IN SEARCH OF
LORD’S TRUE FORM
_ A P ANAND
The author is inspired to pen down
this article due to pitiable condition of mankind. Sometimes people think that
life is so beautiful, pleasant and enjoyable. There is an awful need of Lord’s
descending on earth in person to extricate us from our miseries/morass. Lord, please
don’t shoo us off and never think that all have downgraded You. Most of the
people admit and recognize Your existence in animate or inanimate form and pray
and obey You by bowing and kneeling down , not out of fear. When it is so, why
are You fighting shy and hiding in veils, O my Clement Lord? Are You of
enigmatic (mysterious) personality? Your divine acts of creation, sustenance,
dissolution, concealment and bestowal of grace are well known. Lord can’t You
see the present tormented and fractured condition and tumultuous relations of
the whole world and come unmasked to commune personally with Your creation to
rescue them and instill in them the sense of right direction of brotherhood?
Why is the delay my propitious Lord? Come; let us have Your glimpse. Do You
think that we meddle into Your affairs? If it is so, how are You managing,
single handedly, the affairs of celestial and earthly matters hurtling with
super perfection with Your injunctions? Even Einstein, a famous scientist,
believed in Your presence and mysteries though he did not believe in personal
God. On the contrary, Mother Teresa did not feel Your presence anywhere due to
bemoaning (complaints) the dryness of life after seeing poverty, hunger,
suffering, loneliness and torture etc. of the people without Your intervention.
Probably, she did not believe in “cause and effect” (Karma) theory proclaimed
by Lord Krishna. It is estimated that 90% of Americans and 80% of UK believe in
God. Even an estimated 2% of Indian Hindus are atheists and many of their off
shoots don’t have belief in God. Many in UK started de-baptising. Are they in
any tenterhook or losing faith in You?
We have searched You on all shores of
life, in jungles, mountains and pierced through inky and candy-floss clouds and
starry nights etc but all in vain. We are writhing in pain here for You, in
separation, to ferry us across life for attaining bliss and peace but due to
our chilling conditions You are always escaping our eye sight. Our life has
become stagnant but You are resting in Your Heavenly abode without paying much
attention towards us. Lord, when there is so much suffering and pain in the
world it does not behove You to sit idle. Lord, perhaps, You create
difficulties and obstacles for us to push, goad and whip us in life from lazy
state to awaken from deep slumber. Please come and meet us without any demur
and rend Your veil otherwise people will cast aspersions and blot on You.
Why are You unseen and unravel Your
real self? There is no need of Your blushing in front of Your own creation or
You think that we have reached the epitome of our unfairness and dented Your
reputation. Please be mindful that there are some divine figures also living on
this earth who solely depend upon You. It seems that You have bottled up Your
feelings which are allowed to erupt like a volcano or corked the genie which,
sometimes, cranes its neck to strike us violently. Please don’t put us in deep
freezer. Please unravel Yourself and show us the real You which will be a
momentous encounter/ meeting. People may ask You several questions as to why there
is no love and faith in the world except hatred, jealously, revenge, poverty
instead of economic equality, might and weakness, injustice and why some are
diseased and some healthy? Why did You create Adam and Eve and 84 million of
entities on the earth? Also why do You infuse life in the people when You have
to take it away at some stage without warning? Why the poor have so many mouths
to feed while the rich have a few? Why married young couples end/ nullify/
annul the sacred nuptial knot through divorce or end their lives on flimsy
ground? Some are Your believers only due to fear of reprisal from You, if You
ever encounter them later on. Are You a mute spectator to all the unfortunate
happenings or like a vortex, my Lord?
We are aware, my Lord, that there
will be flurry of questions of annoyance from Your end and may be from both
ends when we encounter. People feel and think about Your failure in
straightening their lives and there is already delay on Your part in disposing
justice. Do You often repent by creating Nature and human race? Do You think
that human race is responsible in thwarting many of Your useful/ beneficial
schemes and Your authority has been encroached upon and Your authority and
dignity/ honour has lowered due to their own set-backs? You may be distraught
with the events and conditions in Your own world. Is it that many ills have
crept in our society by politicizing on caste and religion by people themselves
and not You and people don’t follow your edicts? Also there is enough uprising
in the whole world. Do You think that people are up and running and have not
learnt any lesson even after huge destruction due to Force Majeure (forceful
destructive act of God) and Your fury on their defiance of Your wishes or
uncompromising with Your dictates very often? You have reasons of annoyance
when people are themselves responsible for destruction due to temperature rise,
environmental changes and health hazards. It is also true that earth is under
threat for indiscriminate rise in human numbers. As per Press report dated June
19, 2012 it is estimated that the adult human population now weighs 287 million
tonnes. As per press report on World Population Day (July 11,2012) the figure
has risen to 7 billion. You may be feeling that we bite the hands who feed us.
Besides, we are responsible for the falling of child sex ratio due to abortions
(un-natural acts) taking
place of women giving birth to girl child. The sex ratio in the state of
Maharashtra (India) is 833 females against 1000 males which is a disheartening
figure. The conditions elsewhere are also pity. God created female for
procreation and platonic love but we have very badly exploited her honour,
elegance and sunk her dignity and reduced her to a sex and lust symbol and
abuse her honour and helplessness in every way. Are You disenchanted that some
people do not follow virtues and do not discern between good and bad, wrong and
right though You provided them with powerful mind?
