Godandsoul.org - Understanding the Nature of God

Any attempts to define “God” are not God. This is why the Buddha was silent on the subject of God. The nature of God transcends all definitions, categories and attempts at definition. But humans still attempt anyway. The perfect Still Brahman beyond all ideas of the Hindus is not really very different from the Christian view, “Be still and know that I am God.”

Here is my attempt at a definition: Unmanifested - Manifested - Stillness - Bliss - Consciousness - Awareness. Well, everyone deserves a chance to define God, even if he or she is following one of the God uncertainty, denial, or disbelief paths so popular now - agnosticism, atheism, do not care, do not have time, and so forth.

The ego “is” doing the feelings of separation from God, if that makes sense. It is not just simply a doing sort of a thing, an activity, but it sort of is that. For purposes of this discussion, it will work to think of the ego that way.

It helps to simplify what one is doing, and ask the question often, “What am I, the ego, up to?” Just about 99% of the time, the answer will be the same time. Ego things. Those things are basically maintaining the world as it filters through the ego self. Through “you.” And that to a great extent “is” the feeling of separation, my friend. You are maintaining you. There is you, and there is everything else. And as Robert Thurman, professor of Religion put it so well, “There is so much of what is not you.” I am not putting a footnote there because I do not exactly have the quote remembered exactly, but that is close.

So much of “not” you means a lot of what can threaten little old you! Especially if you are working hard to maintain the sense of little old you, separate from the rest of it all. See, it is a circle you cannot escape from by continuing to try to polish up the little old you and you stuff. The more you do, the more intensely you feel the little you, the more separate you feel from the rest of what is NOT you. And so the more you will need to be protecting your little self from the _________ fill this in. And remember... the blank will get larger, the larger the “little” you gets. (Oh my, I am really needing to pay attention to my self now! ha ha!

So, the fear of the “terrorists” gets greater, the more you pull into your little self, and circle the wagons. Am I saying that there is never a need to protect a self, a country, etc. from threats? No. I am saying that it is possible to heal the feelings of separation from God, others, coworkers, other countries, etc. The feeling comes first and foremost from the fundamental feeling of separation from God. The ego thinks (feels) a separation from God.

It is not going to be a simple task to lose those feelings of separation. There is a hierarchy of “stuff” inside and “outside” you pulling you “apart” from God. Even though it is not really real in the ultimate sense, from God's Perspective, from where you and I are sitting, watching the 6 o'clock news, it is certainly realisic enough! !

The ego sense and the feelings of separation are not usually going to just drop away, just because you say, “I am not going to have those feelings of lonliness, desperation, unhappiness, and sadness, anymore.” But, there is hope, and plenty of it! There is hope oozing out of every particle of the Universe of Light! In fact, the very particles that make up our universe are hopetrons! There is so much hope that we are swimming in a sea of hope. We just need to begin to learn to live in Hope City, and stop going into the bad mental and spiritual neighborhoods.

START NOW! Affirm: I know God Loves me! I know God Loves me! I know I am a part of God's Wonderful Plan, right now! I know I am a part of God's Wonderful Plan, right now!

Get up, right now, out of the computer chair. GET UP!! Go outside, you need to! Stretch and take twenty full, deep breaths of air. Do not hyperventilate. Just slow, regular, deep breaths! Do the affirmations I just gave you! Do this! Oxygen and affirmations help your spiritual progress!

And as for spiritual methods of healing the sense of separation from God, I quote from the Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, “[Kriya Yoga] calms the dualistic turmoil by a divine inner certainty.” ¹

I have been practicing Kriya Yoga for over 30 years, and I know that Yogananda's words are true. Kriya Yoga is a profound spiritual technique. In the west, the whole idea of spiritual “technique” may seem foreign, since most people were taught that all is done by Grace of God. I, too, was taught this in church, Sunday School, etc.

Now I have direct, inner “scientific” proof of my own, tested in the inner realms of my spirit, that there are such means available. Prayer is not the only method of approach to God. And the benefits of practicing the methods of Kriya and associated spiritual techniques I have been taught have been truly amazing. I am not saying quit praying, though. Keep doing that as much as you can.

I was taught that there are means to pull the energies of the life force, energies that have been outer directed into the world of duality (separate self world) for a very long time. The forces are quite strong in these directions, and so the material world seems unbelievably real. If you do not believe me, just touch a hot stove top, and you will become a “believer” in a hurry.

Kriya yoga reverses this energy and pulls it back into the subtle, spiritual central spine ... and over time, activates the various centers of higher awareness. Eventually the self awakens as the Self. This is NOT the ego becoming God. It is the sense of separate self being transmuted. To put it in more modern terms, perhaps it is somewhat like the computer being reloaded with Divine Software, and also getting a new motherboard in the process, for Kriya Yoga also alters the spiritual chemistry of the “self.”

I am not making this up. I am not talking about getting a little calmness while sitting still. I am talking about a profound spiritual method & practice. It is not always easy, but it has profound implications. Those implications are there to be revealed to the practitioner.

It seems I may have drifted from the topic, the Nature of God. But... I think perhaps not really. There are coutless books that talk “about” God. They are like talking “about” the Grand Canyon. No matter how many books you read “about” it, they are nothing to compare to actually witnessing the Grand Canyon itself. Likewise, God Communion is the Supreme Purpose - the mission of this website - this webpage. It is the ultimate healing of the sense of separation, of alienation, of un Happiness. But through the pages of this website there will be discussions of how to deal with the sense of separation “along the way.”

Because life is a path, and we want to find a path that has joy and happiness. The difficult times seem to come along. But the more we can work on healing the sense of separation, the more we can weather the hard times, without feeling as though it is “I” against the world. And that will involve understanding more and more, the nature of God as not separate from “I”.

Whatever path, road, highway, byway, or path one takes (or does not). And whether one believes it to be cell generated or Consciousness generated, the deep, abiding contemplation awaits...