November 07, 2026
The idiom is, Aham Brahmasmi. It means "I am God myself."
God is all-pervasive. He is everywhere. No wonder Hindus pray to stones, mountains, rivers, animals, plants, objects and all, you name it. And of course, to people too. Adi Shankaracharya announced that what is in the universe is in our cells too. Many Hindus believe in this philosophy, even if they do not exhibit the belief in their everyday actions unfortunately.
My question to myself was: if I am God myself, then how come I am not perfect? I have so many anomalies and defects... wasn't God supposed to be perfect?
On introspection, one answer that came to me was that God had perfectly 'designed' me to be imperfect. He may be perfect, but if everything was individually perfect too, then the universe would not be an active one. It wouldn’t be 'running', so to say.
He has designed each existence in such a way that each depends on something else; nothing is really free totally. There were to be actions and reactions. If everything were perfect, then there would be no need for any action by anything.
We are carefully designed to be imperfect. Each is chosen to be uniquely different and uniquely imperfect.
But then, if He is everywhere, how could He design other things which are Himself yet not perfect? A contradiction or flaw in the hypothesis?
Nope.
On second thought, I understood that He is imperfect in parts and perfect as a whole! An engine alone will not move, but an engine and parts in a vehicle will move. The whole, the parts, the process, the outcome—it is all Him.
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