Ek Om Kar ..... Who is God? Where does he live? How I find him?

Who is God? Where does he live? How I find him?

Many of have such questions. Some of us even believe that GOD don’t exist and the story of the GOD is a “stupid thought of a stupid person”

These People could be right and we could be wrong. Let’s try & see what SGGS has to say on this. The very first 3 words “EK OMKAR SATNAM” put a stamp of authority on HIS existence. Let’s take each world one by one and try & understand.

EK… HE is the ONE, who created this universe; HE is the master, The creator, The destroyer and The ONE, who is running this universe.

If we really agree to the above do we really believe in them? Do we believe that HE is the master, the creator, the destroyer and the ONE, who is running the show? NO, we don’t. We think WE are the master, We rule the world, we have CREATED everything. The ONE, who is destroying the world around us are our enemies. Or in other words we think WE are running the world.

In short we don’t believe that there is ONE……

 Let’s take the next world…. “OM”… what a beautiful word to a word, who has no meaning. In reality the OM cannot be described in words. For example, if you go to a hindu temple, you would see a Brass Bell (pooja ki ghanti) on the gate of the temple. Do you know the meaning of that bell is and why it is on the gate? When you push the bell, you will hear a sound, which is similar to “OM”… What does it mean? It means the purest form of SOUND and the idea to have such bells on the gate and an order for people to push them was that all your thoughts should vanish, as soon as you enter the gate and you only hear “OM” and the sound will continue for a few more seconds even after you leave the gate. It means you will enter the temple with the sound of “OM”

In short it means that “OM” is the purest name (sound) of the GOD.

Let’s take the 3^rd world “SATNAM”

In order to understand this word, we should divide them into 2 words. SAT + NAM… SAT means TRUTH or EXISTENTIAL. We all would think there is no difference between these 2 words. Right? No, there is a difference. For example at night you see a dream which is TRUE but it is non EXISTENTIAL and that’s why you realize it in the morning “it wasn’t true”. Similarly a math’s formula of 5 + 5 = 10, is EXISTENTIAL but not TRUE (it is just a calculation system developed by humans).

But GOD’s NAME (Nam) is TRUE & EXISTENTIAL (both).

In short it means the GOD is true and HE exists.

If we combine the meaning that we think that describe EK OMKAR SATNAM is “ONE + GOD  + EXISTS”

 But the question is where do we to find HIM?

The Gurus gave a special place to reconnect to GOD and they name it “GURUDWARA” (The door to the GOD). But why that name? Why Door? Why not something else? Let’s understand what is significance of the meaning of the DOOR. The door is the entry gate to a place.. right? Therefore it mean that from this DOOR we can enter to the House of the GOD… Correct? Yes but there is another meaning to it. Let take an example, who comes to your door asking for something? What do you call him? We call him a Beggar or who wants something. Right? The person, who comes to your door begging leaves his EGO at home. He does not order or demand anything. He would wait at the gate and if you give him something, he will be thankful and it you don’t give him he will shake his head & move on.

But what we do? We go to Gurudwara to present our demands, desires & wishes. We put Rs. 10/- in the golak and hope & expect that it would return as Rs. 1,00,000/- some day. We never go to gurudwara leaving our EGO behind, we never enter the Gurudwara to pay our gratitude for all things in life that HE has granted us. We only go and complain that HE is being partial; HE is grating your neighbour’s or your friend’s or other family member’s wishes but not yours. We only go to ask for more but never to convey “that I am here to surrender, I am here to accept your decisions, I am here to listen to you”…. No we never do that..

Unfortunately, we have not made any efforts to find HIM. If you are really serious about this, you can find HIM very easily. Don’t agree with me? Let me give you an example. Every time you want to somethin, you hear an inner voice (some call it your conscious or some will say “my heart says”), which tells you where you should do it or not do it. Right? What is Conscious, who speaks to you from inside you? Who is telling you to do or not to do?

THAT'S HIM.

HE is inside you & me, everyday, every minute & every second. HE is guiding is sitting inside us. We don’t have to go anywhere to find HIM… Look inside us and we will find HIM. Look around you and you will find HIM in everything…

As SGGS says “Sarab niwasi sada alepa… tohi sang samai” (means he is always there and all you have to do is look inside…. And not outside in a temple or church or a mosque)…..

Stay blessed!

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