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Question 171: How do I maintain my sense of oneness of life with all the political strife going on?

Question 171: How can you live in oneness when you are so strongly upset by egregious political, religious, social and personal abuse against others or yourself?

This is the task for the ages. Most of the conflict in the world is because people are living with the illusion of separation instead of the reality of oneness. If we get upset about all the evil actions in the world then we are adding to the desire for revenge against the perpetrators. We will get into the endless loop of unforgiveness and retaliation.

The only way out is up. Go up and beyond all the duality of this world and see the unity of all life. See the one life of the universe always growing and transcending Itself. See the beauty of the Creator everywhere.

We will never eradicate evil by railing against it over and over again. Humans are being guided to slowly but surely build a more peaceful, just, and prosperous civilization. We’ve had golden ages in the past and we are working toward another one. We may not live to see it arrive in the mass consciousness. However, we can live it in small groups and within our own consciousness.

We can also look to the example of Jesus and other great saints. Jesus spoke out against the religious establishment of his day, but he remained true to himself and true to his oneness with our Creator. So we can do all that is within our power to speak out and take action to improve our societies as long as we have love in our hearts and aim for the greater good of everyone.

“This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.”—Will Rogers

“No man is great if he thinks he is.”—Will Rogers

“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”
― Amit Ray, 

 “We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.”
― Amit Ray, 

Question 170: About overcoming duality with unconditional love.

Question 170: How can we understand unconditional love while living in duality?

 

In duality we always see conditional love that is colored by our egos, so it is very difficult for us to even begin to comprehend and live in unconditional love for all. Yet that is what we yearn for.

 

If we can’t just will ourselves into that state of consciousness, then we need to take a gradual approach of taking one or two steps at a time and fully master them as we move onward to Self-realization.

Here are a few steps to consider:

 

Ask your Infinite Self to communicate with the Infinite Self of “others” (people, animals, trees) and bring that understanding of oneness to conscious awareness’
Be conscious of what labels, old images, and stereotypes you might be possibly holding onto about other people and animals.
Rise above the duality of attack and defense and see the greater unity. Attacking leads to defense and then on and on it goes.
Project into the cosmic mirror the knowing that all life is one.
Give unconditional love to yourself so you can understand it from the inside out and outside in.
Meditate on the oneness of all creation and the Spirit within and beyond all creation.
Read or listen to people who write and talk about the oneness of life. Take away whatever inspires and resonates with you.
Be with people and animals who also want to live in unconditional love.
Write your own thoughts about the oneness of life. Keep a journal about your experiences.
Remind yourself every day in order to make steady progress.

 

In order to remind yourself every day it’s a good idea to have some kind of meditation routine, like 10 minutes in the morning, 10 minutes at noon, and 15-30 minutes in the evening, depending on how much work you have to do to meet all your obligations. If your schedule is packed with activity from waking up to going to bed again, then take a few minutes whenever you can to close your eyes and look up within your consciousness.

 

Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on a universal scale, humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with ‘divine,’ its transcendence into higher forms of life.

~ Robert Muller

 

 

Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings

~ Swami Vivekananda

 

 

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one’s self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one’s own characteristic qualities.

~ Emma Goldman

 

 

Question 169: About oneness and the abuse of animals

 

Question 169: I’m in despair because of my feelings of oneness for all the animals that are abused, misused, treated as soulless commodities, and slaughtered daily. What can I do?

 

This question takes us back to the question of what can we do about all the evil in this world of ours. Our civilization may be at the peak of cruelty to animals because of the consumer demand for meat and other animal products. It could get even worse or it could get better, depending on how awake people become to the suffering of animals.

 

Since we can’t stop the cruelty to animals today, or this year, we need to take the long view and do everything we can to eventually end the cruelty and give Spirit consolation to the animals.

