Who is God?

God is not a deity or an external power that blesses us, it is our conscience. The ‘path to god’ that people tread on is in fact the path to our own self- our ultimate purpose in this world.

The answer to who Shiva is requires significant knowledge of Indian spirituality but if I ask myself based on what has actually been working for me, perhaps Shiva is not a god but our ultimate goal- the locus of where our being is headed. And the journey to that self is what our life is about.

(Excerpt from 'In Search of Shiva')