How does someone can get name of God in his heart to get enlightened?
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God's name is divine like God's Essence. God's name is the source of God's light. God's name , written or printed on paper does not render light. God's name is granted to Ptophets and Saints in form of light nto their hearts. The Gift of God's name is passed onto hearts of aspirants. A true spirtual Guide is divinely blessed with the power and authority of conferring God's name to those who seek enlightment. So search some spirtual Guide with Divine bless and authority,if you did not find, visit www.goharshahi.com and test your luck.
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Every time you see something, ask yourself if you really need it. The best way to be enlightened is to be happy with what you have and, at the end of your life, be able to look back and be satisfied with the contribution you made to the world.
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God ... AND ... there are several references.  Here's a link to check out:  http://www.allaboutgod.com/names-of-god.htm
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Take 5 deep breaths, and say a prayer that God will give you strength. I have a hard time with this, and I just pray and repeat the thought in my head that if God is my light who should I fear? Nobody can touch me if I trust him
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You know what?  God enjoys nothing better than when we actually WANT to know!\nASK HIM to reveal Himself to you.  Tell him you want to KNOW FOR REAL and to KNOW FOR YOURSELF.  Tell him everything you're feeling, man.  i.e. " I don't even know if I believe this",  "I feel stupid talking to something I can't see",  "I can't believe all the stupid crap I've heard",...\nwhatever.\nIf you really want to know, just ask.  And then back up baby, cause He's fixing to blow your mind!\nROCK ON!
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by realising the God within you
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There is no way one can know if someone else is "enlightened" or not unless one himself becomes enlightened too.\n\nI have had many instances when my guru has answered questions in my head without my having even asked him. At times I have asked him a question and his answer has seemed absurd at that time. However, in hindsight, when I have analysed his answer with a clearer mind I have seen that instead of answering my words he has answered the real question within me.\n\nIf you are really looking for spiritual growth (spiritual growth today has nothing to do with religion mind you! as most religions have just become businesses with nothing spiritual left in them) please read the book "Mystic's Musings" from amazon.com
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I hope you feel a lot less confused after all the responses you have gotten. There are a lot of us "seekers" out there that don't fit into a category because none of the existing categories work for us.  You just keep learning, reading, searching and decide what it is you believe in. You don't EVER have to justify it to anyone else or even discuss it if you don't want to.\n\nYou sound like a very smart person!!!\n\nP.S. You won't find your answers in the Bible or the Quran, but hey, why not read em anyway.  I know I certainly didn't find anything in either one of them.  I prefer one on one time with myself, my subconcious mind (meditation) and my creator. That's it.
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God had me in mind before I was born, there is a verse I know of that says "I know even the number of hairs on your head, but if your asking that is  the first sign that your listening to God's quiet voice, it takes time to understand but praying and reading the Bible (one you can understand) does help you get the answers. A kind person who understands what and how God works in our daily life would help you out, find a local coffee house, mission, someplace informal. Sometimes going to a Church is hard to do, but what do you really have to loose?
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When u remember God ur sins burns like insects or trash under the magnifying glass. God does not burn or harm any one please.\nWho is God?\nWho has been remembered as the Ocean of Love, the Intellect of the Wise, the Almighty Authority, the Comforter of Hearts, the Truth, The Living Being and the Blissful One?\nGod Says:\n I am the Ocean of Love; \nI show you the path of love. \nMy love remains unbroken and constant. \nI cannot forget even one of you. \nI have so much love for you,  \nand My love is unconditional and unlimited. \nI am the Beloved.You have been calling out to Me for a long time. \nWho Is God?\nWe are used to knowing things by seeing them, hearing them, tasting them, touching or smelling them. Most of us have grown up in a ‘seeing–is–believing’ and ‘hands on’ culture and we are used to perceiving things in that way. Because we can’t see, hear, taste, touch or smell God, the question arises – is God for real?\nOne can reach out to God with pure thoughts and be connected to Him. The soul experiences the response of pure feelings and spiritual strength. God is truth itself and thus can be recognized with the eye of truth.\nGod: The Supreme Soul\nLike us, God is also a soul. Unlike us, He is referred to as the Supreme Soul – the only soul who never takes a body (gross or subtle, human or angelic) of His own. He is beyond the effects of actions and is never subject to the dualities of birth and death, pleasure and pain, success and failure. Being beyond the limits of time of this physical world, He retains absolute knowledge of the universe and all its dimensions.\nWhere is God?