 

It all starts with ourselves first, of course, so we need to keep on purifying our own thoughts, motives, desires, and actions. The more love we can give to everyone, every animal, and Nature Itself, the closer we will move toward a more compassionate world. The percentage of vegans has been rising steadily in the past 10 years. Vegan consumers will make the difference. There is no way to make animal agriculture humane.

 

To strengthen the collective consciousness we can, in the Spirit of Oneness, call for justice and compassion for all animals. Here is a daily list as suggested by Judy Carman in her book “Peace to All Beings:”

On Mondays pray or send out loving energy to all farmed animals on earth—the cattle, chickens, pigs, turkeys, lambs, and all others.

On Tuesdays pray for and send out loving energy to all the companion animals that are suffering from abuse, homelessness, and neglect.

On Wednesdays send out loving energy to all the animals imprisoned in cages, tortured in useless experiments, and separated from their kin.

On Thursdays send out loving energy to all the aquatic animals that are relentlessly caught for food and also have their environments poisoned with trash, oil, and sewage from humans.

On Fridays send loving energy to wild animals that are trapped, hunted, and forced into stress and possible extinction.

On Saturdays send loving energy to all animals enslaved in zoos, circuses, rodeos, aquariums, theme parks, and canned hunts.

On Sundays send loving energies to all the insects and small creatures that are important for the balance of Nature.

 

While we are energetically supporting all the animals and the environment we also need to surround all human beings, even the unrepentant ones who cannot see the suffering of animals, with the mighty light of infinite love that is our source.

 

We cannot defeat evil with more evil. We can, however, daily increase the amount of love in the world by our thoughts and actions.

 

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

Albert Einstein

 

 

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

 

So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can’t be divided like that. It isn’t a choice between children and animals. It’s our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

Minnie Pearl

Question 168: Did God create an evil force to contend with for the salvation of our souls?

Question 168: Did our Creator make a mistake by allowing an evil force to contend for the salvation of our souls? How could a perfect God create such an imperfect world?

 

This question takes us back to free will. If we are souls with free will, then that means that all options are available. If we did not have free will, then we would be puppets or organic robots.

 

Our whole situation was created by us, collectively. It is the result of our free will choices. The evil force has been created by us. Some of us have contributed more than others to the maintenance of the evil forces, but all of us have contributed something.

We have also contributed to the forces of love, joy and goodness. We have reinforced the whole picture of duality and the struggle between good and evil. In this struggle we are learning valuable lessons about life. We are learning about the consequences of our thoughts and actions, life after life.

 

Our Creator has set us free to play in the vast spheres of creation. There is no evil force that is opposed to God; there is no “devil” that can take our souls from our inherent oneness with our Creator. We are always safe within the consciousness of our Creator.

With our free will we have the ability and responsibility to help co-create the environments that we live in. If we live in love and harmony, then Nature will reflect our collective state of consciousness. Our societies will be shaped by our attitudes. The influence of evil forces will depend on our own collective consciousness.

Our Creator designed the perfect system for free will because we eventually learn that everything we do, we actually do to ourselves. We cause our own suffering, we cause our own happiness.

 

In some ways this is a hard truth because we can’t see the karmic connections of our many reincarnations. It is almost impossible to understand why some people are born with handicaps, or why some people die at a young age, or why there seems to be so much suffering, injustice and unfairness in the world. The true answers to these questions can only be found in the realms we go to between incarnations.

 

Could we say that the original Creator made a mistake in making co-creative souls in the first place, knowing there would be plenty of suffering in the process of learning how to use our creative powers? Maybe, what are the alternatives—an eternal void? A universe of ideas only? A universe without any bodies or forms that can be harmed? Sages have said that the physical universe is a small part of the total creation. Maybe it is a place to work out ideas that aim for perfection, yet not so easy or automatic. No final answers here.

 

“What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister.” – Rev. John Hale”

― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

 

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Helen Keller

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.

