FORGING A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

Oddly what some religions have taught us about God have made it more difficult to connect with God, the source of supreme intelligence, unconditional love and joy. We are indeed made in the image of God and connecting with this most magical and divine source is our birthright!

First, we need to surrender the concept of separation from God, which can take many forms. God is “up there” and we are “down here.” We are a sinner and God is holy.

The consciousness that you are is a derivative of God’s consciousness. God lives and breathes through you. God is your very self.

We do not require anyone to intercede on our behalf. All that is necessary is that we direct our intention to God. How to do that?

With a feeling of openness and surrender, pray to God to reveal him/her/it-self to you. Ask that you be able to feel God’s constant presence.

If you are so inclined, picture God in the form of an ascended master or deity. God understands that it is difficult for many of us to conceive of him/her/it as the formless “all that is.”

Talk to God in the language of your heart. Think of God as your best friend and take this dear friend everywhere that you go, so that he is part of every moment of your life.

If you do this, your sense of separation will vanish and you will find your personality completely transformed.

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WHAT IS A DEITY?

What we call God or Source is of the nature of Sat-Chit-Ananda, meaning pure existence, pure consciousness and pure bliss. Pure existence means beyond change, the fundamental substratum of all that is. Beyond these descriptors, God cannot be described by attaching qualities. It cannot be “perceived” with senses and is beyond human comprehension. It is next to impossible to wrap our small human brains around God. So how can God be approached?

The Bhagavad Gita (Ch 12, v5) says that for those who wish to engage in worship, it is most difficult to approach God as the unmanifest. For this reason Hinduism has created a pantheon of deities for worship, thereby allowing the devotee to picture God and to worship he/she/it in that way. A good analogy would be white light being divided into a rainbow of colors by prism. Each color has the nature of the original light, but represents only a segment of the total spectrum of color.

Another way to think of deities is that each represents a portal to the Divine–a time-proven way to approach God.

Three of my books are centered around a deity, and contain stories and lessons that are unique to that deity: “Shiva – the Destroyer of Illusion,” “Krishna – The Enchanting One Who Calls Us Back Home,” and “Rama – The Embodiment of Truth, the Destroyer of Fear.”

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