God is what you believe God to be.

What else do you expect followers to be? Religion is not about following a religion, but the realisation of your true nature. People who fight over religion are not religious.

Love may or may not include sex. Love is an all embracing energy, the essence of one's being; sex is rather individualistic. Being in love and having sex may deepen love, giving the partners deeper glimpses of their souls; but sex had solely with lust destroys love. Sex is temporary, love is permanent. For young lovers, intensely emotionally and physically attached, however, love and sex may appear to mean the same thing.

The desire to communicate through a social website is often the desire to create a virtual existence in a fictional world, though a very few of us may really access the site to find people living in flesh and blood.

The desire for this virtual communication, innately presupposes that our ability (and confidence) for direct, face-to-face contact has gone awry, and the ever-increasing no of gadgets and applications that facilitate communication via the internet seems to prove the veracity of the statement.

We have shut off our vulnerable self that is at risk being hurt if our communication is not reciprocated, and have created personas (masks) to cover up for the unfulfilled need of real human communication. One persona is operative at the workplace, another while travelling to it. The third is operative at the neighbourhood, and the fourth at parties.

The fifth persona - the most convincing copy of our vulnerable self and hence the most spurious one, the fact that we don't think it fake, adding to the deceit - is the persona we create on the social website.

Well what do you have to say about this friends?

Thank you rapsscallion. I'm happy you re-lived your joyous past.

I create the God I know. So do you, if you are.

If god created the thief, he has to be "far worse" than him/her! And if god created the saint, he has to be "far better" than him/her!

That is /is not god. Logic may/may not be valid.

Nothing is.

God is what I think Him/Her to BE or NOT to BE. For ME.

Why believe in or deny the existence of God? WHO does this anyway?

There is no I in I AM to deny or confirm "God" (or "anything else": if someone thinks these are not synonymous.)

Nisargadatta Maharaj called God his devotee! (Some gumption!) But with Maharaj's body gone who will tell us the status of his devotee ???!!!

Ghosts usually exist if you believe in them. Very rarely, they also exist if you don't believe in them.

Thank you MS Harmony

I have been happy meeting you
Time and again in the lee of love
Amidst the crowded trees, deep green in spread
I am happy that this is the last time
I watch our faces, each to each
In the pellucid pool, gently shivering blue…

The lips knew more than they would ever
Quaver the sweet, sweet air with fragrance
Smelt each morning when we woke
The early nip freshening our breath
Deep within, putting a sparkle into whatever
We saw and softly heard as perpetual whispers…
I have been happy meeting you

There is a lot to do, or there is nothing
To do now, the bodies themselves tremble anew
Shaking off the delicate dew from the grass
The first red and then yellow sun turning
And turning in his orb with his soft light
Shimmering the thrill of turning the door knob
I have been happy meeting you, my love.

The partner we choose in marriage usually symbolises something that we ourselves lack. Once the illusion that what someone else has cannot satisfy you is broken, troubles begin. Or, living together in harmony for sometime the husband and wife gain from each other what they had initially lacked, and thus outgrow each others'"needs"(or "love", if you like).

There are only two ways a man and woman can remain happily married. The first is sacrifice of personal growth even after outgrowing each others' needs for old time's sake. This isn't very true happiness, indeed. The second is accomplishing the fine and difficult task of keep growing together - once one sets of needs are outgrown, delving deep within to discover the next set, and keep on doing so synchronously till all lust is transformed to love. Many couples take the easier path of changing partners at every set of needs is exhausted.

This state is a perpetually satisfied feeling in the heart and body when the presence of a member of the opposite sex ceases to excite us in the way it used to, yet we relish the company in a deeper, more comprehensive and more joyous fashion. This not repression, but the sublimation of the sexual instinct into love. Sex may happen, but it is totally under our control and with our discretion.

Lust like love is universal. We can only delude ourselves thinking we have lust only for our respective spouses. So until we learn the art of sublimating our lust into love, marriage cannot have strict "honesty" and once we attain the state of love, marriage becomes redundant.

The partner we choose in marriage usually symbolises something that we ourselves lack. Once the illusion that what someone else has cannot satisfy us is broken, troubles begin. Or, living together in harmony for sometime the husband and wife gain from each other what they had initially lacked, and thus outgrow each others'"needs"(or "love", if you like).

There are only two ways a man and woman can remain happily married. The first is sacrifice of personal growth even after outgrowing each others' needs for old time's sake. This isn't very true happiness, indeed. The second is accomplishing the fine and difficult task of keep growing together - once one sets of needs are outgrown, delving deep within to discover the next set, and keep on doing so synchronously till all lust is transformed to love.

(Many couples take the easier path of changing partners as every set of needs is exhausted. This may assure professional growth if they can convince their conscience of the step being moral, but sure puts them down emotionally. The test is to live it out with a single partner for holistic growth. That is why marriage as an institution still survives, despite all adultery.)

This state is a perpetually satisfied feeling in the heart and body when the presence of a member of the opposite sex ceases to excite us in the way it used to, yet we relish the company in a deeper, more comprehensive and more joyous fashion. This is not repression, but the sublimation of the sexual instinct into love. Sex may happen, but it is totally under our control and with our discretion.

Lust like love is universal. We can only delude ourselves thinking we have lust only for our respective spouses. So until we learn the art of sublimating our lust into love, marriage cannot have strict "honesty" and once we attain the state of love, marriage becomes redundant.