Who am I?
I was thinking about this as I slowly made for my house. There was no one as far as I could see and that made me aware of my own presence. That was the time of twilight which had a beautiful effect on the greenery as well as the buildings that could not be explained in words. Just like answering the question: how much do you love me. A cold breeze whipped past me making my hair flutter. I dig my hands deep in my pockets and sprinted pass the church where a bell ding-donged. The climate was really very pleasant and that tempted me to think about very difficult things.
I fidgeted toward my place because it was getting late. But, when I had to cross the bridge, I slowed down despite my resistance. There, beneath the bridge, was a spectacular vision waiting for me.
The sun was impatient to cross the horizon at the same time as the moon started to appear faintly opposite to it. The primordial symbol of Pagans threw off brilliant golden rays that were scattered through the water surface splitting into thousand different patterns. The water slowly turned dark as the crater-like moon began its journey through the sky. The clouds slowly – but steadily – glided obstructing the Sun from my view. The golden rays, however, escaped through the gaps between the moving clouds turning the silver lined clouds golden. The view was breath-taking. It appeared as though the gates of heaven had opened letting the angels descend to the earth. God has at last come to earth.
God…?
Who is He? Somehow, the first and the second question seemed to lead to the same answer to me. Through out the history, in all the religious books in the world, the definition of God has been constant. Everything, however differently written, seems to at last point at exactly the same thing. God is a universal constant!
God pervades in everything, the Bible has said. He resides in everything. O Arjuna, I am the supreme soul, Krishna has said. He is the being that remains beyond explanation just like the Universe. Listening to all this, I had a feeling. That God is beyond our reach. Beyond our comprehension. We have to beseech, our hands out stretched, seeking the heavens in order to make Him appear.
Gita says: In order to feel Him, you should under go enormous efforts, bring you focus to one. Considering all this, I have to come to a conclusion. That God is incomprehensible…
I dropped all these troubling thoughts that kept my heart unfilled. I would be searched. I started to walk through the aisle, between two tall buildings. As I was walking, I noticed a woman sitting on the cold marble floor not worrying about getting cold. She was a complete mess wearing patched dress. A child who was playing by the side of her suddenly fell on her laps terrified by my appearance. The woman let an affectionate smile spread on her lips embracing her child warmly. I walked past them and entered the main-road and suddenly the comprehension struck me like the cold-air.
In spite of the terrible status in life, there is a force that makes them live. What is the point of struggling to live when they knew they can never make up for the next lunch? Why should they suffer when death seemed to be a better option? What is that force which persuades them to struggle?
I knew I came very close to the answer. The sparse hair at the back of my neck bristled.
Love is God!
I remembered the famous verses of the Bible said by John. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. So, Love is God. O Arjuna, I am seated in the hearts of all living entities furnished with love, Krishna has said in Gita. Allah is love, Holy Quran said. Gandhi has said, where love is, there God is.
God resides in human who have the ability to love. One can see God anywhere if his mind is set to love others. The best way to see God is to love, said Buddha. We have the ability to love and that is our greatest power. We can destroy a country by weapons through violence. But, love has a power beyond that. While violence causes damage in the periphery which heals as time passes, love rips open the soul making the victim unable to stand for a life-time.
Love has a power beyond imagination.
In the Age of Aquarius, we understood this. We understood that we can create wonders with our thoughts. We can reallocate the entire universe with merely thinking about it. Schrödinger already spoke about this through quantum mechanics. The possibility of having infinite mind. These all come down to the same thing again.
God in Man…
The first man was perfect, made in the image of God - Genesis 1:26.
The supreme Lord dwells in the hearts of all humans - Krishna
We all have powers like God. Really? But Jesus was able to walk on water. Krishna was able to lift a mountain. Buddha was able to command the water to stand back. But the humans could never do it, could they?
What is a miracle?
Parting the water or lifting a mountain isn’t a miracle. They are just magic tricks. If a woman was able to take care for her child, despite her condition, that’s a miracle. If a soldier was able to keep his national flag from falling even though he was shot by a gun, that’s a miracle. If a teen-ager was able to say ‘yes’ to education and ‘no’ to drugs, that’s a miracle. If a man was able to stop a car and run to help a dying man on the road, that’s a miracle.