Lord, probably, You do not wish to
unveil Yourself that You are so beautiful and are afraid that someone will cast
an evil eye on You. My Lord, My Creator, an omnipotent! Why are You so afraid
when You are so mighty that You can exorcise/ dispel such designs so easily? It
is also possible that You are unseen because You require more attention and
command. You may be feeling that too much appearance may look cheap and lower
Your stature. It is true that anything in secret and/ or under wrap/ concealed
causes attraction creates anxiety and extreme desire/ yearning to unfold it to
know the reality and have even a glimpse of it. Even an attempt in doing so
produces thrilling, exuberant and exulting experience. Sri Parmahansa
Yogananda, a great spiritualist, has said thus about the terms visible and
invisible which apply to God also in this article, giving importance to
invisible things: (1) The visible man is of little importance; the invisible
self or soul, is of utmost importance. (2) The inner unseen self of a person is
the reality. (3) Within the physical body, yet invisible eyes, is an identical
body of light, the astral encasement of the soul. (4) Behind your physical
heart is an invisible heart. (5) You have invisible organs of sight and
hearing, an invisible brain, invisible bones and nerves. (6) Electricity which
lights the bulb is invisible.
It seems that our selfishness, ego
and arrogant pride (hubris) have robbed our wisdom to know the Truth/ existence
of God. Ego creates many sorts of intricate booby traps of psychology around us
where as non-egoistic person is flexible. Some people have egoistic or
emotional attachments to their worldly and transitory belongings and affairs
that they never delve deeper to know the existence of Creator. God has created
such a situation that man is always eluding peace and happiness. Man is
hankering after them but God has kept them in His safe custody to make both of
them very important and valuable. They look at God with piercing, roving,
blazing and blank staring doubtful eyes. With these undesirable actions we denigrate
Him and cause ignominious/ insult in His eyes. Naturally, He is bound to cry
and act foul. O my Clement Father in Heaven! Do You wish to reform us on the
Day of Reckoning and Spring a surprise?
The author strongly feels that due to
above said reasons, God does not reveal Himself in person but His existence
cannot be felt/ realized unless we are acumen and have knack/ skill. God tells
us that He will reveal to a person who demystifies his ignorance and uses his
discerning faculty carefully. Someone has rightly said as to how many moths
have lost their life and singed on burning lamp to know the secret—whether the
lamp is for burning itself or for burning others. In the same way we have to
burn ourselves in the scorching and blazing heat to remove our ignorance for
clarity and knowledge about the truth of Lord’s omnipresence, omniscience and
omnipotence. Almost all believe in the existence of one Supreme God. He appears
before us either in the form of incarnations (being His messengers or
instruments) or through His mysteries or creation. Belief or faith is the main
criteria in accepting His existence depending upon our intensity and churning
of mind. He may, sometimes, appear before us as Anthropomorphism and we may
know not. His enchanting and captivating divine splendors (like sun, moon,
earth, mountains, rivers, fruits vegetables, trees and flowers etc.) are reflected
in nature, creations and mysteries/ miracles/ twist of fate etc through our
naked eyes. Have we ever thought that under whose instructions the whole world
is functioning in orderly state? When a man does even a small work he tries his
best to take its credit or believes in quid pro quo acts but God never does so.
Look at the smiling colourful and welcoming flowers in the garden when they are
in the full bloom and spread fragrance to infuse, exult and exalt, the feelings
and mood of love and romance. It is a magnificent and fascinating display of
Nature. We have derived many benefits from Nature but hardly thanked its
Creator. A very few persons form His picture in brain and pray for His grace
and benevolence. He is a shaft of light and there is no place bereft of His spectacular
display in the world. One has to subjugate one’s restless mind through prayer
and devotion to Him. Also sacred love is not only a leveler but will also not
fall apart as it has a great compressive strength and magnetic force of
attraction. Those who chant His name repeatedly in devotion, love and faith
reach Him soon through their intellect and His grace.
Those who realize/ see Him are
fascinated, dazed and gaze spell bound. They agree that Lord is
nothing in
return. He is compassionate and virtuous people live with hope to see His
bewitching face one day. He is redeemer and humble custodian of our lives.
Unless we lead balanced life we will remain in conflict and violence with
ourselves and others. Lord has blessed us with counted breaths which we should
use wisely. Unfortunately, our life is jeopardized due to our
own faults.
God wants us to lead peaceful, joyful and disciplined life within certain
parameters. Man has crossed his country’s borders and even oceans and mountains
and soared high in the sky to take even ideological revenge. In such a scenario
why should God appear before us? He is
rather
ashamed of us due to our faulty thoughts and behavior. Let us mull over as to
who should be blamed, God or ourselves, for the sorry state of affairs. Enough
is enough. God does not, at all, wishes our deterioration as our parents do not
think so. He is our Supreme Father. All our anxieties and ignorance should melt
away and we should feel completely relaxed and renewed persons having full
faith in Him.
Hats off to You my Lord for Your
excellent, impeccable and indelible arrangements for us. Beholden to You my
Lord for Your unconditional favours. It is said that Supreme Lord, always,
remains under the sway of His ardent devotees. The author prays for the welfare
of all and fulfillment of their wishes. May God fill colours of all hues in
your life.Lord is very compassionate and it is aptly said about Him, “Ask
(earnestly) and ye shall be given.”
A P ANAND
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