CONCEPT OF GOD

Concept of God

"God is Beyond all Concepts. It is an Experience. Whatever cannot come within your concept, know that as God."

The moment you make a concept, your intellect says, " Yes, I Know." God is the eternal "I Don't Know." But you can be God. You can live in God. You can not know God. You can experience God. Whether you know it or not, experience it or not, you are That.

Every religion has said what God is, has given a general Concept of God as omnipresent. If He is present everywhere, He is present in you. He is present at all times. If he is present at all times, is He Present here, now, this minute? Yes? That is it. Being here now, this minute, being in touch with your innermost self, YOU ARE IN GOD.

God is Not Only One, He Manifests in Many Varieties.

Why would you think God is only one? Why cannot God also be many? If God made man in his own image, then what image is He? Why are there so many types of man and so many varieties of things? There is not just one type of Tree, not just one type of Animal or vegetable. There is not just one type of Anything So Why shold God be only One?

How could this consciousness that manifested this whole creation and which loves variety, be monotonous? God loves variety, so He must be of infinite variety Himself. God manifests in many Names, Forms and Varieties.

When you accept the variety of the Divine, you cease to be a fanatic or a fundamentalist.

See God as A Child.

You have always thought of God as a Father up in the heavens somewhere. With that concept in Mind, you want to demand and take from God. But can you see God as a child? When you see God as a Child, you have no demands.

God is your Child. he is within you. God cling to the devotee. He clings to you like a baby untill you grow old and die. God Keeps Crying for nourishment. He needs you to nourish Him in the world. Sadhna, Satsang & Seva are God's nourishment.

~~ SRI SRI

God Loves Fun &

Celebrating Silence

INTRODUCTION OF AN ATHEIST

"It is difficult to see God as formless.... and It is difficult to see God as a form! The formless is too abstract and God, in a form, appears to be too limited. SO SOME PEOPLE PREFER TO BE ATHEISTS."

However, Atheism is not reality- It is just a matter of Convenience! When you have a spirit of enquiry, or are in search of the truth, atheism falls apart. With a spirit of enquiry, you cannot deny something you have not disprove.

An atheist denies God without first disproving God! In order to disprove God, you must have enormous knowledge.... and when you have enormous knowledge, you cannot disprove God! For one to say that something does not exist, one should know about the whole universe! So you can never be an atheist a 100%. An atheist is only a believer, who is sleeping! In fact, an atheist is someone, who has a concept of GOD!

For a Person to say, "I Don't believe in anything!"- It Means he must believe in himself! An atheist can never be sincere because sincerity needs depth, and an atheist refuse to go to depths because the deeper he goes, the more he finds a void- a field of all possibilities....... and he then has to accept that there are many secrets, he does not know.

He would need to acknowledge his ignorance, which he refuse to do, because the moment he is sincere, he starts seriously doubting his Atheism. A doubt-free atheist is next to impossible! So you can never be a sincere and doubt free Atheist.

WHAT DOES AN ATHEIST DO, WHEN HE REALIZE HIS IGNORANCE? WHERE DOES HE GO? DOES HE GO TO A GURU? WHAT DOES A GURU DO TO HIM?

Atheism is when one does not believe in values or in the abstract. So what happens, when an atheist comes to the Guru? what happens when you come to the Guru?

You start experiencing your own form, and you discover that you are in deed formless, hollow and empty.... and this abstract "non-form" in you, becomes more and more concrete! The Guru makes the abstract more real. The perception of love- not as an emotion. The formless spirit shines through every form in creation, and the mystery of life deepens, shattering atheism. Then the journey begins..... and it has four stages:

1. Saarupya: Seeing the formless in the form, i.e seeing God in all forms.

2. Saamipya: Closeness, i.e. feeling absolutely close to the form, you have chosen, and reaching out to the formless.

3. Saanidhya: Feeling the presence of the divine, by which you transcend the limitations to time and space.

4. Saayuja: When you are firmly entrenched in the Divine. It is then that you realize, you are one with the Divine. There is a complete merging with the beloved, and all duality disappears.

~~ SRI SRI

SPIRIT OF ENQUIRY

PRAYER

Prayer is not asking for something. Prayer is gratefulness;

a recognition of the huge tidal waves of love that God is pouring on you

every moment.

You don't have to go to a church, a temple or a mosque to pray; wherever you pray, God is there.

Prayer depends on the one who prays, It Doesn't matter to whom you pray, You are more than enough for a prayer to happen.

No one else can do your Prayer for you. Your prayer is your own flowering; No other bud can bloom for you.

Prayer is not going towards something which is outside of you. Prayer is becoming aware of the presence.

Prayer is not a serious thing; you don't have to be sad to pray. Prayer is Joy.

There is no Experience that can equal the ecstasy of Prayer.

When you pray for peace,

Peace is greater than God to you;

When you pray for Knowledge,

knowledge is greater than God to you.

Prayer is the subtlest feeling, a ripple that thrills your whole

being.

The Prayer of the enlightened is the prayer which is full of love.

It is like the ocean, full of movement,

but with nowhere to go.

This is the prayer that infinity enjoys; Everything in creation rejoices.

In this kind of Prayer,

There is laughter, dance & Music.

~~ SRI SRI

Seeds of Wisdom

Counsciouness can Heal the Body

"Health...... The Sanskrit word for health is SWASTHYA- means being stabilized in self. When the mind is free of fear, free of guilt, free of anger and more centered then it can heal the System of any Ailment. Health can be regained by attending to the source of the mind- Pure Consciousness."

Sickness- Don't think that only people in the hospital, is Sick! Anyone who is not happy, not calm & stable is sick or anyone who does not handle his or her mind, thoughts, storms of emotion is, some way, Sick. Sickness has nothing to do with death. It is the fear associated with having a disease, which disturb and weakens one's whole system.

This body has been created by the consciousness and this consciousness can also heal this body but our minds are programmed in such way that we believe in matters and not so much in abstract. Consciousness & even God is abstract. Who knows whether God exists or not? We believe more in what we see but, if we make a shift and take a fresh look at things as they are, you'll see that whole world appears in different light.

A clear mind, free of fear can also have a healing effect on th body. but How can a mind be clear? When any emotion (Fear) arises just observe the sensation, which arises with that emotion, and go deep into it. When we observe the sensation, Emotions are transformed as sensation in the body, then they disappear and the Mind become Clear.

Breath plays a very important role. if we attend to our breath, the root cause of any problem that the mind faces, is eliminated.

Another way to make one's mind clear (free of fear) is: Have a sense of Belonging---- You belong to God. "God is taking care of me, the Divine is taking care of me." This sense belonging is an easier method to deal with fear or if you can't have a sense of belonging then see Everything is changing around you. you can't hold on to anything. Emotion Changes, behavior changes. The World is changing around you. You will gain strength from this understanding and fear will also disappear.

~ ~ SRI SRI

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