It is presumed that there is a God Who controls everything but there is a group of those who are always against this doctrine. This controversy has been going on since time immemorial and there is no visible solution because you can’t resolve an issue which is so subtle that your human mechanism is inefficient to approach that point where it can be felt.
Anything that you have can be lost, can be stolen, and can be taken away. At least death will make you separate from your possessions. Only that which you have become can not be taken away. Even death can not separate you fro it. You don’t have it, you are it.
There are many beautiful descriptions in the Upanishads like, “The moment one knows god, one becomes god.” Knowing god one becomes god because knowing god is not like having knowledge that you can forget: knowing god simply means that you have reached to a new quality of being. It becomes part of your existence, your breathing, your very heartbeat.
The ultimate union with the whole simply means you have become the whole; hence that is the point when one feels, “I have arrived. This was the goal I have been seeking for thousands of lives. This is the home I was searching for. I have made many homes, but no home really proved to be a home, they were only caravanserais, and always I had to leave. No I can not leave this home because I am it.”
Bulle Shah would sing in his ecstatic mood, “Bulla, who I am, I don’t know.” He like many other Sufi poets was lost in the mystery but he had realized this much that he was not what he actually was. He was in search of the whole.
Now when I see this almost lost generation, busy making structures, inventing new things, producing new foods, without ever pausing for even a second to ponder over own existence, I feel somewhat worried, for I foresee the end of this civilization very soon. The holy scriptures have hinted about the whole or the infiniteness of the whole but nowadays we rarely have these things in the books which are taught to students in schools and colleges.
There is a definite disharmony between man and the whole. The goodness lies in realizing this truth to reestablish our relation with the whole, and escape from the man-made chaos.
God bless you all.
Note: My God is just a sound; He is the whole, never found in temples, churches, mosques, and gurudwaras.
