose existence thereby becomes dependent on him. Thus may the opening statement of this piece be reiterated, nay, with force of comprehension and conviction reaffirmed. 

Written by Sugata Bose