We can find God everywhere not only indoors

Do you think God is everywhere? Of course, it becomes a little easy to understand this if we bring in a different understanding of God. God, according to theological beliefs, is a Supreme Being and Creator, Giver and Taker of the universe and all life in the universe. The entire creation is Him, and an expression of His Divine Will. He is the atom and also the universe. He is light and also darkness. He is Time and also the beyond of Time. He is the Ishwar and Allah. He is Absolute.

This theological idea creates an awesome image in our mind, which then constructs an image of Him. And using that image we enquire, is God everywhere? Do you see the flaw? If God is the Absolute, He cannot be inquired. We can have nothing but reverence towards Him. But, is He an entity different from us and everything else? Of course not! Now look at all this very differently. Let us turn around our ideas of God, and while turning it around, we will keep checking it with respect to the theological beliefs and ensure that its essence is maintained intact.

Shri Krishna says: The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy. —SBg 18.61

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than all, is attainable by unalloyed devotion. Although He is present in His abode, He is all-pervading, and everything is situated within Him. —Bg 8.22

Srila Prabhupada explains: It is here clearly stated that the supreme destination, from which there is no return, is the abode of Krishna, the Supreme Person. The Brahma-samhita describes this supreme abode as ananda-chinmaya-rasa, a place where everything is full of spiritual bliss. All the variegatedness manifest there is of the quality of spiritual bliss -- nothing there is material. That variegatedness is expanded as the spiritual expansion of the Supreme Godhead Himself, for the manifestation there is totally of the spiritual energy, as explained in Chapter Seven.

As far as this material world is concerned, although the Lord is always in His supreme abode, He is nonetheless all-pervading by His material energy. So by His spiritual and material energies He is present everywhere -- both in the material and in the spiritual universes. Yasyantah-sthani means that everything is sustained within Him, within either His spiritual or material energy. The Lord is all-pervading by these two energies. To enter Shri Krishna's supreme abode or the innumerable Vaikuntha planets is possible only by bhakti, devotional service, as clearly indicated here by the word bhaktya. No other process can help one attain that supreme abode.

The Vedas (Gopala-tapani Upanisad 1.21) also describe the supreme abode and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Eko vasi sarva-gah krsnah. In that abode there is only one Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose name is Shri Krishna. He is the supreme merciful Deity, and although situated there as one He has expanded Himself into millions and millions of plenary expansions. The Vedas compare the Lord to a tree standing still yet bearing many varieties of fruits, flowers and changing leaves.

The plenary expansions of the Lord who preside over the Vaikuntha planets are four-armed, and they are known by a variety of names -- Purusottama, Trivikrama, Kesava, Madhava, Aniruddha, Hrsikesa, Sankarsana, Pradyumna, Sridhara, Vasudeva, Damodara, Janardana, Narayana, Vamana, Padmanabha, etc. The Brahma-samhita (5.37) also confirms that although the Lord is always in the supreme abode, Goloka Vrndavana, He is all-pervading, so that everything is going on nicely (goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah).

As stated in the Vedas (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8), parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate/ svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca: [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport] His energies are so expansive that they systematically conduct everything in the cosmic manifestation without a flaw, although the Supreme Lord is far, far away. Can we look at God as the giver of rewards and punishments of everything in His creation? Yes, of course. Are these rewards and punishments utterly fair? Are they immutable laws, not subjective at all? Yes, of course. But isn't that what Physics calls “laws of nature”? Does it not mean they represent the laws of nature? Yes, of course! So God is represented as the laws of nature. And, this is so far in absolute harmony with the theological tenets.

Those who live amidst these laws and experience the laws of nature, are also expressions of God? Yes, again. As laws of nature will only work upon the same laws and according to the laws, so we all are also the same laws of nature! And, that is surely God. So far, so good. We still haven’t deviated from theological tenets. Laws are always an expression of intelligence of some kind in an abstract sense. That's because laws cannot exist without intelligence and intelligence cannot exist without the laws. So, laws mean intelligence! Can we now call it “intelligence” instead of laws? Perhaps we can.

So, the entire universe and all life in the universe is an intelligence. We (an individualised intelligence) live within a cauldron of intelligence, and the cauldron itself is intelligence too.I hope you are able to follow this thread of reasoning. Let us go a little deeper, and become a little more abstract. Intelligence is intelligence. There is no “this intelligence” and “that intelligence”. It is only our capacity and maturity to sense it, which make the singular intelligence appear to be different. Moreover, as explained, we are an intelligence too - exactly the same intelligence, though a part of it!

Some atheists might say there is no God at all. If there were one, He would be present everywhere the same way you can see every point on a map at once. Suppose you bought a world map and put it up on your wall. The map would be in two dimensions, but you exist in three spatial dimensions. That means you are “above” the map. You don’t have to “trace” with your finger from London to Paris to find out that Paris is there—you see it all at once. If there were a God, He would be “above” us in the same way you would be “above” the map. Now, is intelligence everywhere? Yes, of course! Yes, intelligence is everywhere and it is one intelligence. That is what God is, both as per theological beliefs as well as in abstraction. So, God is everywhere. Cheers!