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Further saying God is Oneness though preferable as it asserts His Universality and preserves His reality unfortunately that puts Him outside the category of that which can be known. More over to say God is everything is really saying that He is also finite with boundaries because everything exists in a given boundary and is subject to space and time. We can go on endless continuing this enquiry of whether He is One or He is everything and in either case we will meet some illogical conclusions. That many are satisfied with such illogic is not a matter of concern for us.
The concept of God can be broadly categorised into three. Outer God, Inner God and the God of contemplation or meditation. ( We are not considering here the ideas of God as Para, Vyuha, Vibhava, Archa and Antaryamin which were brilliantly presented by Dr. K.C.Varadachari in his book ̳ The Idea of God ̳) The outer Gods are human creations to explain and account for what we do not understand at various points of time. They were created to explain the forces of Nature and generally
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