CREATE YOUR OWN GOD

CREATE YOUR OWN GOD ( Amma Bhagavan's Srimurti at my home)
Sometimes we wonder why God does not respond to our prayer. Most of us pray to God, worship and visits temples and feel that we are all spiritual people. But do we really depend on the Divine in times of need, not really. We don’t have personal bond with the Divine, we are not sure if He could help us, He could heal us of all our pains and suffering. God has become a semi dead theory, a matter of belief for better chance of psychological security.
Here Shri Bhagavan is saying about creating God, does that mean that God does not exists, it is just a hypothetical belief. Not so, Shri Bhagavan is not saying to create God in that sense, but to design the way He would respond or reciprocrate to us. God does not have any self nature, He is what you think He is. If you think He is a tyrant He is a tyrant, if you think He is a Hitler kind of God, He is so and would respond like that, if you think God as a punishing and judging entity who is there to correct us and to teach us He will be responding exactly like that. In this sense Bhagavan is saying to create God, that is to create the image of God, the way you want Him to respond. He is Bhaktaparadheena, dependent on devotees.
A story of Namadeva would clarify the idea. Once a king hearing the stories of Namadeva’s great devotion and His personal bond with Lord Krishna, wanted to test the authenticity of what he has heard. He killed a cow and asked Namadeva if He could bring the cow back to life. Namadeva asked for three days, that in three days Lord will give back life to the cow. Namadeva started praying, singing bhajans. The first day passed by but Lord did not appeared, next day also Krishna did not respond. Tears started rolling down His chicks. At last just before the ending of third day Lord appeared and touched the cow to life. Namadeva cried and asked in chocked voice the reason for His late respond, Krishna smiled and answered that it is He who asked for three days, if Namadeva asked to come Krishna just now, He would have come then and there.
So we to have to introspect and see what kind of idea we have of God, whether we think Him as our supreme friend or a punishing Lord. If we could establish a friendly bond with the Divine the Divine would become our Supreme Friend.
( We are performing Kalasha puja on 31st Oct for health, on 7th Nov for wealth and on 14th Nov for relationship problem. If you have any prayers you could email me mentioning your name and problem I would deffinately pray for your well being. Please do comment. My email id is : its2dev@gmail.com )