Other Views on the Reality of God...

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"For thousands of years, the people who did not have the knowledge of the Person or Reality of God, worshipped their own ideas of God." -Hon. Elijah Muhammad

...ON THE REALITY OF GOD
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God is within all of us, and without -

God abides everywhere, in everything - we are not separate from God

God is Life

God is Ever Fresh Joy

God is beyond logic and labels

God is the seen & the unseen

"Don't think saying "I am God" is proclaiming one's greatness. It is actually total humility. Some one who say's " I am the servant of God" infers two - God and himself - whereas someone who says, "I am God" negates himself. He relinquises his own existence. "I am God" means I don't exist. Everything is God. Only God exists. I am nothing. I am utter emptiness." This is complete humility not arrogance, but people often misunderstand. When someone says he is God's servant, he still sees himself as a doer, albeit in God's service. He is not yet drowned in the ocean of God. When he is, there will be no such thing as "his actions" , only movements in the water." --Jalaluddin Rumi - Sufi Poet

"Love Yourself into God. In order to become God you must feel Him and Love Him" Mafu

Paramahansa Yogananda once said that if a person wanted to realize God, he must want God like a drowning man wants air. This perfectly describes Ramakrishna.

"He is born in vain who, having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life."

"Repeat God's name and sing His glories, and keep holy company; and now and then visit God's devotees and holy men. The mind cannot dwell on God if it is immersed day and night in worldliness, in worldly duties and responsibilities. It is most necessary to go into solitude now and then and think of God."

"You should always discriminate between the real and the unreal. God alone is real, the Eternal substance: All else is unreal, that is, impermanent. By discriminating thus, one should shake off impermanent objects from the mind.,"

"The point is to love God even as the mother loves her child, the chaste wife her husband, and the worldly man his wealth. Add together these three forces of love, these three powers of attraction, and give it all to God. Then you will certainly see Him."

"We cannot have the vision of God as long as one has these three - shame, hatred, and fear."

"A man must work. Only then can He see God. One cannot develop love of God or obtain His vision without work. Work means meditation, prayer, affirmation and the like. The chanting of God's name and glories is work too. You may also include charity, sacrifice, and so on."

"God cannot be realized if there is the slightest attachment to the things of the world. A thread cannot pass through the eye of a needle if the tiniest fiber sticks out."

"Do not let worldly thoughts and anxieties disturb your mind. Do everything in the proper time, and let your mind be always fixed on God."

"You should remember that the heart of the believer is the Home of God. He dwells, no doubt, in all beings, but He especially manifests Himself in the heart of the believer. The heart of the believer is the drawing room of God."

"Do all your duties, but keep your mind on God. Live with all - with wife and children, father and mother and serve them. Treat them as if they were very dear to you, but know in your heart of hearts they do not belong to you."

"He who has surrendered his mind, heart, and soul to God is a believer. He who has given up lust and gold is a believer. He looks upon women as his mother and accordingly honors them. A believer always thinks of God and serves all, knowing that God is in everything."

God wants us to become Himself. We are growing toward godhood. God is the goal of evolution. It is God who is the source of the evolutionary force and God who is the destination. This is what is meant when we say the 'He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.'

The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness. Non-love is the unwillingness to extend one's self. Laziness is love's barrier. Spiritual growth is effortful, as we have been reminded again and again.

If we seriously listen to this 'God within us' - we usually find ourselves being urged to take the more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less.

The Knower of the Self becomes the Self. By the realization of the Self all divine qualities are attained and manifestations of God are known.

Mind is the Lord of all passions, but breath is the controller of the mind. If breath is restive, man becomes insane with lust, anger, greed, and looses the power of judgement and discrimination. If breath is properly controlled through the scientific process of yoga, realization is possible even during this lifetime.

....Every soul is destined to be perfect and every human being in the end will attain the state of perfection.

It is said there are three wonderful ways to become intimate with the divine intelligence, or God:

1) Charity: means selfless service, doing good to others without a desire for personal gain. Even one act of Seva everyday can bring a great spiritual transformation.

2) Remembrance: remembrance of God, remembrance of our purpose in life, and remembrance through prayer and meditation.

3) Fellowship: a gathering of people seeking the truth.

