Question: When God is in His personal aspect, does His Consciousness go up and down? Does He ever get in a low consciousness?

Sri Chinmoy: Even if He has a lower consciousness, His lowest consciousness will be at least one inch higher than ours. Even if He is in His lowest consciousness, His lowest consciousness will be at least one inch higher than your highest consciousness. But, in God’s case there is no such thing as lowest or highest. His Consciousness encompasses the entire universe.

We say that this is height, this is length, this is depth. But in God’s Cosmic Vision, that kind of term does not apply. For Him, wherever He is He can call Himself whatever Reality He wants to. If He is very deep within His own Consciousness, He does not have to say that He is in the inmost recesses of His Heart. What you may call depth, He can consider as Height.

Everything, as seen in God’s Eye, will puzzle us, whatever it is. Depth, height, length — these are all only words, our words. We have created height, depth, length and all these measurements. But God’s Height is just God’s Consciousness. He is everywhere. In our case, we are limited; we cannot be everywhere. Our head comes only up to here; we cannot touch the ceiling with it. But in God’s case, no matter where He is, even in His personal aspect, He can do anything. If we are here, we cannot be elsewhere. But God is everywhere.

God never loses His Height. He is not this moment at the foot of the mountain and next moment at the top. You can only say that if He has to pay considerable attention to one particular place, if one particular place demands more of His infinite Power of Concentration, then He will pay more attention to that place. Suppose one good, sincere seeker like you is crying for light, and your husband is not crying. At that time what will God do? Your husband is also God’s child, but you will receive more of God’s Power of Concentration, because you are trying more sincerely than somebody else. You have created receptivity, so you will get more of His loving, compassionate aspect.

If you want more attention, more concentration, more concern, more compassion from God, then you have to dig deep within and create receptivity. But God Himself will never be in a lower consciousness or a higher consciousness at a particular place or time. His Consciousness is omnipresent. It is only a question of how much you can receive. The human mind will say that God is in a higher consciousness here just because He is being manifested much more here than elsewhere, and the mind will say that over there God is in a lower consciousness, because it sees that He is not getting the opportunity to manifest Himself there.

In ordinary human life there are ups and downs. This moment we are at the foot of the tree; next moment we climb to the topmost branch. But in God’s case, because He is universal, He is everywhere; therefore, His Consciousness does not change. It does not have to change. The thing that changes is how much we can receive from Him, no matter where we are, at the foot of the tree or the top of the tree. Only our receptivity changes. When we are aspiring, we receive much, and we are in Heaven. When we are not aspiring, we do not receive anything; therefore, we are in hell.