D’Cruz’s belief that “mankind created in God’s” image is a very simplistic, fundamentalist, and myopic concept.
Hindu scriptures are very specific as to various attribute of God. It clearly states that God has shape of tranquility, color of rain cloud which is denizen of sky, and is supporting foundation of all that is manifest.
The Gita says that God is all the universe and all that manifests in it, be it in any form of life. It is God that creates crop from a seed; God is warmth that gives one an appetite, and fire that digests food that one eats. It is God that puts one to sleep with guarantee that one wakes up hale and hearty next morning.
God is resident inside and outside all that is manifest. It is described as “brahmand” or egg of creator the manifest. It is in him that we live and breathe.
Stephen Hawking has described “God particle” which is not like any human image. God’s image cannot be confined to mere physical body with four limbs and prisoner of a brain and nervous system.
God is created by mankind in an image that suits its intelligence and imagination.
Ramesh Jhalla
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