It’s been a while since I posted. Today is a slow day, one of those days that you have to fight to take a step forward and get something done and on days like this I try to think about stuff that on busy, productive days I won’t stop to think about. Most of these thoughts are work related, such as what should be the strategy regarding searching of data or regarding the different options to improve security, you know geek stuff. But somehow, when thinking about searching today, I ended up thinking about the creation. As a Baha’i I believe that the reasons for us being on this planet are a few but foremost we are here to serve. Serve mankind and civilization to continue to advance according to the teachings of Baha’u’llah. And during this process grow spiritually and prepare for the next worlds of God.

So how does everyone get to understand this then? Well, as Baha’u’llah says in the opening sentence of the Book of Certitude, “No man shall attain the shores of the ocean of true understanding except he be detached from all that is in heaven and on earth.”.

This mean that the process is that every once in a while a Manifestation of God appears on earth to guide us. Those of us that are detached from all that are in heaven and on earth can understand the truth that we are being presented by. In this process that is ongoing from the first prophet God sent and will continue to be so, many fail to see the truth that is brought to us. This is a test obviously, so that not everyone can realize it unless they try their best to achieve this according to their given capacity and only if they do this, through the grace of God can they understand it, because how else can you see the truth if you are detached from EVERYTHING.

So why is the process this way? I know I can’t answer that, but still it makes me ask this…Test is a way to separate true seekers from the false ones, but why was it set up this way? Well, you could argue, that if it was not setup this way we would not have had free will which is huge subject by itself. Ok, true, apart from certain predestined things such as birth and death we have free will and that gives us the ability to choose and see the truth or not see it through detachment and the grace of God. But this still doesn’t answer the question…and I will explain why in the next post as I have to run now…