Spirituality
God And His Grace
God is giving us everything for our needs and yet we are unsatisfied.
God gives us everything, every day, and will continue to give till eternity, and yet we do not notice it. Even after he sent us to this world of pain, sadness, anger, jealousy, and illusion, he is still taking care of us.
There are so many animals, insects, and species, whom he is taking care of already. They get their food and shelter. That is given indirectly by God only. Ants get their food when they search for it, provided by God. Birds also get water and food here in this world, somewhere or the other. The indirect reason is again God. Fishes also get food and shelter in the water itself. Again, the cause for this is God himself. God is the cause of all the causes. He is taking care of every creature in this universe as a father/mother, there is no worry for them.
When we were born, he gave us this body with hands and legs. With all the senses. With all the complicated systems inside it, like the digestive system, nervous system, and they work perfectly fine, which science still doesn’t know how? He gave us parents who were the first people in our lives to love and take care of us. He gave us a house to live in. He provided us with schools and teachers to teach as we grew up when we were very small.
He provided us with toys to play with when we got bored as a child. He then provided us, so-called friends, back then, for our temporary happiness, so that we may pass our time. And as we grew up, he made the world ready for us, for our needs.
He is giving us sunlight, through which we get vitamins. It also helps us in growing crops, maintaining temperature, etc. He has also given the ozone layer to us humans living on this earth, for protection from the ultraviolet rays of the sun. He gives us rain which again helps in growing crops. He gave us trees and plants, and they give us oxygen, which we breathe. He gave us water to satisfy our thirst. He created his system of universe which is called nature, that works automatically well.
And if we look closely, he is the one who is actually giving us things for our needs, selflessly, in love and compassion, without even asking for anything in return. He is the only one who is making and preserving this universe, and we are just using it, and taking care of it. You see, every day someone is getting born, whether they are human beings, animals, insects, microbes, etc., and that too so many species and every specie is taken care of in different environments, with food and shelter, either directly by someone or something or indirectly.
God is providing us with things every time, through someone or something for our needs. And yet we do not see them, take them for granted, take them casually. But actually, they are very big things done for us. He takes care of those as well, who do not believe in him, who hate him, abuse him, ignore him, etc. He provides everything for them as well. He is sitting in their hearts as well. He is always watching everyone, from the outside, as well as inside of us, in our thoughts and emotions, he knows everything.
Another miracle is that he makes infinite human beings and each one of them has different faces and different voices as well. Have you ever seen any human being with similar faces or similar voices? No. All of them have different faces with different voices. Not only this, he has given us food in different varieties and each of them has different taste. Even everyone’s bodily aroma is different. Body of each one of us smells different.
And this is not our first birth. We have taken birth many times before. And there are innumerable universes, that exist today, according to modern science as well. So, God has personally taken care of innumerable species, in their innumerable births, in the innumerable universes, and will still continue to do so, till eternity, that is the beloved God.
You see, God gives us everything we need, and that is the only thing he can do for us at least till we are here on this planet. But we ask him for even more things that can give us happiness, like material pleasures, etc. Oh, God, please give me this and I will come to remember you every day, I promise. Oh God, if you do this for me, I will attend church every weekend. We do business with God, and many times we do not even thank him for that.
We do business with him, and that too for material desires, things that we want in this world, which is material. If really want to ask something from him, why don’t we ask him for the highest thing? What is that? That is God and his love itself. Oh, God, please always be there for me, always take care of me, watch me, my actions, and my heart. Oh God, give me your divine love. I do not know anything, I am just your good, little child. You decide for me, what is best for me, I leave it up to you.
Now, asking him like this, he may give you the highest thing that he possesses, that is, his divine treasure, which you won’t even find in this world and cannot even imagine as he is beyond our body, mind, and intellect, as he is divine. Our body, mind, and intellect are material, so we cannot imagine his love, compassion, mercy, divinity, and all the divine things that he possesses with him including his abode.
Plus, leaving yourself to him to decide is the best thing. If you leave him for you to decide, now it is his responsibility to decide what is best for you, and no one can make better decisions than him. Whatever he does to you, good, or bad, you do not know what he is doing for you. You can only believe what he is doing for me, as per long-term thinking. You can only try to see what good he did for you in any situation, and in this way, you may, after some time, you may get closer to him.
To understand God, you need his devotion, his knowledge, etc. We all want the same thing, which is happiness/pleasure, but we are searching for it in the wrong direction, and in the wrong place, which is this material world. God is the source and abode of all our happiness, pleasures, knowledge……., etc. We need to find it in God.
A soul cannot live without these 3 things in this material world, one is happiness, the second is knowledge, and the third is work. We need happiness in our lives, and we want more and more. We always need knowledge in our life, and that is why we have the urge to learn or know new things, every time, and we always need work to do, some work or the other. God is an abode of all these things. God has infinite happiness and infinite knowledge with him, and he can provide an infinite service to be offered to him. But we are not going to him. We are finding these things in the material world, in the wrong place, and in the wrong direction.
And God is sitting inside our hearts. He is noting our thoughts, emotions, ideas, and actions and giving the fruits or results at the proper time. He is noting our thoughts, emotions, ideas, and actions, of innumerable souls, of their innumerable lifetimes, in the innumerable universes, and giving the fruits and results at the proper time, just by sitting inside our hearts. And we do not even know about it. By his divine power, he has kept himself hidden. He is our everything, well actually.
Everything has emanated from God, and everything will one day again go inside of him.
In this world, there is nothing as pure as divine knowledge- Bhagwat Gita, 4.38
There are 2 of the contents I wrote, regarding this article only.
What God Has Advised for Us People | by Prabhank Sarwaikar | ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR | Medium
