Desires

                                                                       

                             Human beings are consumed with desires for various things from the moment they are born. Children crave for chocolates and toys during their childhood years, teens give their level best to excel in their studies to pursue college, university to settle down with  a suitable career, youths are on the constant hunt for a lady the size of a coca-cola bottle, then comes a time when  youths think about tying the conjugal knot, married couples then plan to have children, the partners then slug their physical engine to educate their children and to provide for their families, the pair married in the prime of their youth then start graying into old age and finally shed their mortal coil without gaining anything of significant value. The endless line of desires that human beings have does not come without any cost. Being efficient enough to be able to fulfill one’s material desires is not plain sailing and comes at a cost of having to constantly circle in the vicious cycle of suffering like stress, exhaustion, illness, misfortune, tragedies, dissapointments, anxiety, failure, bankrupcy, accidents, loss of life and having to undergo a bumpy and rickety ride of the biggest hurdles and challenges. It is completely the other way around for spiritual aspirants who have transcended the superconscious states. The superconscious spiritual travellers have the rare capacity to possess anything they want according  to the tune of their fingertips without having to constantly rotate in the cycle of suffering,  without investing  a single penny and that too for free.

“Your essential being is the source of all being - the field of pure consciousness that manifests as the entire universe. In this very moment, pure consciousness illuminates and animates your mind and body, and it is powerful, invincible, unbounded, and free. When you know yourself as this field of consciousness, you have power to manifest your desires, you have freedom from fear and limitations, and you live in grace, which is  that state of consciousness where things flow and your desires are easily fulfilled.”

                                                -Dipak Chopra

                                                                           (Book:Power Freedom and Grace)

                          A spiritual aspirant starts living in the field of Infinite Grace after he transcends the first of the superconscious states, the Anahat chakra or the fourth spiritual centre . According  to Mr.Dipak Chopra, to live in the field of Infinite Grace is to find ourselves in the right place at the right time, to have the support of the laws of nature, or “Good luck”. It is this very good luck factor that gives you the ability to possess anything you want, without investing a single penny and absolutely for free. Unlike the material world where one has to make tremendous effort to fulfill one’s desires, the superconscious states of the spiritual existence exercises the effortless effort of the fully awake soul to have anything at your command about simply anything you would crave for and desire. Tremendous effort at huge costs is the criteria to fulfill one’s desire in the material life but there is absolutely no effort needed to fulfill your desires in the spiritual life of the superconscious states. Just the release of the notion of anything you desire into your  fully awake awareness is  ample to have your desires fulfilled. The only compulsory requirement for your desires to manifest with the effortless effort of your fully awake soul  as simple as Pele scoring fantastic  goals into the goalpost is - to have your soul nature awakened. Trying to manifest your desires without transcending the first of the superconscious states is like making an effort to conquer Mt.Everest with a thousand ton weight on your back.

“But seek you first fulfillment in God, and live righteously, and all these(material and circumstancial) things shall be provided for you.”

                                                          -    The Gospel According to Saint Matthew 6:33

                                There are two mandatory requirements for fulfilling your desires. The first is finding fulfillment in God alone and not in transient and unreal medium like materialism. Finding fulfillment in God most simply means being spiritually interested enough to at least reach the field of everlasting happiness, the Unified Field, the field of pure potentiality, the superconscious state, the unkown, the Anahat or the heart centre. Without finding fulfillment in the abundant field of God, your destiny to the realisation of the abundant desires that you may have shall never be a living reality. Therefore, to know the door to the manifestation of desires is for you to be able to know the door to God. “Find fulfillment in God alone and not like the infamous Non-Being hardliner, Osho, who preaches to the whole world to find fulfillment by making love to a divine hole.” And unless you follow a righteous life your desires are not going to manifest. To live a righteous life and to live righteously most significantly implies to abide by the Divine laws of life. The master key to the manifestation of desires is strictly adhering to the Divine laws of life realised during your spiritual growth process. And if you want to lead yourself astray and merry and go back to mangalman to the same adulterated world of wine, dice and a filthy sexual vice one more time it will be like the world famous heavy rock band, Iron Maiden, singing, “Infinite dreams, I can’t deny them. Infinite dreams, its hard to comprehend.” Follow your awareness and your awareness is going to submit  to each and every demand of yours because an adulterated awareness finds it awfully difficult to obey your commands and most importantly, making an effort to manifest your desires from the aid of an adulterated awareness is something like swindling the most Supreme Godhead of His Infinite resources He has for mankind.

