what will happen if we meet god........?

[omkar]

I would like to tell you a beautiful story.
Rabindranath, one of the greatest poets the world has produced, says in one of his poems that he
has been searching for God for thousands of lives. Sometimes he has found his shadow near a
faraway star; he has rushed towards the star, but by the time he reached there, God was gone; he
was always moving. Sometimes he would see God?s face somewhere far away... and again and
again, the same story, although he was coming closer, and each time he was seeing something
more. From the shadow... he had started seeing God himself. At first it was only a vague figure.
Slowly slowly, he could see the face, the eyes, the smile... he was coming closer and closer and
closer.
And one day he came across a house, a beautiful golden house with a plate on the door saying:
This is the House of God. He was immensely joyful. Thousands of lives? journey, so much trouble,
so much arduous, tedious... but finally he had made it. You could feel his joy ? he danced, and then
he went up four steps to knock on the door.
Just as he was going to knock on the door, an idea came to his mind: ?If this is really the house of
God and he opens the door, then what am I going to do? All I know is searching, seeking, journeying.
I have become an expert in millions of lives, an expert in seeking and searching. What am I going
to do sitting in this house for eternity? It may be made of gold, but this is dangerous. It is entering into your own grave, life is finished. You have met God ? what more do you want? Now there is no
challenge, nothing to explore, nowhere to go. Everything is finished; it is simply death.?
He became so afraid that he took his shoes off his feet so that no noise would be made, because
who knows? ? just a noise on the steps and God might open the door... although he had not
knocked. And God will say, ?Where are you going? Come in.? And then he ran away.
And in the poem he says, ?Since then I have been running. And people ask me, ?Where are you
going?? and I say ?I am searching for God?. And I know where he is. This is one good thing about it,?
he says, ?that now I know where he is so I avoid that place. And the whole universe is available for
me. God is in his house, and the whole universe, with all its beauty and all its joy and all its journey,
is available to me. I don?t look in that direction and I am not going to enter that house.?

What will be your answer? [Please dont argue that this is not possible!!!! ]

Thanks all Bless all

Omkar
[May everybody be blessed with akhand sadgurukrupa & effortless namsmaran ]

[mk]

Namonamah,
Omkarjee Namaste.

I would have tried to make money by enticing the occupant to participate in stage shows or reality shows, with me as his agent.... I would have split the income 50-50 with him.

About your story what strikes me as odd is why was there no crowd at the gate with stalls selling flowers and incense and a stall that would charge a rupee to take care of your slippers.

Maithili Sharan (or his brother Siya Ram Sharan) Gupt has written about the house of God:

तेरे घर के द्वार बहुत हैं, किससे होकर आऊँ मै ।
सब द्वारोंपर भीड मची है क्योंकर घुसने पाऊँ मै ।।
.....

Every person has (is?) his own God and has his own methods to search for him. How he will react when he eventually meets his God is also likely to be different for each person.

As Subhashjee would say, it is a question of locus standi. (Apologies, Subhashjee)

If your story is what Tagore has written about his own (maybe virtual) experience, it does not increase his stature any, in my eyes. I hold him in very high esteem.

Thanks and Best wishes
Milind Khadilkar

[omkar]

Milind Thanks for reply


एक खरा खुरा नास्तिक जेव्हा देवळाबाहेर थाबतो

तेव्हा खर तर गाभा-यातच भर पडत असते

की कोणीतरी आपल्यापुरता सत्याशी का होईना,

पण प्रामाणिकपणे चिकटुन राहिल्याच्या पुण्याईची !

एक खरा खुरा नास्तिक जेव्हा देवळाबाहेर थाबतो

तेव्हा होते निर्माण

देवाने आपला आळस झटकून देवळाबाहेर येण्याची !

एक खरा खुरा नास्तिक जेव्हा देवळाबाहेर थाबतो

तेव्हा को-या नजरेने पाहत राहतो

सभोवतालच्या हालचाली, भाविकाच्या जत्रा?

कोणीतरी स्वत:चे ओझे , स्वत:च्याच पायावर

साभाळत असल्याचे समाधान लाभते देवलाच !

म्हणून तर एक खरा खुरा नास्तिक जेव्हा देवळाबाहेर थाबतो

तेव्हा देवाला एक भक्त कमी मिळत असेल कदचित !

पण मिळते आकठ समाधान एक सहकारी लाभल्याचे

देऊळ बद झाल्यावर एक मस्त आळस देउन

बाहेर ताटकळलेल्या नास्तिकाशी गप्पा मारता मारता

देव म्हणतो, " दर्शन देत जा अधुन मधुन??..

