A monk returned to India after traveling the world. He was a guest in a small kingdom. When the king of that kingdom learned of this, he went to meet him and said, "O Mahatma, I have been asking myself a question for 20 years, sometimes to myself and sometimes to others. But I have never received a satisfactory answer.
Will you answer me?" The Mahatma replied, "Of course I will, O King. Just ask me what you want. You won't return empty-handed today."
The king replied, "I want to meet God. And yes, don't try to explain God to me like everyone else.
I just want to meet God directly." The monk asked, "Do you want to meet me now or wait a little while?"
Forgive me, Mahatma, perhaps you are mistaken. I am talking about introducing you to the Supreme Being, not to any particular person named God."
The monk smiled and said, "Sir, there's no room for forgetting. I work 24 hours a day to connect you with God."
Will you meet me now, or wait a moment and then give me a straight answer.
The king stared at the monk with gratitude for a few moments, then mustered up the courage to say, "I want to meet you right now. Please let me meet you right now. I will never forget this gratitude."
The monk said, "Write your name and address on a small piece of paper so I can deliver it to God and let him know who wants to meet him."
The king wrote down his name, address, age, introduction, and titles.
The monk read the paper and told the king, "Everything you've written on the paper seems false to me."
The king said, "I've written everything correctly." Then the monk asked the king, "If your name is changed, will you change?"
The king said, "No. How can I change by changing my name? I will remain the same."
The monk replied, "It's settled that this name doesn't define you."
Now the second point: Today you are a king, but if tomorrow you become a beggar, will you change?"
The king replied, "No, Mahatma, I will still remain who I am."
The monk replied, "Okay, now it's settled that your kingdom and titles don't define you."
Now, the third point: "What is your age, King?"
The king replied, "40 years." The monk replied, "So, will you change into someone else when you're 50? And if you were a different person when you were 20, were you a different person when you were a child?" "The king said, 'No, my body has changed since childhood, my age has changed, my clothes have changed, my titles have changed, but I am the same person I was in childhood, who I was within.'
Then the monk said, 'Then, O King, this age is not your identity, nor is this body...' Then, who are you, O King?'
Write down who you are, and only then will I take you to God.
Otherwise, God will say that you are a liar, bringing the address of liars.'
The king stood in silence for a while, unsure of what to say. After a while, the king said, "O Mahatma, this is a very difficult matter... I consider these things to be my identity."
The monk said, "Yes, King, this is a difficult matter. If I cannot introduce myself, cannot tell who I want to meet. Then God will also say, 'Who are you taking me to meet?' Go, O King, and find him first."
Who you are... your true identity. Your existence, your being... after all, for what purpose are you on this earth...
And let me tell you this, Rajan, the day you know who you are, you won't come looking for God... because finding God is knowing what God is.
Our soul is another form of God.
What lovely lines, read them carefully.
I should do my prayers myself. What's wrong with that? A saint has said that God resides in every human being.
This story teaches us that God is in every human being and everywhere. Wherever you live, whatever you say to God from your heart will definitely reach Him.
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