Understanding The Identity Of The Supreme (God)

It's not too difficult to understand that out of all the billions of souls,
there is One who could be designated as the Supreme (God), because of His
perfect love, total truth and absolute beauty. It is reasonable to accept
that such an unlimited being is never born from a mother's womb nor
undergoes the experience of death. He never passes through the stages of
growing up nor gets involved in specific relationships with individuals. *Just
as every human soul has a mind, intellect and a specific set of 'sanskars'
that determine each one's individuality, the Supreme would also be made up
of these three energies - each functioning at their most perfect
levels.*Because He remains beyond the play of things in the physical
world, the
power and sharpness of these basic capabilities never decrease. His original
qualities are neither lost nor reduced. Before coming here from the soul
world, we also had qualities similar to those of the Supreme but not to the
same unlimited extent.

If we identify ourselves totally with the physical body, the idea that God
created human beings in His image may have led us to believe that the human
form is God's image. Perhaps that is how we created the figure of an old
white-bearded man (as God) sitting up in the heavens, controlling, rewarding
and punishing humans as well as nature as He found fit. Whenever God is
depicted in modern-day cartoons, it is as such. The contradiction is that
such a 'God' appears to have been created in our image, with both our best
virtues and our worst defects.