Why god is not able to help us?

Sudhir Singh Nayak
Sep 3, 2018 · 6 min read

God is not able to help us because we ask for god’s help in ungodly things. When we are aligned with nature, god, or universe, and we are trying to do what nature, god or universe is also trying to do — we will be helped. And we are helped so much that a positive feedback loop will get created FOR us… you ask, you get, you thank, you ask more, you get more, you thank more and hence you are in a happy spiral.

However, to the cursed many of us there comes a time when we are asking god for something that is not godly… that doesn’t confirm with the universal principles entwined not only in every atom inside the body but also in the space between them where consciousness resides. The electricity inside the wire… the energy. It is there that nature, god, particle, and wavelength converge and the principles are writ. It is that fundamental ‘falling out’ with the wavelength of our own particle that results in the misalignment of mind, body and soul — often perceived as Anxiety.

Principles of Nature

The two fundamental principles of nature are to grow and to love. Looked at closely, both are not possible without each other. The droplets of mist and the touch of sunlight are no less than the touch of a lover for the leaf and the plant which glows and grows as a result of that touch… bearing fruits and flowers that only love could create… the purest form of energy transformation — from one entity to another. Gold standard of conductivity. Love = Nature = God.

Out of the random I recall the following couplet here:

नसीम ए सुबह गुलशन में, गुलों से खेलती होगी,

The morning mist must be playing with flowers in the garden! [misra hee sher hai… my father would say]

Love/Grow Vs Work/Possess

Anyways –We all get it: The two fundamental principles of nature are to grow and to love. Then where is the pitfall?

Here:

Most work comes under ‘Survive’ and not under ‘Grow’…. Survive comes from ‘Fear’ and creates ‘greed’.

All possession, of land, wealth or woman [zar-zoru-zameen] comes from Desire or Lust, and not from ‘Love’, hence they form the ephemereal ‘identity’ and subsequently ‘attachment’.

1. Our misalignment with the Principle of Grow:

So what are we fundamentally doing — For 95% of us where is the 95% of our waking hours going and 99% of energy consumed…? Between these two: Something that we call ‘Work’ and some familiarites that we would like to ‘Possess’… others’ bodies, physical stuff and the money required with us to get/buy/attract both. Higher your earning (buying) potential, the better your chances of getting a beautiful body home, who will buy more tasteful ‘stuff’ for you… stuff for which you need more money; and hence the downward spiral.

This is WORK, or the motivation for it — for the most of us. Only a select few are actually working towards ‘growing’ the society, and hence they are aligned with the nurturing nature. A few others are rewarding, recognizing, supporting those who are participating in growth; and nature rewards them as well. Exactly in the proportion that they are aligned with the natural principle of growth.

A gardner (mali) is aligned with nature more than a builder… Hence, you will often see court cases against builders and you will find them generally unhappy. I am yet to meet a non-smiling, shrewed gardner, or an anxious environmentalist. — just an example of how happiness grows on us when we are aligned.

2. Our misalignment with the Principle of Love

Now about Love: Nature only gives; because it is nature’s job to nurture. Thats why we call it mother nature. It is so simple…. And what does nature give? It gives energy to help everything grow. How it gives that energy? Through love.

However, we are trying to possess… the first thought of ‘love’ in the worldly sense is of someone coming on a horseback and taking (possessing) you; or you riding a horse and going in pursuit of possessing something or someone. Now what we are going to possess must be really good…and the one who is going to possess us must be awesome always! For 95% of us, our 95% waking hours go into this Entitlement and it consumes 99% of our energy. We don’t get to experience love. Neither within us nor outside of us. Except for the moments spent in the most ‘nurturing’ relationships… which is rare.

Downward spiral

Here onwards we run a raquet with ourselves — we trick our mind and our mind tricks us. Day in and Day out. Whenever we get what we want, our senses get gratified and we run after the ephemreal ‘feeling’ of gratification. When those kind of feelings or sensations do not come, we cry and writhe and we want the feeling back again... asap. This to and fro disturbs the balance between our sub-atomic fundamentals of love and grow and we start pendulamming between work and possess. In order to reduce the anxiety, which, by now is a habit pattern deep inside the body (samkharas — Buddhism), we do all sorts of Numbing (alcohol, substance, loud music), Exciting (roller-coster, gambling, promiscuity) Relaxing (soft music, spa), or Distracting (holiday, movie, gaming) activities [NERD Activities]… but we are never successful. Just like when we take our aching bodies to the spa, the muscles do get relaxed, but they never get strengthened there. However, when we nurture our body through hypertrophy at the gym, the muscles ache but they ‘grow’! Then we also feed the body non-tasty food which is hated by the senses but loved by the body… we are able to do it because the mind is strengthened when it earns the faculty of equanimity alongside the growth in muscle after a hard, painful workout.

However, in the downward spiral, our dizzy mind, anxious between work & possess… driven by fear and desire, keeps getting spa and relaxation through NERD Activities … and we keep hoping against logic to strengthen the mind by Numbing, Exciting, Relaxing, or Distracting the senses… It is as foolish as trying to make a malnourished child healthy on cola and fries… the child loves it but the parent who loves them for the child is a fool!

God enters:

At this stage we turn to god! We want to take our anxious mind to a spa and we ask god to relax it; and strengthen it permanently! God is primarily nature… Nature asks you back — loud and clear (but we hardly hear it in all that noise of our own voice) — are you really trying to nurture (love) yourself? It asks you through your blood pressure; it communicates through your body fat %; it poses the question through your anxiety levels (measurable)… but you are too busy murmuring, agitating and asking for the same thing over and over again. It is like a begger who is begging in a black golden bowl on noisy traffic signal, beating the ground so hard with his heavy bowl and crying so loud that even a caring goldsmith is not able to care or communicate.

Even bigger fools ask god… how can I unlove. How can I forget, how can I not grow… myself or others that I love? How can I just get them the way I want them to be… without nurturing them enough to become that what I wanted them to become? Or how can I get them out of my way through NERD Activities? Frustrated… with every fuzzy question our clamour increases… the thud of our bowl on the dusty ground becomes louder with each unanswered prayer. The tears become acidic, noise gets louder and our voice becomes shrill while the body becomes heavy and sluggish…. Giving signals… nurture me… give me oxytocin… I am imbalanced… We feed it alcohol instead! …and we clamour more… oh god grant me my fears! Grant me the numbness… let me not nurture myself nor the others… let ‘me’ be free… oxytocin-free, let me be numb!

Comfortably Numb!

Sudhir Singh Nayak

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