Form of God, An Illusion ?

 

Me : I don’t believe God has a form.  

Voice : True 

Me : I think most of the idols and images are from people’s imagination. Are they even real forms of Divinity ? 

Voice : How can anything in duality be real ?  

Me : Then why would the world pray to forms of Jesus, Ganesha, Krishna, Durga, Buddha, Mahavir, Zeus, etc ?

Voice : Tell me, who are you? 

Me : Somit. 

Voice : So as long as you identify your own form as Somit, you will identify yourself externally with forms and God becomes one of them. 

Just as your form is not your real identity, in the same way the various forms of God are not real. The form of God as you know, is an illusion.    

But, the form of God will be real to people, as long as their own form is real to them. 

Me : Then, why do Spiritual Masters not actively discourage attachment to forms? 

Voice : Because of your own identification with falsehood, finite, separative and limited existence, you have a reference point for God through a form. This reference is the start of a divine journey for a soul from finite to infinite, from separateness to oneness, from the form to the formless.

Divine Forms represent incarnations of love in the gross world. Thus, to ignite and propel love within people, there is an object of love for mankind to express devotion and longing. God is formless, but because of your own existence in duality, a human form of God brings relatedness, instead of an abstract understanding of the presence of divine love. 

God is pure love and when you hold His form in your heart, you ignite your entire being with the same love. And, what you hold in your thoughts deeply, is who you become. The very simplicity of gaining Illumination, seems to have become it's own impediment.     

 

Remember, the form is God but God is not the form.   

 

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While some Somit is the name behind this blog, the real author is the One in everyone. 

  

Open That Door

Voice : You can do it. Go on. Open the door. Walk…

Me : No. I don’t want to. 

Voice : Don’t want to or 'want to, but it can get uncomfortable' ? 

Me : I am fine here. I am doing good

Voice : I know that. 'I am doing good’ is the usual obstacle to ‘I can be God'.

Me : Damn..

Voice : You know of the strife you had to go through to get to ‘I am doing good’ ? Continue your journey to get to ‘I am God’. Why stop ? Your soul is on the most important phase of your life! Let not the idea of any discomfort, pain or fear stagnate you.   

Me : I am not ready to risk anything now..

Voice : You are a rock climber. So you know exactly how this works. When you are vertical on the rockface with all your 4 limbs balancing on the faintest holds at dizzying heights - how do you make an advance move ? You have to release the comfort of your present grip in order to advance to another one. Many times on the rock wall, you had to let go of the most comfortable and safe spot on the vertical wall in favour of harder, riskier pinch holds that offered no sense of security. 
Staying with secure hand and foot holds will keep you safe, but will also keep you away from the summit. Many times, you have advanced on the vertical rock without a guarantee of safe footing, but you knew this was the only way to make it to the top of the pinnacle. There is no other way. And once you make it to the summit, the feeling inside your heart supersedes all pain, blood, sweat and suffering. 

Me : You are right. But when I am halfway to the top, there is no way I was going down without trying my best to finish the climb. 

Voice : Then why do so now ? You have worked very hard, but you have not finished your climb.  

Me : Maybe because I am just too comfortable right now and it feels ... safe.

Voice : That’s exactly how the entire human race is. You unconsciously place yourself in self-created 'safety-nets’. This illusion of safety and security impedes your own evolution. You work endlessly on creating the delusion of 'safety-nets’ and miss living to your truest potential. Your existence is made to thrive on a belief of a ‘safe' future that you have not seen. You get comfortable to live without challenges. This is where you lose Me. 
It’s natural for our relationship to thrive when you are in rough waters and I am your Guide. That way we create deeper connection and a special companionship. Your love and faith in Divinity grows with doing things that are difficult..sometimes supremely difficult. But, if you choose safety and comfort over living to your highest potential, what role is left for Me to play in your life ?  

Me : Hmm..

Voice : But, since it's inevitable to fulfil the soul’s destiny, things will happen in your life that will appear unprecedented or seem undesirable but it's only to draw your attention to where you need to walk. But if you still choose to resist, the faint nudge turns to a bigger challenge and sometimes into an adversity and eventually you choose to open that door that was always in your sight. You then become who you were always meant to be...yourself. To find Me, you must find yourself, first.   

Me : So, we are our own resistance which invites suffering into our lives.. like we are misleading our ownselves with the pretext of 'being good' ?   

Voice : That does happen when the inner voice is ignored for the dictates of the mind that feeds on limitations, fears, desires, distrust and the false notion of self-preservation. 
Your climbing pursuits taught you through experience that the reward often lied on other side of great fear.

Me : Always and always my worst fears have brought me the greatest growth. I can barely remember having doing anything noteworthy in my life without opening that door that I would really never want to open.   

