God

Verily, we are the very image of our Father, God. What a great pity that we have neither the eyes to see nor the heart to feel this sober fact.

We think that God will come to us after He has purified us with endless pain. Perhaps God knows that humanity as a whole will be able to realise Him only after He has poured a different consciousness into the atmosphere.

Uncomely blows may be the Divine's plan, absolutely misunderstood.

God tells us that He will gladly stand before us, but there are a few ifs and buts.

What are they?

Sincerity, Humility, Faith and Surrender.

What does ignorance try to teach us?

It earnestly tries to teach us that God is only an imaginary fruit of our mental conceptions.

See God first. Then you will be godlike.

To be truly godlike, talking must give way to becoming.

It is not difficult for a man to speak of God endlessly. But that poor man has to stand agape when he sees even a glimpse of His Light.

You need not go to God. God Himself will run towards you.

When?

The moment you become self-abandonment.

The God who gave us life, gave us the message of fulfilment at the same time.

Even imagined experiences have some power of their own. They enrich our mind with the idea of God's Omnipresence.

When our choice is God and not experience, we get both experience and God.

But when our choice is experience and not God, we get experience; but God is likely to avoid our company.

God is man. Man is God.

This is the only conception that can grow old along with the universe.

Sri Chinmoy, Man and God, Chinmoy Publishing Co, 1971