![]() My firm belief is that He reveals Himself daily to every human being, but we shut our ears to the 'still small voice'. I have no special revelation of God's will. I do believe I am seeking only God's Truth and have lost all fear of man. I believe that we can all become messengers of God, if we cease to fear man and seek only God's Truth. That was what an old nurse had taught me. You may call this a superstition, but I confess it is a superstition that I hug, even as I used to hug the name of Rama in my childhood when there was any cause of danger or alarm. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. Then I can also testify that I may live without air and water but not without Him. I am surer of His existence than of the fact that you and I are sitting in this room. However, as it may be said that to describe faith as experience is to tamper with truth, it may perhaps be more correct to say that I have no word for characterizing my belief in God. I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is ineffaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience. I have not seen Him, neither have I known Him. O God, make me Thy fit instrument and use me as thou wilt! (YI, 9-10-1924, p329) I can easily put up with the denial of the world, but any denial by me of my God is unthinkable. How much more should I be near to Him when my faith is not a mere apology, as it is today, but has become as immovable as the Himalayas and as white and bright as the snows on their peaks? (YI, 11-10-1928, pp340-1) The purer I try to become the nearer to God I feel myself to be. I am fortified in the belief by my own humble and limited experience. I know, too, that I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil even at the cost of life itself. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it. I am, therefore, humble enough to recognize evil as such and I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. To want to do so is to be co-equal with God. I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational method. All I can advise is not to attempt the impossible. I confess that I have no argument to convince through reason. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. For I can see, that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. And since nothing else I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.Īnd is this Power benevolent or malevolent? I see it as purely benevolent. I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever-dying, there is underlying all that change a Living Power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and recreates. ![]() But it is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent. It is this unseen Power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. ![]() THERE IS an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
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