A SHORT NOTE ON
GOD
This
short note on God reflects the ideas of the Indian saint philosopher Swami Ramdas.
He
was born on 10h April 1884 at Hosdrug, Kerala (India) and named Vittal Rao. He passed away on 25 July
1963.
Swami
Ramdas was the founder of Anandashram, a spiritual retreat , in Kasaragod
district of Kerala(India).
Most
of his spiritual ideas are contained in several volumes of Letters of Ramdas published by
Anandashram in 1940, though the letters contained in them were written much earlier.
The one from which the following ideas have been extracted was written some
time in 1928.
God
who is love appears to be harsh. Unjust and unkind. No, He is NEVER so. If we take
Him to be such, we are simply ignorant.
God
is love, beyond like and dislike. This supreme Love is ever illuminating the
hearts of us all. Somehow, a cloud of ignorance covers it and we become unable
to see it. But this cloud can disperse
and disappear, revealing to us the glory
and the splendour of God, dwelling in all beings and objects, a God, who is
love, forgiveness, compassion, peace and joy, personified as the Supreme
Purusha (the cosmic being or self).
Love
and peace always go together. The pure mind is
that which has forgotten and forgiven, and is therefore a very home of
love and peace. “Blessed are the pure in heart because they shall see God.”
Jesus
Christ cried on the cross, “O, Father, forgive them, for they do not know
what they do.” He further says we ought
to forgive our enemy 77 times. Truly,
the Christ’s greatness as an avatar (incarnation) of God lies here.
God
is at once personal and impersonal. He is the highest Truth, in whom are
combined the attributes of infinite glory, power and greatness. We want Him and
Him alone. We crave not for name, fame, wealth or any other transient bauble.
We don’t want world’s laudation or censure. We stand firm on the rock of
immortality; the passing storms, however furious cannot shake us. With
ineffable exultation, from the depths of our being, comes out the bold declaration,
“O God, Thou and I are one.”
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Good Friday, 2nd April
2021. G.R.KANWAL
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