\nGod lives, not everywhere but somewhere. A thought of God almost always takes the eyes upwards, as though one is perhaps expecting a face to miraculously appear from behind the clouds or to beam down from the moon. Thoughts are powerful. They link one soul to another. If they are properly channelled, thoughts can even go where only the soul can travel – beyond the moon and stars to a dimension of golden red light, the original home of all souls. Immersed in the experience of the warmth of this light, the soul feels as though it is truly at home at last, and with God.\nGod – The Spiritual Sun \nLike the physical sun, which gives light and life indiscriminately to all beings, God is the Spiritual Sun, giving light to all, whomever and wherever they may be. He serves altruistically, without any selfish motives, reminding each one of their innate qualities of love, peace and happiness. This is why He has been remembered in some countries and cultures by the name Shiva, The Benevolent One.\nGod’s Wisdom, Love and Power\nPeople may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.\nWhen you learn to tune your mind in meditation to the mind of God, then whatever the situation, you always have a source of help and strength to draw upon – an infinite reservoir of power and virtues that is only a thought away
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OK, brass tacks time. You can make as many proclamations you wish about who is God. But it all comes down to the gauntlet thrust into the ring by the God of the Bible...\n\nIsaiah 41:22-23\n “Let them bring forth and show us what will happen. Let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them--or declare to us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together."\n\nGod is saying, "OK, you who say you are gods and prophets, tell us what will happen in the future before it happens. If you can, then you will be one who dwells in eternity. If not, you are no god and a false prophet."\n\nBy the admission of those on this forum, the Qu'ran contains NO prophecy and Muhammad made no prophetic pronouncements.\n\nGod has in the Old Testament, Jesus fulfilled and made some of His own (such as the destruction of the temple). The studies below are just a few examples of fulfilled prophecies--there are hundreds! Some fulfilled, others still pending. So who is the One who dwells in eternity? The One who sees the beginning and the end as one? I'll let HIM tell you...\n\nIsaiah 42:9\n"Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."\n\nIsaiah 57:15\nFor thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place,With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones."
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Who is God?\nWho has been remembered as the Ocean of Love, the Intellect of the Wise, the Almighty Authority, the Comforter of Hearts, the Truth, The Living Being and the Blissful One?\nGod Says:\n I am the Ocean of Love; \nI show you the path of love. \nMy love remains unbroken and constant. \nI cannot forget even one of you. \nI have so much love for you,  \nand My love is unconditional and unlimited. \nI am the Beloved.You have been calling out to Me for a long time. \nWho Is God?\nWe are used to knowing things by seeing them, hearing them, tasting them, touching or smelling them. Most of us have grown up in a ‘seeing–is–believing’ and ‘hands on’ culture and we are used to perceiving things in that way. Because we can’t see, hear, taste, touch or smell God, the question arises – is God for real?\nOne can reach out to God with pure thoughts and be connected to Him. The soul experiences the response of pure feelings and spiritual strength. God is truth itself and thus can be recognized with the eye of truth.\nGod: The Supreme Soul\nLike us, God is also a soul. Unlike us, He is referred to as the Supreme Soul – the only soul who never takes a body (gross or subtle, human or angelic) of His own. He is beyond the effects of actions and is never subject to the dualities of birth and death, pleasure and pain, success and failure. Being beyond the limits of time of this physical world, He retains absolute knowledge of the universe and all its dimensions.\nWhere is God?\nGod lives, not everywhere but somewhere. A thought of God almost always takes the eyes upwards, as though one is perhaps expecting a face to miraculously appear from behind the clouds or to beam down from the moon. Thoughts are powerful. They link one soul to another. If they are properly channelled, thoughts can even go where only the soul can travel – beyond the moon and stars to a dimension of golden red light, the original home of all souls. Immersed in the experience of the warmth of this light, the soul feels as though it is truly at home at last, and with God.\nGod – The Spiritual Sun \nLike the physical sun, which gives light and life indiscriminately to all beings, God is the Spiritual Sun, giving light to all, whomever and wherever they may be. He serves altruistically, without any selfish motives, reminding each one of their innate qualities of love, peace and happiness. This is why He has been remembered in some countries and cultures by the name Shiva, The Benevolent One.\nGod’s Wisdom, Love and Power\nPeople may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.\nWhen you learn to tune your mind in meditation to the mind of God, then whatever the situation, you always have a source of help and strength to draw upon – an infinite reservoir of power and virtues that is only a thought away
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#1 Rely on God & the Holy Spirit to do the work of changing this person's heart.\n\n#2 Be willing to listen & respect his/her beliefs and right to choose - even though you don't agree.\n\n#3 Fill your mind & heart with God's Word, so that you will always be able to answer questions.\n\n#4 Let your faith & life be an example - you can tell what God is doing in your life w/o beating someone over the head with theology.\n\n#5 Be honest - admit when there is not a clear answer in scripture, when you're unsure of something, etc.
