Does God Understand English?
Quick jot. Not very well thought through, just a thought. Does God Understand English? Or for that matter, Hindi, German, Urdu, or even the near-perfect, Sanskrit? My mother visits the temple everyday, along with hundreds of millions of other Indians. Man. Hundreds of millions. Suddenly that seems like a very large number of God-believing Indians to me. Anyway. Whenever I'm at home, she takes me a long with her to our society's temple, and I have a casual conversation with Him , where only I speak in my mind, in English, not knowing if there's anyone there, listening on the other end. And that's what made me think. We all pray in some or the other language, right? A Sardar is most likely to pray in Punjabi. A French, in French. An Italian, in Italian. An Egyptian, in Arabic. But does God really understand the billions of prayers He listens to? Yes, we all think God is a super power, the creator of all, who understands everything, whose decisions are what g