The Bounties of God

The Bounties of God

1992 3-4 March-April 7 The Bounties of God (323) At first, we had an ordinary one-band transistor radio in our house. We could listen to the news broadcasts on it from Delhi and nearby stations. But it was not possible to listen to international broadcasts on it.

We later purchased a bigger, four-metre-band radio set. This used to receive broadcasts from all over the world. When we started receiving the BBC and other foreign stations, it occurred to us how deprived we had been of all the really worthwhile programmes broadcast by the different nations. All the time we had only had a small transistor we had been losing in terms of information and intellectual enrichment. With the bigger set we were tuned into a whole treasure trove of ideas.

Man’s relationship to God is similar to this. Receiving God’s inspiration is like receiving a broadcast from the infinite. At all times a torrent of heavenly nourishment is raining down upon us, but how much of this one can receive depends on the size of one’s radio set. If it is small one will receive very limited amounts. But if it is large, one will receive such floods of heavenly inspiration as will seem like an enormous ocean.

Today every man is the victim of his own limitations. One is locked in groupism, i.e. he is biased towards certain people or certain groups of people. Another is so lost in petty interests that he knows nothing of what is happening all around him. Yet another’s level of thinking is so low that it prevents him altogether from plumbing the deeper realities. Narrow-mindedness has left him so intellectually bankrupt that there is no way that he can appreciate the grandeur of God’s scheme of things.

The rays of the sun do not enter a closed room. Similarly, a closed mind cannot be the recipient of God’s inspiration. For God’s inspiration to reach a man, he must throw open the windows of his mind.