An extract from the book
“Glimpses of the Divine Vision” by Swami Ramdas – Section “God”
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As devotee you are at once one and
different from God. You are like the river. The river is one with the ocean;
still it is ceaselessly flowing towards the ocean. This is the wonderful
mystery of God and His Bhakta.
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You are all He. To realize this is the common
aim of you all- the one real end of this human existence. When God puts you in
situations, in which you are forced to remember Him and to pray to Him
earnestly to take you to His holy feet, is He not kind? Is He kind when He
gives you some transient baubles of this world which bring pain and misery? He
does grant these things also when you pray for them. But He warns you at the
same time-”You have asked for the perishables; but you cannot have permanent
happiness from them. Pain, anxiety and sorrow are always associated with them.
Seek the Eternal-seek Me alone. I am Sat-Chit-Anand, infinite existence,
consciousness and bliss.” So, pray for His grace and vision. You are already
free and immortal. Pray to Him to give you this knowledge-to give you this
realization.
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The Divine Mother who presides over all
activities, events and happenings in the universe means always well. The sole
purpose of Her work is only to bring about harmony and peace. The doubting mind
sees discord and confusion in Her activity. The Mother is a veritable
personification of love. So, none of Her actions can be for anything but good.
The sun by his very nature can shed only light and is incapable of producing
darkness. Similarly, the Mother’s doings are always in every way beneficial. In
Her there is no evil. The socalled evil is the product of a mind that has no
faith in Her. Pray to Her this wise-”Oh, Mother of the worlds, I am Thy
ignorant child. Guide and control me as Thou wilt. Thou art my only protector
and I am Thy child. I am ever Thine. Bear me always in Thy bosom as Thy eternal
child. This is the refuge I seek. Eternity is the link that unites me to Thee.
Being ever in tune with Thee, let me be Thy child.
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God arranges all things in His own way and
at the time He appoints. Yours is to work in the free and cheerful spirit of a
child, leaving all the results to be determined by Him. God himself is a child,
playing this universal game. Everywhere is He and everybody is He.
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Sri Ram is infinite love, light, power and
bliss. He is the most loving Mother and the most powerful Master of the
universe. He is seated in all His glory in the hearts of you all. Indeed Sri
Ram’s name is marvellously potent. It has transformed a robber into the great
saint Valmiki. It has helped Kabirdas, Tulsidas, Ramdas and many others to
cross the ocean of samsara. That great name is as sweet as nectar
itself. When, by His grace, this name has firmly settled on the mind and tongue
of anybody, that person becomes blessed and attains eternal freedom, bliss and
peace. Sri Ram is pure love, a veritable sea of love, absorbing, permeating,
nay flooding the whole universe. O mind! Ever be intoxicated with this supreme,
indescribable love; be merged in it and realize all, all that you behold, as
the expression of that love. When all forms, all things, all actions, all
happenings have their source in this love, where is pain, sorrow, doubt or
fear? You live, move and have your being in this love. Sri Ram is this love. To
think of Him, to meditate on Him, to repeat His name, to talk of Him, to write
of Him, is to realize Him, to realize and attain this love. Through love alone
you have to reach Him. He is without form and name. He is beyond all Dwandwas
and Gunas, but you can go to Him, only by worshipping Him through
name and form. Sri Ram is that name. Universe is that form. Love Him with all
your might. Let your mind find its perfect union with Him, and let the body be
active as an instrument in His hands.
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