vicky
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Post by vicky on Mar 1, 2019 16:18:19 GMT
One of the things that seem to elude half the planet is God. God, just where are you? Where are You hiding all the time? Where do we find You when we need You most?
One can get lost in the intellectual quest for God when in reality experiencing and feeling God is within our means and can be as real as fire and water.
In a village lived a certain man who took it upon himself to find God. No book or physical journeys convinced him enough that he had indeed found God. Seasons came and went.
On one winter morning, he happened to see an old woman busy building a fireplace; she nudged the logs in and out to make sure the fire was good and bright. Where there is fire, there is ash as well.
As she moved the ash to a side, the fire burnt ever so brightly. “Hmm, the fire seems to be alive despite the firewood reducing to ashes!”
The following day saw him walk quite a distance when fatigue caught up with him. He stopped to rest under a tree with the Sun happy and shining in the sky. This God searcher started a chat with the Sun. “Oh Sun, you are high up in the sky looking down on the entire planet. You would know where God is, wouldn’t you? Are you sure He isn’t hiding anywhere? Why can’t I find God for god’s sake?”
The Sun must have been amused and just then it was, albeit briefly, shrouded by passing clouds. As the clouds moved along, the Sun peeped back, visible again to this seeker. “OK, will I ever find God?” he sighed.
After the brief respite, he got on his feet and walked on. He came upon a pond that was covered entirely with thick green moss. Village folk were seen clearing the algae gathered there just so the water could look its normal form again.
“People, who do you think puts this sheet of moss over the water?” asked this curious passer by. “No one really, Sir, the water allows it to form on its own. Once the moss is cleared, you see clear water again.”
Thought this man, “The blanket of algae was so thick that you couldn’t even tell that there was water right underneath it.” He continued to think, “The same with the Sun. The Sun’s heat forms the clouds but when those clouds cover it, you can’t see it. You get ash from fire. It is the same ash that envelope the fire. Once you toss the ash aside, you see the fire again! The water, the fire, and the Sun were all there and hadn’t left its place or changed its form. The effort of removing the moss, the ashes and waiting for the clouds to pass was all one had to do!”
That’s when it struck him in one magical moment that it was the same with God, too! “Man is created by God but spends most part of his life being covered by the blanket of the world… Now, I get it, I do. Just how simple it is.”
God is within all of us.
Bhagavan Baba in His discourses often narrates a beautiful story from the sacred epic Mahabharata. When Draupadi cried out in desperation and utter helplessness “O Krishna, O Dwarakavasi (the resident of Dwaraka), O Mathuravasi (the One who resides in Mathura), please come to my rescue!”
Lord Krishna seemed to have taken quite a while. Having run out of names and ideas, Draupadi implored, “O Hridayavasi (the One who dwells in my heart), please help me.” In an instant, Krishna appeared and offered timely help. Krishna’s logic, Baba says, was pure and simple. “Draupadi, I had to go to Dwaraka and Mathura to traverse back to you as that is how you related to me. Hridayavasi was the easiest journey for me as I dwell in your heart.”
Looking for God is not like having to go through a haystack for a needle. He is in our hearts waiting to lighten our soul just like a beam of sunlight which is eager to enter a dark room through the tiniest hole in the door. Let us look within and we will definitely find Him. Ultimately that is what LIFE is – Look Inside For Everything, starting with God!
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 1, 2019 16:30:13 GMT
God has his own home. Obviously, it would be different from where humans live. Like birds live in nests and other things in holes. Everyone has their own place to dwell. God has a big mansion in heaven. Those who listen to His voice will know how to find him. Like if I listen to the voice of a bird chirping and follow it then I will find it too.
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PISTON1246
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Post by PISTON1246 on Mar 1, 2019 18:57:30 GMT
The Quran I read says God has a mighty throne. I think that throne is in heaven somewhere.
I can not see a person in China for the reason that I am not in China and in the line of sight to be able to see them. A location too far away for me to observe right now.
A fire depending on the fuel used to feed it will or will not produce ash. A fire made with wood may produce ash but a fire from butane in a butane lighter might not produce ash.
The only person in me is myself. My organs.
God is outside of me and everyone else who is not God Himself.
When you look at other people you are looking at a body other than your own.
If you know what moss looks like and know it can cover up water to make the water not visible than you should check for water when you see a blanket of moss. I would suggest not taking a step there until you inspected the location to make sure there is solid ground there. If you have been to the location before and remember seeing a large and deep body of water there then you should expect it is still there. You should already know that the moss is on top of the water.
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yoshi
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Post by yoshi on Mar 6, 2019 6:54:32 GMT
God truly resides everywhere and inside our hearts too! Wish we can believe this completely and we can be God-realized!
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Post by joustos on Mar 24, 2019 16:15:11 GMT
If God is a physical being (hence subject to change and destruction), God could be in any place of the universe. If God is a spirit, God cannot be in any place, for being in a place requires extension (the quality of a Body). The alternative is that God is a man-like person: the person formed or developed in a human body or brain. We know that there are humans, but we do not know whether there is a person in/to any body of the universe such as the Earth, the Sun, or the starry Sky. The ancient Greeks certainly conceived of such gods. So, Orpheus and others sang praises to the various gods. In various languages, I could say:
Tibi gratias agimus, Magna Mater [Kybele], Khthonie, Gaia, Demeter. Dona nobis pacem, panem quotidianum, salutem. Te laudamus, Hagia Sophia. That is: We give you thanks, Great Mother, Earth [by different names]. Give us peace, the daily bread, health. We praise you, Holy Wisdom.
Following the anthropomorphic way of thinking, the Greeks also postulated that which fertilizes the Earth [Gaia/Gee], namely the raining Zeus, or the earlier Yah (Iakhkhos), who is invoked by the mystics on their way to Eleusis.... So, myths are inevitable once a god is conceived.
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