तुमचा नसेल विश्वास आमच्यावर,

पण आमचा तर आहे ना ! "


देवळाबाहेर थाबलेला एक खरा खुरा नास्तिक

कटाळलेल्या देवाला मोठ्या मिन्नतवारिने पाठवतो देवळात

तेव्हा कुठे अनंत वर्षे आपण घेऊ शकतो दर्शन

अस्तिकत्वाच्या भरजरी शालीत गुदमरलेल्या देवाचे?.

एक खरा खुरा नास्तिक जेव्हा देवळाबाहेर थाबतो?..

But my question was from diffrent angle

Thanks all Bless all

Omkar
[May everybody be blessed with akhand sadgurukrupa & effortless namsmaran ]

[omkar]

दर्शनाला आलात? या..
पण या देवालयात, सध्या देव नाही
गाभारा आहे, चांदीचे मखर आहे.
सोन्याच्या सम्या आहेत, हिर्‍यांची झालर आहे.
त्यांचही दर्शन घ्यायला हरकत नाही.
वाजवा ती घंटा, आणि असे इकडे या
पाहीलात ना तो रिकामा गाभारा?
नाही..तस नाही, एकदा होता तो तिथे
काकड आरतीला उठायचा, शेजारतीला झोपायचा,
दरवाजे बंद करुन, बरोबर बाराला जेवायचा
दोन तास वामकुक्षी घ्यायचा
सार काही ठीक चालले होते.
रुपयांच्या राशी, माणिक मोत्यांचे ढीग
पडत होते पायाशी..
दक्षिण दरवाज्याजवळ, मोटारीचे भोंगे वाजत होते
मंत्र जागर गाजत होते
रेशीम साड्या, टेरीनचे सुट समोर दुमडत होते.
बॅंकेतले हिशेब हरीणाच्या गतीने बागडत होते.
सारे काही घडत होते.. हवे तसे
पण एके दिवशी.. आमचे दुर्दैव
उत्तर दरवाज्याजवळ अडवलेला
कोणी एक भणंग महारोगी
तारस्वरात ओरडला ?बाप्पाजी बाहेर या?
आणि काकड आरतीला आम्ही पाहतो तर काय
गाभारा रिकामा
पोलीसात वर्दी, आम्ही दिलीच आहे..
परत? कदाचित येइलही तो
पण महारोग्याच्या वस्तीत, तो राहिला असेल तर त्याला पुन्हा..
प्रवेश द्यावा की नाही, याचा विचार करावा लागेल,
आमच्या ट्रस्टींना,

पत्रव्यवहार चालु आहे.. दुसर्‍या मुर्तीसाठी
पण तुर्त गाभार्‍याचे दर्शन घ्या.
तसे म्हटले तर, गाभार्‍याचे महत्व अंतिम असत,
कारण गाभारा सलामत तर देव पचास.

- कुसुमाग्रज

[omkar]

Hello all Thanks all

Please reply about what will you do??

Thanks all Bless all

Omkar
[May everybody be blessed with akhand sadgurukrupa & effortless namsmaran ]

[dr.nutanpol]

Namaskar Omkar,

You have answered partially in your story only. Why we run away to meet God is that, mind knows it for various reasons.

Firstly Mind knows that if it has to prepare for the spiritual journey to meet God then there can be few restrictions on the way of talking, eating, drinking, behaving etc. There can be restrictions on freedom.

Secondly the mind is attached to illusion that I exist as body and is habituated with it. This impression of illusion is imprinted in very deeper level of subconscious mind. Therefore mind is not ready to leave this false support. It gets scared to lose this support.

Thirdly, Mind loves the self image. The false ego-thoughts attached to social status, wealth, designation, education all relations attached to the body etc.

Fourthly, while doing the spiritual journey there is fear of entering into unknown world. Here Satguru is the only companion that one has. Therefore there has to be total faith on Satguru.

Fifthly, Mind is unaware about the fact that by meeting with God it will gain freedom and will escape from slavery of illusion and will gain all divine powers. It is not aware about benefits of acquiring them and using them judiciously for the benefit of mankind.

Lastly, Mind knows that once we meet God, there will be death of ego. Death of individuality will occur. So mind is not  ready for that.

For all these reasons we are not ready to meet God.

May God bless all!
 

[Varsha]

Omkar ,Thanks for sharing these beautiful poems and story!