Many Forms of Connecting With The One Creator

By Mesha Oh

One’s connection with the Creator is at the core of various religious and spiritual traditions. One of the chief functions of these traditions is to shape the way people relate with the Creator.

One of the many amazing things about human beings is that each human being is unique. No two people—not even supposedly identical twins—are completely alike. At the physical level, no matter how similar two people may look, there are always some differences. So also at the mental and the emotional levels. No two people think and feel exactly alike. In terms of their genetic code as well as their disposition, each person is unique.

The expression of their connection with the Creator is also something that is also unique to each individual. For some people, the form this connection takes might have several things in common with that of some other people—as, for instance, followers of a particular religious tradition. Yet even then, there are always aspects of the expression of a person’s connection with the Creator that are unique to them alone.

This uniqueness is a great blessing.

Each person, with their unique disposition, can chart the unique form of their connection with the Creator. While one can choose to benefit from the goodness in various religious (and non-religious) traditions, one can have a close connection with the Creator without being religious as the term is generally understood. One does not have to believe in or conform to or be bound by any particular religion, as is conventionally understood, in order to have a strong relationship with the Creator. A person can freely take goodness wherever one finds it while developing the form of their connection with the Creator that is unique to them.

There can thus be as many forms of spiritual expression or of religiousness as there are human beings. Each soul, one might say, can have its own unique form of its connection with the One Creator.