TO KNOW THE WILL OF GOD, WE NEED AN INTERCESSOR
We say that God’s will is always done, but how many of us can truly appreciate and understand God’s will? In the lives of the great Masters, like Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna, we have found that intercession is necessary. An interceder does not go and appeal on your behalf. The true meaning of this would be that he, having seen the knowledge of Divinity, conveys that knowledge to you; therefore, he who knows God’s will interprets that will to you. But your approach to him is always direct.
There are certain theologies in the world, certain religions, for example, in the Bhagavad Gita, that would say that “No one goes to the Father except through me,” and Jesus said the same thing. This really means that he is not there as an advocate or a Barrister, going to appeal for you to Divinity. No. It means that you have to reach the stage of Christhood. You first have to become one, that is, a very high mortal being, an embodied being; you have to reach that stage of consciousness before you can get the stage of Divine consciousness. That is the greatest duty that all true Teachers of Divinity have performed. They lead you, and they have to be authoritative. You come to me. There is nothing wishy-washy about a great soul, a great being, He that has become one with God. He tells you with authority because he has experienced that. So when He says, “No one goes to the Father except through me,” it is very accurate.
There have been many interpretations, and I can only offer you mine: that you must reach the consciousness of Christ to attain Divinity. So, we could call him the middleman. In daily life, if you go directly from the street to a wholesaler, they will not sell you their wares, their goods. He will tell you, “No, we supply the retailer, and you buy my goods through the retailer.” This has happened all along the ages. When we talk of God’s will, is it also His will to bring into being such an entity? It is his will.
LET ME PUT YOU ON THE PATH TOWARDS DIVINITY, AND YOU WALK WITH YOUR OWN FEET
What God are we talking about? Who knows God? How many have experienced God? It is said that out of ten million people on the path towards Divinity, perhaps ten might reach.
I always say that I do not want to show you God, because that is a false promise, but I would say, “Let me put you on the path towards Divinity, and you walk with your own feet.” And if you are put on the right path, you will definitely reach your destination. We have some religions that would say, “Okay, you come to me and pay your dues, and I will take you to God.” Please shun them. For the faithful messenger of God or the true Incarnation that in physical form represents that which is Divine, is worth going to. You can call him the middleman, the interceder, or whatever title, but when a man has become one with God, then he truly could be the most outstanding representative or God incarnate walking on earth.
These theories or theologies are not wrong. They are all true. They have a deep meaning. But most people, ninety-nine-point nine percent of the people, misinterpret these things. It is not to him but through him that you realise your own personal Divinity. You come from nowhere, and you are going nowhere. If that which we call Divinity is omnipresent, all-existent, eternal, and infinite, then you are that too. For the eternity of that which is Divine can never exist without you being eternal.
THE REAL SELF IS BEYOND TIME, SPACE, AND CAUSATION AND THEREFORE ETERNAL
We keep on saying “I get born and I die.” What gets born? What decays? And what dies? This little bubble. This little physical body. How important is it in the eternity of things? When we talk of eternity, time is measureless, which means in turn timeless, while man is bound by time because his emphasis is on the little body, the little mind, which is here today and not there tomorrow. And not there tomorrow, meaning, it is not here as well. For where is the difference between here and there? What is here, and what is there? We only say here and there because we know only of time and space. Time and space, and the causation of them, are, in reality, from the absolute viewpoint, non-existent.
If I were to say “You are non-existent”, it would seem blasphemy. You say, “Look, I can feel and touch myself, and I can feel pain and pleasure, and I can walk, and I can communicate.” But who is saying that? The unreal you, which is transitory, is saying that, and anything transitory could be termed non-existent. But is the authentic Self, that is you, saying that? No, for the authentic Self is beyond time, beyond space, and nothing causes it. And that is why it is eternal.
THE PERSONAL GOD IS THE TOTALITY OF THE UNIVERSE
When we talk of God’s will, what will are we talking about? Because the supreme Divine, the supreme Divinity, has no will. But the Divinity man is talking about, or in other words, the Personal God, is the force which makes up the whole universe. That we call the Personal God. The Personal God exists. He is the total of the emanations of this universe, and when an Incarnation comes, that sum “l” of the universe takes on a body. But that sum “l” of the universe that takes on a body is still totally aware, experientially aware of that which is beyond the sum totality of the universe.
So, we have the Personal God, which man needs. Because when you enter the realms of the Impersonal God, you are in the field of the unconscious being. Then you just are. But the Personal God, who has to take bodily form, is worthy of our love, devotion, and worship. For when we realise that He is the totality, then we know the truth when he said, “I and my Father are one.” That embodied “I” is the totality of the universe, and the Personal God knows or is merged within the Impersonal God.
THIS UNIVERSE NEVER ENDS. IT WORKS IN CYCLES, WHILE THE IMPERSONAL GOD JUST IS
The Impersonal God is an energy. It has no will. It can be used. So, the primal manifestation from the Impersonal energy, through various natural forces, constituted the Personal God, Christ, and the Father. The totality of the universe, that force in turn grossified itself through multiple processes of evolution, through the Black Hole process, for example. For this universe too is endless; it never ends, but it works in cycles. While the Impersonal entity, if we could call it an entity, does not work in cycles, it simply is.
When a kind of balance is achieved in the universe, it dissolves, Shiva; it dissolves and is drawn back within itself. The entire universe is drawn back within itself, which we term the Black Hole. But as it goes into the Black Hole, specific excellent vibrations remain, and because of these fine vibrations within the Black Hole, it has to explode out again. In from one end and out the other end, and there again the process of evolution starts, and another universe comes about. Then, right from the primal atom through these various processes, we reach the stage of thinking man.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang UK 1983 – 03
