{"id":651,"date":"2015-06-15T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=651"},"modified":"2015-06-15T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:51:37","slug":"when-we-find-gods-presence-we-find-that-we-have-found-all-that-needs-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/when-we-find-gods-presence-we-find-that-we-have-found-all-that-needs-finding\/","title":{"rendered":"When we find God\u2019s presence, we find that we have found all that needs finding!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn our stillness, we acknowledge God’s greatness and we are at peace in our life. Stillness saturates us in the Presence of God.\u201d
\n– E’yen A. Gardner, Humbly Submitting to Change – The Wilderness Experience<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/strong>
\nKabir – The couplet<\/strong>
\n\u0939\u0930\u093f \u0938\u0902\u0917\u0924 \u0936\u0940\u0924\u0932 \u092d\u092f\u093e, \u092e\u093f\u091f\u0940 \u092e\u094b\u0939 \u0915\u0940 \u0924\u093e\u092a\u0964
\n\u0928\u093f\u0936\u093f\u0935\u0938\u0930 \u0938\u0941\u0916 \u0928\u093f\u0927\u093f, \u0932\u0939\u093e \u0905\u0928\u094d\u0928 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0917\u0924 \u0906\u092a\u0965
\n\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTransliterated:<\/strong>
\nHari Sangat Sheetal Bhaya, Miti Moh Ki Aag |
\nNishiwasar Sukh Nidhi, Laha Ann Pragata Aap ||
\n\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTranslation:<\/strong>
\nThe company of God is calming, it frees you from the flames of desire|
\nEternal bliss will surround you, all you need will be made available||
\n\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMy understanding:<\/strong>
\nSo here is a different way to look at life. When we submit to the presence man commonly refers to as God, truly submit, we give up our tenuous hold on ego, desire, craving and the like. For in the presence of the One everything is already there \u2013 and there can be no want.<\/p>\n

Only after arriving in a room with no light, where even the deepest peering provides no input to the eyes, do we really learn to use our other sensory organs, and then we discover the magic we always had access to but chose to blithely ignore. Similarly, when we finally relax enough to allow God to take our hand, we suddenly realize that all the effort we had been putting out to do\/be\/think was for naught \u2013 in this space, everything happens without effort.<\/p>\n

Having realized that, we then become aware of the true bounty that life really is \u2013 the gift that continues to teach and reward without end. This gift in reality has no peer, for it teaches us positively even through failure and absence of our response or our lack of knowledge and understanding!<\/p>\n

And all this while taking care of our every need!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn our stillness, we acknowledge God’s greatness and we are at peace in our life. Stillness saturates us in the Presence of God.\u201d – E’yen A. Gardner, Humbly Submitting to Change – The Wilderness Experience \u00a0 Kabir – The couplet \u0939\u0930\u093f \u0938\u0902\u0917\u0924 \u0936\u0940\u0924\u0932 \u092d\u092f\u093e, \u092e\u093f\u091f\u0940 \u092e\u094b\u0939 \u0915\u0940 \u0924\u093e\u092a\u0964 \u0928\u093f\u0936\u093f\u0935\u0938\u0930 \u0938\u0941\u0916 \u0928\u093f\u0927\u093f, \u0932\u0939\u093e \u0905\u0928\u094d\u0928 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0917\u0924 \u0906\u092a\u0965…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabir","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}