“Sir, do
you know God?”, asked a curious seeker to a Saint.
With a
pleasant smile on his face, the master replied, “Son, which God are you talking
about? The God that lives in heaven up there or the God which is inside you or
the God which is omnipresent or one of the God out of 360 Million Gods that our
culture believes in or the God that other cultures believe in?”
With a
confused face, the seeker raised his eyebrows in curiosity and gave a blank
face. With a heart filled with compassion, the Saint continued,” Son, the word
God doesn’t refer to something that can be easily conceived by any one of the
five human senses. Hence, unlike other words that we use during communication,
word God has its own meaning for each one of us. The meaning is subjective in
nature and is dependent on the subject who is using this word.”
“There
are two kinds of people in this world – the believers and the seekers. The
first kind, just believe on the description given by a prophet or a messenger
of God or by the parents or by the priests or by the society. With those set of
preconceived notions and assumptions, such believers keep on strengthening those
assumptions on the name of sect or religion. They form their own beliefs about
God, in fact, I would say they borrow their beliefs from others and then keep
on building upon it. Most of the people fall into this category. In the past,
so many saints realized the great relationship with the Supreme being and attempted
to describe to others. Believers totally believed those Saints and thought that
we just have to follow them, imitate them and their words are the only way to
realize the God.”
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