Defending God in the Modern Age
Our communion with God largely rests on our intellectual understanding of Him. Throughout history, humanity has taken varied positions both for and against God. Even among believers, the idea of God has been approached in vastly different—and at times, even diametrically opposed—ways.
Though God is essentially one, the idea of God is not. The God of spirituality differs from the God of religion.
The God of Eastern traditions diverges from the God of Western theology, just as both contrast with the Gods of indigenous faiths.
New Atheists denounce the very notion of God, while philosophers often hold a more nuanced or conflicted view. Classical science has long remained skeptical of all things spiritual, whereas modern science increasingly converges with spiritual insights.
This book is an earnest attempt to examine the idea of God through the lenses of spirituality, monotheism, polytheism, atheism, philosophy, psychology, and science. In the approaching Golden Age, we are likely to witness deeper integration among these diverse streams. This book stands, on one hand, as a humble contribution toward that integration—and on the other, as a pathway for the thoughtful seeker to more clearly define their personal understanding of God, so as to live in alignment with Him more fully.
Place God First
Money, I have realized, is more than ink on paper or a mere medium of exchange. For many, it acts as a perceived safety net — a fragile one at best. Yet if not money, what then provides true security? Only God. Paradoxically, one experiences real safety only through surrender. To be stripped of the false security of money is, in fact, to be armed with a genuine safety net — divine providence itself.
My Himalayan journey, undertaken with a one-way ticket and not a single rupee or mobile phone in hand, offered this lesson in its most vivid form. It was a profound demonstration of how God, in His infinite wisdom, orchestrates the exact help, sustenance, and guidance His devotee requires, regardless of circumstances or apparent limitations. After experiencing this, one gradually learns to live from a space of surrender, trusting implicitly that God always supports, even when the signs are subtle or seemingly absent.
And with that trust comes a natural flowering of service. When one has witnessed firsthand how generously God provides, the heart longs to extend that same generosity outward. Surrender does not lead to passivity, but to an active participation in God’s work — serving others as living extensions of the divine, and becoming, in turn, an instrument of the very providence that once sustained oneself.
Life as we know it is unbalanced for the most of us. We tend to focus on work to the exclusive of personal life, health and relationship.
This book drives home this point through an interesting story-line. With support of his wife Disha, Amar – an over-worked travel entrepreneur recognise how his life is unbalanced. He sees this point with total clarity when he loses a friend to workaholism.
He gets a handle on the situation, gradually shifts gears and starts navigating his life and his company in a thoroughly enjoyable and successful way. He learns from people and cultures who have mastered happy as well as successful living.
This book is a must-read for anybody who wishes to realign his priorities and restore work-life balance.
Nuggets of Wisdom
This book is a collection of a vast variety of byte-sized life wisdom. Posts strung together from my Facebook wall of yesteryears from a time when I was intuiting great insights by the day and sharing them publicly. From relationships to love to boundaries, from prosperity consciousness to wealth creation, from psycho-analytics to shadow work, from spiritual bypassing to dynamics of enlightenment; this book has it all. It is eclectic, profound and worth munching over one insight a day for 365 days.
