Daily Meditation: Thursday, April 18, 2024
God - whether He exists or not depends on our state of awareness
Does God exist, or not? The answer is really very simple. To the non-believer, it is true that God does not exist. For whether things exist or not depends on us. Take a man who is asleep: even if all the world’s treasures are heaped around him, as he is completely unconscious, he cannot delight in them. Almost all human beings are plunged in a similar state of profound unconsciousness.* Only the Initiates, who are truly awake, see the splendours surrounding them, and marvel. Everyone else has these same riches both within and around them, but they remain unconscious of this wealth. So it all depends on our state of awareness. When we are awake, some things take on reality, and when we sleep, they fade away. It is the same with God: if we are asleep we do not sense His presence, so we claim that He does not exist. But as soon as we awaken, we feel God living inside us and all around us.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
