Why does god hide from itself?

[Identity]

This puzzles me. Pursuing realizing the Self seems like such a journey from the human ego perspective. Most of humanity is totaly asleep. A small part of humanity is in some sort of persuit to understand what Self is. A tiny part has some degree of Self-realisation.

Why the hide and seek?

Why, once the intention is set, does is it still such a search for most humans to become awake?

 

[WHO IS]

What if there is no God hiding from itself, and we are just all on our own.

[Member]

If God is reality, then it doesn't hide... it is in plain sight. But it would be interesting to hear why a mule is considered inferior to a human... maybe because we humans think so?

Edited May 17, 2020 by Member

[WHO IS]

If you ask the mule it might be the opposite. Basically we are all bias in our own ways. 

[Exystem]

What else has god to do?
The moment it realizes itself (if there even was "a moment"), it's all known and stays the same forever. The only "change" would be an "other experience" than experiencing beeing omniscient forever. Imagine god knowing everything, except not knowing everything. So to truly know everything, god must know what it is like to know nothing.
Another way to think about it: What if god actually is infinitely lonely? Knowing that the only beeing ever existent is always itself. Tricking itself into the illusion of other makes it forget its loneliness at least for some "time"/in a part of reality.
Maybe god wants to share its infinite love and creativity with something that has the feeling it gets it all free, beeing filled with bliss and gratitude.

I personally see it kind of that way: Not just we, but god also can "think" about/"imagine" whether there is something "else" than it, or "outside of/beyond" it, or what it would be like to be nothing at all, or if it could end its own existence, or how it would be to not know itself or whatever kind of unanswerable (paradoxical) question. So every creature it created is its newest try to not know itself, creating a reality even more sophisticated than the last one, so "real" and "inevitable" that it needs "time" (=the ultimate illusion) to unravel itself. It's like god's tripping on its own created drugs, believing to be all sorts of crazy shit. Of course, no real time is passing in gods eyes, it's all the present moment and you're always conscious, but it (you) believe time to be a real tangible thing. Gods infinite intelligence is used to "seperate" itself and create and maintain this illusion (which must be finite, as it is not the absolute, just a creation). There never was a seperation, never time passing, no individual "self", but only gods infinite intelligence trying to do everything to be as dumb as it could ever be.
The ultimate question/knowledge for god is to know what it's like to know nothing. It's impossible, since you always know that you exist. But you can come fucking close to knowing nothing, as you probably experience, since everything can be doubted/denied. Matter may be closer to this knowledge of not knowing, but we as humans do a pretty good job, too.

There's much more to say but as you can see it's just speculation. I had some personal experience of infinite solitude etc. but it's just one dimension within infinite ones probably. Just realize this: If god wanted it simple and easy, it would have created reality that way. God loves brainfucking. The moment you fully awake, you will realize that everything is and was perfect. The more you lose yourself, the more you can find in the end.

[James123]

@Identity it is not hiding. Right in front of you. God is the entire game and maker of the game. 

[Carl-Richard]

A question doesn't deserve an answer.