THE NATURE OF GOD

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SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 30 APRIL

THE NATURE OF GOD

 

God is self-luminous and self-existent. God is eternal, perfect,

pure, free and all-pervading. God is beginningless and endless. God

is without pain, sorrow, fear, passion, caste, creed, sex and colour.

 

God is the indweller of your heart, God is the controller and

governor of this world, body and mind. God is the centre of the

whole of creation. He is the first causeless cause.

 

That supreme source of life is God. The Lord has become all. He

permeates all. He is all in all. God is the way, the source, the

goal, the truth and the life. God is with form and without form -

like ice and steam.

 

God is your sole refuge, benefactor and master. God reveals himself

to you in the form in which you love Him most. God cannot be

comprehended but can be realised.

 

God sees without eyes, hears without ears, works without hands and

tastes without tongue. God is unknowable through intellect but is

knowable through intuition. The law and the law-giver are one - the

eternal law is God himself.

 

God is near and far. He is nearer to the pure and sincere, but

farthest to the passionate. God witnesses all your thoughts and

actions. God is your unseen guest at every meal. God is the head of

your house. The reality of God is his universal existence (sat).

 

God is not responsible for the wealth of a man or for the poverty of

another. Everyone bears the fruits of his karmas. God is the

greatest doctor, the greatest engineer. He is the greatest

mathematician.

 

God is the enjoyer and He is the object enjoyed. God is the high and

He is the low. He is the knower and He is the known. God is the word

spoken and He is the breath which speaks it.

 

God is the manifest and He is the unmanifest. God is the breath of

all breath, the prana (life) of all pranas, the self of all selves.

 

He is the one ultimate truth, unborn, undying, everlasting, ever-

existent, subtle and devoid of pain and sorrow.