"I am God!"

[Guest guest]

There is a beautiful Sufi story in which one of the Sufis

cried out in public , "I am God!" and he was stoned to death

by the pious crowd.

That night , one of the persons who had stoned him

had a dream. In that drean he saw God welcoming the dead Sufi

with open arms. So the stone-thrower asks God ,

"You sent the Pharaoh into hell because he said , 'I am God.'

The Sufi said the same thing but you are welcoming him to heaven."

 

God replied , "When the Pharaoh said ,"I am God" , he was thinking

of himself. When this Sufi said 'I am God' he was thinking of Me.

 

taken from

Consciousness Speaks ,

Ramesh Balsekar