Creator and Creation

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The Creator is in the creation and the creation is in the Creator​

This teaching lies at the heart of Sikh thought and life. The realisation that God lives in every heart like a reflection in a mirror, fire within wood and fragrance within a flower means that God is present within you and all beings and all things. Developing a relationship with the Divinity within makes you a mystic. Service of the Divinity in others makes you a revolutionary. Hence a Sikh is a saint and a soldier, a sant-sipahi. Note that the Gurus are not saying that God becomes a human being, or is a human being. Rather that the human being or more precisely the human mind-heart is the temple of God. God has made you to live in you and with you, but we have installed the idol of self-centredness and denial of God inside. As we remove this, God comes to dwell with and in us as intended. We have tried to seal off the temple so we can own it and big ourselves up, yet God is always knocking on the door of our conscience, and into our consciousness through the reality of everyday life in the cosmos. The Truth is within us and all around us. It is not hidden from us; we are trying to hide from it. We were made to flow, to leak loving kindness from God – gurprasad/grace – to all things – meeta/sweetness/loving kindness. By blocking it we make meanness and ultimately weep tears of regret wishing, pleading for another chance to do things right. We wish we could change things. As we open the door, we appear to lose what we had bottled up, but actually more flows through us coming in on all sides. In time we are re-made by the force of the flow, re-born, having given ourselves up to love. We weep tears of joy and thankfulness for the chance. One in the flow, still the flow and channel are separate. Lovers unite in oneness, yet beyond that want otherness. They do not seek to devour the other, but to enjoy the other in their otherness.


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