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Read this u'll know everything about God, u'll know whats real and whats obvious, whats the truth about God, i guarantee u\n\nWho is God?\nWho has been remembered as the Ocean of Love, the Intellect of the Wise, the Almighty Authority, the Comforter of Hearts, the Truth, The Living Being and the Blissful One?\nGod Says:\n I am the Ocean of Love; \nI show you the path of love. \nMy love remains unbroken and constant. \nI cannot forget even one of you. \nI have so much love for you,  \nand My love is unconditional and unlimited. \nI am the Beloved.You have been calling out to Me for a long time. \nWho Is God?\nWe are used to knowing things by seeing them, hearing them, tasting them, touching or smelling them. Most of us have grown up in a ‘seeing–is–believing’ and ‘hands on’ culture and we are used to perceiving things in that way. Because we can’t see, hear, taste, touch or smell God, the question arises – is God for real?\nOne can reach out to God with pure thoughts and be connected to Him. The soul experiences the response of pure feelings and spiritual strength. God is truth itself and thus can be recognized with the eye of truth.\nGod: The Supreme Soul\nLike us, God is also a soul. Unlike us, He is referred to as the Supreme Soul – the only soul who never takes a body (gross or subtle, human or angelic) of His own. He is beyond the effects of actions and is never subject to the dualities of birth and death, pleasure and pain, success and failure. Being beyond the limits of time of this physical world, He retains absolute knowledge of the universe and all its dimensions.\nWhere is God?\nGod lives, not everywhere but somewhere. A thought of God almost always takes the eyes upwards, as though one is perhaps expecting a face to miraculously appear from behind the clouds or to beam down from the moon. Thoughts are powerful. They link one soul to another. If they are properly channelled, thoughts can even go where only the soul can travel – beyond the moon and stars to a dimension of golden red light, the original home of all souls. Immersed in the experience of the warmth of this light, the soul feels as though it is truly at home at last, and with God.\nGod – The Spiritual Sun \nLike the physical sun, which gives light and life indiscriminately to all beings, God is the Spiritual Sun, giving light to all, whomever and wherever they may be. He serves altruistically, without any selfish motives, reminding each one of their innate qualities of love, peace and happiness. This is why He has been remembered in some countries and cultures by the name Shiva, The Benevolent One.\nGod’s Wisdom, Love and Power\nPeople may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.\nWhen you learn to tune your mind in meditation to the mind of God, then whatever the situation, you always have a source of help and strength to draw upon – an infinite reservoir of power and virtues that is only a thought away
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Dear UFO,\nThe Name I use in prayer depends on the situation or circumstances under which I am praying.\n\nI started with Dear God when I was younger and progressed\nto Heavenly Father.\n\nIt was really wonderful when I first read Jeremiah 3:19 - \nI myself said, 'How gladly would I treat you like sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.' I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.\n\nThat was written hundreds of years before Jesus and yet it was Jesus who showed us the proper way to address the awesome uncreated Creator of the universe.\n\nI was equally amazed by Matthew 23:9 -\nAnd do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven ...\n\nThe name that works best is the one that shows RESPECT.\n\nEarlier this year my Secret Sister gave me a wonderful book - The Peace & Power of Knowing God's Name by Kay Arthur.\n\nThe chapters are -\nIntroduction: The Names of the Lord\n1. Elohim: The Creator\n2. El Elyon: The God Most High (I use Most High a lot)\n3. El Roi: The God Who Sees\n4. El Shaddai: The All-Sufficient One\n5. Adonai: The Lord\n6. Jehovah: The Self-Existent One\n7. Jehovah-jireh: The Lord Will Provide\n8. Jehovah-rapha: The Lord Who Heals (I use this one a lot!)\n9. Jehovah-nissi: The Lord My Banner\n10. Jehovah-mekoddishkem: The Lord Who Sanctifies You\n11. Jehovah-shalom: The Lord is Peace\n12. Jehovah-sabaoth: The Lord of Hosts\n13. Jehovah-raah: The Lord My Shepherd\n14. Jehovah-tsidkenu; The Lord Our Righteousness\n15. Jehovah-shammah: The Lord Is There\n\nI also use Abba Father and The One Who Promised to Love Me Always.\n\nI have several relatives who get upset with me for not using Jehovah.  They claim that people have names and it is important to show respect by using their name.  I counter that by saying that I showed respect for my dad and mom by calling them Dad and Mom.  I did not use their names.
