APPOINTMENT WITH GOD

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APPOINTMENT WITH GOD

We live in stirring times. A New Age is about to open! May it be an age of new

understanding – of our True Self, and of all that is around us!

In this new age, I believe, we shall grow, from more to more, in consciousness

that we are, essentially, children of the Spirit, children of God. Man is two

percent physical, ninety-eight percent mental and spiritual. And yet is it not

true that the physical claims most of – our attention and time and energy?

All the great ones have urged that man is a child of God. We all are children of

God! Our tragedy is that, in the fever and fret of life, we so easily forgot Him

– our heavenly Father. How often do we think of Him in the hustle and bustle,

the rush and hurry of our life?

We have a number of appointments to keep everyday. Let us not forget to keep our

appointment with God! Let us meet Him in prayer and meditation. And in the midst

of our daily work let us speak to Him the word of our loving heart: "Beloved, I

love Thee! And Thou dost love me! And that is all I need!"

In one of his most moving prayers in the Gitanjali, Tagore says: "That I want

Thee, only Thee – let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract

me, day and night, are false and empty to the core."

To his countrymen, Prophet Mohammed declared: "Oh men! You are paupers in need

of God!" And when Bab – the first Baha’i Prophet - was cruelly prosecuted, he

said to his followers: "Worship God even when you go through the fire!" Sadhu

Hiranand was a college student when he fervently prayed: "Father, may I ever

aspire to be thy faithful child!"

Sadhu Vaswani gave us a simple prayer, many years ago:

Mother mine!

Make me Thine!

Make my life divine!

The "life divine" is a life of aspiration to the Eternal and service of the

poor, Sadhu Vaswani said, are the pictures of God.

To this "life divine" have borne witness all the great ones. It was an Indian poet saint who sang:

"Why so impatient, my heart? He who watches over birds and beasts and insects,

he who cared for you whilst you were in your mother’s womb – shall He not care

for you now that you are come forth?

"O my heart, how could you turn from the smile of your Lord and wander so far

from Him? You have left your Beloved and are thinking of others, and this is

why all your work is in vain."

True it is, that so many, today, have turned "from the smile of the Lord and

wandered so far from Him." Man, alas! Is become a wanderer – wandering away

from the ‘Root’, the centre’ of life. And in all our wandering the Life Divine

still doth call us.

(Written by J.P. Vaswani in East and West Series March 2004)

 

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