The Daily News Interviews His Holiness Younus AlGohar (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

His Holiness Younus AlGohar recently gave an interview with the Daily News on spirituality, Kalki Avatar, terrorism, inner peace and much more.

*The following is a transcript of the interview. *

INTERVIEWER: There are certain people who don’t believe in anything. So, how can we convince them? How can they benefit from Kalki Avatar Foundation?

If you do not believe in any religion, but you believe in God, you can reap the benefits of spirituality. However, if you do not believe in God, then I’m sorry, we can’t help such a person. You can’t reap the benefits of spirituality.

But then again, we have to look for the reason why somebody does not believe in God. Because some people have bad experiences in life, and because of those bad experiences, they stop believing in God. When their problems are fixed and when they come under the merciful sight of God, they may start believing in God.

People talk about atheism. I would like to tell you how atheism was established, how it was brought into ideological existence. In the beginning, everybody believed in God. But then, what happened? When individuals who were enlightened (who had contact with God) stopped coming to earth and the fake ones came into the scene (those who did not have any contact with God), they only spoke about religions, they only spoke about God; they could not represent God’s mercy, God’s beautiful nature to them. Because the people did not receive any benefits from them, therefore they thought, ‘There is no God.’ It happened because of the lack of contact with God. There was a communication gap.

Initially, people who represented any religion, they were in contact with God. What they taught to the people, with the teachings of these individuals (prophets, messengers and saints), the people who received their teachings and benevolence, they were able to see the manifestation of God. And their hearts were filled with love.

INTERVIEWER: How can you have contact with God? What is the main way?

You see, when the high spiritual personalities that we know today, when they were born, they did not have this power. They went into vigorous austerities and they did a lot of hard work. And then they acquired higher spiritual statuses. In a similar way, there is a special knowledge: the knowledge of spirituality, Gnosticism. Gnosticism is a knowledge with which you are able to recognise God and at the same time you establish a connection with God.

For example, I have a telephone and you have a telephone; your telephone has a network and my telephone has a network. I am here and you are 10 miles away. I will dial your number, and I will say, ‘Hello’, and you will say, ‘Hello,’ because you can hear me and I can hear you.

In a similar way, His Divine Lordship Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi tells us that there is a spiritual organ in our body. If that organ in our body is activated and spiritualised, that organ can work between men and God as a divine telephone. This telephone [in your hand] works because there is power and a network connection. In a similar way, that spiritual organ needs God’s power - [it] needs divine light and connection with God. And that spiritual organ is the spiritual heart.

We have a fleshy heart - with the two atria and two ventricles - which is a pumping station responsible for purifying blood and oxygenating blood. His Divine Lordship Gohar Shahi says, ‘There is a special soul which is sitting on the heart. And this soul, if awakened, is responsible for establishing a divine connection with God.’

INTERVIEWER: So how to awaken the heart?

That is what spirituality is all about. God’s name is implanted like a seed in the beating system of the heart. This beating system in the heart generates kinetic energy. This is a spiritual mechanism. Like a car engine works and it makes the car move - but for that engine, we need petrol or diesel. In a similar way, this engine of the heart needs divine light. If there is no petrol or diesel in the engine, it won’t work. So, similarly, this telephone with which you can speak with God needs activation.

This needs spiritual diesel, spiritual petrol. But we don’t have spiritual petrol. And His Divine Lordship Gohar Shahi says, ‘This is the reason why we go to temples, mosques and churches. We worship,