What's on Your Mind

[InbetweenDreams]

Had a brief glance over your podcast. The heading ”˜Does God want to be worshiped’ caught my eye. Putting aside for now any detailed elucidation of what God is, isn’t or how extensive his/her/it’s powers might be I often find myself wondering how any deity, purported to include all of existence, would want or need to worship itself.

I thought it was an interesting concept that I picked up from somewhere, some article or blog post. One of the things is that we assume God, or whatever it is one believes, has some human like qualities, like emotions, feelings. How are we so sure god exists in such a way. I compared it to how we experience our senses. We have emotion, we have senses but they as much as they allow us to do they are also limiting, so why do we think God is limited by the range of emotions we have, the body we occupy and so on. I feel that if God exists God is far beyond our understanding of consciousness. I can't really answer much on the subject as I don't have as much wisdom as one might think.

Having let the cat out of the bag though I’m mindful my agnostic allergy to all organised religion tells me to stay out of any long discussion of such matters. OK, now and again I lapse when I feel the need to draw attention to the evils of organised religion but generally I try to avoid discussions of concepts few of us can fully grasp.
In case any of a Yogic discipline feel the urge to evangelise I should explain a decade of membership of Ananda Margi cured me of that particular practice and many of its kind.

I don't think there's anything wrong with discussing religion. Frankly, I don't feel I know all that much about religions in general. I had that one guy who was I suppose a Yogi. I don't think his intention was to evangelize as it was to sell his services.