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Is God a Fact, Fiction or
Myth?
"It was a cold winter night. I was fast asleep on the second floor of my clinic at Naroda- a suburb of the city of Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat-India. I woke up perspiring like a moist sponge. My clothes were soaked with sweat. Body hairs were raised in elation, amazement and surprise. I wiped my face and eyes. I saw a shining ball of dazzling light outside the window. The brightness of light was greater than thousand suns in the sky. From the East window a ball of dazzling light entered the room. It pervaded in all objects like table, chairs, books etc., and then it entered my body. For a few seconds I felt and experienced as if I was weightless and floating in a soft cloud of light.
My total existence and everything in the room was in tune and oneness with this cosmic light. I realized as if everything was made up of that light. There was no sun in the sky at night. I knew this was something else.
I saw at my wrist watch.
The time was EXACTLY 12.00. the Zero hour
between the years 1979 and 1980, and the date was DEC 31-1979.
I perfectly remember that I saw a Shining Cross along with this bright light in the background. At a later date I understood that it was 'cosmic light' of God, and
The Holy spirit of Jesus Christ".
I did not understand any significance of that event at that time. Even today, after 20 years in 1999, I do not know its meaning. Whatever I saw that night was not a dream or imagination. I am very positive about this.
It was a real experience in the fullest conscious state of my mind.
Only 3 months prior, after hearing Swami Chinmayaji's Lecture, in Oct-'79, I had started the study of Karma Yoga from the Bhagavat Gita, the divine song of
Lord of Universe and the most popular scripture of Hindus. I had no background of Christianity, nor I had any strong attachments to Hinduism, any world religion or even God. I never believed in myth, idol worship, Guru worship, and various rituals carried out in Hinduism. My knowledge of Hinduism was superficial and hear-say.
I did not meditate or practiced Yoga or attended any Yoga classes or took any lessons. But in those days I was writing my scattered thoughts on religious subjects. I recorded this experience in note book on the next day morning.
It is still a question for me and I have no answers. Why I was chosen in India by Almighty God to SEE (Darshana) this light of HOLY CROSS exactly at a particular time of Christian Calendar? This is called Shakshatkara or DIVINE EXPERIENCE in Hindu scriptures.
Today in retrospect, I understand its some meaning. God had chosen me to be HIS instrument in linking Eastern and Western religious thoughts. This I say "today" in January 1999, after my study of world religions in an unattached manner for last 20 years.
During the year 1981, I read a book, THE TAO OF PHYSICS by Fritj of Capra, Prof. of high energy physics at Berkeley University, California. Mr. Capra also describes similar experience of SEEING cosmic light and the figure of Lord Shiva (Nataraj)- a deity God worshipped by the Hindus. He saw SHIVA in open sky during daytime. This inspired him to write his book which discusses eastern religions, science and philosophies. With help of the famous equation of Albert Einstein,
E=MC2 Prof. Capra beautifully correlates science and verses of The Gita and Upanishads, Energy, Space and Time. In the preface of his book Mr. Capra writes:-
"I 'saw' cascades of energy coming from the outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pulses; I 'saw' the atoms of these elements and those of my body, participating in this cosmic dance of energy; I felt its rhythm and I 'heard' its sound, and at that moment I KNEW that this was the Dance of Shiva, The Lord of dancers, worshipped by the Hindus".
I record one more experience of a young student of North Florida University. In April (1995), I was invited to give a talk on Hinduism to the students of comparative religions class in NFU
(FL). They were mostly Christian students. When I described my above experience of
SEEING The Holy Cross in 1979, and then after my life's turn towards the study of world religions, all students were spell bound. At end of talk after the question answer session, we were dispersing.
A young girl approached and placed the following note in my hand. She had never studied religious scriptures in depth. But her experience of
"Seeing Divine Light" is worth reading. She wrote:-
"Thank you for your wonderful seminar. Almost 2 years ago, I had similar experience, though there was no one religion which struck me, rather what (after studying) is most similar to BRAHMAN reaching ATMAN. As you say seeming crazy; for this reason I have stopped trying to tell people. But this seed was planted and I too came to the same conclusion that
all religions should be respected and merged in a way that the world community can love one another. Any how if you have any type of mailings please include me.
- "Amenda Mehrtens."
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