– Jonathan Edwards

 

Spirit is the only reality. The world is a creation of Spirit, and therefore temporary, although lasting maybe trillions of our years. Spirit and individual souls are forever and infinite.  Nothing opposes Spirit.  –Shankara (paraphrased)

Question 167: About the pandemic and the oneness of life

Question 167: What is the Gospel of Oneness perspective on the Covid-19 pandemic?

 

If diseases are seen as being the result of our thinking, our lifestyles, our eating habits, our feelings, our actions, and our ability to respond to our lifes’ callings, and as messages, teachings, and opportunities for us on our spiritual path, then we are empowered to respond to them creatively and directly take responsibility for the health of our inner and outer environments.

 

This is a good time to think deeply about all this. To begin this examination, we need to see clearly how we have treated animals. For the most part we have treated them as soul-less commodities to be raised, sold, and slaughtered for profit. Collectively we need to greatly reduce our consumption of animals and animal products. We are causing great suffering to the animals of the world, and we reap what we have sown in this regard. We are with the animals in the oneness of life.

 

 

We also need to think about how people are treated in our societies. If we have groups of people who are outcasts, who are economically exploited, who have a hard time getting justice done by the legal systems, or are discriminated against because of racial, ethnic, or religious reasons, then that will have repercussions on the world population as a whole. All people on earth are in the oneness of life.

 

 

The Gospel of Oneness sees the whole picture. We advocate for the respectful treatment of animals and people. This would bring more harmony and happiness to the earth.

 

In order to stop this pandemic and possible future ones, we need to first of all change our diets to be more plant-based. Animal agriculture is hurting the environment, the people, and of course the animals themselves. Very few people like what they would see at factory farms and slaughterhouses.

 

 

Second, we need to raise the consciousness of everyone to realize that the golden rule is a true and exacting statement of how the world works. Whatever we do to or for others, people and animals, it comes back to us. We are one in the collective consciousness of the universe. This rule has been around since forever. However, it still gets ignored too much of the time.

 

Diseases appear for specific reasons. We can trace their origins, and usually we can see the basic reasons for their happening. We have very good science for investigating diseases. We are also good at finding cures, but not completely. This is the controversial part because of the profit motive. Many people don’t trust “Big Pharma” because they think it is more interested in making money than in truly helping people get well again.

 

Our society needs to ponder and investigate money and the profit motive within the perspective of the oneness of all life. This is all playing out now as the co-vid pandemic has caused widespread unemployment and hardship around the world.

 

The idea of a universal basic income for everyone is being taken more seriously. It would be in tune with the oneness of life. Maybe everyone can’t be rich, but at least everyone should have enough to eat, a place to live, and basic human rights such as health care and justice and political and religious freedom.

 

The question will still remain: How do we stay healthy and avoid contagious diseases? The best way is to transcend the consciousness of duality that leaves the door open to diseases. Become whole, wholly in tune with the Spirit of love and joy, be at ease. We can support each other in raising our consciousness to live in the higher vibrations of love.

 

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.– Naval Ravikant

 

Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. –Naval Ravikant

 

 

 

Question 166: What is friendship in the Gospel of Oneness?

Question 166: What is friendship in the Gospel of Oneness?

 

First, we establish a firm foundation of who we are and what is our purpose in life. The Gospel of Oneness says that we are all immortal souls who have taken on physical bodies. We are individual identities in the infinite Spirit. We are evolving our consciousness as we express the infinite creativity of Divine Spirit. All of physical life on earth is evolving in consciousness.

 

However, we have some obstacles to overcome in developing our friendships with other people, animals, and Nature in general. We think we are separate beings, and we have developed egos to deal with this world in order to ensure our own physical survival.

 

People develop friendships for various reasons. We may have the same hobbies, work, sports, religion, political views, world views, skin color, ethnic group, business connections, goals in life, and more similarities.

 

These same interests can also lead us to believe we are enemies or in competition with other people who think or look differently.

 

If we work on our own source of identity as immortal souls and reach for the highest vision of ourselves as loving, compassionate, creative, joyful, generous, peaceful, wise, and infinitely capable beings, then we can form our friendships on this foundation.

