CAN WE SEE GOD?

An Interview with Sant Darshan Singh

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This radio interview took place in July 1978 in Chicago during

Master Darshan Singh's first visit to America

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                                         Question: Can we see god?

                                         The Master: Yes, we can see God in this very lifetime.

                                         Question: What is the proof of what you are saying?

                                         The Master: Just as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the proof of spiritual attainment is in its experience.

                               We can attain self-knowledge and God-realization through mystic experiences on the path of the Masters. Once

                                Ramakrishna Paramhans was asked by his disciple Vivekananda, "Father, have your seen God?" He replied,

                               "Yes, my son, I have seen Him as clearly as I see you."

                           

                                    When God came into expression He assumed two forms: the Light of God and the Music of the Spheres. It

                               is by coming in contact with these two Principles that we can not only see God but we can talk to Him face to

                               face, get His guidance in all our affairs and ultimately merge in Him.        

                  

                                         Question: What does God look like?

                                        The Master: God is formless. God is all effulgence, all Light, and pristine glory. God is so effulgent that we

                              cannot describe His Light in detail, but it has been said in the scriptures that even trillions of suns and moons put

                              together cannot vie with even one hair of God. We can see God in His pristine glory in the highest spiritual stage.

                              But since the highest spiritual realm is beyond the reach of the mind and intellect, mere words cannot describe

                              it in clear terms. It is said that in that stage we speak without tongue, we see without eyes, we hear without ears,

                              we walk without feet, and we work without hands. That realm cannot be described in words, and all that has

                              been said by the saints and seers gives only a hazy estimate and a symbolic representation. But one thing can be

                              said: there is no language there except for one, and that is the language of love.              

                           

 

                                         Question: In what ways can we see God?

   

                                         The Master: God has been seen by all saints and seers since the dawn of eternity. Guru Nanak has said: "I see

                               my Lord before me." Other saints and seers have told us that they have seen God within, God has seldom been

                               seen in the various places of pilgrimage because God does not reside in temples made by human hands; He

                               resides in a temple in which He has made with his own hands - that is, the human body. And the human body is

                               the real temple in which we can see God in all His effulgence.       

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