The myth about God
Sometimes I wonder about the moment the idea of God was first created in the human mind. Not because God does not exist, but because that idea quietly made humanity dependent: always looking outward, always waiting for someone else to arrive and take away pain, suffering and fear.
From childhood we are taught to look for help outside ourselves, to pray for rescue, to believe that salvation will come from somewhere beyond us.
Yet every scripture and every enlightened being has told us the same thing, again and again: the Divine Light already lives within us. It powers us. It illuminates us. And still, by a strange irony, instead of walking toward that inner source we turn the enlightened beings themselves into Gods. Those beings never claimed to own divinity. They discovered it within. They walked inward, realized the truth of Who Am I, and came back only to remind us that the same light lives inside us.
Their message was simple and profound: I am the creator, the operator and the destroyer of my own life. But the mind, driven by fear and illusion, creates Maya. It convinces us that someone outside is responsible for our well-being, our suffering and our destiny. So we stay distracted, searching everywhere except the one place where the truth lives.
Guides, not rulers
The deeper truth is this: we are all our own Gods. Enlightened beings are not rulers over us. They are guides. They walk beside us, hold our hand and gently lead us inward, until the day we are ready to stand on our own and experience the ultimate truth for ourselves.
Temples, Gurudwaras, Mosques, Synagogues and other sacred spaces are not destinations. They are gardens, where the seeds of love, devotion, trust and grace are planted in the soil of our minds.
Until we discover our own truth, we need something to believe in and something to lean on. It does not matter whether that faith takes the form of Jesus, Moses, Allah, Guru Nanak, the Hindu deities, a tree, a leaf, a stone or any symbol that speaks to your heart. What matters is the depth of your trust. That trust becomes your companion on the inward journey, guiding you gently until the moment you meet your own Vaheguru, the Almighty within.
When the realization dawns
When that realization dawns, everything changes. You understand that you are a spark of the same infinite consciousness that created the universe. You are both the director and the actor of your own life, and you become responsible for your own destiny. The ego and the restless mind fall into their rightful place as servants of the Divine Light instead of its masters. The noise of the outer world loses its power. It can no longer disturb the stillness rising within.
In that silence, the purpose of coming to Earth becomes clear.
So when you find a quiet moment in your day, pause. Turn inward. Ask yourself the most sacred question a human can ask: Who am I?
May you one day choose to walk within and discover the God you have been searching for all along.