On Spirituality - 1: What's God, Why should we believe HIM, What's the harm, in not believing HIM?

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What is God ?

If I give you a good slap on your face, who knows that slap ? That knower

(Vetta), that knowing subject, is God.

When a strong desire is satisfied or gratified, that blissful state wherein the

mind finds rest is God.

That which sparkles or glitters in your eyes is God.

That which prompts you to think is God, the Lord of the mind. The source (yoni)

or support (Adhishthan) for your mind, Prana (vital energy), senses and body is

God.

The tree exists. It shines. It gives delight.

These three aspects, existence, shining, delight - Asti-Bhati-Priya or Sat-Chit-Ananda - is God.

God is truth. God is love. God is beauty. God is Ananda. God is Light of lights.

God is Mind of minds, Prana of Pranas, Soul of souls.

That shines in your heart and that is inseparable from you.

Feel His presence always. Recognize His presence always, everywhere. Carry His

presence when you walk.

Why should we believe in God ?

Belief in God is an indispensable requisite for every human being. It is a sine qua non.

Owing to the force of Avidya or ignorance, pain appears as pleasure.

The world is full of miseries, troubles, difficulties and tribulations.

The world is a ball of fire.

The Antahkarana (mind, intellect, ego and the subconscious mind) charged with

Raga (attachment), Dvesha (hatred), anger and jealousy is a blazing furnace.

We have to free ourselves from birth, death, old age, disease and grief. This

can be done only by faith in God. There is no other way.

Money and power cannot give us real happiness. Even if we exercise suzerainty

over the whole world, we cannot be free from care, worry, anxiety, fear,

disappointment, etc.

It is only faith in God and the consequent God-realization through meditation

that can give us real, eternal happiness and free us from all kinds of fear and

worries which torment us at every moment.

Faith in God will force us to think of Him constantly and to meditate on Him and

will eventually lead us on to God-realization.

What is the harm in not believing in God's existence ?

If we have no faith in God, we will be born again in this world and will undergo

considerable miseries.

The ignorant, faithless doubting self goes to destruction. He cannot enjoy the least happiness.

Neither this world nor that beyond is there for the doubting self. Those who

have no faith in God do not know what is right and what is wrong. They have

lost the power of discrimination. They are untruthful, proud and egoistic. They

are given to excessive greed, wrath and lust. They hoard up money by unlawful

means. They become men of demoniacal nature. They commit various sorts of

atrocious crimes. They have no ideals for their lives. They are thrown into

demoniacal wombs. They sink into the lowest depths, deluded birth after birth.

Some one hundred and fifty years ago there lived a very famous Yogi-jnani (a

self-realized saint) by name Sadasiva Brahmendra Sarasvati in Nerur, near

Karur, in the district of Tiruchirapalli in South India. He is the author of

Brahma Sutra Vritti and Atma Vidya Vidalasa and various other books. He has

done innumerable miracles. Once when he was absorbed in Samadhi (superconscious

state) on the banks of the Cauvery, he was carried away by the flood and thrown

somewhere else. He was deeply buried underneath the sand. Labourers went to

plough the fields. They hit against the head of the Yogi and some blood oozed

out. They dug out, and to their astonishment, they found a Yogi seated in

Samadhi.

On another occasion, as an Avadhuta, Sadasiva Brahmendra entered the Zenana

(tent) of a Mohammedan chief naked. The chief was quite enraged at the sage. He

cut off one of the arms of the Mahatma (saint). Sadasiva Brahman walked away

without uttering a word and without showing any sign of pain. The chief was

greatly astonished at this strange condition of the sage. He thought that this

man must be a Mahatma, a superhuman being. He repented much and followed the

sage to apologize. Sadasiva never knew that his arm was cut off. When the chief

narrated to the sage what had happened in the camp, Sadasiva excused the chief

and simply touched his maimed arm. Sadasiva Brahman had a fresh arm. It is the

life of this sage that made a very deep impression in my mind. I came to a very

definite conclusion that there is a sublime divine life independent of objects

and the play of the mind and the sense. The sage was quite unconscious of the

world. He did not feel a bit when his arm was cut off. He ought to have been

absorbed in the Divine Consciousness, he ought to have been one with the

Divine. Ordinary people yell out when there is even a pin-prick in their

bodies. When I heard of the marvellous incident in the life of Sage Sadasiva

from Apta (realized) persons and when I read in the book, it gave me a very

strong conviction about the Divine Existence and a divine eternal life where

all sorrows melt, where all desires are satisfied and one gets supreme bliss,

supreme peace and supreme knowledge.

 

(From Swami Sivananda's Book, "May I Answer That?")

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om sai ram

"The sage was quite unconscious of the world. He did

not feel a bit when his arm was cut off.Ordinary

people yell out when there is even a pin-prick in

their bodies."yes!we have to rise above our body

consciousness.The day we will rise above that-means we

are one with divinity-oh!awaiting for those wonderful

moments to come in life to enjoy fully the

bliss,ananda.

in the lotus feet of our beloved Baba

sai ram

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SAI BABA'S REALITY, HIS PICTURES AND BHAJANS ARE MY ONLY MOMENTARILY RELEIVE

TO PAIN. KAVI. SAI RAM

 

sangeeta sharma <sangeeta65 > wrote:

om sai ram"The sage was quite unconscious of the world. He didnot feel a bit

when his arm was cut off.Ordinarypeople yell out when there is even a pin-prick

intheir bodies."yes!we have to rise above our bodyconsciousness.The day we will

rise above that-means weare one with divinity-oh!awaiting for those

wonderfulmoments to come in life to enjoy fully thebliss,ananda.in the lotus

feet of our beloved Baba sai ram

Om Sri Sai Ram