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“My child, there is one God. All religions teach us to love and obey him. Due to shallow faith, ego or politics, people fight over superficial differences. In fifty years of meditation, prayer, and charity, I have discovered that God’s love manifests in different ways to different people.
“One path may appear in different forms, but the Kingdom of God is the goal we all share. It is the men of small minds who create confusion.”
Hope in the divine can empower a human being to overcome unimaginable obstacles.
Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and people are driven to abominable acts to satisfy their lust. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense. I thought about the fact that throughout history there had been saints in all traditions who raised beautiful families utilizing sex as a divine offering.
All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.
“The source of all suffering is desire,” he began. “And desire arises from the mind’s attachments to the senses. Freedom is to empty the mind of all thoughts. To have no mind or thought is satori, the liberated state.” His eyes shut tightly in concentration as he explained that Zen is to understand the meaning of life directly, without being distracted by logical thought or words. “You are Buddha,” he said, “but you must discover it yourself. All beings are Buddha as ice in essence is water.” He recalled, “The great D.T. Suzuki has written that the practice of Zen means a life of humility; a
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“Under the veil of illusion, or maya, we forget the ecstatic love for God, which is intrinsic to our souls. Love in this world is only a reflection of it. We are searching for real love in so many ways, forgetting that it is within our hearts.” Babaji looked so meek. Raising his white eyebrows, his voice faltered. “Krishna longs to be conquered by the love of His devotee and by the supreme grace of Radha we can realize that love. She is the compassionate nature of the Absolute and the fountainhead of all spiritual love.”
