God cannot be same for two persons !

Elite,

Born in a Hindu family, brought up in a Hindu belief system, it required a ‘Jolt’ from my dear friend, when I was one day reciting my so-called ‘sacred’ vedic lines ! Down the years, I started seeing things with that awareness I got from that ‘Jolt’, I see I have understood for good.

The following understanding, has made me not to talk about ‘My God’ to anyone else and not to disregard other’s God/path.

In my view, God is very personal. God is like a rainbow, no two person can see exactly the same rainbow ! And this experience cannot be borrowed or inherited, as God is not a property.

A person who is born as a Hindu, can readily borrow a belief system of Hindu God, but can not necessarily have that real experience of God. For the real experience, the person needs to be daring enough ‘to seek’ authentically.

If you have authentic, true to yourself experience, for which you can bet your life upon, you have found your path !And each and every one should find his path that way. Till that time, they need to keep on experimenting with the paths !Mind that, in my view is there will never be a delay with this approach, for anyone.

Have read A famous story about Moses:

He was passing through a forest and he saw a man praying. The man was saying such absurd things that Moses had to stop. What the man was saying was profane, sacrilegious. He was saying, "God, you must be feeling sometimes very alone--I can come and be always with you like a shadow. Why suffer loneliness when I am here? And I am not a useless person either--I will give you a good bath, and I will take all the lice from your hair and your body..."

Lice?! Moses could not believe his ears: what is this man talking about? "And I will cook food for you--everybody likes what I cook. And I will prepare your bed and I will wash your clothes. When you are ill I will take care of you. I will be a mother to you, a wife to you, a servant, a slave--I can be all kinds of things. Just give me a hint so I can come..."

Moses stopped him and said, "What are you doing? To whom are you talking? Lice in God's hair? He needs a bath? Stop this nonsense! This is not prayer. God will be offended by you."
Looking at Moses, the man fell at his feet. He said, "I am sorry. I am an illiterate, ignorant man. I don't know how to pray. Please, you teach me!"

So Moses taught him the right way to pray, and he was very happy because he had put a man on the right track. Happy, puffed up in his ego, Moses went away. And when he was alone in the forest, a thundering voice came from the sky and said, "Moses, I have sent you into the world to bring people to me, to bridge people with me, but not to take my lovers away from me. And that's exactly what you have done. That man is one of the most intimate to me. Go back and apologize. Take your prayer back! You have destroyed the whole beauty of his dialogue. He is sincere, he is loving. His love is true. Whatsoever he was saying, he was saying from his heart, it was not a ritual. Now what you have given to him is just a ritual. He will repeat it but it will be only on the lips; it will not be coming from his being."

Let your gestures be alive, spontaneous. Let your own awareness decide your lifestyle, life pattern. Don't allow anybody else to decide it. That is a sin, to allow anybody else to decide it.
Why is it a sin?--because you will never be in it. It will remain superficial, it will be hypocrisy. Don't ask anybody how to pray. Let the moment decide, let the moment be decisive, and the truth of the moment should be your prayer. And once you allow the truth of the moment to possess you, you will start growing and you will know tremendous beauties of prayer. You have entered on the path.

Cheers,

Vijay