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The Human Body is the Sacred Temple

Hafiz Sahib says: When I heard the Divine Melody or Celestial Music and Bang-e-Asmani (Voice from Heaven) within the temple of the body, Both the Kaba and idol-temple seemed to be Kafar (Infidel) to me.

Similarly, Kabir Sahib says: When I realized the bliss of the true Shabad or Word, All my doubts and superstitions were dispelled. I found that the real path or Religion is the same for everyone, Whether one is a Hindu Pundit or a Muslim Priest.

Hazrat Sultan Bahu says: "The essence of the teachings of all the religions is to know one's own-self. Until and unless one searches for God within the temple of body, one remains ignorant of the Reality manifest both in Islam and Kafar (believer and un- believer).

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You have seen the external Gurus; now also behold the internal True Guru.

You have seen the external temples; now also see the internal True Temple.

You have read the external Shastras (holy books); now also read the internal True Shastra.

You have listened to the external Shabds; now also listen to the internal True Shabd (Divine Melody).

You have read the external Bani; now also read the internal True Bani.

You have recited the external Names; now also meditate on the internal True Nam (Word) which is constantly resounding by itself.

You have listened to the external Kirtan (Hymns); now also listen to the internal True Kirtan.

You have gained the external bookish knowledge; now also acquire the internal True Knowledge.

You have tasted the external Amrit (Nectar); now also drink the internal True Nectar of Immortality.

You have bathed at the external places of pilgrimage; now also bathe at the internal True place of Pilgrimage.

You have practiced the external sectarian worship; now also practice the internal True Worship.

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Love for God and his Children

God is Love and Love is God. Those who have realized the reality of religion, love God and His children. They have found that true love is the basis of Religion. Maulana Rumi says that the religion of love is different from all others. Realization of the true God is the only religion of the seekers and lovers. Without love, religion has no foundation.

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The Human Body is the Sacred Temple or Mosque Built by God in which He Himself Dwells

Instead of the temples and mosques of stones and bricks built with our own hands, we should respect the true temple or mosque (the human body) erected by the Lord, in which He himself resides.

Dadu Sahib Says: O fool! you safeguard with great care the temples erected with your own hands, but demolish the golden temple of human body erected by God.

Mahatama Maluk Das says: You pay tributes and kneel before the mosques made by man, but demolish the one which is built by God.

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Search for God inside the Body

All the spiritual saints advocated to search for the Lord within the temple of the human body.

Dadu Sahib says: The Lord is manifest in the temple or mosque of the body. Practice devotion and meditation inside. Why do you wander outside?

Similarly, Guru Amar Das Ji says: The human body is the temple of God. Within it one finds rubies and pearls, If one utters the Lord's Name by the Guru's grace. (M 3Pauri 952-6)

He further says: That alone is said to be God's temple, wherefrom God is realized. Realizing the pervading soul to be everywhere, Through the Guru's instructions, one finds the Lord in the human body itself. Search thou not ever the Lord without. The Creator is within thy very home. The egocentrics know not the worth of God's temple and they lose their life. The one Lord is pervading all and is attained through the Guru's teachings. (M 3 Pauri 952-8)

Similarly, Tulsi Sahib says: He (The Lord) is in the heart, But we see Him not; Such a life is a curse; O Tulsi! we suffer from a cataract.

Kabir Sahib also states the same truth: O Man, where dos't thou seek me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in idol-worship nor in pilgrimage nor in solitude; I am neither in temples nor in mosques; I am neither in Kashi nor in Kailash: Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in yoga and renunciation. If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see me. Thou shalt meet me in a moment; Sayeth Kabir, listen, O Sadhus! Where there is Faith, there is God Himself.

God has created the universe. He is the Lord of all. He does not reside in the man made temples and mosques. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is the Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

Hafiz Sahib says: "Go and inscribe on the gates of all the temples and mosques that God dwells in the temple of body.

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Says Kabir Sahib: God created Light and then by His Omnipotence were all men made. From God's Light, the entire universe has sprung. (Kabir Prabhati 1349-1)

Dadu Sahib also affirms the same truth: I have seen with eyes open, There is none else but the Lord; The same Light is working in all the human beings.

-- Sant Gurbax Singh, "True Religion", Haryana, India