Making God a Reality...

The whole purpose of life is to make God a reality.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

As to the religion and the moral of the mystic, the mystic has one moral and
that is love. And he has one aim in his religion and that is to make a God a
reality. Therefore, his God becomes a greater God than the God of millions of
people who only imagine that there is a God somewhere. To him God is a reality.

The work of the inner life is to make God a reality, so that He is no more an
imagination; that this relationship that man has 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,
a person does not thus become cold; he becomes more loving. It is the godless
man who is cold, impressed by the selfishness and lovelessness of the world,
because he partakes of those conditions in which he lives. But the one who is in
love with God, the one who has established his relationship with God, his 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 He is an imagination, to many He is in a mosque, a church, or a
temple. Many wonder if God is really. Many others think God is goodness, He is a
personality separate from us, He is most high, most pure, most beautiful, but He
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.