Who we are we become, where we are from we will go.

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Who we are we become, where we are from we will go.

- by Virushny Vivekanandan, Richmond, British Columbia, CANADA

 

It is a journey; life is a journey with the climax being that our

destination and our origin are the same. Yet as simple as this

reality is, through our journey of many lives we have lost this

knowledge, and so God has created many paths, which all lead to the

same place, the reality of our being. What is our destination? Our

destination is realizing that God is within us, and that we are

ourselves God, but that realization does not come until we realize

many other things on the process.

 

We refer to ourselves as humans, and those who are in a higher

spiritual level, as saints and above all there is God. The term human

is the name of the class of beings we are. As humans we commonly make

the assumptions that we are allowed to make mistakes, it is often

heard when one makes a mistake that one is only human, but this

stereotype does not allow us to grow spiritually. As humans have

adapted a definition for being a human, we have also done it for

saints.

 

Saints exist in every religion in the world, they are termed saints

because they possess more spiritual knowledge than the common man

does, and they lead a life of purity. A Saint is one who is able to

teach others the path to God, not only through his words, but also

through his deeds. He is always practicing various kinds of service

to all beings, no matter how demeaning his acts might seem in the

eyes of others. Sainthood to most humans seems like a lifestyle that

is quite difficult to lead in a time where there are a lot of

materialistic desires in the world, but how can one reach Godhood

without practicing Sainthood?

 

It is because of the mind and the materialistic attachments which

humans possess that separate them from Saints. Yet the duties of a

Saint and a human must be the same. Sainthood is not a level of life

we must reach but one that we must attempt to live.

 

Shirdi Sai Baba was to His Muslim devotees a saint, for they believed

in Allah as God, and Shirdi Baba as a guide and teacher who was

higher in spirituality then them. To his Hindu devotees Shirdi Baba

was God, because they believed that God incarnates in human form to

restore righteousness.

 

A Saint is able to perform service to mankind without seeing the

difference between him and them, without seeing what class, creed or

religion they belong to, and he sees them all as one. He has come to

the realization that the best way he can serve God is through his

children, which he regards as all in most religions.

 

The more vigorously one practices the acts of Sainthood the more

aware one becomes that everything in this universe is filled with the

same light. If you regard that energy as the energy of God, or that

energy AS God, then the equation of life is steps away from being

solved. Visualize the following: 1) A Saint serves every being, 2)

God is in every being, there are two conclusions one can come to: 1)

the Saint is serving God and 2) God is all around the Saint.

 

When the latter of the two conclusions is realized, a Saint is a few

steps from leading Godhood. Godhood is the lifestyle lead by one who

is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Once a Saint realizes that

God is all around him, he will realize that God is in him. This gives

him the attribute of being omnipresent. If he is part and God and God

is in all the beings, he is omniscient. If he knows that he is God

and has all through his sainthood devoted to himself selfless,

intelligent service, he is omnipotent.

 

From Sainthood to Godhood, requires effort, faith and detachment from

the materialistic world. From " humanhood " to Sainthood requires an

open mind and the letting go of the stereotypes that only humans make

mistakes. The journey of life is precious, as it is our gift from God

to realize that from him we are and we have come and to him we will

go and become.

 

Ram Chugani

Kobe, Japan

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