O MAN, WHEN WILL YOU REALISE THAT YOU ARE THE GOD YOU SO FERVENTLY AND FEARFULLY WORSHIP?

O MAN, WHEN WILL YOU REALISE THAT YOU ARE THE GOD YOU SO FERVENTLY AND FEARFULLY WORSHIP?

Do not fear God. He is your own creation and not your creator. He is the resolution of all your fears, and the moment you are free of fear, He vanishes into thin air, for He never did exist after all. It is you who are the real God, so says the Upanishads, and it is you who are the architect of your fate and the Master of your imagined Master as well, for it is you who give birth to your God in your ignorant imagination when in essence it is your true Self, the Atman, that is the real God, if that very term may any more be applied, for all its nefarious connotations of heaven, hell, reward, retribution, doom, doomsday and the Day of Judgement.

So, give up this omnipotent, imaginary tyrant and stand clean in your own majestic Self, the Supreme Being on earth and whatever domains that lie beyond. It is you all the way from the amoeba to the Atman and it is the pale reflection of this Self, that you are, that you in ignorance mistake as the Divine Being wielding His royal staff over you. So, be not afraid of your shadow which does not in truth exist. Give up this delusion of God and realise that you are the only God that exists, that ever existed or can ever exist. Now bless yourself and stand in the clear sunshine of rejecting reason en route to resulting realisation.

To reiterate then that which was the opening remark. Do not fear someone who does not exist. Give up this imaginary God and with it shall vaporise all fear. This earth is not an examination hall where you are being tested for future divine dispensation of reward and punishment but it is a fictitious playhouse where fictitious finite beings are resolving imaginary issues to reduce experience itself to nought and with it the world and the universe of finite relations to a nothingness of pure being, absolute consciousness and integrated existence where there is neither trace of attribute nor aspiration, simply an emptiness which is the summation of all opposites in the repose of final resolution.

Written by Sugata Bose