You cannot guess the ways of God || Acharya Prashant, on The Holy Quran (2015)

When your Lord said to the angels, “Indeed, I will make upon the Earth a successive authority.”

They said, “Will You place upon it one who will cause corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?”

God answered,” Indeed, I know which you do not know.”

– Quran

Speaker: The ways of the divine are mysterious. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ are not the right words to be associated with them. When God says ‘Earth’ and when God says ‘successor’ it has to be understood that what is meant by these.

Earth, the entire universe, the whole creation, the entire existence is the work of God, is the expression of God. You could simply say it is Godliness. God exists in the form of all this. But all this prima facie, does not look like God.

Now look at the contradiction. God exists in no ‘form’, other than the form of the ‘total’ alone. There is no particular ‘form’ that God can take, that is the reason why wise men have often and repeatedly said that do not try to give any form to God. It is useless and foolish because his form is ‘total’. And the ‘total’ cannot be represented. So whatever you will represent will be a botched up thing. It will mislead. Don’t do that.