28 Apr 2012 - QA 5

I have grown up with the concept that God cannot be alive. Now I have met you in person and have heard all the beautiful knowledge, and it feels like I am meeting a living God.
But God cannot be alive. My mind does not understand. I know you are there through the knowledge and love, but I cannot embrace you fully while you are a person.
I can see, I can feel the Divine, it even hurts but I cannot understand. Please advice.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

God is love and love is God, and it is in every one of us. There is nothing that is not God because the whole creation is made up of love. So God is not a person. it is a field. If it is everywhere, it is in you as well.
If it is there at all times, it is there now and here.

You are correct; some people think God is somebody in heaven. He created everything and is now dead and gone. Like the way you sometimes do thanksgiving to the people who have died, you treat God as someone who has gone and thank him.
People don't understand; God is a living presence, alive right now and here. Only in the depth of silence you can experience this. When the mind is quiet and when you say, ‘I want nothing.’ All that is, is only You. With this feeling when you sit, that energy, that silence, the love, that is here and now, you experience it.
That is why when people went to Lord Buddha and asked him about God, he never said anything, he kept silent.
Lord Buddha never spoke about God. In his Satsang, this was one of the conditions that people should not ask him about God.

Eleven questions were forbidden there. One of that was God. Even if you asked, he would not answer, because people have concepts, and they think they know about God a lot. They think that they know and then they argue.
Best is to leave to God to Himself, He wants a break. He wants to rest a little bit.
In India, God is depicted to be resting on a serpent, happily, and creation goes on.

So I would say, be a good human being, and time to time be still and experience the inner peace. You will find the secret of secrets; the doors open to you, so naturally. And then you will realize that this is what people everywhere were talking about; this is what is written in all the scriptures. Bible, Koran or Vedas, everywhere they say the same thing. This is true, it is here, now, in me; that realization.
Again don’t think that one day some realization is going to happen. It is right now!
Be at peace. Peace is the first step towards God. Second is joy and happiness. Third is love. These are the three steps to the home of God.