God’s Man

God’s Man

"Now, you know that you are not dammed", smiled the yogi, 
"now you know that everyone has it, not just saints not just you, everyone is God’s child, and God is no one’s monopoly. How one dresses, be it ochre or be it white, makes no difference to God. All the colours are his. In fact, young people wearing jeans seem to have sub-consciously hit upon God’s favourite colour, blue! Look how much of it He used in the sky! How much spice he eats in his food is not of much consequence either. I think it should be a topographical rather than spiritual preference. If he speaks softly, yet is given to hatred, or is loud, but warm hearted, I have enough discernment to see through both. Indeed, I have seen profane men speak profundities for their own interests and heard profound men being coarse, to deliver a refined message".
"What they are the real indicators of an evolved being, a God’s man?" asked the snake.
"Love and Kindness", said the yogi. "Some things never change, some things we can never have enough of; love and kindness, the two real indicators of God’s man, and luckily these are far more difficult to feign than a dress or a dietary code. These spring only from true knowledge and understandings. Also, they are recognized by true understanding only, for, they may not be very obvious. Sometimes, compassion can be in the form of rebuke, only aimed at making your own perception more subtle.
What was it you said, a good spiritualist is one who melts back into humanity; melt, you melt in love, you melt with kindness, this is the way of evolution, we must learn to melt."

{excerpted from The yogi and the snake,1995}