Sundry Sayings on God & Religion

* God, who is seated in your heart, cannot be contained in the contours of your mind.

* Some people want God to prove His existence in the extraordinary, by His performing a great miracle. He can do that surely, but one should also know that He is already revealing His existence through what people regard as the ordinary.

* The bounties of the Earth and the skies are God’s. God is their true owner.

* Since God is the Giver, if you want something, ask Him to give it to you.

* A belief system, be it religious or secular, ought at best to be a means, never an end in itself.

* Vast numbers of people have been made to believe in a difficult-to-please God, a God who must routinely be pleased to win His favour and/or avert His wrath, as if He is like some human dictator.

* You keep quoting the great realizations of the Spiritual Masters whose follower you claim to be. Why not share your own realizations?

* Go beyond received truth-claims to self-realised truths.

* The one scripture that God Himself for sure ‘wrote’ and ‘revealed’ is the Universe or the Creation itself.

* To think that one can navigate the boat of one’s life in the ocean of the world with one’s cleverness alone, without God as one’s boat’s Captain, is foolishness.

*To think that a certain book can tell you all you need to about God and also, that this book alone can do this, is foolishness.

* To outsource one’s thinking to anyone else—be it a belief system, a group, a person—even in the name of ‘devotion’, is being irresponsible to oneself.

* Since God is the Parent of all beings, all beings are siblings to each other, humans as well as all others.

* God has put us on Earth to do His work, the work that He has specifically set for each of us.

* Some people cling to a belief system because they are too lazy to think for themselves or simply because they fear what they believe would be awful consequences, such as God’s wrath, is they failed to do so.

* Humankind cannot expect to advance into a grand new age with ‘theological technology’ that dates back to a primitive age.

* If God spoke to some people in the past, He must speak now to you, too, for God cannot change, and nor does He have favourites.

* A God who does not communicate with us is simply not worth considering. It would be like a parent who refuses to speak with their children.

* Just as a good human parent would want their child to grow and flourish, God, the Divine Parent, wants us to grow and flourish.

*To claim that the Creator and the Creation are one and the same is foolishness, a great trick of the ego. Can we create even a mosquito?

* We don’t know fully who or what God is, but we do know that God is.

* One might need to read a book to know about God, but just by reading this book one cannot get to know God.

* Reading books about God cannot substitute for direct personal experience of God. And, direct personal experience of God happens in a direct personal relationship with God.

* No person has the right to dictate how you should relate with God.

* If you have nothing to do, chat with God. If you have something to do, chat with God then, too.

* If you are tired of speaking to God, listen to Him speak to you.

* If you feel your life is burdensome and meaningless, ask God to make it enjoyable and meaningful.

* There is no fixed blueprint for one’s relationship with God. Each person’s can be unique.

* It is a big blessing if God relieves you of compulsive activity so that you can spend more time being in His presence.

* God is in you, but He is not you, and nor are you Him.

* Religion is, or should be, simply a personal relationship with God.

* To be hurled into the world without being taught by one’s primary caregivers, such as one’s parents, of the existence of God as the Great Helper, whose help can always and easily be sought and secured, is heart-wrenchingly tragic.