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by Jayaram V
And so the only thing to do is to enter into contact with
it- not to give a name or describe it. In fact, there is hardly any use
giving it a name or describing it. One must try to enter into contact, to
concentrate upon it, live it, live that reality, and whatever the name you
give it is not at all important once you have the experience. The
experience alone counts - The Mother
In truth who knows God becomes God - Mundaka Upanishad
Let the mind be in you, which was also in Jesus Christ -
St.Paul.
The Knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine
that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. This is
not so, God and I, we are one in knowledge - Eckhart.
Imagine that God has descended into the earth's consciousness and taken birth as
a human being. Imagine that He has retained most of His divine qualities, but none of His magical or supramental powers. How would have He lived? How would have He solved His day to day problems, dealt with people and conducted Himself in society or family?
Imagine and live that way. Live the way God would have lived and conducted Himself on earth. Live the way He would have spoken to others, the way He would have behaved with others, the way He would have coped with adversity, the way He would have faced negative people and situations, and the way He would have had relationships with various people in His life and so on.
Whenever you have a problem or difficulty imagine how God would have solved the problem or conducted Himself. As you start measuring yourself against God you
develop the urge to measure up to Him. God becomes your goal and your true ideal and you would be drawn to Him for ever.
It is not very difficult to visualize the life of God on earth in human
form or how He would have lived here amidst us like a man, not as a super human being but with all the limitations to which mankind is subjected to. It is not that God has never visited the earth
nor shown to us the way to live under ideal circumstances. The purpose of His incarnations are but to
exemplify the ideal human life upon earth under testing circumstances and the way we should live and conduct ourselves
living amidst people.
So let us mould our lives in accordance with the divine values, with God as our imaginary role model, as our true ideal, as our goal on earth. Let us think like Him, act like him and live like Him. It is in the richness of our imagination and in the strength of our devotion that we can learn to follow Him truly and successfully.
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