GOD IS SEEING ME

Lord  vishnu

 There are numerous tabernacles and sacred spots nestled in the snow- sheathe ranges of the Himalayas. Four among these are inclusively called chār- dhām, “ four homes. ” These are( 1) Gangotrī( the source of the swash Gaṅgā),( 2) Yamunotrī( the source of the swash Yamunā),( 3) Badari- Nārāyaṇa or Badarināth( tabernacle devoted to Śrī Viṣṇu), and( 4) Kedāranāth( tabernacle devoted to Śrī Śiva). knockouts of thousands of pilgrims visit these spots every time. Indeed moment all of these( except Badari) involve substantial quantum of walking before the destination is reached. 

 

 Eventually in the 1950s a swami of the Ramakrishna Order was on a passage to Kedāranāth. On his way from Gaurīkund to the Temple, he saw an old woman trudging along with her hand on the shoulder of a youthful boy who was guiding her up the 10- afar-long, steep, winding and narrow path. numerous pilgrims youthful and old, men and women — a many on horseback and daṇḍis, but utmost on bottom — were on their way to the Temple. 

 The sight of an old woman going up the path should n’t have been surprising but for the fact that she was stark eyeless. The swami was astounded by her determination and devotion. He was also curious. He asked her hypercritically, “ What's it that draws you to the Temple? You ’ve accepted this laborious trip, but at the end of it you wo n’t see Bābā Kedāranāth. ” 

 

 She sounded a bit surprised at this question and the sense that urged it. also she smiled. With folded hands raised to her head and eyes filled with gashes and devotion, she said, “ It’s true that I wo n’t see him. But, surely, Bābā Kedāranāth will see me when I'm there. ” 

 The swami stood there, stupefied. What a disclosure it was to him! He was on his way to have the darśan of Bābā Kedāranāth. It was egregious that Kedāranāth too would see him. But he'd noway allowed

 about it that way. It came to him like a flash now “ I shall see the Lord only when I reach the Temple. But the Lord is seeing me right now, right then! ” 

 

 The swami knew there and also that his passage had borne fruit through this communication from the Lord “ I'm always seeing you. ” This communication remained with the swami later. It had been to him a constant source of alleviation, security and strength this is what he told me, some twenty times latterly, when I was a monastic neophyte in the 1970s. 

 As addicts and spiritual campaigners, we do n’t need to be told that God is seeing us always. It’s egregious, and yet, how veritably frequently the egregious eludes our attention! We tend to forget that whether or not we see God, God is always seeing us. Whether or not we hear God’s voice, God is always hearing ours. “ But what’s the use of it each if I do n’t feel God seeing and hearing me? And because I do n’t feel it, I ca n’t flash back it, ” we may want to say. But also flash back is precisely what we ought to do. We must flash back God’s presence because we aren't suitable to feel it. Once we begins to feel God’s presence, there would be no need to flash back it. 

 

 What are the benefits of flashing back that God is seeing me? First and foremost, we will no longer feel lonely and depressed. originally when we try to draw the mind down from the distractions of the world, we find it to be an uphill task. It becomes a bit easier if we withdraw into solitariness to suppose about God. But indeed in solitariness we carry with us the same worried mind, and directing the mind Godward and keeping it there continues to be delicate. Physically and to some extent indeed mentally, if we try hard enough we may be suitable to cut ourselves off from worldly distractions, but establishing a living contact with God generally takes time. 

 In the interim period, bouts of loneliness and depression can do. The feeling of loneliness is overcome fluently if we try to flash back that we aren't alone and hence can noway be lonely. Is there any place where God is not? Is there any time when God is not? No bone

 can ever be alone anywhere. God is our constant companion. noway mind if God isn't visible this moment. Visible or not, he's present. Just because the stars can not be seen during the day, it does n’t mean they aren't there. We may not see God at present, but that should n’t help us from flashing back that “ God is seeing me. ” How can we be also lonely? Why should we be also depressed? 

 

 The study that God is seeing us but we aren't suitable to see God can be depressing in a different kind of way. typically depressions can be paralyzing, not so the “ depression ” caused by our incapability to see God. This is in fact strengthening, because it pushes out all other depressions. A tremendous vigor gets fitted into our spiritual practices. It revolutionizes our entire approach to God. “ Do n’t seek God, see him, ” Swami Vivekananda said. God isn't hiding anywhere that we must move heaven and earth to search him out. God is then, right before us if we open our eyes, and in the depths of our heart if we close our eyes. We must seehim.However, there’s no possibility whatsoever of seeing God nearly differently at some other time, If we aren't suitable to see God then and now. 

 We may wonder, “ Why do n’t I see him also? ” The answer is egregious. Our vision is imperfect. We're suffering from cataract. The lens of the inner eye has come cloudy, fine and sticky due to solicitations and attachments of all feathers. This lens must be gutted. All spiritual disciplines are, in fact, direct or circular ways of drawing the inner lens. We've to perform a kind of spiritual surgery through which the cataract is removed and our vision becomes clear. It's through the gutted and purified eye — Sri Krishna called it the godly eye in the Gita(11.8) — that we can see God. 

 

 Contemplation means “ seeing ” God, not simply “ allowing ” about him. We may suppose about a friend who's down or who's no more. But when our friend is then sitting right in front of us, we do n’t “ suppose ” about her, we “ see ” her, we talk to her, we hear her, do n’t we? That's what we must do in contemplation. When we can do that, we can be said to be really planning. Although “ thinking ” is different from “ contemplation, ” it's generally a stepping- gravestone to contemplation. Deep and ceaseless thinking about God is what gets miraculously converted at some stage into contemplation on God. Flashing back always that God is ever-present and “ God is seeing me, ” helps a great deal in perfecting the quality of contemplation. 

