“All souls are born, live, and die within the cycle of time. But God is Ajanma, the One who is never born, never dies, never bound by birth and death.”
Every being in creation takes birth in a body. Even the highest souls descend and ascend, playing their part upon the stage of the world. Birth brings limitation; death brings change. But God alone remains outside this cycle.
Because He is never born, He never forgets; because He never dies, He never fears. His existence is constant, beyond decay, beyond time. While all others are actors, He is the eternal Witness and Director, entering the stage only to guide, never to become trapped in the play. The wonder is this: He serves the world of birth and death without ever becoming subject to it. God comes to serve, yet does not take birth. He works through a chosen instrument, yet does not claim a body as His own. He acts through another, yet remains beyond action. The One is free, utterly, eternally.
Human knowledge rises and falls with the ages. What one era calls wisdom, the next calls error. Even the greatest thinkers are bound by their time, but God alone sees the whole cycle from beginning to end; His sight encompasses origin and return.
When God speaks, it is not from accumulated wisdom but from perfect knowing, what has always been and will be again. This knowledge is not written in books, it lives in His being. Saints and sages touch a drop of truth; He is the Ocean. In Him there are no contradictions, no missing pieces, no borrowed thoughts.
This is the wonder: the Highest on High speaks in the simplest words. He does not lecture like a philosopher; He explains as a Father to children, plain, precise, nourishing.
Shireen Chaba is the Coordinator of the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Centre in Tampa, USA.