Q: Why do we ask questions like, "Is there a God?" Why cannot we think that there is no God?
Chariji: It is easier to presume that there is something and look for it, than do nothing, saying it is not there. When we look for something that we call God, we are bound to get illumination and find the thing that we are seeking.

Q: Why is there a feeling of sadness when we seek God?
Chariji: It is not sadness, but craving. When you are denied a chocolate, you feel the craving for it. When an older boy is denied a motor-bike, he feels the craving for it. When a still older is looking for a girl to marry but does not find her, he feels unhappy. In the pursuit of God also such unhappiness (craving) results as long as you don't find Him. When you do find Him, there is no more unhappiness.

Q: Why did God make India, Pakistan, China and other countries?
Chariji: God did not make countries. He made the earth. Men divided it into
countries and started fighting for the borders.

Q: Since God made everything, why are there also bad things that God lets man do?
Chariji: You see here we must understand one thing clearly. God did not make bad things. We make bad things - people. It's like you have a kid to play with you and you expect the child to behave well and to play in a cooperative spirit, in a friendly manner, but suppose that kid becomes quarrelsome and angry and throws things around? Will you blame God, or that particular kid? So we must learn to correct our own behaviour and become good, so that God cannot be blamed for our faults.

Q: Why did God make wicked people?
Chariji: God did not make wicked people. It is people who have become wicked
by their wrong doings.

Q: If God is formless and without attributes, why in the numerous books of
literature in Sahaj Marg is God always referred to as "Him"?
Chariji: God is male. Nature is female.

Q: If we strive to go back to the Creator who made us, then why did he make us
at all?
Chariji: You will know the answer when you reach that stage. The son knows all
about being a father only when he himself becomes a father.

Q: Why are we ever born if we are just supposed to die and go to God?
Chariji: Well, we are not born just to die to go to God. Life is supposed to be like a school. You go to school and you can ask the same question. Why do we go to school if you are only going to get out of school at the end of it? You go to school to pass out of school, but in between you learn something. You learn what you have to learn or what you want to learn. You qualify yourself. Isn't it? Similarly in life we qualify ourselves in certain ways by living here, by experiencing things, by knowing things, and then, out we go. So, it's like a school classroom. We are not born just to die. You understand? Good question!

Q: What is God?
Chariji: Well, if we knew it, it would be very easy to answer that question, but nobody knows.
My Master said, "God cannot be known, because He is not an object. But His presence can be felt and experienced."
Like you say you are happy, but you cannot see happiness. Or like electricity, which makes lights and fans and machines turn, but you don't ever see electricity yourself. So God is like that.

Q: How could God have always been here when there must have been a start?
Chariji: Yes, it is a good question. You know, when you think of time as beginning somewhere and ending somewhere, it has a beginning and an end. But suppose you have the earth, you know, on which we are living - it's a ball. Can we say it begins somewhere and ends somewhere? You can make any place the point of beginning and any place the point of the end, when you come round to it. Or a circle on the ground - where does it begin and where does it end?
If you want to run around the circle and you say, "Well, the circle will begin here and we have to run around three times," this also becomes the end of the circle.
So when things are straight, there is a beginning and there is an end which are not the same. When it is a circle, there need not be a beginning or an end. Then God can be above, you see, in a certain way, and everything is for Him the beginning and the end.

Source:Compiled from question and answer sessions children had with Chariji in the US, Europe and India.

O, Master!
Thou art the real goal of human life.
We are yet but slaves of wishes
Putting bar to our advancement,
Thou art the only God and power
To bring us up to that stage.