Right from our school days, we have been praying to God and Goddesses, doing their bhakti, and relating God and religion in many ways. However, we still ask:
Who is God? Does God really exist? Is God real? Where is God? Has anyone seen or experienced him? What is the address of God? Who created this universe? Is there any evidence that can prove the existence of God? Does God run this world? What is God's justice? How can we become one with God? Can I attain God's love? Are our prayers to God answered? Are there many Gods or is there only one God? Is God’s love noticeable? Is there any relation between God and Science?… No doubt, our intelligent mind has many such questions. Ultimately, your quest for knowing God has made you land here!
When we see the vast universe, we sense some magnificent energy that seems to run everything in harmony. At times, when we see beautiful nature, we tend to admire it and attain a sense of belongingness. However, we may feel disturbed by seeing calamities, illness, poverty, misery, injustice, and violence. On the one hand, we see how human beings have advanced in science and technology like never before; while on the other hand, we see how more and more people are suffering from stress, depression, and worries. This dual view of the world gives rise to several questions as the ones mentioned above, including: Where is God?Where is the power in prayer? Where did the love of God disappear? Why all this injustice? And why do people doing good deeds suffer at times, while others involved in wrong doings roam free?
So, is there a God? Yes! Indeed! God exists! Moreover, that God is within you. Param Pujya Dadashri says, “God is in every creature, whether visible or invisible.”
Read on to find and experience God… Many people came to Param Pujya Dadashri with such questions and not only got satisfactory answers but also realized God within. We hope that even you may also experience the same.
God"
God is in every creature, whether visible or invisible. There are infinite life forms between you and me, which are not visible even through a microscope, and God resides in them too.
If God is the superior over you and he was to grant you liberation, then you would have to do whatever he tells you. That means that he can dictate what you do. So how can you call that liberation? Liberation means complete freedom; no superior over you and no subordinate under you.
This body is the outer packing and the One within is God.
God has said that a real man is the one who has no weakness of ego, anger, greed, or attachment whatsoever.
God is one in whom the ego is gone. If there is any state that is worthy of greater worship, it is of the one whose ego is gone, the one whose 'I-ness' (potapanu) is gone.
This world is run solely by scientific circumstantial evidences. There is no one up there who has the time to run all this. I refer to these scientific circumstantial evidences as vyavasthit shakti. It keeps everything and everyone organized.
If one becomes the doer of anything then he also becomes the sufferer of that action. God is just the knower and perceiver and in eternal bliss. He is always immersed in his own infinite bliss - the bliss of the Self.
You are your own superior, you are your own protector and you are your own destroyer. You are whole and sole responsible for yourself. No one else interferes in all this. Whether you have a superior or an underhand, it is entirely due to your own mistakes.
You do not have any boss in this world. Your bosses are your blunders and your mistakes. In the absence of these two, you are the Supreme Lord.
The Absolute 'I' within you is God. Beyond this there is no other God or superior above you.
God is in every living being, as the Self, the force behind all life, the Soul (Chetan).
In God's world there is only this much: "One should not inflict pain on any living being. This is our only principle!"
It is a great blessing to take care of the living parents. The rewards are immediate. They are next to God; although you cannot see God, you can see them.
An atheist may not believe in God, he may not believe in religion, but he believes in ethics, and ethics is the greatest dharma. Without ethics, there is no religion (dharma).
Love that fluctuates is not true love; it is attachment. Love that is constant is God’s love. It wins everyone over.
Love that is constant is God's love.
In God's language: 'The fault is of the sufferer,' but according to the world and man's laws, the person who commits the crime is at fault.
Science behind "Knowing God"
Only The Gnani Shows You The Real I
Questioner: How is it possible to understand and realize the Real 'I' when we are living in this worldly life?
Dadashri: Where else are you going to realize the Real 'I'? Is there any other place besides this world where one can live? Everyone in this world must live in it. It is here in this world that you can know your Real Self. This is the science of understanding, "Who am I?"Come to me and I will make you realize your true Self.
During the process of this realization, I am not asking you to do anything, because it is not within your capacity. That is why I am telling you that I will do everything for you. You do not have to worry about anything. First, we must be aware of who we really are and what is worth knowing. What is the Real Truth? What is this whole world about? What is all this? What or who is God?
Is there a God? Yes indeed there is God, and moreover, that God is with you. Why are you searching for him on the outside? When someone opens the door for you, you can receive His darshan (see him). However, the door has been shut so tightly, that it is impossible to open it on your own. Only a person who is Self-Realized (a Gnani Purush) can show you the path and open this door for you.
YOUR OWN MISTAKES BECOME YOUR BOSS
The Absolute 'I' within you is God. Beyond this there is no other God or superior above you.There is no almighty power to rule over you. You are completely independent. There is no one that can hurt you or hinder you. The only thing that can hurt or hinder you, are your own mistakes.
Not only do you not have a boss, but also no one else can bother you or interfere with you. There are innumerable life forms but none of them ever interfere with you. And those that do interfere do so because of your own mistakes. You yourself, had previously caused interferences and therefore, are now facing the consequences of your past actions. I see this in my Gnanvision and I am telling you this as I see it.
In the following two sentences I guarantee a man his liberation. These are: "You do not have any boss in this world. Your bosses are your blunders and your mistakes. In the absence of these two, you are the Supreme Lord." and… "No one can ever interfere with you. This world is such that no living being is in a position where it can ever interfere with another."
These two sentences will resolve all of your conflicts and bring you peace and harmony.
Try It Yourself
Questioner: I pray to God and ask for His grace so that I may become free from worries. That is why I keep repeating His name. Through this medium I make spiritual progress. In spite of that, I have still not experienced the God that resides within me.
