Message #12736

[Jitendra Hydonus]

i used to go around and ask these questions as a teenager: why are we here? Where are we going? Why do people suffer? i just thought i was a little different. Some people thought my questions were abit wierd. Now i know that i was asking these questions because i was truly searching for answers and probably had before this life and those questions were still with me especially since i seemed to be encountereing a foreign country on this earth. A stranger in a strange land. It was refreshing to be at a service recently and hear Brother Devananada ask these very questions again that i had asked as a teen ager.

He said that if we do not know that this creation is fun we are in a state of spiritual suffering. The plan of the play is a reciprocal relationship between us and the creator. The divine plan is one of reciprocity. When a man and woman are in love the relationship goes both ways. It is a reciprocal relationship. There is also nothing more important than the performer/audience reciprocal relationship. The audience brings out a great performance. It goes both ways. Wander if God created a beautiful creation but there was no one to see it? If God creates beings to appreciate it there is a reciprocal relationship.

We are the actors the producers and the perceiving audience. All the stuff that is happening is from us. The body is the field. it is the field of our bodies where all our actions are expressed. Everything that we are experiencing in the universe is actually being enacted on the field of our bodies. The field. The knower of the field and God himself is the perciever in all bodies.

People complain: Why can God allow such suffering? How can he let us suffer? But it is the Lord himself who is suffering with us. He alone is manifested in countless souls. God is the only being who is expressed singularly and in all physical bodies. Do we know that God is experiencing thru us? Or do we see ourselves as the perciever?

A sanyasi was walking during the rebellion in India. Everyone said: get out of the way you will die.He was so much in the bliss of God that he was totally detached and kept walking. The English were putting down the rebellion. As he was being bayonetted he looked at the soldier and said "You too are he"

Imagine a musician in a forest and playing a flute. He is the enjoyer, the creator, the perciever, and the music itself. This is what God is in creation.

I Am that I Am said the Lord to Moses I am in all. Jesus said that nothing would be left behind. We will all eventually return to God.  No one will be left behind.

Why do human beings not know that they are perfect? The human mind is perplexed by the senses. They think God is perfect and we are imperfect so i must be separate from him. There must be two not one. Yet dramas can be fun. God created a drama so deep that it takes eons to play it all out.

J