God is not a person – God is an energy beyond form. God is the Creator. He does not stand apart from his creation. He is absorbed and one with all that He has created.
To appear before God, to attain the beloved, are purely symbolic terms and not to be taken literally. There is no God sitting somewhere on high before whom you appear.
But to speak of it, how else can it be expressed? When the ego is eradicated, when you disappear, whatever is before your eyes, is God himself.
God is the Creator, but do not think He is separated from His creation.
When a man sculpts an idol and the idol is completed, the sculptor and the sculpture are no longer one; they are separate. And the sculpture will remain long after the sculptor is dead.
If the image fractures, the sculptor is not affected, because the two are separate. But there is no such distance between God and His creation.
What kind of relationship exists between God and His creation?
It is like a dancer with his dance.
When man dances can you separate him from his dance?
Can he return home leaving the dance behind?
If the dancer dies, the dance dies with him.
When the dance stops, he is no longer the dancer. They are united.
The poet is no longer related to his poem, once it is finished. The sculptor is separated from his sculpture as soon as it is completed. A mother gives birth to a child, and they are separate.
God is not distinct from His creation; He is contained in it.
It would be more accurate to say: the Creator is the Creation, or the Creator is nothing but Creativity.
Love the world and through the world, love God; see Him through His own creation.