      “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not every man’s greed”

                                                                                                             -Mahatma Gandhi

                           The above statement is true and applies very well with the material world and so it is in the spiritual life as well. Impossible desires that a spiritual aspirant has can never be fulfilled and will never see the day of it’s fulfillment. Any desires that a spiritual aspirant has needs the Ultimate Grace of the most Supreme Godhead to be fulfilled. Desires should not be extravagant and not more than the minimum necessary. Especially, according to Mr. Roy Eugene Davis, a direct personal disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, a spiritual aspirant who is a genuine yogi should take extra care not to make an effort to manifest insatiable desires. A genuine yogi is very cautious enough to manifest his desires only for the minimum basic necessities or in other words to put his body and soul together.The minimum basic necessities are food, shelter and clothing. And now, as we already know that our material requirements shall be taken care of by the field of Infinite Grace after we are able to meet God’s expectations from us, spiritual beings, let us be very careful about our desires so as not to get carried away by greed, unwanted wants and infinite expectations.

                    Abundance in the material life clearly implies abundant worldy possessions. The more the amount of material abundance the more a person is thought to be affluent and happily settled. Whereas, the spiritual life has a different story to tell. The lesser the desires for worldy comfort and possessions a spiritually elevated Being has the more happy and affluent he is perceived to be because permanent happiness, abundance and affluence in the spiritually elevated life is not measured by material affluence and worldly abundance which naturally harbours a lot of complaints but evaluated by having no qualms about life. "Less is more " in the spiritually elevated life. So the lesser number of desires a spiritually evolved Being has the more blissful and happy he is. Therefore, everlasting happiness, abundance and affluence in the spiritual life depends on the amount of desires you have. Naturally, if you are spiritually evolved and long for the fleet of Mercedes, Jaguar and BMW’s that Sri  Sathya Sai Baba used to take rides in around His universities and ashrams and don’t succeed in achieving it, you are naturally bound to feel miserable and suffer. The success of the manifestation of your desires also depends upon your karmic inheritance.

                   The most genuine saint the world has ever seen, J.Krishnamurti, says that the most important thing in life is to live a life without a single problem. And what is it that continuously creates problems? The only thing that makes you suffer and continuously creates problems is the infinity of desires that you have. Desires makes one suffer and the end to desires terminates sorrow then and there. This scribe concluded by reading J.Krishnamurti’s philosophy about desires and the continuation of sorrow and the importance of living a life without a single problem  that the most significant thing in life is not being Enlightened but living a life without a single desire and therefore without a single problem.

            “Seek first the kingdom of heaven, and all else will be added unto you.”

                                                                                                          -Jesus Christ

                                   “Now that we know the secret of living in the field of Infinite Grace and the mechanics behind fulfillment of desires,  shall we not kickstart our spiritual obligations towards God and take that quantum leap into the field of the unknown so that the most Supreme Godhead’s expectation from us, human beings, shall see the light of the day and prove  to be a living reality?”

     



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Finding solace in God

                        We, human beings, make an effort to find comfort or relief from our sorrow, suffering, sadness, grief, tragedies, shortcomings through various means. We go on a vacation after we become completely exhausted and stressed out from our ten to five job for months on end, we become engrossed in deep contemplation when we come face to face with the onslaught of a crisis, we try very hard to divert our attention and keep ourselves busy when there is an onset of mental turbulence and a neurosis or psychosis because that is what the doctor has advised as a way to restore our sanity, women see the need to find comfort in some other man when their most prized relationship crumbles down, we see the need to gain sympathy from near and dear ones after a rough tumble from the hands of the ever manipulative and selfish companionships, while others see the need for recreation and outdoor adventure to boost temporary happiness and satisfaction in their lives. Why then in spite of so many medium of temporary escapes do humans find it impossible to find permanent happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment and comfort, relief or solace or that magical piece of mind on an everlasting basis? It is because the only comfort, relief or solace is found in the field of everlasting or permanent happiness which is God and nothing else. Let us get into some details and see why.

