The Bounties of God

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

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. However, it was not possible to listen to international broadcasts on it.

We later purchased a larger, four-meter-band radio set. It used to receive broadcasts from all over the world. When we started receiving the BBC and other foreign stations, we realized how deprived we had been of all the worthwhile programmes broadcast by the different nations. Earlier, we had a small radio transistor which we used for information and intellectual enrichment. We had tuned into a treasure trove of new ideas with the bigger set.

Man’s relationship with 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 a man can receive depends on the size of his radio set. If it is small, he will receive minimal amounts. However, if it is large, he will receive such floods of heavenly inspiration as will seem like an enormous ocean.

Today, every man is the victim of his limitations. He is locked in groups, i.e., he is biased toward certain people or specific groups of people. Another is so lost in petty interests that he knows nothing of what is happening around him. However, another man’s level of thinking is so low that it prevents him 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. Therefore, for God’s inspiration to reach a man, he must throw open the windows of his mind.