 

This is a gradual process, and we always need to look at our progress to see where we need to improve. We need to look for where the illusion of being separate from the whole Spirit might be getting us down and extend grace and forgiveness to other souls lost in delusion.

 

A goal for people living in the Gospel of Oneness is to have as many true friends as possible. This would mean quantity and quality. We have friends all over the universe and in the higher realms of existence, friends in this life and the next life and forever.

 

“Friendship is all about trusting each other, helping each other, loving each other and being crazy together.” ― O. Henry

“Friends are the people who make you smile brighter, laugh louder and live better.” — Unknown

“A best friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you for the way you are today.” — Unknown

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” ― Muhammad Ali

“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.” — Unknown

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” — Thomas Moore

“A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.” — Unknown

“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” — Proverbs 27:9

“Greater than all riches is true friendship. If you can be a true friend to people you will find God.” –Paramahansa Yogananda

Question 165: About accepting Jesus as your life-long guide.

Question 165: What does it mean to ask Jesus to come into your heart and life according to the Gospel of Oneness?

 

It means that we are willing to ask Jesus to be our guide, our guru, our savior: The one who will lead us back to God. It is like asking a Sherpa who has been to the top of Mount Everest to lead you there. He knows the way. He has been there, more than once. He knows what you need for the trek from your gear to your mental and physical fitness. He will train you and teach you all about mountain climbing if you ask him to. If you are not ready for the final ascent he will give you more basic training.

 

He will not carry you on his back, but he will carry your baggage (and maybe suggest you get rid of some of it.) He will expect you to do your part, and he will expect you to pay attention at all times and to learn your lessons. He will expect you to keep moving up even if you slip and fall sometimes. He will expect that you have some humility and not think that you already know more than he does. He will expect you to be gracious, kind, and forgiving to your fellow travelers who also want to reach the peak experience of knowing they have attained their goal.

 

This is a close analogy. The difference is that Jesus is leading us to a spiritual goal: knowing directly the love, joy, beauty, wisdom of our Creator and our role in the kingdom of the Infinite. Another difference is that we don’t have to go back down the mountain once we attain the spiritual heights.

 

The other main difference is that the journey with Jesus is a life-long adventure. We don’t just climb a mountain once and then rest on our laurels, thinking we have it made already.

 

Accepting Jesus as our guide means a lot more than reading his recorded words in the Bible. That is just a starting point. His recorded words are only a small part of what he wants to convey to us. By studying his words, thinking about them, meditating on their meanings and how to apply them in our lives, we begin to get in touch with the Spirit of Jesus, the universal Christ consciousness that fills the universe.

 

By getting in touch with the universal Spirit of Jesus we learn that Jesus does love everyone and is working to raise up all life on earth. He loves the people of all religions and no religion. He loves the animals and plants and everything in Creation because everything is within the consciousness of our Creator, whom Jesus represents.

 

If we take our relationship with Jesus seriously, then nothing in this world will mean more than realizing our own inner oneness with God and Jesus.

 

The walk with Jesus is a gradual path. We can have moments of epiphany when we take giant steps forward, but it is still a process. Nobody reaches instant, total enlightenment with nothing more to realize. The process goes on forever, even our Creator is forever expanding its consciousness,

 

When following Jesus as our teacher we learn how to tune into his inner counsel. He starts with our current states of consciousness, so if we learn something new it does not mean it is the final revelation on the topic. It is only what we are able to receive at this time. As we assimilate our lessons he will give us more.

 

 

People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Jesus, Matthew 4:4

 

You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! Jesus, Matthew 5:43-44

 

Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Jesus, Matthew 6:19-20

Question 164: Did God set Himself up to be mad at humans?

Question 164: Did God set himself up to be mad at humans?

If you read the Bible or the Quran, the holy books of the two biggest religions on Earth, you might come to the conclusion that he did indeed set Himself up to be frustrated with the most advanced and intelligent sentient beings on Earth.