Yet another benefit of always flashing back that “ God is seeing me ” is the strength it gives us. A child may be hysterical when it's alone, but it fears no bone

 when its father or mama is around. The child feels strong in the strength of his parents. Just so is the case with us when we remembers that God is always around. Why should we also sweat anything? If we're hysterical of commodity, we're unconsciously affronting God. It's as if we're saying, “ I do n’t suppose God will be suitable to handle this matter. God wo n’t be suitable to cover me from this peril. ” 

 

 Fear and anxiety are signs of lack of faith in God. Then are the words of Swami Ramakrishnananda, an prestigious convert of Sri Ramakrishna 

“ Actually veritably many of us believe in God all the time. How do we know this? Because we allow anxieties and fears to arise in ourminds.However, we can noway feel fearful about anything, If we really have faith in God and in his horizonless power of virtuousness. ” 

 

 These words are inestimable and authentic, because they come from one who stood like an adamantine gemstone of courage, fiber and faith in the face of difficulties throughout his life. What gave Ramakrishnananda the great poise and strength for which he's flashed back indeed moment? The faith that God is seeing him and guarding him always. also, in his case the faith had also bloomed into factual experience. That's what happens always. Faith and intellectual conviction develop into experience, and experience leads to unshakeable assurance. 

The strength that we decide by flashing back “ God is seeing me ” helps us not only to overcome difficulties but also to forge ahead valorously with whatever task we're engaged in. It's said thatSt. Teresa of Avila( 1515 – 1582) formerly wanted to make a large orphanage. Her starting capital was a stingy three shillings. musketeers naturally advised her to be prudent and stay for finances before beginning the construction. What did Teresa say? Simply this “ With three shillings Teresa can do nothing. But with three shillings and God, there's nothing that Teresa can not do. ” When we feel really secure in God, we find that every other form of security isn't worth a straw. When flashing back “ God is seeing me ” becomes habitual with us, we discover that God provides us the supreme security. We realize that God is noway a detached substantiation. It's God who really does everything, we're simply his instruments. 

 

 The mindfulness “ God is seeing me ” is also a guard that protects us. No giant becomes unruly when the mahout is sitting atop with the stimulant in hand. When the God- mahout is hard, the mind- giant doesn't go berserk. It's easy to be good and disciplined when girdled by critics and trols, or by musketeers and sweeties. The fear of stricture or sport, or the desire to appear at one’s stylish, takes care of us indeed if our own inner conditions aren't sufficiently strong. 

But what about the time when we're alone? Or when we feel no bone

 would know? It's during similar times that most transgressions dangerous to spiritual progress do. There's nothing also to stop the untrained mind from going down by the drag of old habits. The mindfulness “ God is seeing me ” protects us from doing what we should noway do, irrespective of whether or not we'd be set up out. It isn't delicate to wisecrack mortal beings, but it's insolvable to wisecrack God. 

 

 Spiritual life is a disciplined life. One of the easiest ways of chastising one’s life is to always flash back , “ God is seeing me. ” Swami Akhandananda, another great convert of Sri Ramakrishna, formerly described how early rising came a rule with him. He generally was over beforehand but on one occasion he heard the bell ringing during the morning Ārati when he was still in bed. He precipitously rose with the study, “ Shame on me! The Lord is over and I'm asleep. ” noway again did he miss the Ārati. 

Every act of ours acquires saintship and a new meaning when we remembers “ God is seeing me. ” Eating, for case, ceases to be a physical act and becomesworship.However, can I eat anything without offering it first to him? We mentally offer to God every morsel and also eat it as his prasāda, If God is seeing me. We keep both our home and our heart clean and tidy for God. “ God is seeing me ” prevents us from allowing, speaking and doing what we shouldn't and it encourages us to regulate our lives the way we must. 

 

 In the original stages, we may punish our lives out of “ fear ” of God. But this phase typically does n’t last long. How long can we really sweat someone who's always near? Indeed the capacity to sweat has its limits. either, as our understanding grows, we suppose of God not as a bobby

 sticking around to catch a felonious red- handed, but as our father, mama , friend all rolled into one. We realize that far from wanting to discipline us, God is on the contrary eager to award us. God wants us to succeed and is ready to help and cheer our sweats. The only appetite we may have also is to live a true and authentic life, and measure up to what God expects of us. therefore “ God is seeing me ” sends entirely different signals to a spiritual candidate than what “ A bobby

 is watching me ” sends to a pincher. 

 Therefore we see that the practice of flashing back “ God is seeing me ” frees us from the spells of loneliness and depression, helps us concentrate our mind on God, drives down anxiety and fear, fills us with strength to forge ahead toward the ideal, protects us from the slips and stumbles in spiritual life caused by careless living, and disciplines and divinizes our life. What's remarkable about the practice of flashing back “ God is seeing me ” is that it's entirely within our reach. With the faith of a child and with patient trouble, anyone can discover the enormous benefits of this practice. 

 

 These benefits come infinitely more potent when the faith that “ God is seeing me ” blossoms into the factual, lived experience of seeing God. This blossoming occurs by the grace of God. It can take any length of time depending upon the chastity of our life and the intensity of our trouble. therefore the period could be in terms of lives or times or months or indeed days. perhaps indeed a many hours. Our job is to do our stylish and leave the rest in God’s hands. 

                                                   Source:Vedanta society Books,Wikipedia