Tuesday 13 August 2019

TALKING TO GOD

Neale Donald Walsch in his "Conversations with God, Book One", Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, pens down God's conversation with him beginning with an answer to a question of his and many others: How does God talk and to whom?

God answers: "I talk to everyone. All the time. The question is not to whom do I talk, but who listens?" 

There was a time when I was getting pretty hooked on to the Nadi, the Aasi Nadi readings where Agathiyar calls me in if he has a message quite unlike the Kaanda Nadi where we seek and go through a whole process of identifying the relevant Nadi. So it happened that there was a lapse of a year and I did not hear from Agathiyar. I got scared wondering if I had done wrong and the Maha Muni would not speak to me. Then he calls me for a reading. The first verse that appeared was: "I am with you always, why do you need a reading?" I guess I wasn't aware nor attentive then.

God too tells Walsch he is not talking but rather communicating with him. "I do not communicate by words alone. My most common form of communication is through feeling. Feeling is the language of the soul. I also communicate with thought. I also use the vehicle of experience as a grand communicator.

Today I understand why Agathiyar said in the Nadi that there were many wrongs I had done but it was also his will that it should take place and that I needed the experience too. Ma and Aiya too have mentioned that one's experience gain from the lessons in life that comes as learning to us will indefinitely become wisdom or jnana for others. 

God tells him that when feelings, thoughts, and experience fail, finally God uses words - and belief me his words can be quite stern and harsh. We have gone through that because we ignored all the signs he gave through feelings, thoughts and our experiences. 

God tells Walsch: "Words may help you understand something. Experience allows you to know. Yet there are some things you cannot experience. So I have given you other tools of knowing. And these are called feelings. And so too thoughts."

"Now the supreme irony here is that you have all placed so much importance on the word of God, and so little on the experience." 

God chides us for placing little value on experience. He gets through an important message to us.

"Many words have been uttered by others in my name. Many thoughts and many feelings have been sponsored by causes, not of my direct creation. Many experiences result from these."

Hence we learn that we should not blame God for everything.

"The challenge is one of discernment. The difficulty is knowing the differences between messages from God and data from other sources."

God questions whether his messages are heeded?  "Most of my messages are not. Some because they seem too good to be true. Others because they seem difficult to follow. Many because they are simply misunderstood. Most because they are not received. My most powerful messenger is experience and even this you ignore. Especially this you ignore."

God seems to be quite sore with us, "Your world would not be in its present condition were you to have simply listened to your experience."

God asks us to listen to our experience. "The result of you not listening to your experience is that you keep reliving it over and over again." 

He says he will neither force nor coerce us for we have been given a free will - the power to do as we choose - and he assures us that he will never take that away from us. 

But the reminder here for us is to use it wisely or be prepared to come back again and again to correct the wrongs. 

God gives Walsch a surety. "My messages will come in a hundred forms at thousand moments across a million years. You cannot miss them if you truly listen. You cannot ignore them once truly heard. Thus will our communication begin in earnest. For in the past you have only talked to me, praying to me, interceding with me, beseeching me. Yet now I talk back to you, even as I am doing here."