Man and God

actually far from Him. They take the name of God, but there’s no divine sweetness in their words. They claim to have found God, but in reality this is far from being the case. They create a big show in the name of God, but all this is simply useless. They imagine that God’s Heaven is reserved for them, but no heavenly breeze brushes past them. What piety and devotion to God is it if your proclaimed religiousness does not stir a thrill in your heart and mind, in your very being? What absurd heaven do you think has been reserved especially for you, whose admission ticket you think you carry around in your pocket while your behaviour shows no sign of you being a heavenly being? How strange are the denizens of your heaven who think that Paradise has been granted to them as their eternal inheritance, while all their interests and concerns are about this temporary world alone! Fake Piety Sometimes, it happens that a bit of mud accumulates on a boulder, and then, after a while a patch of green moss starts to grow on it. It looks like a little field, but if it rains heavily, the mud, and, along with it, the moss and other greenery, are all washed away, and the boulder becomes bare once again. Exactly the same thing often happens with people. Externally, they seem absolutely fine. They appear to be very ‘green’. But a single blow in the form of some occurrence completely destroys their ‘greenery’. And then they become like bare, dry boulders. While speaking to others, a person may give the impression of being the epitome of good manners and reasonableness, and of being an ardent advocate of justice and humanity. But when the time to act comes, he may behave in