                   Innumerable human beings make an excuse to treat Mother Nature as the One and make an effort to escape from the idea of the most Supreme Godhead or the miracle or magnificence of God. The truth is, Mother Nature is only a medium to know God and the totality and the leela or play of the most Supreme Godhead can only be grasped when a human being has evoluted to the role  of a spiritual aspirant and becomes one with Mother Nature, which is an image of God, through the final evolutionary spiritual growth process. The Absolute awareness about God cannot be gotten or achieved only by admiring Mother Nature as there is the absence of the Unitarian consciousness to be able to comprehend what God is about and realising the Infinite and Ultimate One. Mother Nature can only be a rung on the ladder or a stepping stone to know the most Supreme Godhead and ultimately  uniting with Him and your effort to comprehend the Absolute consciousness of the most Supreme Godhead in Mother Nature by employing emotional means shall only last as long as you sit on the terrace of a resort of a hill station clapping hands in great delight and gaping in wonder at the beautiful sight of the majestic Himalayas. Mother Nature can only play the role of a temporary tranquilizer to boost up your spirits and give you a high but the permanent antidote to give you everlasting comfort and joy would be abiding in the Kingdom of Heaven forever. 

                      Many human beings follow rituals and religion as a means to worship and get themselves devoted to God. Great saints and staunch devotees of God have professed that adhering to rituals and religion  reaps beneficial results and yields positive fruits. The human beings who adhere to rituals and religion instrument the body and mind to get themselves devoted to various man-made Gods. The real fact is that they  have not evoluted themselves to the final evolutionary process and is only one step away from the Kingdom of God. Since they employ the human body and mind  to execute their devotion to God, they are in the preliminary level or on the threshold to the field of the unbounded Self or the Kingdom of heaven. Spiritual aspirants who are Self-Realised stop following rituals and religion and start their unflinching and unwavering devotion to the most Supreme Godhead and any spiritual aspirant who are on their final evolutionary process will tell you that following rituals and religion by employing the human body and mind  are not a direct means to realise and know God. Therefore, it would be worthwhile for people who follow rituals and religion to realise that the only true, pure, selfless and unconditional form of devotion to the most Supreme Godhead can be generated by getting into the final evolutionary process, a spiritual growth exercise, awakening our dormant soul, restoring our most prized Self with full awareness, and abiding in the Kingdom of Heaven forever. The Ultimate comfort and relief to religious followers from their vast burden of suffering can only come about when they transform themselves from a religious life to a truly spiritual one.

