Have you ever had a dialog with
GOD? Well I guess I am fortunate to have had that opportunity in my early years
as a young man and since then we have not talked to each other, not because we
did not want to but more because we did not have the need for it.

In my dialog with GOD, I asked him
what the purpose of my life is. He said if I tell you that then the whole purpose
will be lost. Thus, now that I have put you on earth it is for you to find that
purpose on your own. I then asked GOD, will you help me in this journey to find
the true purpose of life and he said I already helped you by bringing you to
the starting point but from here on you are on your own. I asked GOD once
again; I think you are being very unfair with me as you are leaving me in the
wilderness of material world and I can’t count on you in times of crisis. GOD looks
at me with amusement and said that there are two things I want you to understand
before I leave for my work on creation. First, there is nothing as being unfair
as it is just a relative term and has no absolute meaning to it. It will all
depend on whether you are looking upwards or down. Second, I do not create any
crisis in the world that I created, so if you pass through a crisis in life, don’t
hold me responsible for it as you are the only one who is responsible for what
you do.
Good GOD you have made things so
clear to me I thought to myself but went on to ask: So GOD, please tell me if I
ever need you, how do I get in touch with you? There came the reply, If you
spend your life in search of the purpose of your life and you sincerely want to
reach that stage at some point, you will never need me. You will need me only
when you are going to deviate from your path but I will never be there. But if
you continue on your journey, you will find me everywhere even when you don’t need
me. I have no shape, no color to my existence and thus you will never see me. I
want you to remember, I will not come in the path of your journey as that would
destroy the whole sequence of events and change the course of my own creation.
Then GOD went on to say, the people that I created before you have put me to
shame at times as they feel that they can influence me for their personal
gains, they have built lofty monuments in my name and call them my house. I
guess I am supposed to be living there. They have however, forgotten the very
purpose of my creation and I want you to remember the purpose of creation. Don’t
build temples in my name, just do what you are supposed to do and you will
never need me in this life.
I went on with more questions: Well
GOD please help me understand why you will not help me when I am going to be
nice to you, I will worship and pray to your glory, I will give charity in your
name and I will spread your name to world. GOD looked at me and smiled and then
said: I don’t want you to bribe me with anything; this is done only in the
place I have sent you and may be you can work towards removing such ills from
there. You just have to care for my creation. Anything that I have created is
part of me just like you are a part of me. If you damage or hurt any of my creations
then you would be hurting me. Even when you hurt yourself by doing things that
you should not do, you will be hurting me. So just go and take care of my
creation and serve them as you would have desired to serve me and you would
have begun your journey of self-discovery and the true purpose of life. If
however, you fail to do this, you would be interfering in my task of creation.
I wanted to go on but asked the
final question: Please tell me GOD, I have been reading the holy books and they
say so many things that I am supposed to do to ensure that you will have mercy
on me in this life. GOD looked at me with a smile and said there are some good
things in those books but I did not write them. Have you seen my name as the
author of those books? These books were written by those who travelled far
ahead in their life in search of the purpose of life. You can read them but don’t
forget what your purpose in life is and as long as you are on your journey for self-discovery,
you will not need them.
I looked at GOD as asked: GOD then can
I enter into a contract with you since you are my creator. I promise you that I
will never interfere in your task of creation and you will not interfere in my
journey of self-discovery as you have already said that you will not help.
With his hands raised there was a
smile and my eyes opened, it was six in the morning and time to get ready to go
to school.
So far I have honored the contract
and we both seem to be happy.
Very inspirational piece of writing. If we all set on a journey of self discovery, the world would be a better, calmer place to live in.
ReplyDeleteWell what I can say is that after reading this I feel that the best way is to respect and appreciate the God's creation whatever it may be and flow with the life as it comes and do your best.
ReplyDeleteAt least with this approach one will never harbor any confusion about the nuances of life and keep things as simple as possible.