What is God?
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"God is not a being to be worshipped but the very essence of existence that can only be felt in the silence of your own being."
According to Osho, God is not a person but a presence—godliness: the living, luminous quality of existence felt in profound silence, beauty, and bliss. It’s an experiential aliveness and oneness, not an object of dialogue or petition. Drop mental chatter, be here-now; through meditation you recognize this pervasive vitality everywhere. Theist and atheist beliefs miss this direct, wordless realization. It is everyone’s birthright.
God isn’t someone to talk to; it’s the aliveness in everything that you notice when you become very quiet inside.
Why this matters practically
- Shifts you from begging or worship to meditative awareness here and now.
- Reduces division and fear by sensing one life in many forms.
- Encourages compassion and joy through direct experience rather than belief.
- Reduces division and fear by sensing one life in many forms.
- Encourages compassion and joy through direct experience rather than belief.
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