Odyssey of an Airhead

It doesn’t frustrate me because they hold strong beliefs. Rather, it’s the fact that all the religious groups I meet always poke me with what they discovered as the absolute reality, dismissing other views as incomplete or inaccurate. I feel irritated when standing in the center position among them, all struggling to pull me over to their side. I wish it was possible to sit all the religious perspectives together in a circle, with me in the middle, and have them discuss what they all believe to be the only truth.

Funny thing, when asked how they arrived at their unshakable conviction as to the veracity of their views, all of them reply in the same manner. They say, if you listen to your inner voice in silence and ask God to clarify your doubts, He undeniably will. They all confess to me that it was within the center of their deepest soul that the Deity bestowed on them the clarity. “Ask, and God will answer” is the reply I always receive from them.

True as it may be, it needs to be questioned how it is possible that God speaks to everyone, granting on each of them clarity on differing religious beliefs. If they all listen to their inner self, where He bestows answers, how is it that they all obtain contrasting revelations? It’s beginning to infuriate me to see them all rejecting one another’s views as if they were the only ones with the magical key to the portal of truth.

Yesterday, on my way back from work, I received my own insight into the “truth,” one that soothed some of my frustration. I sensed myself suspended somewhere above the Earth looking down on people, all struggling hard to push through with their beliefs. I felt a growing compassion for the species of humanity all entangled in something that I knew was utterly irrelevant from the perspective of the highest reality. I empathized with the little creatures—humans—who all do their utmost to understand and live according to the reality that they only have small and indiscernible glimpses of. I felt, and still do feel, the growing pain for all of us in this world who are trying to make the best of what we’re given to perceive at any moment of time.

I realized that the religious struggles and conflicts are not necessary. I began to sense that all the groups carry some aspect of truth. I don’t know yet how it can be, but I became aware of angles of truth, the passionately sought after truth, to be imbedded in every single form of religious expression. It felt like I was hovering above the Earth in some form of shapeless and undetermined state of consciousness, from the level of where all the religious dilemmas seemed utterly ridiculous, silly, and childish. None seemed to matter. Ironically, none carried any meaning to the nature and purpose of the Ultimate Reality—the same reality that all religions zealously desire to follow. The debates appeared totally pointless to me. I knew that they don’t have any effect whatsoever on the divine flow that keeps fulfilling its innate purpose, regardless of the amount of religious disputes taking place within itself. It remains completely untouched.

This vision made me feel a bit calmer. I’m not as frustrated anymore with everyone trying to sell their discovery of truth to me. I know now that they all offer me a single aspect, but never the entire dimension of it. I don’t think it will ever be possible to grasp the complete picture of what’s actually taking place behind the concept of life. Nevertheless, an earnest seeker of truth as I am, I intend to learn from all the religions what they’re willing to teach me about the angle of the divine reality that has been imparted on them to understand.

I hope that, in time, my collection of all their insights, as well as my own revelations, will bring me closer to the Absolute Reality. I don’t think I’ll ever reach the end of this journey. The task is beyond what any of us can understand while still on this plane. The Truth, I believe, can’t be limited to what our own brains can comprehend. It’s irrefutable to me that it remains far beyond the intellectual reach of any living human entity, now matter how spiritually evolved.

However, this fact doesn’t disturb me. I’m thrilled to step on the path nevertheless. It’s even much more exciting to enter the journey without knowing where it will lead or what adventures and new knowledge will unfold along the way. Life is the infinite field of unlimited possibilities. I passionately look forward to the elements of the Ultimate Truth being picked up while traveling toward it. New understandings, experiences, and ways of living should be embraced as steps toward the final merge with the great and only Absolute.