You know,
All the scriptures talk about two primal manifestations of God,
That being the divine light and the divine sound,
Whether you call it the holy word or the Naam or the Shab or the Kalma or the light and sound of God or the celestial music,
These are different names used by in different languages and different scriptures to talk about the creative force.
And that creative force brought all creation into being.
In the holy Bible it said,
In the beginning was the word,
The word was with God and the word was gone.
Like the God and word were one and the same,
The holy word came from the Lord.
And we have similar statements in other scriptures of the world.
All of our scriptures tell us that there is one universal Father,
The Lord,
And we are all God's children.
And that can only be realized when we raise above this physical appearance that we all have because our spirit or our soul is one and the same.
Our soul is a part of God,
It's conscious,
It's full of the love and light of God.
It's like fearless,
There's no fear because it's a part of God.
Being a part of God,
There's no fear,
It's full of compassion,
It's full of love,
It's full of light,
It's always there,
It's connected,
There's nothing.
In this world we think we are different than someone else,
So we live in a world of duality.
And whenever there's duality,
There's competition because then we want to be better than someone else.
But if we realize that we are one and the same,
Then we'll live with humility.
We realize that there's no difference between us and someone else,
So we extend love towards them and that's what happens to us as we truly meditate.
As we truly meditate,
As we learn the techniques of what is called rising above physical body consciousness,
Which I feel is just focusing attention in the right arena,
We're able to experience ourselves not as the body but as the soul or the spirit.
And as we experience ourselves at that level,
Then the realization that we're not distinct from God sets in as we go on the spiritual journey.
And this journey is a journey of light,
This is a journey of love.
Sandarshan Singh Ji Maharaj who wrote much about the spiritual way,
He talks very beautifully about the journey,
He says,
When I travel from the earth,
Earthy to the heaven heavenlies,
I found love at every step and beauty in every glance.
And when you read the ratings of the saints,
And they've come in all faiths,
You find the descriptions of the journey being full of love and full of light and full of beauty and full of bliss,
And like it transposes into a state of happiness and joy like we've never,
Never experienced before.
And when we go on this journey,
Which only happens when we realize that we are not the body,
That we are spirit or soul with your life to the body.
When that realization sets in,
Then only we go on this journey.
When we go on this journey,
It is then that truly we can experience who we are.
