Is there one God, many Gods, no God or what?

@ramanandg I'm happy to meet other spiritually-inclined people. As we swim down the river towards God (the ocean) we have to be careful that the pollution doesn't harm us spiritually.

Thanks for believing in me as a spiritual person. I believe in every religion as they are all like rivers that might originate anywhere but in the end merges with the mighty ocean who we call God.

@1hopefulman while swimming down the river and if we meet the pollutants, our spirituality will make them clean and worth itself.

Very true! Every believer/follower wants to maintain and should maintain its individuality and that's why we have a bouquet of colorful flowers of beliefs and religions. The only bad thing is that when some take undue advantage of religious feelings for their ulterior motives and make gullible person fight in the name of religion.

@ramanandg We are born as individuals...but we make parties..mix our individuality and what comes as result is always as horrible as adultered things.

I agree with you that the universe is like a one whole body and we are parts of it and energy is flowing from one part to another, from one part to everything/everyone and from everything/everyone to every individual.

Very well said. The best you said is about the right even to be an atheist/agnostic. That is true freedom.

@HebrewGreekStudies What I meant to state was the very Existence/Nature is God. The whole existence is god. "God killing God" is happening in existence itself. It is like when you a view a tissue (human) sample under a microscope you will find some small cell like thinks dying, some are originating, some attacking others, some helping others in their repair. Having said that, if you are one of those small cell like structures inside a human body you will definitely feel the pain and/or joy with above mentioned things, but the body as a whole is healthy and functioning. Same is the universe/existence/God. It's all happening by itself. A wilder beast eats grass, a tiger eats the wilder beast and the tiger is hunted by a hunter. It is a very complicated thing to understand for anyone or to make others understand unless we reach the level where we are one with the universal consciousness. The universe is vibrating in a particular rhythm, if we, somehow, bring us to that level of vibration/consciousness, we will be able to feel the oneness and then will start seeing the things as they are and not as what we think they are. Our thinking is based on past experiences and we cannot judge the present on past experiences. Jesus said, "Forgive them as they do not know what they are doing." - God killing God. When we personify or give identity to God, we limit Him. God is omnipresent, it everywhere and in everything. The moment we give Him some name, identity, picture, structure, we make him limited. And we are too minuscule to define Him until and unless we merge in him. That's why Buddha and Lord Mahavir meditated for years and attained the Truth. Experiencing God is an inner journey, being still, and going deep and deep to the very core of our soul. Well, these are all talks, I am meditating regularly. What I concluded from listening and reading the various Saints and the few ones who have attained that oneness stage is that it is the ego which is the biggest obstacle. Let the ego down, you are one with God. But God is so near, in fact, within our heart, and still so far to meet. Letting one's ego down is the biggest challenge in the world. You can fast for 100 days, you can pray for weeks, you can do charity and service for decades but letting your ego out is the most difficult challenge for ones those are in path of spirituality.

@innertalks You have summarized exactly what Indian Vedas say, "Aham Brahmasmi" which means, I am God and the best way to describe this Sanskrit (Oldest language) phrase is, "It is only He and not Me, because I am dwelling in Him. Everything we see, feel, and do is happening in Him. We are like various forms of Him. He expresses himself through us. It is like waves in the ocean. When we see waves we differentiate them from the ocean but they are a part of it and not separate."

@innertalks So true, we are all interconnected and energy flows from one another. It's the ego which makes us feel good or bad about others. If we meditate and reach the level that once Buddha attained we can be one with everyone and everything.

@ramanandg Well, what I said must contain some amount of generally acceptable truth in it then. Are we any more than just a wave then that rises and falls, but in itself it can either be powerful or weak, at various times, but has no substance to itself really, as it is just a movement on top of the ocean. Does God cause the movement though, or do we? Who creates the waves? I think that the ocean of love is incredibly activated by any instance of it (i,e a part of the ocean, or us, or a part of God's love) reassuring itself of its continuity, but allowing this continuity to disperse itself again, and again then too. We are individuals, but of the moment. We rise above an ocean only to fall back into it again. And yet each drop of the ocean is a part of God also, and only by joining to another drop, can we ever begin to love the whole as God does. Which is why Jesus Christ told us to love one another as he loves us. The waves are produced by the activity of the oneness/God expansively stretching itself/himself, across itself/himself in ever new ways. No two waves are the same because of God's input to them. We ride these waves, and are a part of them too I suspect.