Who is a super-hero?
Superman who was able to fly? Spiderman who was able to crawl? No. Mother Teresa was unconcerned about her own life, living for the poor people and the diseased. The love that emanated from her heart saved thousands of lives. She is a super-hero. Buddha left behind his throne and sat beneath a small tree living the life of a peasant. He is a super-hero. Jesus Christ prayed for the Jews although they tortured him to death. He is a super-hero. We all have powers to change the world. But, we just don’t understand it.
The religious books were misunderstood. In trouble, we always seek for God in the heavens very far away from us. We, often, forget to understand that He resides within us. The solution for all the troubles is hidden within us. The Secret is within us… Of course, it takes enormous efforts to understand God as said by Baghvad Gita. One must be trained to look into himself to understand it. That takes enormous efforts.
The same Secret is shared by both Science and Religion. It has taken so long to understand it. Nearly three thousand years ago. The heaven is not above, in the sky. It is on the earth. God never came to earth as Jesus or Krishna. He was always here, already.
I started to sprint toward my house afraid some other vision might strangle me.
The next day, when I saw the same view of sun-rays escaping the clouds, I had a different understanding: The Sun illuminating the presence of God on the earth…
I was thinking about this as I slowly made for my house. There was no one as far as I could see and that made me aware of my own presence. That was the time of twilight which had a beautiful effect on the greenery as well as the buildings that could not be explained in words. Just like answering the question: how much do you love me. A cold breeze whipped past me making my hair flutter. I dig my hands deep in my pockets and sprinted pass the church where a bell ding-donged. The climate was really very pleasant and that tempted me to think about very difficult things.
I fidgeted toward my place because it was getting late. But, when I had to cross the bridge, I slowed down despite my resistance. There, beneath the bridge, was a spectacular vision waiting for me.
The sun was impatient to cross the horizon at the same time as the moon started to appear faintly opposite to it. The primordial symbol of Pagans threw off brilliant golden rays that were scattered through the water surface splitting into thousand different patterns. The water slowly turned dark as the crater-like moon began its journey through the sky. The clouds slowly – but steadily – glided obstructing the Sun from my view. The golden rays, however, escaped through the gaps between the moving clouds turning the silver lined clouds golden. The view was breath-taking. It appeared as though the gates of heaven had opened letting the angels descend to the earth. God has at last come to earth.
God…?
Who is He? Somehow, the first and the second question seemed to lead to the same answer to me. Through out the history, in all the religious books in the world, the definition of God has been constant. Everything, however differently written, seems to at last point at exactly the same thing. God is a universal constant!
God pervades in everything, the Bible has said. He resides in everything. O Arjuna, I am the supreme soul, Krishna has said. He is the being that remains beyond explanation just like the Universe. Listening to all this, I had a feeling. That God is beyond our reach. Beyond our comprehension. We have to beseech, our hands out stretched, seeking the heavens in order to make Him appear.
Gita says: In order to feel Him, you should under go enormous efforts, bring you focus to one. Considering all this, I have to come to a conclusion. That God is incomprehensible…
I dropped all these troubling thoughts that kept my heart unfilled. I would be searched. I started to walk through the aisle, between two tall buildings. As I was walking, I noticed a woman sitting on the cold marble floor not worrying about getting cold. She was a complete mess wearing patched dress. A child who was playing by the side of her suddenly fell on her laps terrified by my appearance. The woman let an affectionate smile spread on her lips embracing her child warmly. I walked past them and entered the main-road and suddenly the comprehension struck me like the cold-air.
In spite of the terrible status in life, there is a force that makes them live. What is the point of struggling to live when they knew they can never make up for the next lunch? Why should they suffer when death seemed to be a better option? What is that force which persuades them to struggle?
I knew I came very close to the answer. The sparse hair at the back of my neck bristled.
Love is God!
I remembered the famous verses of the Bible said by John. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. So, Love is God. O Arjuna, I am seated in the hearts of all living entities furnished with love, Krishna has said in Gita. Allah is love, Holy Quran said. Gandhi has said, where love is, there God is.
