One God (Ek Ong Kaar), Part Two

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Loving God

The Practical Teachings of Baba Virsa Singh Ji

 

(from the Gobind Sadan website)

 

Prophets of the One Light

 

God has been here from the beginning; God will go on forever. But from time

to time, the number of people who have pure minds full of faith in and love

for God decreases. The people have forgotten; their minds have become impure

and they do not listen to the subtle Power. Then God, who is both subtle and

concrete, has to come in a physical form, a Prophet, for people will follow

someone who can see and hear. With God's blessings, God's grace, and God's

mercy, this person begins to realize God, and God's Power and Light start

working through this person's tongue and heart.

 

God chooses the prophets but does not reveal anything to them in the

beginning. When the right time comes, God gives them gain. God then

discloses certain things to them at certain times, but still keeps many

things secret. After God begins using a person as His messenger, that person

no longer works from his own mind or his own heart. It is all God's work.

 

All the prophets have come from the same light; they all give the same basic

messages. None have come to change the older revealed scriptures; they have

come to remind people of the earlier prophets' messages which the people

have forgotten. We have made separate religions as walled forts, each

claiming one of the prophets as its own. But the light of God cannot be

confined within any man made structures. It radiates throughout all of

creation. How can we possess it?

 

None of the prophets belongs to one caste, one creed, or one nation. Jesus

is not confined to Christianity; Moses is not a Jew; the prophet Muhammad is

not a Muslim; Guru Nanak is not a Sikh. They have not come to establish

institutionalized religions. Those divisions are created by humans,

reflecting their own policies. By contrast, the prophets come into the world

with a message from God. They come to remind people of dharma by making it

fresh and new again; they come to teach love, to encourage service to

humanity, to remove ignorance by enlightening people with the knowledge of

God. They come to change our consciousness; they come to show us how to

live.

 

Human beings do have spiritual wisdom deep within themselves; the one who

creates the world is already sitting in their souls. But it is only when a

prophet of God comes down and start speaking the divine wisdom that it

becomes awakened in people. The prophet reminds them of the truth they know

but have forgotten.

 

 

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