One God
All religions are one. All the Prophets and Messiahs have repeatedly said that there is One God,
whom we must love. No Prophet has said that there are two Truths or two Gods. There is One God,
and we are to see Him in every planet and person, in animals, oceans, mountains. But we will only
be able to see God in all of His Creation when the love of God emerges within us.
God is the Power that runs everything. When saints or Prophets have seen or heard this Power
through gyan, the divine wisdom of enlightenment, they then spoke of that Power in words that
became the Divine Names for God. All are referring to the same One.
One enlightened person saw that there is One Power giving light to everyone. He said, "Ik Onkar"
(You are One). Another saw that Power controlling all the waters-waves, rivers, oceans of water. He
called that Controller "Narayan" (the One who is present in water).
Another person saw that One Light is giving life to everything. When he looked within himself, he
One enlightened person saw that there is One Power giving light to everyone. He said, "Ik Onkar"
(You are One). Another saw that Power controlling all the waters-waves, rivers, oceans of water. He
called that Controller "Narayan" (the One who is present in water).
Another person saw that One Light is giving life to everything. When he looked within himself, he
found the same light there. He said, "Sohang" which means "Whatever You are, so too am I."
Another person saw that God's Light is everywhere: “You are in Darkness as well as in Light.” He
referred to this Power as "Gobind" (Remover of darkness and Bringer of light). Another person who
saw this Power found it so wondrous that he had no words for it. All he could say was
"Wah!"(Wonderful!).
Still another saw that Power is infinite, beyond description. He said, "Neti, neti, neti" (beyond,
beyond, beyond).
Such descriptions from an enlightened state are not contradictory. They are all describing the same
Power, whether in Sanskrit, Arabic, Punjabi, Urdu, Latin or English. There are differences in the
words, but not in the Being.
God is one Light. It comes in the person who meditates and who is filled with love. Only this person
can perceive the Power. First look within yourself, and then you will see God everywhere.



God has been here from the beginning; God will go on forever. But from time to time, the number of
people who have pure minds full of faith in and love for God decreases. The people have forgotten;
their minds have become impure and they do not listen to a Power they cannot see. Then God, who
is both manifest and un-manifest, has to come in the physical form of a Prophet. For people will only
follow someone whom they can see and hear. With God's blessings, God's grace, and God's mercy,
this person begins to realize God, and God's Power and Light start working through his tongue and
heart.
God chooses Prophets but does not reveal anything to them in the beginning. When the right time
comes, God gives them gyan. God then discloses certain things to them at certain times, but still
keeps many things secret. After God begins using a person as His Messenger, that person no longer
works from his own mind or his own heart. It is all God's work.
All the Prophets have come from the same light; they all give the same basic messages. None have
come to change the older revealed scriptures; they have come to remind people of the earlier
Prophets' messages which the people have forgotten. We have made our separate religions into
walled forts, each claiming one of the Prophets as its own. But the Light of God cannot be confined
within any manmade structures. It radiates throughout all of creation. How can we possess it?
None of the Prophets belongs to just one caste, one creed, or one nation. Jesus is not confined to
Christianity; Moses is not a Jew; the Prophet Mohammad is not a Muslim; Guru Nanak is not a Sikh.
They have not come to establish institutionalized, sectarian religions. Those divisions are created by
humans and reflect their own policies. By contrast, the Prophets come into the world with a message
from God. They come to remind people of God’s teachings making them fresh and new again; they
come to teach love, to encourage service to humanity, to remove ignorance by enlightening people
with the knowledge of God. They come to change our consciousness; they come to show us how to
live.
Human beings do have spiritual wisdom deep within themselves; the One who creates the world is
humans and reflect their own policies. By contrast, the Prophets come into the world with a message
from God. They come to remind people of God’s teachings making them fresh and new again; they
come to teach love, to encourage service to humanity, to remove ignorance by enlightening people
with the knowledge of God. They come to change our consciousness; they come to show us how to
live.
Human beings do have spiritual wisdom deep within themselves; the One who creates the world is
already sitting in their souls. But it is only when a Prophet of God comes down and starts speaking
with Divine Wisdom that it awakens in people. The Prophet reminds them of the truth they know but
have forgotten.