God doesn't hate anybody

God is impartial toward all beings. Regardless of any of the social inequalities that societies or individuals place on people, God does not hate anyone, nor is He especially dear to anyone. No matter where or to whom you were born, whether you are male or female, rich or poor, if you take refuge in God and give him your love and devotion, He will respond and you will come to see that you are a part of Him and He is within you. Even the worst of sinners who worships God with sincere devotion and firm resolve will be counted as one of the good. He or she will quickly become virtuous and obtain unending peace until they realize absolute freedom and become united with God. A true devotee never comes to a harmful end. Saints and sinners alike find themselves living in this same transient world of suffering and unhappiness, needing to turn to God for their salvation. Therefore, resolve to bow with humble reverence before God, forgo your selfish desires and devote your life to offering all your actions to others, thinking of God constantly and you will be firmly on the path to realizing the ultimate goal of life, union with God.

The essence of Karma Yoga

Whatever you do, make it an offering to God by doing it for others, without thought of selfish reward. Whether it is eating to sustain yourself so you can do work for others, giving gifts or charity, or even disciplining yourself to be a better person so others will enjoy being around you, dedicate them all as if you were performing a spiritual ritual and they become offerings to God. When you perform your actions in that way, they will not bind you to a good or bad result through karma. Through this practice you become free of personal desires and are not bound to this world. Thus you can achieve total liberation and become one with God.

Anyone who is worshiping with true faith in their beliefs, no matter what they are doing, is really worshiping God, but not in the most optimal way. Those who worship saints or angels or lesser forms of God will see them in heaven. Those who worship their ancestors will see their ancestors in heaven. Those who are honoring the spirits in nature go to be with them. Whatever is offered to God with true devotion, even if it is only a leaf from a tree, a single flower, a piece of fruit or a sip of water, He accepts it because it was given with love.

Those who are still operating on the level of religious ritual and cleansing practices get their reward in heaven. There, sincere devotees enjoy the pleasures of that sacred kingdom. Such beings delight in the glory of that higher realm until their merit earned through good karma on earth runs out and they return to the world. Even though they have sincerely worshiped God, they have not realized the truth about reality and have not reached the ultimate goal. They remain caught in the web of personal desires and therefore must continue to travel the path between heaven and earth. However, for those who meditate on the image of God within themselves, without any thought of reward, and remain united by constantly thinking of Him, God will make up for any deficiencies in their worship and make all their progress towards realizing Him permanent even throughout the cycles of birth after birth.

God is everything

Those with discriminating wisdom see beyond the various religious rituals and know that God is the offering, the sacrifice and the ritual itself. He is that which is sacrificed in the fire and He is the fire as well. He is the potency in the medicinal herb and he is the sacred sound chanted with devotion. He is both the praise given to one’s ancestors and the one who receives it. God is that which is to be known. He is the father and mother of the whole universe as well as its grandfather, great-grandfather and most ancient ancestor. He is the omniscient, omnipresent vibrational energy of absolute existence. He is both the sacred scripture and the wisdom it holds. God sustains everything and established the rules over it. He is the foundation of all that is and is both the origin and the indestructible seed of creation. He is the shelter, the refuge and the one friend from beginning to end. He is the objective witness of all actions and the cosmic storehouse of the results of those actions. God is the heat from the sun and the one who give or withholds rain. He is both death and immortality. God is everything that exists and everything that does not exist.

In whatever way one worships God, he or she is offering it in a way that indicates their current level of understanding about the reality behind the illusion of the world. At first He is seen as being different and varied in name and form, but eventually all will see Him as the one absolute being who embodies the entire cosmos.

People who cannot see beyond the illusion cast by the created world are oblivious to God’s transcendental presence that pervades all things and therefore discount His existence. Deluded by their ego and lack of insight, such people find that their thoughts and desires are full of mistakes and all of their actions are ultimately in vain. But great souls recognize the reality behind the illusion and know that God is the imperishable source of everything and worship Him with one-pointed devotion. With firm resolve, they stick to their high aspirations and humbly bow to God, ever praising His glory.