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Dear John V:  Thank you for caring enough about yourself to come onto the Religion/Spirituality Category.  You are HERE!\nTwice tried, twice failed.  A strong spirit is within you that is having none of this !\n\nYou ask for a prayer that might get you out of this life, but your Soul or Spirit, within, wants to continue.  It is the Seat of Knowledge.  It is the Connection to God.  It is your true Identity.  The Power of God is still flowing through IT ;  IT is unlimited and unopposed and is part of the One Mind that we are all Created to be.  This One Mind has full communication with the Universe and with the Holy Spirit and Jesus.  It is a channel of communion.\n\nBut, the Intellect is something different.  The Intellect denies the Presence, within, of the Soul or Spirit-Mind that our Creator Created in His Own Likeness. For Soul is OF Him, but not Him.  It is Eternal - as He is.  The Intellect is interested only in it's pseudo human personality; it's individuality; it's self-interest.  It knows nothing of it's inherent One-ness.  It is not dependable in matters of love.  It is not always moral; not always up to the "call" of others.  It often has low self-esteem, for it is highly competitive with other "individual beings" and finds itself lacking.  It will vote against itself.  It will punish itself.  It will, in fact, kill itself. . .except when the Real you, Spirit within is allowed to come forth and position itself in the Center of your Mind.  It has Communion with the Holy Spirit and Jesus and when IT Agrees with Them - it does, through Mind, thwart, push aside, toss out, or go an opposite direction from the demand of the rather insane Intellect - which is often in total denial of it's Creator.  It is as IF we have two Minds within one - that we think through.\n\nWhen the real you (not of the physical) finds Agreement with Jesus or the Holy Spirit, the Intellect gives you feelings, instigates actions. . . and FAILS.  For the Holy Spirit resides in the Soul and Jesus teaches inside it (the real you) in partnership with the Holy Spirit, as well as speaks to you in your human Intellect.  If you have not asked Him, personally, for help; if you have not heard His voice clearly in your Mind speaking to you about your issues - He is being blocked from your surface consciousness by that Intellect, and the Intellect is not allowing you to have the IDEA of speaking directly to Him.  Nevertheless, They operate within your Soul.  You have failed twice.  Got the message?\n\nWhy are you failing?  It seems the prayer of your Soul is being answered !  There must be a Plan of some sort your Soul and They have Agreed upon.  Discover what that is.  Talk to Jesus through your Mind.  Then, listen for what thoughts come to you.\n\nIf the issue is drugs, failure in school, failure in love, failure in business - whatever, there is a process available to you to walk through it and come out the other end of the tunnel 10 feet tall and knowledgeable !  The Holy Spirit - your Guide and Comforter and Jesus as Teacher will walk you through the bedeviled mess with a Power that will put you in awe.\n\nHere's the proper prayer:  "  Holy Spirit, Jesus, come forth within me.  Allow me to hear the THOUGHTS you provide into my surface consciousness if I can not hear the actual voice of Jesus.  I will accept your thoughts and recognize they are not my own.\n\nGuide and direct me through these deadly feelings I have about my human self.  Speak to me of the Self I am that God Created.  I know nothing of myself.  Clear my perceptions of what I am and what I have done and let us look together upon my failures and discuss them jointly.  I have decided to choose Life.  I understand, now, God did not Create weakness - the Separation is the cause of our physical-ness and IT is weak and self hateful.  Tell me about the Separation, Jesus.  Speak to me.  I will ACEPT your Thoughts.  All this I ask of you - in the name of
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The best way is to be in the Word (Read the bible) and prayer (pray continually). Also pray and ask God for spiritual discernment. This is the thing. All of us have three "voices" that talk to us. There's God, the devil, and our self. Spiritual discernment is what allows us to be able to tell the difference between the three. \n\nThere are a few ways you can check things you "hear". \n\nFirst, when God speaks to us it will always line up with the Word (the bible). So if you have a thought, and it contradicts anything in the bible, then you can know immediately that it's not God. (That's why reading and studying the bible is so important).\n\nAnother way to check would be to ask, is this clear or is it complicated and confusing. God's word is always clear. On the other hand, the devil is called "the author of confusion." So if something is complicated and confusing, you can be assured that it is not comming form God.\n\nAlso read Galations 5:19-26\n\nRead the entire passage and decide for yourself, but from it it's probably safe to say that thoughts involving/containing the fruits of the spirit (love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control) are from God, and thoughts of sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, rage, selfishness, envy, drunkenness, orgies, etc. are not.\n\nHope this helps.