Passage 5

In English

The first category of people describe God as being present in the smallest thing in the world as well as in the biggest thing. It is their concept that God is present everywhere and is all-powerful. The second category believe that God comes in human form whenever there is difficulty, injustice and man’s bad deeds have become too many. They believe that God responds to the needs of the people. However, then as well as now, there can be no direct proof of God’s existence and no one can prove his existence or the absence of God either. If we base ourselves on the experience of the first category of people, we can have some basis on which to accept the existence of God. It is their concept that God is present as the tiniest of the tiny things and as the biggest of the big things. One may ask how we can see the tiniest of tiny particles and the biggest of big things. Air which constantly moves around us is present at all times but are we able to see the particles of air? In that context, how can we see the tiniest among the tiny? We are not able to see even the small particles that we call atoms. How then can we see the particles smaller than that? Now let us ask if we can see God as the largest amongst the large things. The sun is much bigger than the earth and is many millions of miles away. Even if we travel at 500 miles per hour, we will still take more than 200 years to reach the sun. Also, there are millions of such suns. Everything that is at such a great distance appears as small as a tiny star. These stars are like our sun and, in some cases, even larger. They appear as if they are close to each other. The distance between one star and another star is again very large. If we take as much time as 200 years to one sun, how much time will we take to reach all the stars. Thus, we are unable to see either the tiny aspect or the large aspect of the creation itself. How then can we see God?