People who are saying ‘I Am GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, they must know what is God is in actuality.+

How is one to know that what he believes as God is true? This question must prick the seeker of truth.

People who are saying ‘I Am GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, they must know what is God is in actuality.

Before saying ‘I AM GOD,’ one must realize what ‘God’ is supposed to be in actuality. Only ignorant says ‘I AM GOD’ without knowing what it means.

People say I AM THAT ~ I am God, I am Brahman. But when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman remains, not I, it is erroneous to use the word ‘I’ for the Self, because ‘I’ represents the form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the innermost Self is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say "I," If you feel the ‘‘Self’’ is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.

Only religious Godmen declare: I AM GOD. Gnanis say the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ is God.

Mystics talk of universal consciousness. How do they know it in this sky, or in that rock, or in the ocean? It is merely their guesswork or imagination or hallucination based on their samskara or conditioning!

Every man knows God according to his likes and dislikes. That he must know him as Truth. One must have a proof for all the claims - what God has done and what he is doing.

It is no use in arguing with someone who has faith in his belief system because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so, rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly, that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief. One has to know the fact that God cannot exist without his existence. The truth does not depend on 'Gods’ existence, but it entirely depends on man’s existence. Thus, it is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of God's existence without verifying the facts about his own existence.

It is difficult for tradition-bound people to accept anything as truth other than what they inherited from the inborn and inherited conditioning and parental grooming and their accumulated knowledge. Only with an intense urge to know the truth and courage to accept the truth after verification with better understanding one will be able to drop all his accumulated dross, which is the main obstacle in ‘Self’-realization.

What do they know? means, "What do they know as a fact?"

Is there a God? What is his nature?

Let there be proof.

Why did God create suffering and pleasure?

Why does God torture mankind with all types of disasters and epidemics, violence?

Has God no better business to do?

It is useless to say that he is teaching people lessons through these sufferings.

What lesson can God teach the little child destroyed by fire the other day?

How can we believe that God is all-merciful when he constantly displeases the whole of humankind?

How do they know there is an Absolute or a God?

Such questions must arise to the seeker. The onus of proof is on the one who makes this assertion. Without proof, one should not accept any claims as truth.

There is no doubt that mystics saw Vishnu, Krishna, Kali Shiva, Jesus, etc. That they saw visions may be an undeniable fact, but the question is “Was what they saw the Truth?"

Many people make similar claims. They no doubt had such vision but they never stopped to inquire if their visions are true.

What is the value of mystic experience, what is the value of the words of great men? In the pursuit of truth, the seeker has to examine and evaluate them all in order to find the truth. But one has to “Analyze, how far is it true?” because the waking entity itself’ is false ‘Self’ within the false experience. Thus, whatever the false ‘Self’ sees within the false experience is bound to be a falsehood. : ~ 

Santthosh Kumaar