                          The knowledge of the most Supreme Godhead through Gyan, Bhakti and Karma Yog can only make you knowledgeable about God on a superficial level. Genuine knowledge about God can only be realised through the most Supreme Yogic path which is Dhyan Yog or the spiritual growth process. The implementation of the human intellect through Gyan Yog is an ineffective medium to know God. The knowledge of the most Supreme Godhead through Gyan Yog can only make you limited about the surface level knowledge of God within the confines of the human intellect or the brain, not further than this. Since the impermanent human medium, the intellect, is a bogus aspect of the human frame, the genuine realisation of the most Supreme Godhead, which is gotten  through the Absolute or Unitarian knowledge, is but an impossible dream through the instrumentation of the pseudo subjective aspect, the human brain. True, pure, selfless, unconditional and the most staunch, the greatest form of love form for the most Supreme Godhead is realised when we become established in Self-Knowledge through Dhyan Yog and not through Bhakti Yog. What is the use of devotion developed through Bhakti Yog when the devout feelings towards God gets shattered the moment great misfortune and tragedies are met in life. The devotion generated through Bhakti Yog is something like a great Mahatma having to pour through the Bhagavad Gita the moment his state of mind starts getting turbulent. The devotion developed through Bhakti Yog is not unflinching, unwavering and is impermanent because the human mind which generates devotion or Bhakti through Bhakti Yog is not a permanent medium to produce genuine Bhakti or devotion. The  essence of Karma Yog  for you to lead a karmic life to attain transcendental knowledge of the Self and the Supreme can be achieved but in an indirect manner. Once again, transcendental knowledge about the most Supreme Godhead can be achieved only on a superficial level and not on a permanent or a genuine level through Karma Yog because it would not be stupidity to state for the third time that this Yogic path too instruments the impermanent and false mediums as the human body and the brain to get to know God. The true essence of all these three yogic paths can be exercised through Dhyan Yog or the spiritual growth process. An infinite source of knowledge, a staunch devotion and an action oriented life can all be incorporated into your life through the most Supreme Yogic path which is Dhyan Yog. Superficial comfort or relief can be achieved through Gyan, Bhakti and Karma Yog because of the impermanent and bogus tools and instruments they employ but the Ultimate solace can only be generated through the spiritual growth process or Dhyan Yog.

                 Transcending the fourth spiritual plane can make you the master of your senses and not slaves to it, and it can instill in you the primary virtuous qualities like goodness, pure love and transform you into a great  great adherent of Untouched Virgin Beauty. Permanent happiness is established once we are residents of the heart centre. Being established in Self-Knowledge can restore your unbounded, humble and egoless Self with full awareness and make you wholeheartedly receptive to the Infinite Will of the most Supreme Godhead. Getting yourself grounded in God consciousness can transform you into the state of Godhood in such a manner that you start perceiving God in not only the animate but also the inanimate and you have found the abode of God and have succeeded in uniting with Him when you become One with the Absolute.

                 If you feel you will get relief if you have the libido to physically satisfy your wife you have got yourself wrong because genuine relief is achieved only by being a master of the human senses. Perhaps, you mistakenly assume that achieving success in the material life can give you immense happiness but you may not know that this kind of happiness is transient and permanent happiness can only be established by transcending the Anahat or the fourth spiritual plane. You may feel that peace can be attained by taming the human mind but the truth is that the most peaceful Being in the entire manifested Universe is someone who has been successful in taming his Soul. There are mistaken beliefs that salvation and liberation can be attained by taking strong religious vows and abiding by certain rituals but the reality is that genuine salvation and liberation can only be achieved by transcending  God and Absolute consciousness. The abundant storehouse and source of all comfort and relief cannot be found anywhere you may go on the planet and by any means but can be gotten  only by awakening the asleep human soul. In other words, true solace can only be attained by getting ourselves established anywhere above the fourth spiritual plane or into the field of God. Therefore, genuine solace can only be gotten hold of by getting to know the most Supreme Godhead. 
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Plastic people and virtues rooted in originality

                            I  have given many examples of my life throughout my articles only for  the sole reason that I had no other examples to give. It is because I have only read two spiritual books till date and the rare accounts of the exemplary lives of great Yogis are too few and far in between in my recorded memory. Today, let me give you an example of plastic people living in an artificiality dominated world. I have  a habit of going to great lenghts to congratulate and wish people luck, fortune and prosperity when they disclose to me of their wonderful achievements in their material endeavours. I have a sister and brother in law who are living abroad and have always gone to great lengths to cheer for them, congratulate and wish them much more in the coming years to come. During my telephone conversation with them I spend at least five minutes only to wish them from the very core of my heart anytime they convey to me about their wonderful material achievements. One day, the brother of my sister who is my cousin suddenly retorted that my well wishes to his sister was nothing but a bogus praise of the makeup of the most phony poetic rhyme. A few months elapsed and I wished one of my aunts in the same manner only to be taken aback when she too retorted to not to do too much of all my sweet-talking!  

