Human desire to know
God is carried out through various activities. Some people are rooted in
material pursuit and worship God, but only to fulfill their selfish desires
and have their dreams realised, some devote a not so complete interest towards
God, some perceive that Mother Nature is the essence of God and abide by a
virtuous life and abstain from violence which they think is the duty of every
ordinary mortal and most of the people belong to religions, worship man made
Gods and follow the various rituals and scriptures that their specific religion
dictates."Do we think getting devoted to God but only to cater to our needs and
to know that God is only a desire fulfilling machine to accomplish our
insatiable desires the right perception about God? Is it to know that God is to
be taken for granted and whose aid and Grace can be sought only in times of
dire necessity and not to be worshipped
when happy days are rolling by the other way to comprehend God? Is it to think
that knowing God is only about putting on your pseudo virtuous qualities,
abstaining from violence and not about instrumenting the spiritualistic nature
which is the real essence of being born as human beings and that rituals and
religion is the means to attain Grace, salvation and liberation and therefore
the only means to knowing and realising God?"
The employment of
Bhakti Yog to get devoted and to know God is surface level devotion and
superficial knowledge. How can a false and transitory medium like the human
intellect which develops pseudo devotion be employed to get devoted to God and
have a direct knowledge of God? It is because the human mind is in reality a
false existence and can be transcended through the spiritual growth process and
the fully awake human soul which does all the thinking is the only medium which
can generate the true devotion required to devote oneself to God and to have a
direct knowledge of God. Humanistic
devotion to know God is bogus and is not unflinching and unwavering but in fact
it is the restoration of the fully awake soul which is essential to get
grounded in true, unconditional, selfless and pure love towards God and to have
a direct knowledge of God. It is because the humanistic devotion is superficial
and the spiritual devotion genuine and that the tool which develops the
humanistic devotion, the human brain is transitory and the fully awake soul is
a permanent reality. Genuine Grace and true salvation and therefore authentic
knowledge of God can only be achieved by
being spiritually evolved beings.
Using the human
intellect and pouring oneself into stacks and stacks of spiritual books is not
the right method to have a direct knowledge of God. Metaphysical studies can
give oneself deep insights into the Eternal play or leela of God but the
antidote needed to soothe and comfort
your mind shall last only as long as the comfort moment prevails. Once you are out of your comfort moment
and start getting swamped by the conspiring play of the opposite polarities
which are the villainous human emotions,
you shall again have to remember or pour through some insightful spiritual
knowledge to revive your peace of mind . So the right antidote or the correct
antibiotic to get you grounded into the field which is independent to the
play of the opposites, to give you a
stable peace of mind or to get you established into the area of total peace, perfect
composure and permanent happiness is the fully restored human soul.
Rituals, worship,
pilgrimage, animal sacrifice, fasting, idol worship, praying,humanistic
devotion, a Sunday mass at the church, superficial knowledge of God through
metaphysical studies or adhering to some religion is not the direct method to
know and realise God. Employing the human intellect and torturing the human
physical body to know God are roundabout methods and indirect knowledge. Undergoing
the spiritual evolution, undertaking the most rigorous endeavour in the entire
manifested Universe, a spirtual exercise and fully reinvigorating the dormant
human soul and restoring it with full awareness is the only direct method to
know and realise the most Supreme Godhead.
There are primarily
three categories of seekers who have a thirst to know God. The first category
of seekers are inborn devotees of God who are knowledgeable about God early
during childhood and start the Eternal quest to realise God. These are the
highest category of spiritual seekers.You can
make this out by the exemplary lives these kind of seekers lead. Saints
falling among this category is someone like Paramhansa Yogananda and
Ramakrishna Paramhansa. Saints like these are the very cream of the crop among
the various kinds of seekers present on planet earth.The second category of
spiritual seekers are the ones who start their spiritual journey by inquiring
into the meaning of human existence. The greatest hunger human beings have is
to have meaning into their lives and finding fulfillment. When they look at the
life around them and start questioning their own lives, these kinds of seekers
realise there is no meaning of a material life which is naturally a hellhole of
suffering and make an effort to find
fulfillment by estabishing a direct communion with the Self. The last category
of spiritual seekers to which I belong start their quest to know God when they
are faced with intense suffering in their lives. If I had not come face to face
with sorrow and suffering in my life maybe I would never have started my
spiritual journey and would not be conveying God’s message to you all right
now. Suffering is only a process of evolution and it can transform people’s
lives if they look in the right direction.
We all have hunger and thirst
for different things in life but we may not know that the desire for all material possessions and their temporary
accomplishments are not real fulfillment. The real fulfillment is found when we
take a U-turn from the external to the internal or from outside to within or
from the direction of the human intellect to the soul and get to abide in God
forever.The thirst to know God and the quest thereafter may be challenging and
very very rigorous but at the end of the journey when we get to realise that we
have found what we have been looking for, we will know that the path had been
worth taking and very very worthwhile.
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May you all have that intense and deep burning desire and thirst that Paramhansa
Yogananda had to know God.”
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
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