[ I know where God is ]
9th Feb 2002
In one of the Rabindranath Tagore's poems, it reads:
"I have seen God many times but He was always far away beside a star. I followed but by the time I reached there he had moved to some other place, far away. It had been going on and on for many lives. Finally I reached the place, the house where it was written on the door: 'Here lives the Lord of the World, Father God.'
"I was just going the knock and became suddenly aware: 'Just think twice - what am I going to do if I meet Him? I am not prepared at all. After meeting Him there is nothing to do. My whole life has been structured in searching for God. I know how to search, I know how to fast, I know how to pray, but I don't know ... When I have met God, there is no point in fasting and there is no point in searching and there is no point in prayers. What am I going to do? I will be suffocated!'
"Seeing the situation, I took my shoes in my hands, out of fear that when I went back down the steps God might hear the sound of the shoes. He might open the door and say, 'Where are you going?' And then I ran away as fast as I could.
"Since then I am again searching. I know where God is, so I avoid only that place! But I go on searching because in searching there is so much joy, and I am thought to be a great saint. I am enjoying the great adventure of searching for God. There is only one thing I have to remember - not to got to that place again! But the whole world is available to search, except that house."
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