We have always believed that God is omnipresent. We understand that He is in the flowers, in the leaves, in the trees and plants, and even in every human being. But is this true? Is it really true that God is present in every particle? Or is the truth something else?
In our devotion, we have been saying, "O fallen one, come and liberate us from this world of sorrow." So we call out to God to come here and liberate us from this world of sorrow. But why do we say "come here"? Have we ever thought about it? If God is present in every particle, then why do we say that He comes here? Surely He must not be present in every particle, but rather somewhere else from where He comes when we call upon Him.
Moreover, whenever we pray to God, our eyes turn upwards towards the sky and we even say that God lives up there. So if He lives there, then how can He be present in every particle? This is something to think about, isn't it? It cannot be both, can it?
When it comes to the question of God's omnipresence, there is one thing we must definitely pay attention to: We all believe that God is an ocean of love, infinitely compassionate, completely pure, non-violent, and immaculate. So if God is so good and dwells in every particle, then how can there be so much crime in the world today, how can natural disasters be on the rise, and how can animals and birds have become so violent? This is something to think about, isn't it?
If God is present in nature, then it should be peaceful. If God is present in humans, then there should be no cruelty in them either, and there should be no fighting and quarreling among humans. So this also proves that God is not omnipresent.
Moreover, whenever we face any difficulty or sorrow in life, we go to temples. So where has the God who is said to be within us gone when we go to temples? If God is within us, then what is the need to go to temples? We should just worship ourselves, shouldn't we? But we don't do that.
Secondly, if God is present in every human being, then will he go to the temple and stretch out his hands in front of himself? And will he not say to himself in the temple, "O fallen one, come and liberate us from this world of sorrow"? So this also proves that God is not omnipresent.
There is also a verse in the Bhagavad Gita
"Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharata. Abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srijamy aham. Paritranaya sadhunam vinashay cha dushkritam. Dharmasansthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge."
(यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत। अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्।
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्। धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे।)
in which God says, "When there is a time of great unrighteousness in India, then I come." So if God is present in every particle, in every human being, then there should be no unrighteousness in the first place. And then when He says that He comes, then surely He must live somewhere else, from where He comes. If God were present in every particle, then He would not say, "I come," would He? So this also proves that God is not present in every particle. He lives somewhere else from where He comes to Earth.
Now we have understood that God is not omnipresent, but we also need to understand where this illusion of omnipresence comes from. Let us suppose that there is a great devotee of God. This devotee loves God so much that he remembers God every moment, while waking, sleeping, speaking, eating, and so on. Such a devotee will say that wherever he looks, he sees God only. We have interpreted this saying of such a devotee to mean that God is omnipresent. But in reality, what the devotee meant was that the memory of God was so deeply ingrained in his heart and mind that he was constantly reminded of God. If he looked at flowers, the softness of the flowers reminded him of the gentle God. If he met someone, some quality of the person in front of him reminded him of God, the storehouse of all qualities. In this way, everything, every person, nature, animals, birds, everything reminded him of God in some way, and so the devotee said that God is everywhere. So this means that the minds of such devotees constantly remember God. And we have misinterpreted this constant remembrance of God as God's omnipresence.
In addition, when our sages and seers wrote the scriptures, they knew that as time went on, sin would increase. To stop the increase of sin, they wrote, "O man, you are a part of that God, or His part is in you, so do not commit any sin by respecting that part." All the souls that have come into this human body are the children of that God, and therefore it is said that we are His part. Just as we say we are our father's part. But it does not mean that our father is present in us. No no. It means that their DNA is in us. In the same way, all the powers and qualities that God possesses are also present in our souls. In this way, it is said that His part is in us. Part means His powers and qualities. So that's what the sages were saying. And they tried to understand that O human souls, you are the children of that God, so do not dishonor your father by committing any sin. And what was said about nature was that nature is also God's creation, so it should not be harmed either. So the real thing was different, and we sat down and decided that God is omnipresent.
So if we read and ponder over all these things carefully, we will understand that God is not omnipresent. God lives somewhere else from where He comes to make us humans pure and great again. And He comes from somewhere else, that's why we keep calling Him, "O fallen one, come."
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