God is one - An excerpt from my book

God is One

We are brought up believing that God is omnipotent and omnipresent. Then why do they want us to worship him only in a few forms and at a few particular places??
If he is the almighty then why would he take up a form that resembles only a minuscule of what he has created i.e the human form..?
What makes us believe that he has a nose, two eyes, two ears etc.
Is this because our imagination is limited or we humans think of ourselves at par with God.
If he is ubiquitous then why do we claim to find him at some places depending on the religion he belongs to?
God is the same it is the religion that has divided him and us.

Here is an excerpt from my book 'The Second Life' that is an elaborated version of the above text.

”God is one, God is everywhere, you see that beggar lying on the street, God is inside him. You see that woman selling flowers there; God is inside her, God is inside those flowers. The only place where God is not present are the places where we assume he is, inside the idols” Said an old fakeer sitting outside a dargah to an 8 year old girl who used to come there every day. The old fakeer was embraced by a long kurta that seemed like it has never seen the world of cleanliness. His long grey beard was acting as a store room for food particles, one can easy figure out what his food menu was in the recent past. With ruffled hair and big eyebrows, his eyes remained the only thing that were visible and for the little girl nothing else but the vibe and the aura in those eyes mattered.

“He sees no divide, He sees no colour, He sees no religion, and He sees no caste. For him we all are the same and He never loves any one person more than any other” he adds

“But I have seen many forms of God and all those are very different from each other. One carries a bow with him while the other one looks like a monkey, there’s one with a snake wrapped around his neck and another one with an elephant face. Then I have seen one hanging on a cross and one with huge white beard. They are all different from each other, How can you say that they are all one?” the little girl countered innocently.

“They are all different illusions of him created by us to create a vision of the thing we believe in so much. But in reality no one has seen him in person, like this Char Minar was built by some human’s imagination, these idols of God have been created out of human imagination and this age old vision seen by some person are now encumbered upon you children to believe”

He continues, “God does not want you to imagine him as others did, he wants you to be creative, he wants you to have faith in him and see him in any way you want him to be”

“Hmmm, I am trying to understand what you are saying but Sunanda Tai told me to stay away from muslims as they are cruel people and she beats me every day because I come here to the dargah. The muslim god must be bad that is why Tai said they are cruel?”

“Can you look at the face of a person and tell me that he is a muslim or a hindu? You cannot and likewise there is bad in every religion, not all Hindus are good and not all muslims are bad. I believe in no religion, Religion always creates a divide and makes it easier for us to imagine someone we have faith upon, but that is not what God wants us to do. He did not make any Hindu or Muslim, It is us and that tells us about how great God is irrespective of him being a Hindu or a Muslim”