To be read in continuation of the earlier post.
Would a conventional introduction to God, an introduction arising from the books…from intellectualism…from rituals and not from experience… be accepted any longer?? Would it be just??
Children are intuitive.. They are closest to God…In fact they are stepping out of “God”hood into “Man”hood with age… and move further away as time progresses..
Something inauthentic … and they immediately know that something is not right… The child from the earlier post.. his fabric of trust…. His co-relation with God is stained… it can no longer be the same…Some sort of shading… misconceptions have been implanted…which may embed within his psyche…unconsciously…
Even if the child is forced to follow the parents mindset and orthodoxy…it is purely ritualistic.. traditionally hollow…He will break away at the earliest given opportunity…or if the obedient type… he will continue… with the child hood scars buried deep in his unconscious..Unconsciously…
But such an individual has missed himself… and in turn has missed God..
And topping it up…hypothetically…
He will become a priest and continue to talk a hell lot of Heaven and God 😉
Societal religion needs confused people.. they detest folks with clarity.. they require muddle headed people who can follow…have doubts repressed within… but follow…Their very existence… their very business models depend on this…sell theories of God and confuse..
The 1st step in the journey is of utmost importance..is critical…is virgin..tender…and it needs authenticity…Authenticity of the elders…the children already are authentic…
Now redrafting the story with this background…
A conversation between a religious priest.. and his child
Child : Who is God?
Father: Frankly son…I do not know.. I am on a journey to find him… Have not yet found him…but hopeful that one day I realize “HIM”..
Child : Can I find him
Father : Yes, that is the birth right of every individual born…
Child : Where can I find him
Father : He is everywhere…He is also in nature.. in trees, in the rivers and animals…in humans…But the onus is on us to be receptive enough…to his presence…
Child : But my friend told me that God is happy only when you pray…And I don’t know any prayer…
Father : Prayer is only a medium that takes you closer…towards being more receptive… It need not have any particular grammar associated with it… An act of kindness is also in itself a prayer…
Child : Ok, Dad Great… Thanks…
After few days..
Child :Today when coming back from school.. I came through the woods…I saw a wild pup injured… I immediately called out to God… but he never came… to rescue the pup…
Father : That does not matter…He may have been busy elsewhere…But the two of us together can check out the pup…
Child : Super Dad…cool…
That night…. the child experienced God through his Dad… The pup experienced God through them…
and their hunt for God continues 🙂
” standing on a plateau and gazing below at the valley, and then looking up to see the lofty mountain top” ……….is what one experiences when reading your Blog. It fuses realism and and the abstract, and at the end one feels rather inadequate about oneself.
The flow is unique, classical, and leaves one at the end, dazed. One feels that he is standing where he was.
“A rebel writer with a pen filled with vitriol.”
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Thanks GRS for your views… your feedback is a blog in itself 🙂
…in accepting our incompleteness is our completeness,our wholeness… Chasing mirages of perfection is ??..
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Waiting for further enlightenment…and following you on this journey to discover & rediscover GOD…over & over again…because each time it is an experience in itself..and I always wish to learn from your/others experiences and be inspired in my search of HIM…
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Thank U and join the club 🙂
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A simple conversation between a father and child is all it takes to give us an insight into our search for “HIM”.
I am in awe of the simple yet so beautiful way in which you explained about this journey !!
This perspective brings in an all new dimension in opening the spiritual quest in the tender minds of the children, it replaces fear with faith !!!
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Thanks Radhika 🙂
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