God is everywhere

This is a frequent excuse I’ve heard from people as to why they don’t need to visit any holy places. While it is true at the highest level, that all that exists is indeed a manifestation of God, it is also true that there is a factor called Maya which covers God, thereby making it appear that everything is a discrete, separate entity having no continuity or underlying commonality.

However, there are places on earth & people on earth where the covering of Maya is very slight or even non-existent. These are the revered, holy places or holy people meant to give hope to humanity that there is something beyond the sometimes mundane, sometimes beautifully perceived matrix that we live in. By frequently visiting & attuning ourselves to such energies in holy places, one is gradually able to attune oneself to such energies even without visiting the places or people in a physical sense.

Nevertheless, there is a discrete ‘opening’ in Maya, perhaps what can be called as an opening in the time-space continuum that wraps itself around us so closely all the time. Thus, the rejoinder to ‘God is everywhere’ is that ‘Maya is nearly everywhere’ & those places/people where Maya isn’t, are most sought after, like jewels buried in the sands of time-space.