Kim’s Dream Orlan Ravanera
God’s Book, the Holiest
The holiest of books is not one written by evangelists or well-known prophets but one authored by God Himself, evolving through billions of years, shown in the beauty of the universe. Neither is it written in words nor in any language and is opened 24 hours a day, has no literacy requirement and can well be understood using not one but five senses.
That book is said to be a manifestation of the Unseen using the great void as its pages and the four elements of the Universe as its alphabets, namely, fire, water, earth and wind. It is called the book of nature written through the ages that contains all the mysteries of life and the laws that must be obeyed irrespective of race, color, belief, gender and class.
The 250 million stars in the cosmos can well speak of that element called fire that touches us through the glorious sun. Every time the sun proclaims a new day, that bursting of the light in the horizon shows that light defeats darkness. In the same breath that truth always prevails over lies, righteousness over diabolic acts, love over hate, the just over the unjust, and life over death.
But we also read in that book that even the darkness has some good in it because it shows us the stars.
From the element called water we have learned that flowing is the essence of life as to stagnate means diseases, sorrows and death. For it to flow, it must seek a lowly path as it gains more power by falling down.
In the 70’s, during the height of the First Quarter Storm, we always heard the adage, “Let not a single drop of rain go out to the sea without serving the people.” There is also that cleansing and healing power of water. It has been said that sometimes the passions of the heart emit so much heat which only dies down through the cooling effect of the water we drink.
From the lowly earth grows the mighty tree and the beautiful flower. It may contain all the rot but even the wise, the powerful and the beautiful have to return to the earth as their final destiny. Such is the destiny of form having a life that is just transient but life is eternal and every human being is life that must be connected to the formless, the Unmanifested, the Being. Feel that Being inside you and you will feel the peace and stillness that is shown by the beautiful flower and the trees. Feel that stillness, see the radiance of nature and be one with Life.
The message of the lowly earth is resoundingly clear: man has to continuously move on to seek his destiny but only by being humble can he be exalted. Once he flaunts his arrogance in utter disregard of the book of nature, he dictates his own death sentence. He cannot continuously arrogate upon himself the false belief that he has been bestowed dominion over God’s creation. On the contrary, there is now the increasing consciousness of bio- equality, of inter-connectedness and of oneness with all of God’s creation, recognizing the right to life of all species. Indeed, man has been created in the image and likeness of God but man has reduced God’s essence to his own image, from the sublime to the mundane, buried in unbridled materialism and consumerism. Man’s egoic mindset is now rising even becoming the inventor of artificial intelligence, equating the essence of man to that of a robot.
Often disregarded, even the unseen wind has its own story to tell as its fundamental role is only recognized in its absence. How can one live without air to breathe yet it is always taken for granted? Like our love ones whom we have more often than not, taken for granted, yet so integral to us that we cannot live, in fact, without them.
The book of nature presents laws which are very easy to understand but have been violated all these years. It says that everything is inter-connected. When forests are denuded, soil erodes forming silts which are carried by the rivers to the sea, destroying the coral reefs which are the habitats of fish and other marine life. This scenario gives credence to that saying that what evil deeds man does in the uplands are felt by those in the coastal communities.
The worsening ecological disasters are the concrete evidence of why it has become imperative for us to now give high reverence to that book as indeed, there is no such thing as free meal in nature. Just pause for a while and reflect on the laws of nature that we have wantonly violated and in effect, have mocked the book God Himself has written. Every page of that holy book has been torn and burned by Homo Sapiens with utter disregard to its sanctity as creation is a reflection of the Creator. Now, let us well understand that there is no free meal in nature: all will boomerang to our own destruction in terms of ecological disasters and in our inability to sustain life on earth.
God have mercy on us Homo Sapiens for desecrating the holiest of books. Again, feel the life within all of us and learn from the great stillness, the spaciousness of the vast universe. Only then, can we be one with life as we connect deep within with the Being called God! As Jesus said, “the kingdom of God is within us.” Thou art that awareness, that consciousness, be unfettered from the dominion of the egoic mind that is manifested contemporaneously in collective insanity called materialism and consumerism.
Indeed, every page of the holiest of books has been torn and burned by the most flawed species of God’s Creation, the Homo Sapiens. Through Corporate Globalization, every page has been sacrificed to the altar of greed and profit. So much veneration to the profit-motive has already captured the mindset of all governments, all institutions, all universities and even of religious groups amidst the denigration of spirituality. Instant pursuit of wealth, fame and power is the order of the times that is sacrificing the sublime to the mundane. Humanity has been buried in the fallacies of life and religions, giving high reverence to figures inside the churches that emanated from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci, painter-artist of the Last Supper. Their followers are kneeling down before these figures and not hearing the cries of billions of species of flora and fauna which are now becoming extinct. They are waiting for the 2 nd coming of Christ who have already come through CONSCIOUSNESS. Human beings are “work in progress” through evolution but only a few have awakened to know their deeper self – the I AM.
Indeed, we have no life for we are life. It is now time to leave the consciousness of forms and go to the INNER CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE FORMLESS, THE UNSEEN BEING. Only then, can we realize the Holiest of Books that when fully understood will be the gateway to the oneness of life which is the truest of love, only then will the language of energy in the universe will dawn upon all of us toward CONSCIOUSNESS and know who truly we are.
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