                           Plastic people rooted in a phony nature no more believe in virtues  any longer. The planet today is a duplicate world inhabitated by equally duplicate people. The personality value has spread like a forest fire and not the character or the principle ethics and phony human nature has the majority which is widely underestimating  and minimising the minority, the virtues and virtuous people rooted in originality. This is why virtues have no value to most of the entire world population roooted in plasticity these days. Almost  the entire world population has become  plastic. Most of the world population is invaded by double standard people with plastic nature and atheistic vices. People with virtues are minimised and not believed in because how can most of the inhabitants of planet earth who have a double standard believe and imbibe virtues? Plasticity and artificiality is the in-thing and virtues and virtuous people seem to be out of place. I have seen people mock and laugh at people grounded in virtuous qualities. People who are very virtuous are often termed a retard and even I have been called one once by one of my cousins who is totally addicted to the second most dangerous atheistic vice - sex. I know of one such character who designated  Lord Krishna a gay because of the intimate spiritual dialogue the great Gopala was sharing with Arjuna, while delivering the Gita on the battlefield of Kurushetra.

                               The categories of plastic people are mainly- opportunists, exploiters, diplomatic people, negative people, double-standard humans,  those with the two most dangerous atheistic vices which are money and sex, power hungry people etc.

                               Opportunists are people who normally spark off a friendship, relationships, pursue a membership of a political party or other institutions for grabbing opportunities in life. The opportunists are usually in a low and often weak familial, communal, societal position and are eager to bridge bonds with people who is normally in a higher financial and social position and status. They may also be well off people who are on the constant hunt for very affluent and high-profile benefactors. These opportunists have a habit of dumping the relationship of the low, mediocre and high level benefactors once the oportunities are grabbed and the advantages taken. The exploiters are those who are normally in a higher social and financial ranking and  whose main target is to exploit you and your skills and capabilities, naturally taking advantage, because of you being his subordinate and just because he enjoys a superior power than you do. These kind of exploiters suck the entire blood out of you like a blood-hungry leech and goes on defeating you until you don’t get to realise that he is doing nothing than only manipulating you. Diplomatic people always puts on a pseudo personality apart from his authentic nature to suit his field of interest. Diplomatic people put up an act of a very close friendship and relationship with you  to get his things accomplished whereas his real nature may not be the way you imagined to be. His entire personality is a cloak of betrayal and disguise since  diplomatic people never put on their true nature while ineracting with people. Shy away from diplomats if you are in search of true and enduring friendships and relationships. One should never jump to assumptions while interacting with a close friend. There should be a mode of detatched observation while communing and interacting  with every warm human  relationship you   share. If there is sometime a setback with your close friend and something fruitful and fulfilling could not be the outcome of your pleading assistance and aid to your close friend there could be a hundred positive reasons for the failure of an  amicable solution to your plea for assistance than a negative cause.  If there is someone close to you who has a habit of jumping to conclusions and who takes every bit of your initiation with only negativity it would be better to shun such company. Dont let things go in such a way that you shall yourself start being negative. Negativity is a pseudo and plastic nature and a person endowed with the discouraging feature of hundred percent negativitism is someone who has a bogus character. There are double standard people who act in a certain way with some people and just the opposite way around with other people. This category of people behave and act pleasingly with selected people and prefer to stay reserved  with people they don’t appreciate and choose to keep a distance. The principle motive of all double standard people as well as all the categories of plastic people is to exploit people and to seize opportune opportunities. So be careful of double standard people in your life! The worst category of plastic people are those who are slaves to the two most dangerous anti-God vices, money and sex. The filthiest and the most hopeless class of people on the planet are people who are addicted to money and sex and these class of people can go to any measure to keep on fuelling their desires for these two filthy vices.  These people go to any length to fulfill their objectives, any plans they may have while living their material life and to accomplish their addiction for money and sex. These class of people don’t even bar their nearest kin, relatives, friends, family members and even parents when it comes to the issue of fulfilling their desires for material worth, power, wealth and want for satisfaction of carnal pleasures even if it means thrusting the barrel of a shotgun onto a kin to fulfill their desires for sex. The power hungry people can be understood in the same terms as the plastic people addicted to sex and money. These category of people  annihilate everybody and anybody who obstruct their path to the seat of power.

