**Realization of God**


 



🔥 **Realization of God** 🔥

• *We also wish to behold God in a strange way* •



Everyone longs for the vision of God. Every believer says, “Show me God.” But in truth, the reality is that we are all afraid of God’s vision. We fear that God might ask us: *You take My name, but your love is for evil. Why are you sinful? Why do you fight with your own brothers? Why do you engage in false trade? You do not wish to abandon dishonest practices—then why do you call upon Me? Your heart lies elsewhere, while your lips merely chant My name. Remember, you may deceive the world, but you cannot deceive yourself, nor can you deceive God.*


God may further ask you: *Why are you calling Me? What do you really want? What answer do you have? Do you perhaps wish that your own shop prospers while your neighbor’s shop suffers loss and closes down?* God will smile and say that you are asking for something driven by selfishness, jealousy, hatred, and hostility. That is why I often say that people fear God and falsely take His name. We are sinners, and the fear of sin weighs heavily upon us. A person who develops bad habits is afraid to go before parents and teachers and keeps avoiding them—this is exactly our condition.


We wish to see God in a peculiar way. We want to see Him with our eyes and hear His voice with our ears. But the Upaniṣads say that the eyes do not reach Him. Understand this clearly: whatever you can see with your eyes—no matter what it is—cannot be God. The logic is simple: because it is seen by the eyes, it cannot be God. It may be God’s workmanship, His artistry, but it is not God Himself. God is that which cannot be seen by the eyes, yet it is He who grants the eyes the power by which we can see the tangible objects of the world.


By God’s grace alone our ears gain the capacity to hear, but they cannot hear the voice of God. No tape recorder can record God’s voice. God cannot be seen with these external eyes, nor heard with these external ears. To behold Him, we must open our inner eyes, and to hear His words, we must open the ears of our inner consciousness.


Remember that whatever we see with the physical eyes or hear with the physical ears is quite superficial. In our being, subtler and more important than the physical sheath (*annamaya kośa*) are the vital sheath (*prāṇamaya kośa*) and the mental sheath (*manomaya kośa*). These have never been seen by anyone’s eyes. Neither have you truly seen me, nor have I truly seen you. What I have seen are merely the garments of your body. Even your skin and skeletal structure are like a box, inside which, in a small cave, you reside. When we cannot truly see one another with these eyes, how can we possibly see God with them? It would be sheer foolishness for anyone to claim that they can show God to you.


Yet remember this: God is extremely close to us. Wherever we are, He is there. First try to find where *you* truly are—there you will find your beloved God. Whether we realize it or not, we often go very close to God—indeed, into His lap. The teacher of Sāṅkhya philosophy, Sage Kapila, says that in the states of deep sleep (*suṣupti*), samādhi, and liberation (*mokṣa*), we meet the Supreme Being.


In the world, there is no state greater than deep sleep. Suṣupti means deep sleep—but such deep sleep in which there are no dreams, no desires, no cravings, only complete unconsciousness. In such a state, God lovingly lifts us into His lap and removes all our fatigue. When we awaken, we say, “I slept with great joy.” From where did this joy come? How was the fatigue removed? It was the grace of being in God’s lap. Do not forget this. Yet you do not remember it, because while you were asleep, God was lovingly removing your weariness.


In yogic samādhi, you experience direct realization of God—while being fully conscious. Through this realization, the impurities of your heart are washed away. In deep sleep, only physical fatigue is removed, but when you return from samādhi, you return purified. That purification is the greatest grace of God-realization.


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**Source:** *On the Path of God*

**Author:** Swami Dr. Satyaprakash Saraswati

Reproduced by Dr. Vivek Arya

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