God Is Like A Space

In the Upanishads, there is a beautiful story. A young boy of eight years asks his father, ‘Father, what is God like?’ So, the father takes the boy by the hand outside the home, and asks, ‘What was there in this place before the building was built?’ 

The boy says, ‘Empty space.’

The father asks, ‘And where does this building stand?’

The boy answers, ‘In the space.’ 

‘And when the building is demolished, what will be here?’ 

The boy says, ‘Space'. 

The father says ‘So, space is something which is always there, right?’ The boy says, ‘Yes.’ 

The father then says, ‘That is what God is like.’ God is like the space in which everything comes, in which everything stays, into which everything dissolves. That can never be destroyed. And it is always there.'