Dear Friend,
Before worshiping, let me ask you - What is God?
There was a group of people 'A' who deeply believed in white. They worshipped white and denied black. They forgot the black background the white is written on. They declared that white is the absolute Truth.
There was a group of people B who deeply believed only in black. They worshipped black and denied white. They forgot the white which is written on black background. They declared that black is the absolute Truth.
Both these parties A and B once, just by chance, came across something that was neither black nor white, and simultaneously both black and white.
They obviously could not understand what it was.
A claimed it was white. A did not understand.
B claimed it was black. B did not understand.
To us, this exactly is the state regarding God. None understand, yet all claim. Everyone is just eager to protect their petty beliefs. Concepts are all there.
Man does not know God. Man can only think of God, and in this he makes two ungodly mistakes:
(i) His mind is limited and lazy, and cannot know the material reality beyond a point. So, he postulates that there are certain material things that are beyond the mind. So, he builds a character called God – as a creator of things. All religions have done that.
(ii) Occasionally the mind does get startled by a whiff of the non-material. It chances upon love, it flies in freedom, it dances in joy. It realises that there is something beyond the material. But it declares that the imperceptible, the non-material, the ineffable, too can be contained in the mind. So, using the mind, it embellishes the God character and writes stories about that character.
The first mistake happens because we keep feeling small and incapable. We suffer from such an inferiority complex that we can’t even admit that a human gave birth to Jesus. The moment we come across an Upanishad, a Quran, a Bible, we relegate them to divineauthorship to escape from them.
And the second mistake happens because we are damn arrogant. We want to capture the Ultimate in the mind. We want to claim we know God.
So, the question now - What is God?
Simply put - God is the causeless cause. God is the source, the centre. God is not the problem solver we have made him to.
Those who understood gave us God. A God beyond dualistic pleasure-pain, problem-solution. And man turned God into his petty problem-solver.
You wish to worship God - then come closer to immensity. Stop feeling small and incapable. Know that the limited mind can only surrender and dissolve. Know that you are much more than the body and the mind. Come closer to that in you which is infinite, timeless. That is the only way to worship God.
Many such questions have been answered in my blog 'Words into Silence'. I invite you to read them for better clarity in life.
RS
Before worshiping, let me ask you - What is God?
There was a group of people 'A' who deeply believed in white. They worshipped white and denied black. They forgot the black background the white is written on. They declared that white is the absolute Truth.
There was a group of people B who deeply believed only in black. They worshipped black and denied white. They forgot the white which is written on black background. They declared that black is the absolute Truth.
Both these parties A and B once, just by chance, came across something that was neither black nor white, and simultaneously both black and white.
They obviously could not understand what it was.
A claimed it was white. A did not understand.
B claimed it was black. B did not understand.
To us, this exactly is the state regarding God. None understand, yet all claim. Everyone is just eager to protect their petty beliefs. Concepts are all there.
Man does not know God. Man can only think of God, and in this he makes two ungodly mistakes:
(i) His mind is limited and lazy, and cannot know the material reality beyond a point. So, he postulates that there are certain material things that are beyond the mind. So, he builds a character called God – as a creator of things. All religions have done that.
(ii) Occasionally the mind does get startled by a whiff of the non-material. It chances upon love, it flies in freedom, it dances in joy. It realises that there is something beyond the material. But it declares that the imperceptible, the non-material, the ineffable, too can be contained in the mind. So, using the mind, it embellishes the God character and writes stories about that character.
The first mistake happens because we keep feeling small and incapable. We suffer from such an inferiority complex that we can’t even admit that a human gave birth to Jesus. The moment we come across an Upanishad, a Quran, a Bible, we relegate them to divineauthorship to escape from them.
And the second mistake happens because we are damn arrogant. We want to capture the Ultimate in the mind. We want to claim we know God.
So, the question now - What is God?
Simply put - God is the causeless cause. God is the source, the centre. God is not the problem solver we have made him to.
Those who understood gave us God. A God beyond dualistic pleasure-pain, problem-solution. And man turned God into his petty problem-solver.
You wish to worship God - then come closer to immensity. Stop feeling small and incapable. Know that the limited mind can only surrender and dissolve. Know that you are much more than the body and the mind. Come closer to that in you which is infinite, timeless. That is the only way to worship God.
Many such questions have been answered in my blog 'Words into Silence'. I invite you to read them for better clarity in life.
RS
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