How Did God Think of Mangoes?

Divine Taste of Creation

An Essay of Curiosity, Wonder, and Longing

Since childhood, I have carried a deep hunger—not just to live, but to understand the one who made life. Not just to believe in God, but to know God, to recognize the creator behind creation.

This hunger has followed me like a shadow through every phase of life. I’ve asked questions that no one around me could answer. And yet, these questions kept rising—not from doubt, but from a place of innocent wonder.

For example:

How did God decide that mangoes should taste like this?

How did God decide that mangoes should taste like this?

And what shape should mangoes be like?

Even though my own journey had become my personal journey of health, my love was God, so I started to question God’s art. Like:

Why did He choose such golden sweetness?

Why do they melt in the mouth like happy memories?

And why do apples have a different kind of crunch, a different kind of silence, like comfort?

What was God thinking when He created taste?

What was God thinking when he created the flavors?

How did he think of sugarcane, salt, lemon, and spices?

Why did he say, “This should taste sweet, and that should taste sour”?

Why does chocolate comfort some people and not others?

How does he determine the effect of taste on our emotions?

I’ve always wondered how I can see the depth of my father’s patience. I feel like squeezing Bapuji (Father) like a lemon. Today, my soul wants to squeeze every thought of God in the same way.

Why did He create so many forms of beauty?

Why did he create so many forms of beauty?

Why do we feel peace when we see mountains?

Why do we find the sound of birds in the morning sacred?

Who taught the wind to move so peacefully through the trees?

How does beauty help us concentrate? Why?

I became enveloped by every experience of mine. Whenever I talk about or see something beautiful, I just get lost in it. A silence descends, which makes me enter a deep state of intoxication.

Why does beauty exist in so many forms?

Why are some moments so touching that tears come for no apparent reason?

What is the meaning of that sudden inner peace we sometimes feel sitting under a tree?

What is God trying to show us through nature?

What is God trying to show us through nature?

Is He speaking through the colors of the sky? Or do these colors have some special connection to us?

Is He hidden within the scent of jasmine? Or the smell of rosemary?

Is He trying to reach us through the sunset, the blow of wind, or a drop of rain? Or is there some purification or discipline of the universe itself underlying these actions?

Why do we long for something even when everything seems perfect?

Why do we crave something, even when everything seems right?

Where does this craving come from?

Is it a call from God?

Is it a sign that we were once close to Him—and we are trying to get back?

Then why did God create disease?

When I have a headache, I immediately go to a silent place, sit, and start feeling my pain. I have never taken medicine; I just started understanding myself. I have seen, understood, and known only one thing: that diseases cleanse our body from within. To prevent the disease from becoming fatal, we have to understand what it is, because only understanding the meaning of life can give us a healthy life and can also end the pain of death.

I have often asked myself:

Is my curiosity a prayer?

Is my hunger for answers really my soul remembering its source?

Is my disposition to never give up on anyone—even those who have hurt me—part of divine design?

Am I following some deep law that was instilled in me before I was born?

And finally—

Why do I keep asking all these questions, even when there are no answers?

Perhaps the act of asking is the answer.

Perhaps God speaks not just through the answers but also through the beauty of the question.

Because when I ask, I feel closer to Him.

When I think, I feel more alive.

And when I seek to understand the Creator,

I discover parts of Him hidden in my heart.

I see that my questions create a chemical reaction. Our physical and mental illnesses are our experiences. The story of virtues and vices is our life. Today I question God—because my question today is God, not me. Nor is my question today this world, because my awareness has entered into the divine mystery.

Quotes from How Did God Think of Mangoes?

1. “I don’t want to eat the mango—I want to understand the mind that imagined its taste.”
2. “Maybe my curiosity is not a question—it’s a memory of once being close to the Creator.”
3. “How did God decide that mangoes should carry the warmth of golden joy, while apples hold the crispness of silence?”
4. “When I ask God how He made things so beautiful, I am really asking who He is.”
5. “I do not doubt God. I long for Him. I chase Him through every fragrance, every flavor, every form.”
6. “Why does chocolate comfort some people and not others? Is taste also a language of the soul?”
7. “Is my wondering a form of prayer? Is my longing the way God remembers me too?”
8. “Beauty is not an accident—it is a doorway to the Divine.”
9. “Every question I ask about creation is really a question about the Creator.”
10. “I am not looking for answers. I am looking for the one who makes questions feel sacred.”