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Summary of Question:	Point Of Life
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Sunday, 8/17/2003 7:33 PM MDT

I am having trouble contemplating some of the things that have to do with life.

Sikhism which is a relatively recent religion is one that teaches about 1 God. I blindy believe in everything that Sikhism says, but I can not help by contemplate the history of the world, and its vast and many cultures. I guess my question is, how is anyone supposed to know that God exists. In the totality of human existance, about 20+ billion people have come and gone in this world, yet if one looks at and observes all of the cultures of the world up until the last millenia, one can not possibly see how God's will influenced these cultures in any way. Take monuments like the pyramids, stonehenge, the Nazca lines, the Inca, Aztec, Native Americans, Africans. None of these poeples in their history speak of one God or have had some divinely wise individual tell them of the one God as far as it has been reported. Guru Ji says that the worst of all things is not believing in God. BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO if you dont know ABOUT God? Have all these billions of cultures found the rounds of Lakh Charasee Juun 8.4million reincartions again? Many of these cultures built amazing monuments for their sun gods, and moon gods, and whatnot. I blindly believe in God, because I fear God and what the Guru says about life. But I do not believe that in this lifetime that I will be able to truely love God the way the Guru says one should, because I doubt God's intentions for human beings. I can barely stand living in a single moment of life because I have so many questions and uncertainties. Although I love to be fully involved in simran, and love shabads, I find it difficult to see how the world has existed in so much pain, and has been without God for so long. The meaning of Sikh is learner, and when I study and reflect on the history of man and cultures and whatnot, I get this feeling of duality. On one hand God has given his grace, and on the other people are bludering around like they have been cursed. Or is this simply an atypical allusion that I am creating. What I really want to know is all the answers to my questions, and how can I achieve them through perhaps meditation. It is said that Trilochan used to get up early to see Nam Dev, and Nam Dev would speak to God, Trilochan asked Nam Dev that if he asked God may I also have Darshan of God. I would like to learn to love God, and get these answers, do you have any suggestions?


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Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh.

If you truly want to know God, want to see God and want to love God - know yourself, see yourself and love yourself. Inside of your own heart is where the Light of the Divine resides. It doesn't live anywhere else. Maya is the illusion that God is somewhere outside of ourselves. But the Creator is within us, orchestrating our every moment, guiding our every step. It's not something to understand with the head, with the intellect. It's only something to understand with the heart. The Gurus gave us a perfect practice to get out of our head and into our heart. Amrit Veyla Sach Nao - In the Amrit Veyla, the still hours before sunrise, our own True Spirit makes Itself known. Do Simran before the sun rises and you'll begin to touch the God inside of you. And once that experience begins to happen, history, culture, the suffering of the world - it will all begin to look a little different because you may see that all of this is God, too. His Infinite Creative Play that knowns so bounds and ultimately answers to no one's judgement except His Own.

If you don't know how to love God directly, love Him indirectly. Love the flowers, love the sunrise, love your neighbors and then remember the Creator who created them all. In that way, the love you want to touch will begin to open itself inside of you. And this is the path of the Sikh, of the learner - one of being in love with the One who gave us everything - all the good AND all the bad, as well. "Kaytia dookh bukh sad maar, Ay bhi daat taree dataar" - If you give me countless hungers and insults - even these are Your precious gifts to me. This is the consciousness of the Sikh who sees God in all and does not get trapped in the illusion of duality. Meditate in the Amrit Veyla and you will see it for yourself.

Love, peace and many blessings to you.

Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh.

GPK