The diverse nature of God and its influence on the lives of humans

Everything of a person’s dream is created of his consciousness. Similarly everything in the cosmic dream proceeds from the mind of God.

God is the creator of cosmic nature, with her dualistic principle of delusion ( maya with her law of opposites) and her triple qualities of sattva, rajas and tamas.

God is responsible for all we call good and evil, for all contrasts, contradictions and relativities and therefore in the unfoldment of the human mind and the human destiny,

God is the doer.

Does this imply a fatalistic view, that our lives are ruled by God?

At first it may seem so but let’s examine it further.

All contrasting potentials are God’s doing through the law of nature. How they manifest in or through us depends on our karmic patterns, created by our own use and misuse of our free will.

It is the free will that sets into motion one’s sattvic, rajasic or tamasic qualities of nature. It is here where we chose the direction of our lives. If we want a life filled with strives and its consequences, all we have to embrace is lead a tamasic lifestyle.

It is through our experience, lifestyle and the resulting learning, that we create our own life patterns and reap its respective results.

Finally we must all realize that our liberation, (moksha) is in our oneness with God.

So it is not God that orders us to be as good or bad, joyous or sorrowful, successful or poor, it is we who chose either consciously or unconsciously the pathway of our life and thus become the architects of our own future.

The key is liberation of consciousness. The liberated person beholds spirit as the creator of countless universes, human beings, and the lower forms of life. He sees God in all.

Ekam Sat – only One exists.

In the Vedas, the cosmos is said to evolve like a spider web out of God’s being The Lord is the Divine threat (sutra) or unifying essence running through all expressions of life and matter.

“The universe is represented in every one of its particles. Everything is made of the same hidden stuff.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb”.

                            Emerson in compensation

The test is in the practice of yoga, the practice of the presence and union in God.

“God united people merge their consciousness and life in Him.

They perceive the immense panorama of creation through the Lord’s omnipresent life and consciousness. Such great devotees are aware through intuition of one another’s presence.

They commune together to give expression of their overflowing love for God.

Such ones alone know joy and the contentment of Spirit that causes them to cry:” I am full O Lord! In Thyself I have found all treasure.”

What wonder then, that the yogi urges the worldly man to forsake the momentary pleasure of the earth and to embrace the giver of Everlasting Bliss!

                                     Yogananda

Through intuitive discriminative wisdom, the yogi perceives the imminent and transcendent Spirit of God. He can merge in Divine Unity with God in samadhi; he can also delight in a dualistic relationship with his creator.

The Lord has caused man to dream his dream of delusion; it is He alone who can bestow awakening.

When man tires of groping through the darkness of unknowing and uses his God given intelligence to ask the right question, follow the right action, and prays for enlightenment, God with His infinite compassion, responds to his prayer. His Grace fills the devotee with light and dispels the dark shadows of the world.

With the banishment of ignorance the awakened devotee attains God.

“In my house, with Thine own hands, light the lamp of Thy love!

Thy transmuting lamp entrancing, wondrous are its rays.

Change my darkness to Thy light, Lord

And my evil into good.

Touch me but once and I will change,

All my clay into Thy gold’

All the sense lamp that I did light, sooted into worries

Sitting at the door of my soul,

Light Thy resurrecting lamp.

                  Rabindranath Tagore

Transcendental States of Consciousness:

Edwin Schrödinger, scientist, in quantum mechanics:

Inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason, you - and all conscious beings – are all in all. Hence this life of yours … is not merely a peace of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole”.

John Yepes (St. John on the Cross):

“After some time, certain rays of light, comfort and divine sweetness scattered these mists and translated the soul of the servant of God into a paradise of interior delight and heavenly sweetness. This sovereign wisdom is of an

excellence so high that no faculty nor science can unto it attain.’

This reminds me of another saying of St. John.

“This is nothing else but the supernatural light giving light to the understanding, so that human understanding becomes divine, made one with the one”.

Spontaneous experience:

I was alone upon the seashore … I felt that I returned from the solitude of individuation into the consciousness of unity with all that is. Earth, heaven, and the sea resounded in one vast world encircling harmony. I felt myself one with them.

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Let us all rejoice in the light and live of God.

Om, Amen, Peace.