God is Great! We all know that. And we all believe that. Do we?
What is so great about God? Why is God great and not us or nothing about us like our wealth, physical or social power? Ask a theist. He’ll point to all the temples and churches, mosques and synagogues and all the religious writings of different ages and say that his ‘ism’ proves that HE is there. Ask an atheist. He’ll argue about all those teachings and claim that HE is not there because his ‘ism’ teaches so.
Bound by our ego of ‘ism’, we are always asking such questions, limiting our beliefs, limiting our creative potential, thus limiting our chances of attaining enlightenment.
The logician, for example, won’t take for granted that ‘God is Great’. He would put arguments, put questions and cross-questions in order to disqualify the fact. He would argue that all our contentment comes from external sources lying within the material: money, administrative power, social absorption of personal life, among others. They’ll put up arguments that have neither head nor tail and puzzle us with such authority that we feel amazed at the sight of their overwhelmed pleasure, as if, by winning an argument they have won half the globe.
We know they are not enlightened. They don’t have the wisdom. But it is always easy to find flaws and faults with others, for we don’t look inside our own selves for the truth. Do we?
If you answer ‘yes’, then you’ll never be dragged into such an argument as stated above and the question of being defeated won’t arise. The fact is that we ourselves are also not enlightened. We are always looking for answers to questions that arise due to our lack of faith in our Self. That’s why we get puzzled as there are so many opinions. And the so-called logistics mesmerize us with their conviction of “No-Knowledge.” On the other hand, we lack that conviction as well, because we also belong to the same “No-Knowledge” class.
Yet when we can’t find an answer to some ‘peculiar’ happenings or can’t find ways to drag ourselves out of trouble or are engrossed with fear during a period of emergency. We blindly run after that illusory giant called God, to save us. If the situation turns in our favor; we grin, with no conviction again, and say, “God is Great”. Yes, we just say it for the sake of saying. We are devoid of the power of gratitude and very quickly fall back to our old belief pattern and try to seek God in the images of every object of material being. On the contrary, if the result is reverse, we are convinced that there is no God and take for granted what the atheists argue as true.
And when we encounter an atheist, we fall into arguments of non-sense and usually end up feeling wretched while our counterpart enjoys a triumph of the world.
It is because of our non-enlightened state of the mind that we are exploited by stupid analogies they provide in favor of materialism and against mentalism. The real essence of ‘class struggle’ is this struggle of the ego of ‘ism’ that has divided us into theist, pantheist, atheist or transcendentalist. And we just go on collaborating well with all these ego-mindedness and remain forever non-enlightened.
Enlightenment is lighting up your “ism”- centered ego mind, which is living in the dark world of ‘No-Knowledge’. Once enlightened, you will overcome that ego mind and you will know why God is great. You will identify the 3 you’s of You – the Body, the Mind and the Soul. You’ll learn not to question. Questioning creates doubt and if you take a little in-depth study into the major religious guide books (The Vedas, The Bible, The Koran, the Tanakh), you’ll find that everywhere stress has been put on this particular aspect of not questioning.
For, when you stop questioning, you stop the chatter of the mind and start perceiving the truth. You first gain the knowledge and then say that God is Great. Then, when you gain wisdom, you will say that being human is great, and so is every creation. And finally, when you are enlightened, you will say NOTHING. You will be silent. This is the essence of being Enlightened, for talking causes all woes of life.
So let us take the journey to be enlightened. The best way, obviously, is to find a guru, a teacher. A teacher is a person who preaches what a student should learn and how and not what a teacher should teach and how. Such a person is free from the ‘ism’- centered, ego mind. But they are not easy to find. They won’t reveal themselves to you naturally like the self-proclaimed, logical guru who claims that there is no God and carries heaps of rubbish analogies in his support. Who says there is a God? Krishna or Christ asked men to follow them with utmost good faith. The Buddha was silent on the question of God. All they wanted to tell us, and you’ll know when you yourself become enlightened, is that ‘GOD is the Good Will of your Mind that permits and inspires you to do Good to your Self, to your family, your community and society at large - the world of us.’
The second best option is to start reading books. Read more books. You'll find a few in my blog on free ebooks. But there are a lot more to read for not everything is available as ebook and for free. Go to libraries, purchase sometimes from book stores, book fairs etc. Read them. Read them time and again until you get the essence of what the great masters over eons of time have tried to teach.
That's how you'll be enlightened and will be free from the "MAYA", the illusion that surrounds you in this real world and keeps you away from the world of God.
