In the recent past, God has begun revealing Himself and His true nature to me. It has taken me many months to be able to reach this stage, and even now it is not a realtime conversation (as perhaps Walsh had in his very interesting work "Conversations with God", which i have read some of, and which you should read). It is more like an email conversation, where replies come several minutes later, or hours. Answers come in bursts.
God has been very blunt and forthright in his introduction to who He is. And what he has revealed is nothing short of brilliant.
However, i need to say that what He reveals is a truth that can be painful to many. He can only reveal as much to you as you can digest, given how you have been brought up and lived and believed in. This is because God will *not* hurt you.
Thus, although I feel compelled to share with you what He said, in fact, i feel He wants me to share with you, yet - you must talk to Him for your *own* understanding of who He is, and how *you* should relate to Him. For each person the answer will be different, and there's a very solid reason to that, which i wont explain to you, but will dawn on you, when you start talking to Him or even thinking a long with lines I am sharing here.
For example, God is non-judgemental. When you actually translate that to real life, that can be very shocking for someone who has followed a set of irrational beliefs. Thus, God cannot expect you to shake off your beliefs - it would be like uprooting you, like pulling the floor from under your feet. Even when you realize you have a false belief, you may have to continue with it, because your mind simply won't accept that it is false, since you've spent your entire life believing it.
For some detailed points on His true nature, please go through my blog called "Every monent is God" - i could not separate this out from the rest of the blog, as i felt the continuity was required.
Please read that now, and then return. (Sorry for this)
I also point out there that being the creator of the entire universe, He is the most rational, scientific, intelligent, mature, just and fair being, and thus in order not to make him feel petty and small, we have to give up all our extensive, complicated rituals (that we find so much comfort in). In india, we have made God into some kind of local goon who needs to be paid a fee in order to let us just survive. We have made him into a local Minister who needs adulation, feet-touching, feeding, and bribing in order for us to get our job done. God's grace needs to bought with donations and gifts. Just like in India you have to pay a hefty fee to get a job in the government. So God has been made into someone pettier and greedier than us, who needs to be paid to get His grace !
He has been made into a little child who can be pleased with candy (toffee in India). He's like a dog who can be thrown a scrap - that's what you've been making the creator-of-all-there-is out to be.
So God has been made into this extorting "Don", he's the corrupt Minister, he's the feudal lord, he's the government clerk who needs a cut to do His job ...
"How do you think i survived long before I created you humans", He asks me.
Yet, i see no trace of desperation in His voice. Is he resigned ? Does He just accept it? Can He do anything about it ? Well, if He accepts it resignedly, then He certainly wouldnt be telling me all this. He wouldn't be exposing me everytime I follow some silly custom.
I think it's high time we began to have a second look at God, and start treating Him like He should be. It time we all start talking with Him directly and let Him guide us, rather than be taken for a ride by others. Please always always remember Him to be the most intelligent and rational and ... i know i keep saying this, but it has to be said again and again and yet again, so we never forget it. It doesnt matter to Him, but it matters to us, if we wish to get out of the darkness we've allowed ourselves to get into. It matters if we want Him to come out and start helping us more (which He finds it hard to, since we've been killing or trying to kill all his spokesmen, from Buddha to Jesus to Gandhi to ...)
Until you've struck your conversation with Him (which can take time, since He may want to just see whether you're serious, or just testing him out for kicks), only believe in what makes the Highest sense.
Goodbye for now, and may you discover Him fast - life is too short to be lonely.
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