| How Does One Find God? | | | | therefore, attempting to find an infinite God through the |
| The very question makes the supposition that you are | | | | mind becomes pointless. And if by chance, you were |
| lost to God. Your question places us in an immediate | | | | to discover God through your rational mind, might you |
| problem of cultural syntax. The Judeo-Christian tradition | | | | not then make God familiar in same way or |
| has conditioned many to believe that God exists | | | | anthropomorphic? |
| outside of the body-temple in some remote far away | | | | Wouldn't your rational mind attempt to explain the |
| region. This negates the idea of an indwelling God. | | | | Divine into ordinariness or find some reason, no matter |
| Your spiritual hunger -- your search for God -- is the | | | | how small for doubt? If you want to find God, accept |
| desire to become holy, wholly unified in mind, body, and | | | | the feelings of Prema -- the highest love -- the divine |
| spirit. It is a desire to leave behind feelings of isolation, | | | | love that the Masters are consistently flowing toward |
| disconnection, and fragmentation. | | | | you in this moment. Don't think about it, just feel it. |
| This unity can happen! There are many examples of | | | | You can do this by tuning into your heart, and |
| the achievement of this unity among the leaders of the | | | | experiencing the subtle currents of blissful Prema that |
| world's leading sacred traditions of Judaism, Buddhism, | | | | flow through your own body. Breathe them in. Expand |
| Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. | | | | them and continue to feel them. This natural process |
| My practical advice to you is to give up the mental | | | | of finding God by tuning into the love within you is a |
| desire to find God. The very nature of the mind insures | | | | very high practice. You are actually giving yourself |
| that it will always operate in a way to keep you from | | | | permission to open to what is already eternal and part |
| realizing God. If the nature of God is infinite -- which it is | | | | of your life. |
| -- then it exists beyond a finite mind. The human mind | | | | It is your life. It is a magical mystery tour into the |
| struggles to grasp the nature of the infinite, so | | | | enchantment of your own divinity. |