GOD LIVES HERE

 GOD LIVES HERE 

For spiritual persons, all creatures are suffused by divine love. The more they become spiritual, the more any beautiful things appear to them as symbol of God’s presence. All things are mirrors of divine love and beauty. They are in reverence, adoration and awe. The beauty of environment touches them. They in turn, pervade and transform their lives, their gestures, word and dealings with others. 

Nature gives evidence to the precision and creative hand of God. Some feel that nature can actually prove God's existence and can teach humanity ,I  believe in this very strongly . There are others who think this is a myth whereas some are of the opinion that only believers can benefit from the truths about God found in nature.  Some feel that though nature provides basic truths to humanity but falls still short of giving any absolute truth. What  do you think ? 

Many great philosophers, teachers, scientists, poets who were also great spiritual men discovered God in the environment.  Ravindranath Tagore wanted to establish harmony between man and the universe. He looked at the ‘Mother Earth’ as kind, benevolent and generous.Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda believed that God is in all nature and in all creatures and they  also believed  that the manifestations of nature contribute  to divine perfection in man.

As a man develops his relationship with his fellowmen he should develop his relation with nature. God is found in the midst of nature. God reveals himself through different colors, forms, rhythms of nature, God, therefore, desires that there must be a close relationship between men, God and nature.

Environmental spirituality is an experience of awareness of God’s presence and the experience of God’s personal love and being in contact with God. This experience is accompanied by great joy, inner happiness and peace. 

            GOD LIVES HERE 

I want to break the shackles binding me today 
Inside these  four walls  I can no longer stay 

I want to fly free like a nightingale  and sing  
to herald the cheerful sweet smelling spring 

I want to lie peacefully on the soft green grass by the river side 
see Gods outstretched hands beckoning me with great pride

I want to breathe the  fresh and cool mountain air 
where daffodils and Lilies dare to blossom in pairs 

I want to swim gracefully like a fish in the deep blue sea 
resting on the beautiful corals lying in the ocean debris 

I want to run and dance amidst the thick jungle  greens 
with the peacocks and all the majestic jungle queens 

 I want to sail like a pristine white cloud in the sky 
hug  and love you my beloved as I cruise by 

I want to sleep under  the cool moonlight and the shining stars 
feel the warm kiss of the sun as I rise in the morning hours 

I want to be lost in the silence that speaks of only oneness 
with love and bliss overflowing from my heart and soul's recess 

God you are formless ,still in each speck here I see  you shining bright 
you are here, there and everywhere blessing all with your lustrous  light 

I want to be with you my beloved  Lord all the time 
for in your splendid creations I embrace the soul sublime 

I can sense you are in me and in all your creations I adore 
for lovers when together ,glow and love just pours and pours !!!

Joy and ecstasy is in uniting with radiant natures divine flow ,
for God lives here, God lives here is all that my longing heart knows .

Pushpa Chaturvedi