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Where is God?

Exaltist Ethan

Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
God is everywhere. God is in all creation, and God is beyond everything
I agree with this answer. However...
I often pray to God
I don't pray to God because I don't think God can listen.

As something that is all reality by itself I don't give anthropomorphic qualities to God. Reality isn't human. However, I can attend to and shape parts of this reality as I wish so and desire to.
 

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
Here's how Britannica escribes the creative aspect called Maya/Illusion:

maya, (Sanskrit: “magic” or “illusion”) a fundamental concept in Hindu philosophy, notably in the Advaita (Nondualist) school of Vedanta. Maya originally denoted the magic power with which a god can make human beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion. By extension, it later came to mean the powerful force that creates the cosmic illusion that the phenomenal world is real. For the Nondualists, maya is thus that cosmic force that presents the infinite brahman (the supreme being) as the finite phenomenal world. Maya is reflected on the individual level by human ignorance (ajnana) of the real nature of the self, which is mistaken for the empirical ego but which is in reality identical with brahman.
So you're saying that Maya is a quality of Brahman?
 

Vinidra

Jai Mata Di!
I'm a panentheist, so I think we all reside in God. She pervades all the universes and also exists outside of them.

She is both immanent and transcendent.

The immanent aspects pervade everything (as mentioned above) and also exist in the hearts of every person.

The transcendent aspect exists outside everything. For simplicity, you could call it Durgaloka (the abode of Mother Durga), but I'm not sure it's actually a place in the way we understand the word "place."

My understanding may be completely wrong, though.
 

Apostle John

“Go ahead, look up Revelation 6”
So, in your view God has a location. God moves from one location to another, or is God fixed somewhere without moving?
According to the Bible it is in an actual throne room where God resides. I believe it is another dimension also called third heaven in the Bible
 

viole

Ontological Naturalist
Premium Member
According to the Bible it is in an actual throne room where God resides. I believe it is another dimension also called third heaven in the Bible
That might indicate that there is also gravity in that room. Difficult to sit without gravity.

There must be an atmosphere, too, since otherwise angles wings would be useless.

Here is an interesting question: why did God create angels so that they can go airborne with wings like birds, and not like, say, helicopters? Or by local suspension of gravity?
My answer: whoever invented angels knew about birds, but had no clue of other forms of vertical transportation. Nor of gravity. Hence he gave them birds like wings.
Can you find a better one?

Ciao

- viole
 

Apostle John

“Go ahead, look up Revelation 6”
That might indicate that there is also gravity in that room. Difficult to sit without gravity.

There must be an atmosphere, too, since otherwise angles wings would be useless.

Here is an interesting question: why did God create angels so that they can go airborne with wings like birds, and not like, say, helicopters? Or by local suspension of gravity?
My answer: whoever invented angels knew about birds, but had no clue of other forms of vertical transportation. Hence he gave them birds like wings.
Can you find a better one?

Ciao

- viole
Does Spirit and energy move with gravity. Atmosphere like earth lol. God made the air for birds not angels.
 

viole

Ontological Naturalist
Premium Member
Does Spirit and energy move with gravity. Atmosphere like earth lol. God made the air for birds not angels.
Yes, and He made thrones for people sitting on them, not for Gods, who probably even lack the organ which is needed to sit down.

Ciao

- viole
 

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
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Premium Member
God is within and without, God is immanent and transcendent. “I am the [Universal Soul], seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings”. Bhagavad Gita 10.20
 

syo

Well-Known Member
So, in your view God has a location. God moves from one location to another, or is God fixed somewhere without moving?
There is a place where only Gods live. Brahman lives in this godland with other gods. Brahman does god things over there.
 
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