Let us suppose that there is a table made of wood. The question “Why is this table made of steel?” cannot have any meaningful answer because the question is based on a wrong assumption. In the same way, the question “Can man become God?” contains several improper assumptions. First of all, it assumes God to be a static entity; it gives a conceptual fixity to Divinity. When people talk of God, they can only think in terms of the verbal description and the associated concepts given to them by their religious or other conditioning. It is with this idea of God that they ask the above question. They are afraid to question whether such concepts have any intrinsic reality beyond their mental projections.The next impropriety arises from the fact that if man becomes God, what happens to the original God?! Does He become bigger because a new fellow has come in? Or, is there now a second God? Or, if the fellow disappears into the original God, he is no longer there; so, where is the question of ‘becoming’?
There is also the question of identification. By ‘man’, do they mean the body of the man or his mind? They may say that they are talking about his soul. How is the soul identified? Does it have the same name and form of the body? It cannot be because they pertain to his social connections which disappear with bodily death.
Like the above, there are many more improper assumptions and offshoots associated with the question. It is a pity that the vast majority of human beings are trapped by sectarian religious conditioning, leading to division of humanity and the associated fanaticism and violence. It is the people who get caught in such brainwashing that ask questions of the above kind. Obviously, true spirituality is beyond all those ego-based concepts of God and sectarian divisions. From time immemorial, some spiritual masters have attempted to pull humanity away from that deplorable state. However, by and large, their messages have remained a cry in the wilderness.
The Universal Consciousness
When people move away from the conventional neurology, they discover the unfathomable beauty of the inner consciousness. Their practical life will move on as usual but their awareness will begin to deepen and touch something that is intrinsically spiritual. Such a feeling is universal and is unspoiled by sectarian conditioning.
Only when the human being is willing to stand alone and take the inward journey can he find the source of the eternal. As Anita Moorjani, an NDE person, says, heaven is not a place but a state of consciousness that engulfs the whole universe and beyond. Thus Divinity is not perceived through concepts but through the non-verbal experiencing of what lies beyond the apparent. When more and more people turn to that greatness, humanity will reach higher levels of living instead of being swamped by egoism.
J Krishnamrti says, “The higher teaching negates the guru and the psychic experience as a way to liberation. The true spiritual man demands a `life of correctness', a daily life free from all self-centred activity. All psychic experiences as they arise have to be put aside for they can become obstacles and traps to insight, which alone frees man from duality and the bondage of time as the past. “
Related topics are covered in the book “In Quest of the Deeper Self”; details are given in the website http://spirrituality.yolasite.com