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Soul Sustenance 16-11-2012
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Varied (Different) Concepts About The Supreme Being or God (Part 1)
Various questions related to the Supreme Being or God for the vast majority remain
unanswered and therefore the experience of God remains unfulfilled. The concepts
about God are as varied or different as are the sanskars of human beings.
Some common concepts about God:
• Some say God is everywhere.
• Some say He is nowhere.
• Some say He created the whole Universe out of nothing or out of Himself: others
see that as illogical and impossible.
• Many say God is beyond the understanding of limited human intellects, others believe
that they have understood Him and are then respected as self-realized or spiritually
knowledgeable humans.
• Still others believe themselves to be God and allow themselves to be worshiped.
• Some say that God creates only what is good, and others say that He also creates
evil or bad, and that everything that is happening in the world is just God's play.
• God is seen by some to be just an expression of human beings' needs and that they
will soon go beyond needing such a figure-head (someone who is looked upto).
• Some say He makes the grass grow and the wind blow, others say He is merely the
voice of the conscience - the inner voice.
• Others define God as the higher self who remains constantly at peace; this concept
is called cosmic-consciousness, since the one with this characteristic is said to
be at one with the whole universe.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 16-11-2012
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Where there is honesty there is flexibility.
Expression: When someone challenges the truth of what we are saying we generally
tend to argue and prove our point in order to prove ourselves right. When we argue
in this way, it only shows our own stubbornness and doesn't help in anyway to reveal
the truth. Where silence doesn't help in revealing the truth, argument never will
because the other person is not in a position to listen to us at that moment.
Experience: We need to realise the fact that when the other person is not
able to recognise the truth, our arguing will not help in any way. When the truth
is with us we need not argue but we only need to wait for the right opportunity
to tell what we have to say. When we try to tell when the other person is not in
a position to listen to us, it only reveals our lack of flexibility.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris