The Concept of God:  The Source or the Mainframe Computer

 "God is not a being and is  free of everything and therefore he is everything".  —  Meister Eckhart

             There are many ways to describe God. It depends on how we want to perceive Supreme Consciousness. The word God is never openly discussed in The Matrix Trilogy. Instead, God is symbolized as The Source, the mainframe computer from which all the programs for The Matrix originate, including The Architect, The Oracle, and other programs that control the Matrix world. The movie is about Neo’s journey to meet The Source, which culminates in his Self-realization, or in religious terms, God-realization. Reaching God is the only way to end all the internal and external conflicts, which is how the movie ends. It is interesting to note that the truth the Upanishads speak about God is universally understood by God-realized people irrespective of their cultural origin. Here is a representative quotation by the German Scholastic, Meister Eckhart:

 "Back in the womb from which I came, I had no god and I was myself, a pure being, a knower of myself by divine truth . . . Therefore I pray God that he may leave me of god, because the unconditioned being is above god. I am my own cause, both of my eternal and my temporary being. By virtue of being eternal I shall never die. If I had not been, there would have been no god". - German Scholastic, Meister Eckhart:

             Neo experiences light (Jyoti) in every step he takes while walking towards The Source. Neo is shown as the embodiment of light. When we reach The Source, we understand that we are made of nothing but light, the Consciousness principle behind all energy and matter.

            The Source is God, Supreme Consciousness with no form, and so can only be symbolically represented. The misunderstanding of who, or what, God is has been the cause of conflict, wars, and suffering throughout the ages. One group says he is like “this” and fights or persecutes another group who says, no, he is like “that.” Neuroscientists from the University of California at San Diego have found what they call the “God module” in a tiny group of nerve cells in the frontal lobe that appears to be activated during religious experiences. But this is just the material functioning of awareness in the brain, when God is thought of as an “experience.” Consciousness (God) is not an experience and has no physical form, and can only be known on the level of unmanifest Consciousness.

            As long as we hold onto a specific concept of God as a person or image, it is difficult to know Him as Consciousness. All religions and theologies are like boats to carry us across the ocean of ignorance. Once across the ocean, we have to step off the boat. Clinging to one view or another of God will make us reluctant to leave the boat and take the journey into the Inner Self where we can experience God.   

            God is neither male nor female, and has no form or image. Look at the quote from Neale Walsch, in his latest book Tomorrow’s God.

 Tomorrow’s God does not require anyone to believe in God. .Tomorrow’s God is without gender, size, shape, color, or any characteristic of an individual living being, unconditionally loving, nonjudgemental, non-condemning, and non-punishing.”            —   Neale Walsch

 The Upanishads teach that understanding “reality” is the only way to know God, and the reality is consciousness. Look at Joel Goldsmith 's quote from his Christian tradition.

The necessity for giving up the material sense of existence for the attainment of the spiritual consciousness of life and its activities is the secret of the seers, prophets, and saints of all ages.    — Joel S. Goldsmith (1892-1964)

 We can Deny God as a male or a female or a thing or in any form, but we cannot deny God as consciousness through which we “witness” everything. 

Here is a beautiful book that explains God. The author is a research scientist and beautifully difference between consciousness and awareness, the two terms commonly confused. Everyone  should read this book "Journey To The Source: Decoding Matrix Trilogy to understand whether God as “Consciousness” exists or not.

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