Searching In the Right Direction
In today’s program at the SOS International Meditation Center, Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj focused his discourse on humanity’s search for God. The search for God, he explained, begins with a desire to know the Creator, a desire that gradually deepens into yearning and longing. This longing is not of our own making, but a gentle pull from the Source from which the soul originated, beckoning us Homeward after eons of separation.
The spiritual Master described how, in our earnest search for God, we often direct our efforts outward. We turn to scriptures, places of worship, pilgrimages, and outer rites and rituals, using the same mechanisms through which we have learned to understand the world around us, because this is all we know. Yet the tools that help us understand the finite, transient world cannot comprehend that which is infinite, timeless, and eternal. Nor can we find in the outer world the One who resides within. Saints and mystics throughout the ages have pointed humanity toward a different path.
While God cannot be understood through the limitations of the senses and intellect, God can be experienced through the faculties we have been given in the human frame. What matters, Sant Rajinder Singh Ji explained, is not only the sincerity and intensity of our search, but where that search is directed. The Divine we seek resides within us, and meditation is the means through which we turn our attention inward, experience the inner light and come to know God’s love for ourselves.
