God is Looking for You

 

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God is Looking for You

All of us keep looking for God outside, this search has been going on for thousands of years and it still continues. Similarly, God too is looking for you but he is looking within you. That is the difference. The day you turn inwards and start your search within, the day is not far when you will find God!

God is definitely not a person or a physical entity that we ‘find’ or ‘meet’ – God is more like a quality of godliness in existence. God is present more in the form of love, silence, joy, bliss – it is the presence of a god-like feeling that develops within you once you start delving deep inside yourself to ‘find’ God. God resides deep within you and it is your Master or Satguru who shows you the path to reach that core within yourself. God is a presence at the innermost core of your being: it is actually your own presence. It is not meeting someone else, but uniting with your own self, after which the duality ends and we end up seeing ourselves for what we are – a part of the cosmos, a part of universal consciousness.

We offer prayers to God and when we do this there are two participants – ‘I’ who is praying and ‘thou’ that is God. Prayers are nothing but demands, an asking for something which you desire – because if you are not asking then what are you praying for?

So when I say God is looking for you, what I mean is that universal consciousness is itself waiting for you at the core within you so that once you turn introversive and look within, you will unite with ‘God’ that is your own ‘self’. After that there is nothing to look for, then life itself happens and you just witness life as it happens, you are no longer a participant in it. Whatever is now happening is happening as per His wish and you just watch it – there is nothing that is good or bad anymore, everything just ‘is’ – that is your acceptance of existence in its pure form.

At this point you stop going to temples, churches, synagogues, mosques and doing all kinds of things which you particular method of worship demands to satisfy ‘God’! And you have been doing this because thousands of people are doing this and you find comfort in numbers – if so many people are doing this, how can it be wrong?

But finding God cannot happen in a crowd, it happens only through meditation, on turning within under the guidance of a Master. Meditation is the experience of aloneness. Very few, courageous people enter this dimension – because truth is such a pinnacle, like Everest. Once you reach the peak there is nothing more to attain, just going deeper into more subtle realms as more dimensions keep opening in your inner journey.