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Address by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji
any temple without there was earth below and the azure heaven above. Is there a place where God is not? So you will find that we are here together for one great purpose. The minor differences we have here and there are due to our own misconceptions or because of not fully understanding the one Reality that pervades everywhere. This of course is excusable. The ultimate goal that lies before us is much greater. And that goal is already wthin us. We have only to find it out.
In all religions, the goal is
the same. The proper definition of a true Hindu, a true Moslem, a true Sikh or a true Christian is the same. The man in whom the light of God has become refulgent is a true Khalsa (the pure one). The same is said of a Mohammedan that a man who rises above the body-consciousness and sees the light of God, is truly a Momin. The same is said of a Christian, for he is one who sees the light of God. Hindus speak the same way that one who sees the light of God within is a true Hindu. So true Hinduism, true Sikhism, true Mohammedanism, and true Christianity only depend on the fact that you have developed that eye or 'single eye' within you that can see the light of God. This is a practical question of inversion and rising above bodyconsciousness and sinking into the Reality Beyond.
Do we not read in our scriptures that God is light or Noor, but unless we see the light or Noor of God, how can we become true lovers of all the religions that speak of Him. By mere intellectual wrestling we would reach nowhere. All the world over it is preached that God is everywhere. But you do not see Him. You just draw inferences by your intellectual wrestling but that is only a matter of reasoning on the plane of senses. This may just create a taste, a desire to have that thing, but you have not yet seen God. Seeing is above all. So I would say that feelings, emotions and inferences arrived at on the intellectual level are all subject to error. But seeing supercedes all. The man who sees that Reality has realised it.
Now comes the questions,-can we see Him? Of course we can. And again, who can give us the contact within ?-the man who himself is contacted with the God-power in him, who witnesses the light of God can truly make others see Him. He can develop in us that eye with which we can also see that light which is the one creative life-principle and is within all of us. In Christianity they say, "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." But how can the two eyes become single ?-is a practical question. We know so much about intellectual attainments but all the same we are nowhere. All our inventions viz. Atom Bombs, Hydrogen Bombs, Rockets, etc. threaten the destruction of mankind. Sometime back there was a conference of scientists in one of the European countries. The President in his inaugural address told the gathering that, "we had got power to control the forces of nature before we knew our
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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