Re: God if you are real show me a sign?

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

Dear Swamiji, Nava and devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga.

Nave this is such a set of funny pictures. A similar question I asked myself when I was 5 years old. My parents and many generations of my ancestry were completely atheistic and the word God was not even in the family dictionary. By the time I had to go to school the closest and safest-to-walk-to school was a Christian school and my parents decided to put me in there. In that school I became influenced with stories about God and they fascinated me. But of course when I related them at home my parents said they were just nice fairytales and considered it was harmless that I enjoyed these stories. But it triggered something in me that was beyond any anticipation of my parents. The teachers told me that it was real and that God was looking out for me.

To make a long story short: At that time I slept with many stuffed animals in my bed. They were my childhood friends and I was quite attached to them. One night, I so clearly remember that special night, I asked the Lord: �If You exist please would You be so kind to show Yourself to me?� At that very moment my bedroom became extremely light as if 1000 lamps went on simultaneously and I felt a tremendous warm and loving feeling filling the entire room. It was as if divine Light and Love was dancing in everything; in and around me�and I was overwhelmed with the awesome presence of the Lord. I removed all the stuffed animals from my bed and lay on the far side of the bed. I opened my blankets really widely and invited the Lord to lie besides me. That intensified the already overwhelming feelings I had a thousand fold and since then the Lord was sleeping with me. The stuffed animals never made it back into my bed because in my mind God was really big so He needed a lot of room to lie in my bed. I granted myself only a tiny spot on the far side of the bed�the rest was for the Lord. When I told my parents about this extra-ordinary experience they considered sending me to a psychiatrist and taking me from school because of the fierce indoctrination I must have gotten there. So I just stopped talking about it and everything settled down, no psychiatrist, no change of school, just me and the Lord in a secret and sacred communion. And the beauty of it all is that He never left me. He always stayed with me through thick and thin and eventually He has brought me to the lotus feet of Guruji and revealed Himself as Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga and as Radha and Krishna. Now I am so blessed that I am allowed to experience His presence even more refined and with more distinction and to know about His Form and His Lilas.

Thank you Nava for those pictures it triggered really nice memories that I wanted to share with all of you. Isn�t it amazing how the Lord reaches out to us? I was only five years old and surrounded by convinced atheists who really did there outmost best to convince me that God doesn�t exist. By His arrangement I end up in a school were He is discussed in a favorite way. In all my confusion between Him and the atheists I called upon Him�and He in His unlimited mercy gave me a sign of His presence. Not only that but in such a convincing way that it changed the course of my entire life and instead of being surrounded by only atheists I am now surrounded only by Vaisnavas. Therefore I humble fall down at the lotus feet of all the Vaisnavas in this forum and beg for your mercy to keep me in your midst.

Your servant,

Hadai Nityananda dasa

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

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