God resides in human who have the ability to love. One can see God anywhere if his mind is set to love others. The best way to see God is to love, said Buddha. We have the ability to love and that is our greatest power. We can destroy a country by weapons through violence. But, love has a power beyond that. While violence causes damage in the periphery which heals as time passes, love rips open the soul making the victim unable to stand for a life-time.
Love has a power beyond imagination.
In the Age of Aquarius, we understood this. We understood that we can create wonders with our thoughts. We can reallocate the entire universe with merely thinking about it. Schrödinger already spoke about this through quantum mechanics. The possibility of having infinite mind. These all come down to the same thing again.
God in Man…
The first man was perfect, made in the image of God - Genesis 1:26.
The supreme Lord dwells in the hearts of all humans - Krishna
We all have powers like God. Really? But Jesus was able to walk on water. Krishna was able to lift a mountain. Buddha was able to command the water to stand back. But the humans could never do it, could they?
What is a miracle?
Parting the water or lifting a mountain isn’t a miracle. They are just magic tricks. If a woman was able to take care for her child, despite her condition, that’s a miracle. If a soldier was able to keep his national flag from falling even though he was shot by a gun, that’s a miracle. If a teen-ager was able to say ‘yes’ to education and ‘no’ to drugs, that’s a miracle. If a man was able to stop a car and run to help a dying man on the road, that’s a miracle.
Who is a super-hero?
Superman who was able to fly? Spiderman who was able to crawl? No. Mother Teresa was unconcerned about her own life, living for the poor people and the diseased. The love that emanated from her heart saved thousands of lives. She is a super-hero. Buddha left behind his throne and sat beneath a small tree living the life of a peasant. He is a super-hero. Jesus Christ prayed for the Jews although they tortured him to death. He is a super-hero. We all have powers to change the world. But, we just don’t understand it.
The religious books were misunderstood. In trouble, we always seek for God in the heavens very far away from us. We, often, forget to understand that He resides within us. The solution for all the troubles is hidden within us. The Secret is within us… Of course, it takes enormous efforts to understand God as said by Baghvad Gita. One must be trained to look into himself to understand it. That takes enormous efforts.
The same Secret is shared by both Science and Religion. It has taken so long to understand it. Nearly three thousand years ago. The heaven is not above, in the sky. It is on the earth. God never came to earth as Jesus or Krishna. He was always here, already.
I started to sprint toward my house afraid some other vision might strangle me.
The next day, when I saw the same view of sun-rays escaping the clouds, I had a different understanding: The Sun illuminating the presence of God on the earth…
One day when i was down at my grandparents house.it was one early morning.when the sun was comeing up.i heard this whisper calling out my name.it said,"Jessica".Since thats my real name.And Lily is my nick name.i have alot of nicknames.But anyways back to the story.I woke up and nothing was there.so i asked my mom, "Did she call me or something?"Asnd she said "No",So I asked my Granparents did they call me or something.And they said, "No".So Then i realize that it was God calling out to me.He was probely calling to me saying"Get up out of bed.Its a pretty day."And it was.It was a beautiful day.
I asked for strength,
And God gave me difficulties to make me strong;
I asked for wisdom,
And God gave me problems to learn to solve;
I asked for prosperity,
And God gave me brain and brawn to work;
I asked for courage,
And God gave me dangers to overcome;
I asked for love,
And God gave me people to help;
I asked for favors,
And God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted – I received everything I needed.
My prayer has been answered!
This poem was originally written by Swami Vivekananda, an atheist turned believer who later became a spiritual genius of commanding intellect and power, this poem that I posted is different version of that made by: I don't know who, sorry.
I hope this was helpful and inspirational for you as it was for me. :)
And God gave me difficulties to make me strong;
I asked for wisdom,
And God gave me problems to learn to solve;
I asked for prosperity,
And God gave me brain and brawn to work;
I asked for courage,
And God gave me dangers to overcome;
I asked for love,
And God gave me people to help;
I asked for favors,
And God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted – I received everything I needed.
My prayer has been answered!
This poem was originally written by Swami Vivekananda, an atheist turned believer who later became a spiritual genius of commanding intellect and power, this poem that I posted is different version of that made by: I don't know who, sorry.
I hope this was helpful and inspirational for you as it was for me. :)