These lines of MOTHER TARASA are simple enough to explain but complex enough to understand.
Where is god? Ask this question to the person standing besides you and wait for the answer. In 90 % cases he would say:” god is every where and than he will talk about temple, mosque, church, GURUDWARA. Answer is bit diplomatic but true enough. Not because it’s philosophically proved but, because our way of thinking and the level of satisfaction make it true. We all are having some rigid formatted answer for such kinds of question. From grand father to father and to the child they all are having same knowledge, same understanding, and same belief in god.
If you ask a baby:” where is god”. His reply would be words like “temple, mosque, church or GURUDWARA”. At the age of innocence, these kinds of answers are expected. But who told him about this. Who explain the meaning of temple? Who defined god in front of him. He got this knowledge from one among us.
And here the word “EXPECTATIONS” introduced. From every successful sunrise to every awaited sunset, directly or indirectly we think about god. We go to temple, mosque, church or GURUDWARA in the morning to see god, to explain the importance of god in our life, to explain prospects, but is it only the place where we can find god?
Many of us believe that god is a person with four hands, who has a well perfumed room with Devine atmosphere with rivers of nectar here n there and mountains of comfort all around and few eternal qualities which proves him eternal, almighty. Even I have these kinds of thoughts but we are still genuine as we will believe in the things we have seen in the past, we have heard in tales from our elders. But that’s not enough to prove, to explain the truth. Everything is directly or indirectly a replica of god, a definition of god.
Have you ever observed a baby playing at sea-shore? What children generally do there? A baby will make a temple, a flag on the top of the temple. A baby tries to find his RAM, ALLAH, VAHEGURU, JESUS in the clay. If he can find his god in the clay, does he need to go to temple or any other places we called HOLY PLACES?
We have distributed an energy source we call “god” in different religion to fulfill our EXPECTATIONS, our personal wishes. To prove few lines someone has written about the natural power. God is in our mind, in our heart. In the dedication we are showing. Love we are showing, in Bonds between souls. These all are different examples of god. It’s your thinking and understanding defines your god.
Heaven or hell everything is here. Is there any need to find heaven when you have your mother’s lap? Can find the amount of peace you can find in your mother’s lap? Is there any need to go to temple when you have mother-father (god and goddess) with you? Where is hell? It’s inside our mind, heart. Nothing is perfect and our imperfection defines hell. It’s not bad it just a word which is unable to define heaven.
Allow your child to find his/her god in his/her own way. For your child, you are god. Fulfill his expectations in the same way your god feeds you. And you only decide now “whose your god?”, “where is your god?”
That’s it.
