The whole purpose of life is to make God a reality.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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As to the religion and the moral of the mystics, the mystics have one moral and that is love. And they have one aim in their religion and that is to make a God a reality. Therefore, their God becomes a greater God than the God of millions of people who only imagine that there is a God somewhere. To them God is a reality.
The work of the inner life is to make God a reality, so that God is no more an imagination; that this relationship that we have with God may seem more real than any other relationship in the world; and when this happens, then all relationships, however near and dear, become less binding. But at the same time, these people do not thus become cold; they become more loving. It is the godless who are cold, impressed by the selfishness and lovelessness of the world, because they partake of those conditions in which they live. But those who are in love with God, who have established their relationship with God, their love becomes living …
Why is it that among simple and illiterate people a belief in God is to be found, and among the most intellectual, there seems to be a lack of that belief? The answer is that the intellectual ones have their reason. They will not believe in what they do not see… But the process that the wise consider best for the seeker after Truth to adopt is the process of first idealizing God and then realizing God.
Among millions of believers in God, there is hardly one who makes God a reality, to so many God is an imagination, to many God is in a mosque, a church, or a temple. Many wonder if God is really. Many others think God is goodness, is a personality separate from us, is most high, most pure, most beautiful, but is separate and difficult to reach. Many think that as it takes so long to reach this planet or that, God must be further away still. The purpose of one’s whole life is to make God a reality.
( from Unpublished Papers from the Nekbakht Foundation Archives: Cupid and Psyche, May 5th 1921 )
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad) Samuel L. Lewis
Now life is nothing but God, and God’s purpose in the creation is to know God’s own Self and love God’s own Self and express God’s own Self. This is the supreme purpose and the essence of purpose: it is the seed of the purpose of every individual entity taking form on any plane.