Ever since I had my first encounter with the fact that God exists in each one of us, in every substance and matter and in practically everything that is visible to us and in those even which are not visible to us, I’ve wondered….How?
I was not able to figure it out. Despite of my inability to make a sense out of it, I completely believed it. Well, this started after I had an experience which according to any normal human being was disastrous in nature. Anybody would have resorted to drinking, smoking or any other mind diverting stuff to get out of it. People do face difficulties in life and that’s what marks their climb ahead. Every person deals with problems and difficulties in their own unique ways. I had mine. Instead of resorting to mind diverting ideas or ways, I resorted to god. I believed in God since ever but I never tried to study him. Then when I was going through this grey patch of my life, when everything was falling apart and it never seemed to get back in shape, I tried to find solace in God. Now, again this is nothing special. Many others have done that before and many are going to do it further. However, this was the time when I realized, somehow, if I’m right, why God is omnipresent!
All life we study, learn and forget and then re-study, re-learn and re-forget. This is a never-ending cycle. In the mean while we grab few things which we never forget, we never have to learn them again and we never study them again. This net result of this lifelong exercise more or less decides what kind of personality we belong to. Some learn fast, some learn slowly, some can remember it some cannot. All these variations make us more and more diversified. No matter how diversified we become in the case of personalities, we’ll still stand on the same platter when we breathe. Nobody breathes differently. There are number of things which we do in a perfectly similar manner no matter how different we are. So this means that we all are similar and connected in some way or the other. Believe me; all the great things in this world are simple in nature. God is one of them!
When we re-examine this statement that, “God is Omnipresent”, we will quickly take it as a hypothetical statement which motivates us towards religion and belief. It certainly looks like one, but if we study it more closely, we’ll understand the logical aspect of it. Long back when I was in 5th or 6th standard, I learned in my mathematics class that you can never draw a line because a line is infinite. Whatever you can draw is a line segment but not a line. When I see it more closely, I can see one more property of a line except that it’s limitless in nature. If a line is infinite while running both ways, one can never determine a start, middle or an end to it. While line segment is the most important thing in Geometry, a line, which is in a way is the mother of the line segment, is ambiguous in nature. Why is it so? It defies our logic and our ability to prove. So, you can never draw a line because if you’ll do so, you’ll end up drawing a line segment. You can never start drawing a line, can never reach its middle and hence there is no end to it!
We’ll leave line to where it is. Let’s talk about a pixel. What is a pixel? Pixel: Each of the small areas of uniform illumination of which the image is formed on a television or computer screen etc. This is the literal meaning. Pixels join each other and create an image. A pixel or a point is the lowest unit of a picture. To testify this you can enlarge any picture to the maximum and you’ll find small pixels joined in a manner so that they can form a shape. Here is the catch, all pixels join and make a beautiful picture, but what are these pixels made up of? Well, if u guessed it, u are right, another set of pixels! Again, take one pixel out of this set and try to determine what this pixel is made up of. Another set of Pixels!! Can you reach somewhere? I’m not sure. You can never ever find the last pixel! That’s because the last pixel is always made up of another set of pixels. There is a limit of zooming into it but there is no limit of its existence. This goes the other way round as well. If you zoom out from the picture up to the maximum, it’ll become a pixel in itself. A picture itself is always a part of a bigger picture. It’s a block that we take out from the complete view. If we start joining these pictures together by zooming out and converting them into a pixel, we’ll again never be able to find an end of it. We can keep on zooming out and we’ll get a picture of our planet in between and then still we can zoom out and will reach our galaxy but we can zoom out still more to convert that galaxy into a pixel! Universe never ends. Take an example of Google Earth. You zoom in to your city and then to your home and then you can zoom out and see the earth as well. So this way we can deduce the properties of a pixel. It never starts, there is no middle and there can be possibly no end to it. As you can see pretty easily now that properties of pixel and line are somewhat similar in nature. There is a difference though. A line is always made up of pixels but a pixel is never made up of lines. Even if you say that a square pixel consist of horizontal and vertical lines, still those lines are again made up of pixels!
Pixels and lines are inter-related though and in a very beautiful manner. A line J passes through a pixel say X, this imaginary X is neither a start nor middle and definitely not an end of this line. This pixel is just a random point on this unlimited line. Random it may be but X can be a point of concurrence between line J and another line K. Now we are talking about only two lines here but can you determine how many lines can pass through this pixel named as X? If we imagine it in our head, thousands of lines passing pixel X, slowly the unison of this pixel as a center point and all the lines passing will emerge into a circle. Now as we know for sure that lines are limitless, can you determine the circumference of this circle or the area of this circle or the diameter? It’s impossible.
Still, while if some of us are trying to determine the size or value of above quantities, again there can be innumerable circles amidst circle one. There can be infinite lines passing from other circles as well, consisting of infinite pixels. Infinity is taken as a value in mathematics in order to prove some typical problems, but infinity is an imaginary value, no one can determine it. One can apply science with the definite values only. Something which is indefinite in nature goes beyond science and human intelligence. Our planet looks like a pixel when we zoom out and see Milky Way in form of a picture. We live in this pixel. And we ourselves are a part of this pixel. We ourselves become a pixel somewhere!
Let’s come back to the statement of God being Omnipresent. We surely do believe that God is everywhere, and then too we are not able to find him. That is because we forget that we are a part of that, ‘everywhere’. If God is really there everywhere, then I say that God is a Pixel. We are a pixel too. Anything which is so abundant in nature that we are unable to determine the start, middle or an end of it, is bound to be God only. We think of God as our savior and our mentor, which he surely is but we must understand this fact that God is the material from which we all are made. No matter how good or bad we are we were produced from the same material that is God. Zooming out resembles to leave a focus and looking at a bigger picture. Leaving a focus, leaving a position, leaving a smaller block of picture, in short, leaving brings us near to something much bigger. If you keep zooming out of the short picture, you are leaving something but technically you are gaining more. Being an ascetic connects you more with the material of life. No matter how much you zoom out, the picture you are looking at will still be a pixel of a next bigger picture. You can determine the size of your pixel, if you want to see god in the form of an astronomically large galaxy or in the form of a simple dot on a piece of paper, it depends on you.
God will remain same everywhere!