                         “The origin of the original virtues lies in an awakened soul.”

                                                                                             -Ashwas Thapa

                           The source of the genuine virtues that can only be developed through the awakening of the Self is present only in awakened beings while the human values and virtues is never a permanent quality and is impermanent which can ebb away according the varying human conditions exposed to it. Virtuous qualities like love, truth, goodness and beauty gets reinvigorated in a spiritual aspirant who has chanced to have transcended at least the fourth spiritual plane, virtues which the fully awake soul exercises to exercise on a permanent basis among all human beings. The fully restored awareness is a permanent medium to exercise the spiritually developed virtues and is not impermanet  like the ordinary virtues exercised on the human level. Therefore, virtues rooted in originality can only spring forth from a fully awake soul and not from impermanent medium such as the human intellect or mind because the completely vibrant  Self  is a permanent reality to express and exercise genuine virtues and the human brain  a transient or bogus instrument to do the same. In other words, the spiritually awakened man is an authentic virtuous being and not an ordinary mortal grounded in materialism. “May we all live to be authentic  virtuous beings while living this life of ours on planet earth!”    
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Classes of devotees of God

                                            

                          The most Supreme Godhead’s much loved devotees fall into main three categories. The cream of the crop or the first category of God’s dearest devotees are the spiritual aspirants who have transcended the superconscious states and have that unflinching and unwavering devotion with which to worship the most Supreme Godhead. This class of devotees have a very permanent source of devotion towards the most Supreme Godhead and are staunch and extremely devout devotees of God. Absolutely, nothing can waver the deep devout feelings that this class of devotees have towards the most Supreme Godhead. Some living examples of this class of the most devout devotees are someone like Mahaavtaar Baba, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Sanjaya Sai Baba, Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, His Holiness Brahmaprajapita, Pilot Baba, Shivapuri Baba, Sri Nishargadatta Maharaj, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, Paramhansa Yogananada, Sri Yukteshwor Giri, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Rama, Sri Krishna, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, J. Krishnamurti, Mr. Dipak Chopra, Mr. Wayne. D. Dyer, Mr. Eckhart Tolle, Sri Sri Ravishanker etc. The second class of devotees are those who believe in the rituals and religion and worship the man-made Gods. This class of devotees are only one step away from God’s Kingdom as they make an effort to know God through rituals and religion by instrumenting the body and mind and not through the meditative growth process. The third category of devotees are those peaceful beings who abstain from violence and are in full control of violent words or deeds.

                   The third dearest and category of devotees of the most Supreme Godhead are those peaceful human beings who totally and completely abstain from violence and aid in magnifying the peace effect on planet earth. Actions that help prevent violence need not be complex and complicated but can be very simple while carrying out one’s worldly duties on the planet. It may be something like training your pet dog and regularly vaccinating him so that your pet dog does not get your neighbour’s knees torn apart by his sabery teeth and the least amount of harm is inflicted even if your pet inflicts his fury over your neighbours knee because your pet is vaccinated. Not wishing for the ill fate of anybody and not making an effort to pull someone’s leg is another aspect to someone that stops himself from violence. Abstaining oneself from using foul and obscene language and refraining from profanity may be another direction to prevent violence. “ Silence is Golden”, as Sri Sathya Sai Baba used to teach his much loved devotees. Therefore, keeping yourself  silent when a heated altercation  sparks off is another way to prevent word propelled violence to get converted to action oriented violence. Being very disciplined in the matters of pornographic and violent literature, movies and company and not getting influenced by them is another way to prevent violence form magnifying and  setting a bad example to the society. Socialising, partying and having get togethers at your own home can prevent  a possible altercation and a heated brawl under the influence of alcohol and drugs at a restaurant,  hotel or a resort. Paramhansa Yogananda has professed that all the rules and regulations laid down by the government are in fact laws enforced by the most Supreme  Godhead, therefore, following the code of conduct executed by the government should be strictly adhered by evey responsible citizen. This is definitely going to help peace prevail more effectively if the citizens are responsible enough to abide by the laws in a more responsible manner. If you are a non-vegetarian, purchasing meat from the local butcher and not sacrificing an animal is another means to curtail a direct form of violence. Not using plastic bags is another  measure to contain violence and planting tree saplings every now and then in return for polluting the environment with the gasolene from your vehicle is another non-violent practice because even polluting the earth is causing violence to the planet. Human beings who are non-meditators do not have purity of thought so normal mortals should take extra care not to propel the thought propelled violence into violence through word or deed. The third category  of devotees of the most Supreme Godhead are very very responsible people who are in complete self-control about their word or deed and every word or deed is measured, evaluated and executed in a non-violent form of execution. A single individual with a non-violent initiative and quite an amount  of tame  individuals can help  create a balance in the society by their sole individual non-violent approaches and can aid to a great extent in establishing peace  in the community. The most basic expectation of the most Supreme Godhead from the citizens of the planet is “Non-Violence”, so in my perspective, if one is a peaceful human being and non-violent, it is not mandatory  to worship and become a devotee of God. Your non-violent life is more than enough to please God and your peace initiative in other terms,  your worship and devotion to God.

