Why Do We-Remember God?

3 years ago By Yogi Anoop

Why do we need to remember God?

Is God material that we need to remember him? How can there be a need to remember a power which is already omnipresent and ubiquitous? It shows that God is being treated as material, isn't it? 

Undeniably, we need to remember something which is either material or something that is a fragment of our imagination. Those who think of God or give an image to the supreme power in their minds are the ones who need to remember it as well.  

Some people do not believe in idol worshipping, they say the supreme power has no name, shape, size or colour, despite believing this, they say that God is up there, which means that they are still attaching some sort of dimension to the idea of how God must be therefore are assigning a direction to God's seat. 

The other thing to observe is that if you give a form to the supreme power, you are implying that God is finite, whereas, God is infinite and in such a situation, how can one remember God? This would be the biggest double-standard in my opinion.  

Humans, out of sheer ignorance, have turned God into something that needs to be remembered. Remembering God helps in overcoming obstacles in life, increasing strength, motivation; visiting places of worship increases positivity but in reality, God is within us and can be experienced from wherever we are. 

We must remember, whatever is experienced by faith does not have perfect knowledge as it is first brought into imagination and then converted into an experience, for example, ghosts or the perception of heaven and hell. Have we ever experienced any of it? No. How do we know that ghosts or hell and heaven exist? Through imagination, right? An imagination of ghosts gives rise to fear in the mind and body. 

Similarly, heaven and hell are first imagined in the mind, then the effort is made to experience the happiness and sorrow that must take place there.

What I mean to say here is that only the realization of an object leads to the real experience. If one tries to imagine the object only by imagining it, then I consider this experience to be imaginary and this is the root cause of ignorance.

In the end, I would say that God is not a thing to be remembered. Seekers, who are experiencing their own existence, witness something akin to a divine experience. This is the truth - the existence of self is unimaginable but experienceable.

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