To Vinod about having lunch with God (was being a devotee)

[Guest guest]

Vinod wrote:

I believe that all religions are false and manmade.What is the simple

truth is that the mother nature is the cosmic force and in one way or

the other we pray that force.This divine force energises each atom in

this cosmos.As long as the life force is there we are alive otherwise

we kinbd of die to be reborn.In fact there is never any death. My

first God is our Sun as our eternal father and mother earth is our

eternal mother. And chanting Gyatrimantra is all you need to

have.You can go to any hindutemple to get the puja viddhi. Bible

and Koran are way to confing but however I can challenge anyone to

bring God to have lunch with me and they cannot.

Dear Vinod ~ Wow! Somehow, this kind of knocked my socks off. I'm not

going to challenge your comments about religion and whether or not

the Gayatri mantra is all we need (and I have the Beatles singing it

in the background of my head), and there aren't any Hindu temples

where I live. But if you've missed having lunch with God, or

breakfast, or dinner, or walks, then, wow!, you've missed a lot. God

is the very air we breath; the very earth we walk upon, the very food

we eat, the very loved ones who fill our lives, even those in our

lives who bring us challenges. God/dess is in everything, everywhere.

How have you managed to miss it? Jai Maa , Jai Swamiji ~ Linda

 

P.S. Of course, this doesn't even get into the discussion of avatars,

but I believe that there are two very significant ones who are the

reason we have come together in this digest.

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Vinod wrote:

....Regarding having seen or met the God,I think that will be the

utmost experience.Even though you are right about God being

everywhere and in everthing and every event is due to him.But I (as a

scientist myself) should always ask and forward questions to you and

Sriswamiji and Shreemaa. for thoughtful answers and my own

enlightenment...

Dear Vinod ~ please forgive me if my post seemed to run over what you

were trying to say. Your sadhana is amazing; if I could achieve half

that, I would feel I had come very far indeed. Now that you have

identified yourself as a scientist, I understand a bit more your

statement about wanting someone to bring God to you for a luncheon.

Still, as a scientist, you know there are many things we cannot see

with the naked eye, and even some things that are postulated

scientific beliefs for which there is no demonstrable proof. In this

way, science expands, and we are at a point where, for some time,

science and spirituality have been coming closer and closer to one

another. I remember very well the first time that I read that a

table, which seems very solid, is mostly empty space.

 

I realize my statement was somewhat global, yet it was based in my own

experience. I remember vividly the first times I felt the presence of

the Sacred. I would be outside, walking around, maybe on the way to

do an errand. Suddenly, I would be struck, almost as if by

lightening, although the experience, though dramatic, was much more

subtle than that. I could do nothing but stop and allow it to occur.

I would feel as if the top of my head opened up, in a kind of V

shape, and I could feel Sacred Energy pouring into me, mingling with

my own energies, gross, causal and subtle (of course, I didn't know

those concepts at the time). I would feel a kind of tingling all

through my body. The experience is hard to describe; but each time,

after it was over, I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude and

connectedness. Of course, there are some who might simply say I was

just nuts. : )

 

Yet I've had to many similar experiences, which are all treasures to

me, to dismiss them as the workings of my personal psychology, and

I've never doubted any of them. However, I am an artist, so prone to

direct, and what I would also call, aesthetic, sacred experience. For

me the sacred is inherently aesthetic, and perhaps this is why so many

artists have attempted to put the indescribable on canvas, or to song,

or to words in poetry.

 

In any case, there is room here, and in the heart of the Guru and the

God/dess, for all of us ~ scientists, artists, skeptics, the merely

curious, the supremely devout ... and God/dess will speak to each of

us, or come to lunch, in Her own way and time. Jai Maa , Jai Swamiji

~ Linda

 

P.S. I seem to remember a story within the greater story of the

Ramayana. It was about a woman who every day would go out and sweep

the walkway to her little home, put flowers on the path ... day after

day after day. Someone once asked her why she was doing this. She said

something like, "because I never know when God may come to call." And

one day God did come, in the form of a derelict man, whom she invited

in, fed, treated like a king, and then was shown His true nature.

Isn't there a similar story in the Christian lexicon?