                                 The  second most dearest devotees of the most Supreme Godhead are the ones who worship and are devoted to man-made Gods and follow rituals and religion. This class of devotees follow rituals like going on a pilgrimage, going to a Sunday mass at the church, fasting, praying, partaking in satsangs, singing devotional songs, bathing at the confluence of rivers, mantra and scripture chantation, reading the holy Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Vedas etc, getting themselves converted to missionaries, making strict religious vows, practicing celibacy   and remaining chaste with their soulmates, donating to religious groups, namasmarana with the rosary beads etc. The great Paramhansa Yoganada has proclaimed that rituals benefit those who practice it and following them reaps fruitful results. This class belong to specific religions and strictly abide by the religious doctrines dictated by the Prophets of that particular religion. The people belonging to such religions worship and are devoted to a man-made God or several man-made Gods and normally have deep devout feelings towards them. In other words these people employ and instrument their body and mind to follow rituals and religion and worship the various man-made Gods. Since this class of devotees instrument impermanent mediums like the body and mind to offer their devotion, they are  only one step away from uniting with the unbounded Spirit or the abode of God. Since they adore and are devoted to man-made Gods they are also only a step away from the realisation and knowledge of the Supreme Self. Violence is inflicted on human beings by atheists who have no fear of God and those who don’t adore and respect the most Supreme Godhead whereas theists or devotees of God abstain from all forms of violence and stay composed and disciplined throughout their lives. This scribe wants to emphasize one more time that the Infinite Will of the most Supreme Godhead for us humans to follow rituals and religion plus worship the man-made Gods is to maintain discipline and contribute to the growth of the peace effect on the planet and the entire manifested Universe. Discipline  like in the former case is extremely essential to maintain balance on the planet and in the entire Universe as well. We have seen how disciplined the staunch devotees of rituals, religion and the various man-made Gods are. 

                 The first category or the most dearest devotees of the most Supreme Godhead are the spiritual seekers who have transcended the superconscious states. This class of devotees have awakened their spirit or have found their abode in God and have maintained a perfect balance of the body, mind and spirit. Since pure devotion can only awaken from the depths of a fully awake soul and not the mind, this class of devotees are very staunch in their devotion to the most Supreme Godhead and have an unflinching and unwavering devotion towards Him. Superficial discipline and balance may be attained by being strong adherents of peace and being devotees of rituals, religion and man-made Gods but genuine synchronisation of peace by maintaining discipline and balance  can only be attained by the spiritual growth process, awakening the soul, abiding in God forever and therefore being authentic devotees of God. In other words, the most genuine and dearest devotees of God are the spiritual seekers. It is because of the purity of devotion that spiritually evolved beings are endowed with that makes them the most dearest devotees of the most Supreme Godhead.

                 The Ultimate objective of all forms of devotion remains the same- To be in total self and Self control, maintain discipline and balance and conribute to the peace of the world and the entire Universe.
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