 

Mankind has failed miserably time after time in living up to the holiness and perfect love of God. Some Christians will say that even our best efforts at pleasing a Holy God are about as good as “filthy rags.”

 

For Muslims Allah has set a high standard in order to be good enough to live with Him in paradise. Those who fail His tests will be consigned to hell.

 

Why would God create humans in animal-like bodies with all their needs for physical survival and expect them to live in perfect peace and harmony with the rest of creation, which, evidently, is also struggling to survive? Life is precarious for all of us in physical bodies. Life on this planet continues on by life forms eating other life forms.

 

Yet, according to scriptures, God expects humans to rise above all the temptations to harm other people and life forms and the environment and to live in peace and love

 

Does God really expect us to live in peace and love? And if we don’t live up to His commandments will He send us to hell forever?

 

That is more than a harsh view of God, it is an indictment of a stupid God who is the direct opposite of a God of love.

 

The Christian explanation is that God sent His son Jesus to die for all the shortcomings of humans. In other words, God set-up an impossible task for humans, yet his plan was to sacrifice Himself (as the son of God) to redeem His own creation which never had a chance of succeeding in the first place. Humans then only had to accept Jesus as their savior, and then they would be accepted into heaven. Problem solved.

 

The God of the Muslims didn’t even have such a plan. He just sent a prophet with a Holy book that showed mankind how to save themselves by surrendering to God and living peaceful lives. The holy book was written in Arabic and has to be read in Arabic to fully understand it.

 

It doesn’t look like the Christian God or the Muslim God is very intelligent. No wonder He is as “mad as hell.” He is getting the results He deserved.

 

Or is there another explanation?

 

The Gospel of Oneness says that the ultimate God of creation is vibration-less Spirit, beyond gender or any other physical identification. The God-Spirit is endlessly creative and has created an infinite number of spiritual identities with free will such as ourselves to co-create life in all dimensions.

 

The original God has given us the freedom to co-create and does not expect us to be perfect but has endowed us with the intelligence to learn how to raise our consciousness.

 

The love of God fills the universe, and we have the free will to tune into that love. For most of us it takes time, lots of time to come back to the realization that we are Spirit-souls of love, beauty, joy, wisdom, and that we are part of the original Creator who would not send part of Itself to hell for not being “good enough” after living one life on Earth, no matter how short or long, or difficult or easy.

 

The nature of God is undivided wholeness. Separation is an illusion. God is not mad at us for thinking that we are separate. It is all part of our learning process in our soul journey to fully realize that we are part of the eternal existence of our Creator.

 

 

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. — George Herbert

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. — William R. Alger

Question163: About the “sacred cows” that block our way to oneness

Question 163: What are the “sacred cows” that stand in the way of realizing the spiritual oneness of life?

A “sacred cow” is a blind belief backed up by a long tradition of accepting it as the truth. It is supposedly above criticism. The saying comes from India where cows are considered sacred and so people would let cows have their way even if it meant the stopping of progress on some project.

 

There are a lot of blind beliefs that come with religious traditions. However, the main sacred cow these days does not come from religion, it comes from science because science has superseded religion as the authority on the nature of reality.

 

That sacred cow is materialism: The idea that reality is based on what we can observe, measure, and diagnose with our five senses and our instruments that help us extend our senses to ever greater or smaller realms such as telescopes, microscopes, listening devices, and sophisticated ways of observing nature at work. Science is based on our ability to formulate hypotheses about nature and then setting up ideal experiments to test those ideas. If an idea seems to be true according to the results of an experiment, it has to be repeatable by others and to stand up to scrutiny by other scientists as to the correctness of the experiment.

 

Over the past two hundred years science has become dominant and has established vested interests and gatekeepers who deem who is worthy to received grants and backing from governments and foundations. Any ideas that cannot be tested within the materialistic framework of our current science culture is usually not going to get any funding from the usual sources.

The culture of scientific materialism denies the reality of Spirit because Spirit cannot be measured by our five senses.

