Ask Deepak: Is Evolving God?

[Goddess Lily Seymour]

Question:

If God is evolving, how does one go about explaining it?

Answer:

The evolution of God is a way of understanding the immanence or participation of God in creation. Some people have a hard time conceptualizing God as both the transcendent creator as well as being involved in creation simultaneously without losing Her transcendent status. In Vedic terms, these are understood as Shiva and Shakti, the unified silent/active transcendent/creative aspects of God.

One can think of creation as the means through which consciousness creates a way to actualize Self-realization. The evolution of this self-knowledge can be understood as God’s evolution. The eternal, infinite status of God is not diminished or augmented by the participation in creation because Self-knowledge reveals that what you are is what you have always been. Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita says, “Having created the world, remaining in my own nature, I entered into it” God’s involvement in creation is how we understand divine love, grace and mercy. The Catholic Church uses the mystery of the Trinity to explain how God can be both outside of the limitations of creation and simultaneously intimately concerned with its redemption.

It may be easier to learn to accept this paradox when we realize that we are living with this contradiction in our own lives every second. Our silent, transcendent Self, which is immortal, unborn, infinite and free is in some strange way also involved with the limitations and restrictions of a body and mind in space and time. Furthermore, it is evolution of these created vehicles of the mind and body that becomes the process through which we fully know our infinite, immortal nature─that perfection which we have always been.

Love,
Deepak

[Comdr. * LightSpeed *]

Hello Gooddess,

Of course I am not Dr. Chopra but this topic is hot! God is a fallen creator, turned Good. If we are his offspring, then we possess or rather inhearited the attribute of free-will and have in our hands to do good or to do evil. (An old religious dogma removed from mainstream religions long ago) It has always crossed my mind that it is unintelligent to think that a human could communicate with the Absolut. Excuse me, but the Absolut is not God. Ok, now we might begin to have problems when someone comes along and trys to change something but it is possible to communicate or make contact with God, not the Absolut...we are that and this is the paradox. How could we be and live without "It", and how could "It" be and live without "Us". Parhaps you have seen that now that I've made my point, the discussion is over. We just can't really know. At least I will always be the first to admit this.

Comdr * LightSpeed *

p.s.
I hope to publish my first book before christmas. The title is "Tempus"
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[Patty]

Lily, I think that God is All. He is the Creator, maintainer, sustainer, substance, supplier of All creation. To contact God who lives within us is to raise our consciousness....focusing on the silence and "peace that passes all understanding". God is Spirit. Our true Self is Spirit and free. Only this human, mental personal self is limited and unable to contact spirit until we realize the truth...God is the Life we are. We are God individualized....not humanly but Spiritually...the Christ. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock"....we have to listen for His voice....we have to drop all human thoughts and beliefs. The more we all learn to just BE, to allow God to do the activity He wants, will be a more advanced humanity.