The importance we place on the name we give to God reveals more about our spiritual maturity than our understanding of divine truth. Spiritual growth involves recognizing that names for the divine are just different expressions pointing to the same ultimate reality.
• Names for God vary across traditions - God, Allah, Brahman, Nirankar - but all refer to the same divine essence
• How we receive blessings from different traditions demonstrates our spiritual maturity
• Words like love, compassion, and kindness can all be used to describe the ultimate essence
• Attachment to specific divine names often reflects ego rather than spiritual realization
• Names themselves can become idols just as physical forms can
• Appreciating someone's blessing regardless of terminology honors their intention
• Spiritual maturity involves moving beyond fixation on specific words or names
• When someone offers a blessing, they're giving their time and positive intention
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Episode Transcript
I was planning to do a different type of video today,
but I received a message and ittriggered some thoughts.
How important is the name thatwe give to God?
You can call it God, you cancall it any name according to
your religious background, andit doesn't matter to me what you
call God, whether you call itBrahman, whether you call it
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Allah Vaikru, I call it Nirankar.
Does it matter to me what youcall it?
No, but what's important isthat if somebody offers a
blessing to you, how you receivethat blessing says a lot about
your spiritual maturity.
Even though I say Nirankar forGod, I can use love as well.
(00:44):
I can use compassion, I can usekindness, any word that reminds
me of the ultimate essence, Ican call it isness.
It doesn't really matter to mewhat we call it, but there's
many times when it's a birthday,or it's Krish's birthday, or
it's my wife's birthday, andpeople say all sorts.
(01:05):
Some say may Bhagwan bless you,may Radharani bless you.
My Muslim friends say may Allahbless you.
I take the blessing.
It doesn't matter what name issaid, because once you
understand the ultimate truth,names and forms dissolve.
The more we get stuck on namesshows more about our ego than
(01:30):
our realization or what we trulyknow, and whether what we know
is merely just another idol.
A name can be an idol, notnecessarily just a form that we
see.
It really does strike me whenwe forget the essence and and
the main point is receive theblessing, honor, the blessing.
(01:52):
That is more important.
The words that someone names forgod is less important.
And this is something I havehad to also mature from, because
a lot of times I used to alsosay well, someone should use the
same word that I use.
That's my ignorance, notmaturity.
(02:14):
And I feel the more I havetraveled on this spiritual path,
the more I realized the name isnot important, the more I've
realized the name is notimportant, the intent, the
blessing, how open my heart is,how open my mind is, the better
it is to receive that blessing.
When somebody takes time out oftheir day to offer a blessing,
(02:37):
that's such a big honor becausethey could be really busy, and
the fact that they've taken thattime one should respect that.
You're listening to the BeardedMystic Podcast.
I'm Rahul N Singh.
Take care, namaste.
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