Dadashri: How can you experience Him? You cannot experience anything amidst your worries. Experience (of God) and worrying are never together. You will have the experience once these worries disappear.
Questioner: How can these worries end?
Dadashri: Your worries will cease by staying in this satsang. Have you ever come to the satsangbefore?
Questioner: I go to satsangelsewhere.
Dadashri: If you attend a satsang but continue to have worries then you should leave that satsang and find a satsang where your worries will cease. Your worries must end if you are in a right satsang.
Questioner: I feel at peace only as long as I am sitting there.
Dadashri: No. That is not called peace. There is no peace in it. That kind of peace can be found even while we are listening to idle chatter. Real peace should be with you forever.
How can you go to the satsang where you continue to have worries? You have to tell the one conducting the satsang, 'Sir, I worry, therefore I will not be coming to your satsang, or give me some kind of 'medicine' so that I don't have worries.'
Questioner: My mind is never at ease anywhere, whether I am at the office or at home.
Dadashri: You go to the office to work for your wages. You have obligations to your household so you cannot run away from it. Simply leave the satsang where your worries persist. Look for another satsang and keep on searching for a satsang, which will end all your worries. Have you been to any other satsang?
Questioner: But we have been told that God is within us and we will get peace from within and that we are to stop looking elsewhere.
Dadashri: Yes, that is true.
Questioner: But we do not experience the God within us at all.
Dadashri: You cannot experience God in the presence of worries. If there are worries, then whatever experience you may already have will disappear. Worry is the greatest ego. God asks, "Why are you being egoistic? If you are, you are not welcome here." A person who believes, "I am running this, I am doing it," will suffer from worries. The person, who does not have faith in God, will be the one who worries.
Questioner: I have faith in God.
Dadashri: If you truly had faith in God, you would leave everything to him and sleep soundly. Who would worry like that? So, have faith in God. Wouldn't God be listening to a little of what you are saying? Do you have to worry at all after your meal? Do you worry whether the digestive juices or enzymes are being released or not? Do you worry whether new blood will be made and the waste eliminated? There is so much going on inside of you that requires care, and yet you worry about what is happening on the outside. God is doing all the great work inside, and all the outside work is minor in comparison to this. You claim that you are doing all the work, so naturally God will feel bad!Worries arise because of this ego of 'doership'. The person, who worries, is egoistic. Leave everything to God for one week and stop worrying. Then one day come to me, and I will help you realize God, so that your worries will be gone forever.
Dada's Life Example
1. Questioner: Why do you allow yourself to be addressed as Bhagwan (God)?
Dadashri: I myself, am not God. I too bow to the Lord, to Dada Bhagwan within me. I am at the level of three hundred and fifty six degrees of spiritual achievement, whereas Dada Bhagwan is at three hundred and sixty degrees; He is absolute. I lack the four degrees and therefore I too bow down to Dada Bhagwan.
Questioner: Why do you do that?
Dadashri: It is because I want to attain the remaining four degrees. I will have to complete them, will I not? I failed by four degrees. Do I have a choice but to pass them?
Questioner: Do you have a desire to become Bhagwan?
Dadashri: I find it burden some to become Bhagwan. I am alaghutam purush, the most humble of the humble. There is no one in this world humbler than myself. Therefore I feel it burden some to be called a Bhagwan. On the contrary I feel awkward.
Questioner: If you do not want to become God, then why do you want to make the effort to complete the four degrees?
Dadashri: It is because I want to attain final moksha. What do I want by becoming a God? God is anyone who possesses God like attributes. Such people become God. God is an adjective. Whoever possesses such qualities, people will refer to him as God.
2. When I was thirteen, after school I used to visit a couple of ascetics from North India at a nearby ashram in Bhadaran. I would massage their feet because they were very pure. One day one of them said to me, 'Son, God will take you to moksha.' I told him that I would appreciate it if he did not say such things because I found it unacceptable. He felt that I did not understand since I was only a child. He told me that gradually I would understand it. Later on I thought if God were to take me to moksha, he would become my superior and would dictate over me. He would offer me a seat next to him and would ask me to vacate the place when his acquaintance would come. Instead of such dependency it is better to enjoy some bhajias with your wife; this kind of dependency is better. Such a 'moksha' is better than the other. I do not want moksha where there is a superior above me who dictates my moves.
So even at age of thirteen I had such thoughts about independence. I did not want any kind of moksha where there was a superior over me. If such a moksha did not exist, even then one thing was for sure. I did not want either a superior above me or any subordinate under me. For sure I did not want any subordinates.
I did not want moksha where I am told where to sit and where. I wanted moksha where there was no superior above me and no inferior below me. I wanted a path of liberation void of any attachments. At the time I was not aware that such a thing as the path of the vitarag Lords existed. All I knew was that I did not want any superior. I did not want a God that dictates. Such a God can go home, what use would I have for such God? If he is a God, then so am I. It does not matter if he tries to keep me under control for a while but I didn't want it and for what purpose? For mere gratification of these five senses? What is the use of such gratification? Animals have temptations and so do we, so what is the difference between the animals and us?
3. One has been learning the same thing over and over again for infinite life cycles and then he or she forgets; a veil of ignorance covers it all. Ignorance (worldly life) does not have to be studied; it comes naturally. Spiritual knowledge has to be acquired. I realized this at the age of thirteen because I had a very thin veil of ignorance over me even then. My math teacher told me to find the smallest indivisible number, which was present in all other given numbers (lowest common denominator) i.e. find the smallest indivisible number which could divide all the other given numbers. When I was young, I used to talk about people as 'numbers' and therefore this suited me. From this class assignment I discovered God, because God is indivisible and is present in all.
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