About Relationship

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Tell me who is near to you? Your friend, brother, sister, mother, child with whom you live and share day to day struggle or your chief minister, Prime Minister or president or District magistrate? All these are names of our relations.

But those who are not near, whether they are powerful or not how does it matter for you? To solve your problem once in a lifetime? And for that, you keep those always in your mind!

Do you experience the relationship or nearness with God, The way you feel for your own people who are living with you? If no then God is not required for you. You are a practical person, You have managed your life without a president, the prime minister They are powerful but very far people. You have managed your life with those who are close to you.

This is the reason sages and saints of Omkara Dharma traditions tell that be practical. There may be an absolute Brahmin of the Upnishads but our problem is not solved by that and we cannot share trouble and joy with that absolute Brahman.

So they argued with each other for that one absolute God. But, a devotee tells I don’t care about that non-touchable, non-available, non-perceptible, formless God or Brahman. That is useless for me.

Krishna is my best friend, Rama is my brother, Durga is my Mother, Saraswati is my sister, Shiva or Vishnu is my Father, This land Bharat is my Mother etc. These are very close in relation to me. And it is easy for me to please them as I do to my other relations. It is easy for me to sense that love in my heart for those relations. Mirabai, Soordaas, Kabirdass, Tulasidaas all great devotees chose a dear and near relation with their god.

When Omkara Dharma people injected the concept of Murti Pooja and Prayer They knew human life will not get benefited if a human is not connected to the divine the way he is connected to his very close relations So when a devotee prays to Krishna as his friend He knows that same Krishna is a brother of another devotee, therefore I should not be unfair to my friend Krishna by asking him something which will heart Krishna’s brother. This is called Bhakti bhava. It is available in relation.

What Bhakti you can have in that God Who is formless, colorless, like light, live in space far away from us Very powerful and very loving but cruel also when he torturers me or my family or people of my faith?

This nonsensical imagination of God makes a sensible person giddy And makes ignorant to follow like a blindfolded person Who has jumped into a bottomless well!

Therefore if you want to have God in your life Then it is always good to have him like, your very close relative and not like the president of your country On the other hand, if you do not have God in your life then that is much better At least you will not blame somebody in the sky for your pain and suffering.

Abrahamic religions tell us that there is only one God. All others are false gods. Omkara Dharma tradition says we know all this for ages For the last two thousand years, you are not telling us anything new. This knowledge is it is part of our Upanishads since many millennia. This knowledge also has been a realization by many great people

But we don’t care about that one because if God is like a chief minister or president who is not available because of far relationship Then, I am as an emotional being cannot connect to him then he is of no use for me.

When my close relatives can solve my problem then why should I bother about that one who is too far? And no one around me knows him surely about that one God who is controlling everything from heaven. All are reading a book and telling me about that from their books. The problem is NOT the book. The problem is that they have put hard effort to memorize that text and now torturing me with that old illogical text which they themselves have not assimilated.

So I feel joy when I meditate or sing or dance or feed someone who is close to me, nearer to me. At least he responds and gives me an opportunity to live with him.

This mass prayer in a public place is just a tool for someone to gain and retain power. It doesn’t help me much until I am troubled badly by some external notorious forces. For me my Mother who is Durga, Kaali, Saraswati who takes rest in my money purse, on the alter in my Pooja room, whose photo is hanging on the wall reminds me always that She is around me Like the photo of any other close friend or relatives on the wall reminds me of their love.

How much is the truth that she is protecting me? Omkar dharma tradition also knows that there exists an unbreakable law of Karma. My Devta or Devi who is my mother or sister or friend helps me sustaining both the pain and pleasure of this law.

This relative of mine will never bend the rule. We don’t expect magical or unnatural things from this power. That is how Omkara dharma tradition and science can coexist.

From where we got this notion of God doing magic? only one God, one culture, one language, one tradition, one law. This is a western concept. They developed it because it fitted them for many centuries to rule. This “one” is the language of a ruler. To consolidate the power so that management is easy. It is the ruler’s perspective. That has some value.

But as a human, society, and culture we never want to be governed by another human, society, and culture. There are enough powerful forces within the society who can balance other parts so that individuals can live sensibly? But this is possible only in a democracy Where human is valued and human is a seeker Not when human lives like a dog with blind faith in written books or merciful master.

In Indian traditions, every relation has a name No matter how far is that relation Whether the mother side or father side, From wife side or husband side One generation back or 4 generations back There is some unique name for it

This is the impact of western culture upon us that All relation has dried for us Or they have a plain simple name. a name like uncle, aunt, mom, dad, bro, sis And sometimes shamelessly referring to parents with their first name Even our sacred and pure relation with our Devi and Devta has become relation with God!

This God has come in public life. My Devi or Devta is my private matter I don’t know who is God, nor bother about that. My Ista Devata or Devi is not available for public discussion It is my sacred and pious relation

We are the land of the seeker We are the land of practical people We believe in using everything in a very sensible way We believe in interacting with everything in a sensible way

We don’t care about old white long gown wearing person hanging in the sky and controlling this world We feel in our experience that If I go to the forest with my cows my Krishan comes with me and protects me and my cows That is the power of a relationship.

Hari Om Tat Sat Your Truly Hari