Voice : And it cannot be any different with the way you live your life right now.

Me : If it's just about doing what the heart wants, why is it such a hard decision to make ? 

Voice : Because the mind has hundreds of very good reasons; the heart has just one.   

Me : Wow. So true. But, just like all climbers, I have always used a safety rope to climb. The inherent risk remains, but the feeling of this security enables my freedom to climb harder. Everyone looks at creating their own safety-net, right ? 

Voice : Yes. Sense of security is not the problem. You just have to recognise when it becomes your bondage instead of freedom. 

Serving God

Me :  How can I serve You ? I want to make a significant difference…want to offer myself in service to God’s work.  

Voice : Why do you feel so ? 

Me : Isn’t living a life working for God a privileged opportunity ? 

Voice : What do you have in mind ? 

Me : Hold gatherings, read books, talk to people, write, spread messages, create awareness about God….

Voice : Wonderful. But, you do know that it's also possible for Me to do that on My Own ? Being God, I can be resourceful. 

Me :  So, what are you saying ?  

Voice : There is no higher or lower service, there is no unprivileged or privileged work and in the same way there is no such as thing as serving God, if you fully comprehend Infinity. 

God by being God, is fully adequate and complete. How can the Infinite be served by the finite ? How can one from the separateness serve Oneness ?  Wouldn't an All-powerful and All-knowing be in total charge of his own creation ? Could God the creator, in a moment create and destroy ? What help can one offer Him ? In reality, is this idea of 'serving God' even possible ? 

When you are offered any opportunity to be involved in the cause of Truth, you are only helping your ownself. God is beyond help. Every act of service is only an act that serves your ownself. You only do service because that is who you have become. You begin to know that you are not serving anyone or cannot serve God, but you have become helpless in your spontaneous expression.  

Me : If service is about serving oneself, then does it matter what one does to serve ?  

Voice : It is not ‘what' service, but ‘how' you serve. Love must be the reason for everything. He who never propagates about God, but lives from the deepest love in his heart serves best. On the other hand, if you were working for God, but failed to live from the highest ideal, all so-called service in the name of God has little meaning.

Your own growth lies in the act of service, not in it's accomplishment, because I am beyond results. And the only result that matters, is the manifestation of love within. 

Service presents you an opportunity to serve your ownself with love. True service is when love pours out of you because this is what really changes your world. If you believe your world needs Love, you have to become the carrier of it yourself, first.   

You have developed this notion that only a certain type of service is serving God. Once again, you have succeeded in creating distinctions of higher and lower. Once again, you hold judgements that restrain the flow of pure love. A lofty ideal to serve for God can also lie in making a cup of tea with so much love that God flows in each sip to the one who drinks it. 

Everytime you hold Me in your heart and 'give-in’ for love and choose being called wrong, in spite of being right for the sake of love, is one of the highest ways to serve. 

Me : What about possessing qualities of selfless service ? 

Voice : Why nuture any idea of possession ? You do not ‘possess’ anything. You only become or unbecome. If you strive to live from this ideal, you don’t have to worry about selfless service because in time, you will become that.   

Me : What about our repeated failures to make this world a better place ? 

Voice : You mean repeated failures to make your heart a better place ? There is no 'other place’. 

Me : Wow

Voice : Do you imply that I have lost charge of My Creation or something missed my attention or I messed up an outcome because I was busy handling an overload of prayer requests ? 

Me : Hahahaha. You are funny. But importantly, you are Infinite Consciousness...and I get your point clearly now.  

Voice : You may accomplish the greatest humanitarian work or you may fail in all your efforts to serve as the world understands, but remember this, if there was any failure for man - it will be failing to operate out of Love.  

The idea of service needs to be carefully understood. Since you come from a race that is used to classifying and standardising everything over the years, you seem to have done the same to human activity or what you call work. Social service, philanthropy or service to God are the many 'graded activity titles'. Yes, for some people it can be a beautiful and a natural form of expression of love. Each one is free to choose and do what helps them develop love, express love and live with love. What you do does not matter, but how you do it.  

The full weight of any accomplishment lies in the process, not the result. Opportunities will come into your life to make this love flourish within you. The kind of work or outcome becomes utterly insignificant, if you have already achieved the prized result of love. Then, know that you have served very well.     

And, for the one who knows Infinity deeply will know that I am already aware of the result...aeons ago.   

Me : I just sometimes feel left out when I watch and know of people doing great work in service to God..

Voice : Be you. Be Love. Because a river of love can flow only in one direction - towards the Ocean of Love. What else can be your goal ?    

Can losing the love within your heart to work for My Cause, be higher than being Love ? Having Love in your heart, is in itself serving the world.