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Sri Ram Sir CAN WE UNDERSTAND GOD?

Somebody came to me and asked, ‘Did you understand god?’ I said, I am not able to understand God, just like you. But I am different in one respect. I am proud of my inability to understand Him. You are not.’ “ …- Sri Ram Sir 16 B

Iunderstand God is a statement which sounds frivolous. ‘I understood God’ simply means God is useless Think about it. What does the statement which sounds frivolous,‘I understood God really mean. Is God such a small person who can be
understood by a tiny brain like mine?

If a dull and deluded intelligence can comprehend
God, It can only show how useless God is!
Isn’t this simple logic?

If He is on a level which can be understood, I am glad that He is so great that I cannot understand Him. And, moreover, I do not want to understand Him. The more I do not understand, the greater He is. Don’t you think so? God is such a
complex, difficult being that I cannot understand anything about Him and it is precisely because I cannot understand Him that God is so great.

When I say that I cannot understand God, I mean that He is so great that He is beyond my understanding. And let me proud of that fact. I am proud of this fact because God is so great. If I have understood God, It can only mean that God is
on par with me. He is as intelligent and as understandable as I am. When we talk about such things as under

When we talk about such things as understanding God, these problems arise. Understanding is unnecessary. Why should I try to understand a meal? I’d rather simply enjoy it. Who cooked it, how they cooked it, what are the ingredients -all
these are of no consequence. let me simply eat, enjoy and allow the food to nourish me in Nature’s own way

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