O dear friend, you spend hours
meditating on God.
You have your beliefs,
your conception of what God is.
And sure you do love Him/Her
You call God!
I wonder how could you love
someone whom you have never known!
You do not even know that entity is Him or Her!
Your perception of God,
Does not comprise of even
a nanosecond of direct experience!
Your perception of God is
either based on a book,
or words of some one else,
or product of your imagination.
You so easily fall for
a monkey, an elephant,
a stone, or a tree,
Or a hero of a mythic tale!
But, you find so hard to love
a human being,
In flesh and blood,
So real, and so true!
You so easily take for granted
people who love you the most!
You search for excuses
to be offended, and judge others.
Busy labeling people
Good and Bad,
your life is spent!
If you have not been able to
Love even one person around you,
How can you love an abstract mental model?
If you have not really loved
with pure unconditional heart
one human,
How can you love a clay idol?
If you have not spoken out
words of love, expressing your heart,
to your beloved,
How can you aspire to
win over the heart of that lifeless cross,
singing hymns at church once a week?
If you have not been able
to love yourself,
for what you are,
and what you are not,
How can you ever love
A borrowed mental construct
You call GOD?
It is so simple my friend -
The first step to writing
a beautiful poem,
is to learn a language!
Same is the first step
to really know GOD,
is to love your fellow beings!!
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Your thoughts matches thoughts in the Bible....
ReplyDeleteMatthew 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Mark 12:28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Luke 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Thank you maam! I loved reading the citings from the Bible. Thanks a lot for putting them!
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