To control this MAYA OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE and start seeing the world differently.
What is so great about God? Why is God great and not us or nothing about us like our wealth, physical or social power? Ask a theist. He’ll point to all the temples and churches, mosques and synagogues and all the religious writings of different ages and say that his ‘ism’ proves that HE is there. Ask an atheist. He’ll argue about all those teachings and claim that HE is not there because his ‘ism’ teaches so.
Bound by our ego of ‘ism’, we are always asking such questions, limiting our beliefs, limiting our creative potential, thus limiting our chances of attaining enlightenment.
The logician, for example, won’t take for granted that ‘God is Great’. He would put arguments, put questions and cross-questions in order to disqualify the fact. He would argue that all our contentment comes from external sources lying within the material: money, administrative power, social absorption of personal life, among others. They’ll put up arguments that have neither head nor tail and puzzle us with such authority that we feel amazed at the sight of their overwhelmed pleasure, as if, by winning an argument they have won half the globe.
We know they are not enlightened. They don’t have the wisdom. But it is always easy to find flaws and faults with others, for we don’t look inside our own selves for the truth. Do we?
If you answer ‘yes’, then you’ll never be dragged into such an argument as stated above and the question of being defeated won’t arise. The fact is that we ourselves are also not enlightened. We are always looking for answers to questions that arise due to our lack of faith in our Self. That’s why we get puzzled as there are so many opinions. And the so-called logistics mesmerize us with their conviction of “No-Knowledge.” On the other hand, we lack that conviction as well, because we also belong to the same “No-Knowledge” class.
Yet when we can’t find an answer to some ‘peculiar’ happenings or can’t find ways to drag ourselves out of trouble or are engrossed with fear during a period of emergency. We blindly run after that illusory giant called God, to save us. If the situation turns in our favor; we grin, with no conviction again, and say, “God is Great”. Yes, we just say it for the sake of saying. We are devoid of the power of gratitude and very quickly fall back to our old belief pattern and try to seek God in the images of every object of material being. On the contrary, if the result is reverse, we are convinced that there is no God and take for granted what the atheists argue as true.
And when we encounter an atheist, we fall into arguments of non-sense and usually end up feeling wretched while our counterpart enjoys a triumph of the world.
It is because of our non-enlightened state of the mind that we are exploited by stupid analogies they provide in favor of materialism and against mentalism. The real essence of ‘class struggle’ is this struggle of the ego of ‘ism’ that has divided us into theist, pantheist, atheist or transcendentalist. And we just go on collaborating well with all these ego-mindedness and remain forever non-enlightened.
Enlightenment is lighting up your “ism”- centered ego mind, which is living in the dark world of ‘No-Knowledge’. Once enlightened, you will overcome that ego mind and you will know why God is great. You will identify the 3 you’s of You – the Body, the Mind and the Soul. You’ll learn not to question. Questioning creates doubt and if you take a little in-depth study into the major religious guide books (The Vedas, The Bible, The Koran, the Tanakh), you’ll find that everywhere stress has been put on this particular aspect of not questioning.
For, when you stop questioning, you stop the chatter of the mind and start perceiving the truth. You first gain the knowledge and then say that God is Great. Then, when you gain wisdom, you will say that being human is great, and so is every creation. And finally, when you are enlightened, you will say NOTHING. You will be silent. This is the essence of being Enlightened, for talking causes all woes of life.
So let us take the journey to be enlightened. The best way, obviously, is to find a guru, a teacher. A teacher is a person who preaches what a student should learn and how and not what a teacher should teach and how. Such a person is free from the ‘ism’- centered, ego mind. But they are not easy to find. They won’t reveal themselves to you naturally like the self-proclaimed, logical guru who claims that there is no God and carries heaps of rubbish analogies in his support. Who says there is a God? Krishna or Christ asked men to follow them with utmost good faith. The Buddha was silent on the question of God. All they wanted to tell us, and you’ll know when you yourself become enlightened, is that ‘GOD is the Good Will of your Mind that permits and inspires you to do Good to your Self, to your family, your community and society at large - the world of us.’
The second best option is to start reading books. Read more books. You'll find a few in my blog on free ebooks. But there are a lot more to read for not everything is available as ebook and for free. Go to libraries, purchase sometimes from book stores, book fairs etc. Read them. Read them time and again until you get the essence of what the great masters over eons of time have tried to teach.
That's how you'll be enlightened and will be free from the "MAYA", the illusion that surrounds you in this real world and keeps you away from the world of God.
To control this MAYA OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE and start seeing the world differently.
