War and Peace

Weekend ambling in
Wings are lightened
Belligerence kept away

Prayer to Devil

Diabolical thoughts, evil fury in brain, feel like praying to devil for a change to break the routine.

God will bring only what is good for you

Devil can bring what I feel is good for me aint it?

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Somewhere in your life you have a dividing line. One one side of this line you make decisions in harmony with your relationship with God. And on the other side you make decisions without consideration of this relationship. This isn't to say that your decisions are un-Godly but rather that these decisions are based on logic, conventional wisdom, societal preference or simply learned behavior. The dividing line simply helps us visualize that such a division exists and allows us to examine our actions.

As you look back on your life, you can see that this dividing line is not stationary and that it has moved position through different phases of your life. At some points you have been very mindful of God in your decision making and possibly in others you've been not so mindful. Why we have a dividing line at all? If God is inclined to get involved in matters as light as snow and vapor, why we banish Him from our everyday decisions?

However, the problem we each face is our desire for God to be absolute. In the spectrum of possible and definitive, we hold that God is definitive and without any degree of confusion. We know this not so much because it is specified in scripture but rather because it is innate. As human beings, we have an inclination that God is absolute and thus we seek a definitive relationship with Him that is free from doubt. But when we look to scripture to represent God we find variance. Ranging from different translations to different interpretations over time, scripture is never held to be universally understood or agreed upon (despite many people being convinced that their interpretation is true).

Accordingly we hold that God is absolute but experience that our relationship with Him is dynamic. Despite God being absolute, our experiential relationship has much to do with us. Like all relationships, we find that this relationship requires both sides to contribute. And if we haven't quite figured out this relationship, we create a dividing line for those times when we don't think God can, should or will help us make a choice.

Obviously the conclusion is that God is available and desires to help us in matters both big and small. But that's easy. The harder question is why we haven't applied this in our lives already? Are you too stupid, lazy, sinful or ignorant to accept God's outreached hand? While I understand that society would like us to believe this, I do not believe this to be the case.

The dividing line is actually a representation of consciousness. One one side, we have Mind consciousness based on logic, reason and critical thinking. And on the other side we have Spiritual consciousness which requires nothing more than a connection to God (logic, reason and critical thinking are not necessary here). We well understand Mind intelligence for our brains are wired to deduce answers from available information and personal experience. But Spiritual intelligence delivers conclusions without such facts or experience as it is pure understanding. When it comes to God's influence on our lives, we don't deduce that a decision is right for us... we just know.

And thus when we live our lives within the singularity of a Mind consciousness, we find that factoring God's input into our lives doesn't compute. It is as if our brain computer can't understand the divine programming language. Where we seek facts, figures and definitive logic we receive intuition, feelings and gut instinct. And when our Mind intelligence can't process, it resorts to making decisions without God's influence.

Instead we are called to step into Spiritual consciousness and to trust God. This step is a leap of faith for Spiritual consciousness is devoid of the logical framework that our Mind consciousness demands. And thus we find ourselves stepping out of the comfortable and into the unknown. This is precisely where faith applies. It is here that we choose to make decisions and to trust God.

Sri Chinmoy

"No mind, no form, I only exist;
Now ceased all will and thought;
The final end of Nature's dance,
I am it whom I have sought.

A realm of Bliss bare, ultimate;
Beyond both knower and known;
A rest immense I enjoy at last;
I face the One alone.


I have crossed the secret ways of life,
I have become the Goal.
The Truth immutable is revealed;
I am the way, the God-Soul.


My spirit aware of all the heights,
I am mute in the core of the Sun.
I barter nothing with time and deeds;
My cosmic play is done."

- Sri Chinmoy