I was attending a trade expo and while walking across the hallway, I met a lady. She was distributing some papers and when I went close by, she asked me to take one. I took one and read it and gave her back. She said that, you should believe in my religion and it is supreme. My God is supreme. I smiled and said yes I believe in your religion and I believe in every religion because while reading it, I realized everyone is teaching same thing. Everyone is asking to follow love and everyone is asking to love each other. Now, your God and religion are supreme I accept but does that mean others become less? Why cannot everyone be supreme? She said that it means you do not believe in your God. I asked her do you believe in your God and she said yes I have to, that is why I am spreading his words. I asked her to read the paper she was distributing and it read few things like everyone is equal, everyone has God within. There is one God and few things like this. I asked her do you follow the teacher here or what he is teaching? She just walked away! Few days back another gentleman called up and asked me to take him as my student. i told him I do not take any students. I do not follow the philosophy of master and student. I never made any master and I do not become anyone’s master. For me everyone is a master. He then asked me what is your religion and before I could say anything he started saying few things as per my name. After he finished I told him, I follow love. I follow humanity. He said but who is your God and the answer is you, me, everyone and everything. Rest what we see around is personification of God inside. So the next question was whom do you worship and the answer is everyone I meet. You treat everyone with love and that is the biggest worship. If I goto temple and offer my prayers but I hurt a small child sitting outside, and let’s say I am not hurting the small child but I am just looking down at him, I consider him someone lesser then I have looked down at God. Before I worship someone inside the temple, I need to love someone outside the temple. And that is what my religion teaches. He asked me m y views about converting to another religion and the answer is what is God for? What is religion for?
Every religion teaches love, compassion, forgiveness. God is one and faith is about believing that he is with me, inside me, around me, holding me, loving me, accepting me. When there is no one to hold me, atleast God would hold me. He is just a call away. I will not even have to call, he is always there. Even if I have to convert what would change? My faith? If my faith is converted, it means I never had faith and I never will. I am born as a human and what else can I convert to? I believe in human values. So by converting should I become some animal or bird? I am born as a human and that is my religion. Rest everything is created by our egos. Whatever would divide us and show us inferior or superior, it is created by ego. Rest God created everyone equal to love.