Science can show that all life is connected because of the interdependence of life and environments, but it does not accept a spiritual reality behind life and all material things, including forms of invisible energy.

Science is only just beginning to experiment with consciousness. Some say consciousness came about with the evolution of brains. Before brains evolved there was no consciousness. Everything evolved by random methods of blind cooperation or blind competition with no guiding information from a higher source according to the materialistic viewpoint.

So, the scientific argument for materialism as the only objective reality has established itself as the sacred cow of our day. If you question it, you will run into opposition from the vested interests and the gatekeepers of it.

However, Spirit cannot be denied. Consciousness cannot be denied. People still want to know the deeper truths of life. People know they have some kind of inner dynamic that lights up their love, their hopes and dreams, ambitions and their will power to accomplish everything they need and want to do.

This Spirit of Life that we all have needs to be recognized by science in order for science to blossom forth as a comprehensive and open method for discovering truth.

The scientific research into Spirit can be done by anyone who has the self discipline to sit in quiet meditation and develop their intuition, our way of knowing that goes beyond our five senses.

This approach would also put an end to the other main sacred cow of our day, and that is the notion that there is one true religion. The two biggest religions, Islam and Christianity say they have the only true way back to God. Muslims say you have to surrender to Allah, and Christians. say you have to surrender to Jesus Christ as your savior. Neither religion has the whole truth, but a disciplined inner search for God can help a person make a personal, undogmatic connection to the Holy Spirit of God.

 

Together these two sacred cows are huge blocks on people being able to make progress on realizing the oneness of all life.

“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, … finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell … whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” — Albert Einstein.

“A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the day” –

Adam Sedgwick

‘It’s so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it’s really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.” — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

 

Question 162: About the Goddess

 

 

Question 162: How does the “Goddess” concept fit into the Gospel of Oneness?

 

The cosmic Creator who is beyond the vibrations of the created worlds is sometimes referred to as “it” because it has no gender and we have no way of describing the original Creator of the universes with our limited words. Some people use the word “void” because it is nothing, no thing.

 

Yet here we are, we have gender, we have mothers and fathers, so we are used to gender identifications. Jesus called God “Father.” In the Christian, Jewish and Muslim religions, which have a patriarchal bent, the Creator is seen as male. In the Hindu religion God is sometimes referred to as “Mother.”

 

We want to personalize our Creator so we can relate to It as a mother or father or both. Our Creator can relate to us in the way we prefer. God is not limited in any way, so of course It can relate to us in any way.

 

If you want to relate to the Creator as a Goddess, She will play the role. In Eastern religions people may relate to female representations of Deity, such as Saraswati, the Goddess of wisdom, or Kuan Yin, the Goddess of mercy. To name a few more Goddesses, there is Kali, Durga, Parvati, Radha, Athena, Venus, and Sophia. Or you can relate to God as the “Divine Mother” who is always watching over you with endless love and mercy.

 

We have the freedom to relate to our Creator in any way we want to. Sometimes we may think of God as a Father, other times, as a Mother. There is no human doctrine about the gender of God that can limit our inner connection.

 

Another way to look at this is to see the vibration-less Creator beyond everything as the Father. He created the universe and became the Mother God within creation. The Father God is remote and unknowable. The Mother God is very knowable and is intimate with all creation. Every thing from sub-atomic particles to galaxies to invisible energies, waves, rays, gravity, and other forces are all part of the Mother God who is the intelligent Being within Creation, guiding its evolution through the cycles of Creation. Our Mother God is unconditional love and ever-new joy. In the Gospel of Oneness we celebrate that truth. We can do more than relate to our Mother God, we can realize our oneness with her and the Father God beyond creation.

 

He who knows his soul knows this truth:

” I am beyond everything finite; I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature.

I am the stars,

I am the waves,

I am the Life of all,

I am the laughter within all hearts,

I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul.

I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. “

Paramahansa Yogananda