Is God a Positive Energy?
Nowadays, we want logic for everything. Reason for everything. Validation for everything.
This is a habit — a habit created by the western, modern, scientific education that we have been undergoing through decades. Again, it is not something very recent either. We have had many schools of thought even within Sanatana Dharma which tried to rely more on logic and reasoning — some only on logic and reasoning.
Merely theorizing God.
You don’t hear about them anymore. They have mostly died. Their natural death.
The recent tendency to call God an energy, positive energy, is also something similar. The problem is not with the term. The problem is with the mind of the listener — which the speaker doesn’t understand.
He or she thinks that something that can be easily understood by the new generation has been discovered by him or her — coined by him or her.
The problem is that the listener is going to identify or think that God is like the charge inside a battery, or the electricity inside the wire which will run a fan, the energy in petrol that can make your two-wheeler run, the nuclear energy, the kinetic energy, the potential energy.
I am not saying that these are not God. They are something else.
But when you call God an energy — this is what the listener is going to think. God is like that power inside a battery. Temple is that shell of the battery. God theorized and simplified.
Now you can write an equation about God — E = mc² — something like that, which can explain God mathematically.
This is not what our Dharma has taught us. This is western thought process. Don’t fall into this trap.
You know what this is like? You throw a net into a vast ocean, catch something — whatever: fish, or shells, or decayed vegetation — come back and say: see, this is all that is there in the ocean. See what I have found. This was all the big fuss about.
Divinity simplified. Divinity made scientific. Divinity reasoned out.
Don’t fall into this trap — this energy stuff.
God cannot be explained by reasoning. God cannot be fathomed by reasoning. God cannot be explained by mathematical equations. God cannot be made into a formula. God cannot be made into a recipe.
यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते। अप्राप्य मनसा सह।
God begins where words end. God begins where mind ends.
Words and mind go to God, try to grab him — like that net with which you are trying to catch what is there in the ocean. They try to grab him, fail, and come back.
But there have been very smart people who knew another way to reach him — through devotion, through surrender. In this, you don’t have to go to him. He will come to you.
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