Success in Life

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Many Names -- One God

 

God is All Love. He is the Ocean of Compassion, the Ocean of

Forgiveness, the Ocean of Kindness. He is the only Reality. He is the

basis, source and origin of all religions. He is the goal of all

religions. Even though called by different names, as Brahman, Atman,

Jehovah, Father in Heaven, or Allah, yet that Supreme Cosmic Reality

is One and Non-Dual. It is that Reality which is worshiped in all

places of worship: Hindu temple, Jewish synagogue, Christian church,

Islamic mosque. It is the One Being glorified in all the scriptures of

the world.

 

For before creation was created, to whom did God belong? Before there

was any creation at all, when there was neither sun, moon, stars,

planets, space, time, world, what to say of human beings, then what

was His name? Who was there to give Him a name? What were the words

that uttered any prayers to Him? Who was there to pray? Why do we

fight over names? What folly! Before there was any creation at all,

the one absolute transcendental Being alone existed, the one universal

Reality that ever has existed, ever exists, and ever shall exist.

 

It was only when man came into being in the course of the strange,

mysterious progression of human history that languages arose. In

different parts of the earth different ways of expressing thoughts

through articulate speech evolved. Different terminologies to express

the same thing developed.

 

Consider how many totally different names there are for the one

element that you drink in order to slake your thirst. In another

country, if you ask for water in your language, they may not know what

you want. Yet, water is the same, thirst is the same. You call God one

thing, he calls God by another name, but that does not multiply God,

that does not make God many. There is only, one non-dual Supreme

Universal Spirit. God is the Great Spirit. Call Him Allah, call Him

Ahura Mazda, call Him Almighty Father in Heaven, call Him what you

will. It is the Great Spirit.

 

And all religious say that you are related to God. This is one of the

basic concepts in all religions. In Islam they say: " There is the

Light of Allah in man. " In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says, " I am

the Soul seated in the hearts of all beings. " Christianity and Judaism

say that God created man in His own image and breathed His spirit into

him. Therefore, the spirit of God indwells man as the innermost

reality in him. The essence of living a successful life is the

awakening of the sleeping and slumbering divinity, within you, and

doing all one can bring about its fullest unfoldment. That is real life.