Feeling Thy Presence...
The first line of infiniprayer,
The Universal Prayer explained by Mahatria.
infiniprayer
Like 'Happy Birthday' is a
universal song, we now have a universal prayer...
Feeling the vastness of
the infinite..
a presence that cannot be
defined or confined by time and space.
Feeling: The lower
cannot comprehend the higher. The lower can only surrender to the higher. Not
able to understand God isn't ignorance. Attempting to understand God is
ignorance. There is a difference between knowing God and knowing about God.
Knowing God is an absolute experience. Knowing about God is purely
intellectual. God isn't something to be understood. God is to be felt. God is a
matter of the heart. Feelings are the doors to divine experiences. Gratitude,
love, devotion, surrender and faith are all in the feeling domain. Rajaji aptly
explained, “When intelligence matures and lodges securely in the mind, it
becomes wisdom. When wisdom is integrated with life and issues out in action, it
becomes bhakti. Knowledge, when it becomes fully mature is bhakti. If it does
not get transformed into bhakti, such knowledge is useless tinsel.” So, the
infiniprayer opens with the master key to spiritual connect - Feeling…
Thy: If you define, you confine.
God can neither be defined nor confined. Though the word 'mother' represents
motherhood, my mother alone is my mother. Similarly, while the word 'God'
represents that Universal Cosmic Presence, yet my god is my god. My God is
absolutely personal to me. So is your God, absolutely personal to you. My Jesus
Christ is different from your Jesus Christ. Her Krishna is different from His
Krishna. Together we can recite the God's name, and yet, what it means to each
one of us will remain absolutely personal. So, Feeling Thy… My Thy is different
from your Thy… My Thy is my God. Your Thy is your God.
Presence: By agreeing that God
is omnipresent, which means present everywhere, we agree God cannot be bottled
into time and space. Then God cannot be a person. A person is within the
limitations of time, space, bone and flesh. God can only be a presence. Then,
God cannot be perceived through the senses, like how we perceive material.
However, God, as a presence, can always be felt everywhere, in everything, every
time. Nobody explained 'Feeling Thy Presence' better than Bharathiyar, when he
described, “All my senses are thy manifestations. Crow's feather thy black; the
trees thy green; the sounds thy rhyme; the burning flame yields me the pleasure
of touching Thee. In anything and everything I perceive, I Feel Thy Presence.”
Whether it is the Siddhas of Jains or the Abba of Jesus Christ or the Allah of
Prophet or the Satnam of Guru Nanak… God is a lingering presence and
not a material object confined to some space.
Much after you leave the
material called rose, you will still feel the formless presence of the
fragrance of rose, in you and around you. Similarly, much after you leave the
altar of your worship, continue to feel the formless presence of the fragrance
of your God, in you, around you, with you and within you.
The disciple asked, “Where is
God?” The Master replied, “Where is he not?” When asked, “When are you with
Him?” an infinitheist replied, “When am I not with Him!”
So the first line in the
infiniprayer - Feeling Thy presence.
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