Recently I was privileged to hold a newborn baby. Of course, I was caught up in the wondrous mystery of life, and a question arose within me: why is there something, anything, rather than nothing? Things did not create themselves from nothing, and neither did the human race create itself from nothing. Immediately, I was brought back to Yogananda’s understanding of God: God is absolute “existence” or “being-ness” itself (in the Sanskrit the word is Sat). God is the Root of all roots, the Is-ness of all that is, the Great Reality underlying all of reality. There is only one existence, God’s existence, and your existence and my existence is borrowed from God’s existence. God’s simple Being-ness is the sustaining source of all beings. Or, as Yogananda put it, “God is the ocean and we are the waves.” This means that we humans are, so to speak, God’s footprints. Our existence points to the one Existence, to the mystery we refer to as God. Doesn’t it follow that we should all be bowing to each other? My dear readers, “Namaste, “The God in me bows before the God in you.”
If we only understood
Who we really are!
If we only understood
Who our brothers and sisters really are!
