Prophets of One Light

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 man-made 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 Mohammed 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 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.