“SORRY, THIS NUMBER
DOES NOT EXIST”
Establishing a relationship with the true God is the biggest blessing for man. Then one receives guidance and develops a spiritual personality.
If you dial someone’s number on your phone and press the wrong button, your call will not be connected to the person you want to speak to. You will not hear a ‘Hello’ from the other side. Instead, you may listen to a recorded message from the telephone exchange, saying, “Sorry, this number does not exist.”
One day, I experienced this myself when I tried calling someone. In this incident, there was a vast spiritual lesson—and that is if a person seeks to establish a connection with God, but due to wrong thinking, he considers someone other than God to be worthy of worshipping and calls out to him, he will get no reply directly from God. Instead, he will hear another voice telling him that the ‘god’ he called does not exist.
The idea of God is embedded in every person’s nature. Man, by nature, seeks God. By birth itself, every human being aspires to find God. However, in history, it has always happened that people have made the mistake of attributing the status of God to someone other than God.
Establishing a relationship with the true God is the biggest blessing for man. The life of someone who establishes a relationship with God will be suffused with the light of guidance. He will develop a spiritual personality. He will obtain a high level of intellectual evolution. In contrast, someone who gives someone other than God the status of God will wander about in utter darkness.
In the present age, everyone takes the name of some ‘god’ or the other, including ‘gods’, like money and power. Every person ‘gives’ something or the other the status of ‘God’ and believes in this. However, a spiritual personality is not present in the true sense at a general level. People have made things or beings that are not God, their deity. They call out to some or other ‘non-god’, and in reply, they get this voice: "The number you dialled does not exist. What you call ‘god’ and call upon—that ‘God’ does not even exist!”
The first responsibility of every person is to discover the true God and find out the way to establish a connection with this God. Without this discovery, one is bound to face terrible destruction. Therefore, discovering the true God should be a person's most significant aim and purpose and the focus of his efforts. It is this that makes human life meaningful. The person whose life is bereft of this discovery is the poorest, even if he owns enormous material wealth.
Discovery of God means the discovery of Higher Truth. Moreover, the discovery of Higher Truth and establishing a firm connection with it alone is what makes man’s life truly meaningful. If you have not had this discovery, your life cannot be said to be meaningful in the true sense.
An issue that one needs to bear concerning the discovery of God is that a person gets this opportunity only in the pre-death phase of his life. In the post-death period, those who had not discovered God in their life before death will be deprived of this chance. Then it would be too late.
