Our Perception of God

I was born in a village of coastal Malabar. To be specific, Tallacherry in “God’s own country” Kerala. This bit of land has people who are very reactive, left inclined, however rational and strangely God fearing mind you not God loving.

Almost all of us have our own perception of God. To some he/she is a great benefactor all prevailing, loving, and all knowing, despite the fact that none of us have seen him in embodiment. To some he is a fearsome, punishing, ritual loving, bribable, give and take type of a persona.

One may ask what about you? Well I was born into a believer’s family and continued to be so. However at a point of time I would have flipped and badly so and got stuck in a quagmire of no return. I lost my son in a bizarre accident at a sport meet when a javelin

thrown out of turn pierced my son’s head. What I could not understand is why my son, what was his fault? (not that it should have been some one else oh God no). The issue is my son was walking, javelin was traveling in air freely and it picked my son. How do science explain it? (I happen to be a scientist). I have no answer. Call it destiny, call it fate, what? Then it truly dawned to me that there are things beyond we mortals some how what has to happen happens. Lot many things have no answer and this incident was one of those. I took recourse to be God loving in the knowledge that my son Krishna is with Him and hence loved and safe. Thus I believe God is not ritual loving, bribable. You don’t have to go to places of worship give offerings etc. I feel since we all are his children all we need to do is look after his children and He will look after us.

K,V.Radhakrishnan