Here are a few excerpts from the book Wisdom of the Sadhu that i find most comforting. Please read these, they may shine light and reveal a new perspective.
Seeker: Sadhu-ji, I see that you live
in deep inner peace, and I, too, long to find this peace.
Can we imperfect mortals ever hope to experience
true oneness with God?
Sadhu: We all have a natural, inborn desire to see
God. But God is infinite and incomprehensible. No
one can see God without being of the same infinite
nature as God. We are finite, and so we cannot see
God. But God is love. He is also the source of our
craving to know and love him. Out of this love God
took on a form that is comprehensible to us mortal beings.
Through this act of love we can now share in the
joy of the angels by seeing and knowing God directly.
This is why the Master said: “Whoever has seen me
has seen the Father.”
God knows well the inner state of every human being
and reveals himself to each heart in accordance
with its needs. There is no better way for a person to
enter true spiritual life than by encountering God di-
rectly. God became man and dwelt among us so that
we might not fear him as something terrible and foreign,
but instead see that God is love.
Seeker: I can understand that the infinite God is incomprehensible
to us mortals. I can also understand
that the power, or spirit of God, is at work around us.
But how can this God be a man as well? This seems
impossible.
Sadhu: The Almighty God and God Incarnate and
God the Spirit are one. In the sun, there is heat and
light and they are all one. But the heat is not the light
and the light is not the heat. So it is with God. The
Master and the Spirit both proceed from the Father to
bring light and heat to the world. God the Spirit is fire
that burns away all evil, making our hearts pure and
holy. The Master is the true light that drives out all
darkness and leads us to bliss along the path of truth.
Yet all three are one, just as the sun is one.
Seeker: I want to believe the truth of what you say,
for I see its fruits in the peace you experience, but it is
difficult for me to understand or accept.
Sadhu: God has created us with spiritual faculties and
powers, but these must be used or else they will decay
and be lost. Faith must be fixed on the living God or
else irreverence and sin will rule; they will lead to
doubt and ultimately destroy all faith.
Sometimes people say that they are ready to believe
in God if only this or that doubt is removed or satisfied.
Can one go to a doctor and ask that the pain of a
broken arm be removed before the bone is set? This
would be ridiculous because the pain is the result of
the break. Once the limb has been set, the pain will
pass away by itself. Doubts are spiritual pains that
arise from our sin. Irreverence has broken our spiritual
oneness with God. We must first restore spiritual
union with God; then doubts with regard to the existence
of God or the divinity of the Master will disappear
on their own. Only then will the pain fade. Only
then will we experience the wonderful spiritual peace
that the world can neither give nor take away. The
Master reveals God to us so that the union between
God and us sinful humans might be restored. He has
opened the way for us to enter his heavenly realm.
Whoever sincerely seeks truth with an open heart will
find it revealed in the Master.
We do not need knowledge of Hebrew or Greek,
but we do need to be united with the Spirit. This Spirit
guided the prophets and followers who recorded his
words, and this spirit alone can reveal their true meaning
to us. The language of the Master is spiritual, and
we can only understand its meaning if we are awake in
spirit. We do not need to know or understand anything
about theological questions or criticisms. Indeed,
a child can most readily grasp the Master’s
teaching, for the child is still united with the spiritual
world from which it came. But those who possess wisdom
that is only of this world can never understand,
for the Master’s spirit is not in them.
Seeker: Sadhu-ji, I see that you live
in deep inner peace, and I, too, long to find this peace.
Can we imperfect mortals ever hope to experience
true oneness with God?
Sadhu: We all have a natural, inborn desire to see
God. But God is infinite and incomprehensible. No
one can see God without being of the same infinite
nature as God. We are finite, and so we cannot see
God. But God is love. He is also the source of our
craving to know and love him. Out of this love God
took on a form that is comprehensible to us mortal beings.
Through this act of love we can now share in the
joy of the angels by seeing and knowing God directly.
This is why the Master said: “Whoever has seen me
has seen the Father.”
God knows well the inner state of every human being
and reveals himself to each heart in accordance
with its needs. There is no better way for a person to
enter true spiritual life than by encountering God di-
rectly. God became man and dwelt among us so that
we might not fear him as something terrible and foreign,
but instead see that God is love.
Seeker: I can understand that the infinite God is incomprehensible
to us mortals. I can also understand
that the power, or spirit of God, is at work around us.
But how can this God be a man as well? This seems
impossible.
Sadhu: The Almighty God and God Incarnate and
God the Spirit are one. In the sun, there is heat and
light and they are all one. But the heat is not the light
and the light is not the heat. So it is with God. The
Master and the Spirit both proceed from the Father to
bring light and heat to the world. God the Spirit is fire
that burns away all evil, making our hearts pure and
holy. The Master is the true light that drives out all
darkness and leads us to bliss along the path of truth.
Yet all three are one, just as the sun is one.
Seeker: I want to believe the truth of what you say,
for I see its fruits in the peace you experience, but it is
difficult for me to understand or accept.
Sadhu: God has created us with spiritual faculties and
powers, but these must be used or else they will decay
and be lost. Faith must be fixed on the living God or
else irreverence and sin will rule; they will lead to
doubt and ultimately destroy all faith.
Sometimes people say that they are ready to believe
in God if only this or that doubt is removed or satisfied.
Can one go to a doctor and ask that the pain of a
broken arm be removed before the bone is set? This
would be ridiculous because the pain is the result of
the break. Once the limb has been set, the pain will
pass away by itself. Doubts are spiritual pains that
arise from our sin. Irreverence has broken our spiritual
oneness with God. We must first restore spiritual
union with God; then doubts with regard to the existence
of God or the divinity of the Master will disappear
on their own. Only then will the pain fade. Only
then will we experience the wonderful spiritual peace
that the world can neither give nor take away. The
Master reveals God to us so that the union between
God and us sinful humans might be restored. He has
opened the way for us to enter his heavenly realm.
Whoever sincerely seeks truth with an open heart will
find it revealed in the Master.
We do not need knowledge of Hebrew or Greek,
but we do need to be united with the Spirit. This Spirit
guided the prophets and followers who recorded his
words, and this spirit alone can reveal their true meaning
to us. The language of the Master is spiritual, and
we can only understand its meaning if we are awake in
spirit. We do not need to know or understand anything
about theological questions or criticisms. Indeed,
a child can most readily grasp the Master’s
teaching, for the child is still united with the spiritual
world from which it came. But those who possess wisdom
that is only of this world can never understand,
for the Master’s spirit is not in them.
