Words’ Worth

“Words (Shabda-Pramana) should lead to an ‘understanding’ whereupon words have no more business there!”

-B.R.Loknatha Chaitanya

Evidence of God – Who’s Asking?

The only possible evidence that God exists is one’s own existence.  Anything else would be simply some fragment of reality that certainly could never encompass it’s own origin.  The origin of any individual thing, and of all things, are ultimately the same one Thing.

The illusion of separation is completely empty because how could we perceive two things that were not in some way joined?  Any two things that one is aware of must have something in common.  It’s a tautology — at the very least, they have the awareness of the observer in common.  Ultimately, the one Thing all things have in common is existence.  In that existence alone is the reality of what we might name “God,” but which, of course, is way beyond any individual conception.

Nothing is more limiting to one’s own experience of the Ultimate Being of All Reality than the name, and associated conceptions, of “God.”  When we look for proofs of God’s existence, we look for proofs of whatever we’ve associated with the name “God,” rather than seeking out direct experience of Ultimate Reality.

The fundamental contradiction of the search for proof of God’s existence, then, is that existence itself is “God,” the Ulimate Reality.  The one seeking proof, obviously, exists — so, the quest for proof of God is actually a denial of one’s own existence!  Who is asking for proof, but the Ultimate Reality itself, in the guise of a confused ego?  God exists because you do.  You exist because God does.  Because of self-limiting thought, God is quite beyond the bounds of our conceptions, our beliefs, our faith, rooted directly in Being.  In one’s own being, one will find the Ultimate Reality peacefully, confidently, completely presiding over All.  ”The Kingdom of God is within.”

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