YOU ARE THE GOD WHO YOU WORSHIP
When you think you worship God, it is your own Self that you worship but you do not realise because of ignorance. When realise dawns, you are amazed to see your identity with the very God you have been worshipping all along. This, of course, happens post Self-realisation when the least bit of ego surfaces again after the blessed dissolution of all into nought about which cognition is possible but articulation not so, for it is beyond the domain of thought and speech and, as such, inexpressible.
However, the identity of God and the Self in true and this is the reason the Upanishads declare the divinity of sentience to be the quintessential feature of life. But, although, all of sentience is divine, it is the human species alone in its highly evolved state that can reach this sublime spiritual level.
All things said and done, man is divine and through ignorance lends divinity to an imaginary God who is but his image for He is human creation in a sense. But the transcendental being does exist in all splendour but again it is the Self of man, nay, man himself shorn of human attributes and devoid of name and form. Complex it may seem and incomprehensible at that but once the realisation dawns, clarity comes and conception shines in self-luminosity. Then it is forever the Self brooding on the Self barring occasional lapses into the subtlest charms of magical Maya which yet mesmerises for the moment quite incomprehensibly.
But that is still not to say that this imaginary God plays truant. He simply does not exist the way the Semitic religions project Him to be.
The Hindu has caught the life-breath of his God in his own Self and this is the supreme truth in the realm of relativity while in the domain of the absolute the Self transcendental reigns as the solitary monarch of singular survey.
So, do not cower before your imaginary God and consider yourself helpless in the absence of divine grace. With spiritual understanding the tide will change and God will be put in His due place as secondary element to the prime power of the Self which, O man, you yourself are in your pristine purity, in your native nascent innocence.
Seek no more the grace of God but shower it copiously on Him. This is the radical stance that needs to be adopted to throw off all information garbage received from childhood before one is ready to be aware of one's own divinity which alone is the true divinity that exists. All else is secondary nonsense which may and must be discarded in the fullness of time in realisation.
Written by Sugata Bose
When you think you worship God, it is your own Self that you worship but you do not realise because of ignorance. When realise dawns, you are amazed to see your identity with the very God you have been worshipping all along. This, of course, happens post Self-realisation when the least bit of ego surfaces again after the blessed dissolution of all into nought about which cognition is possible but articulation not so, for it is beyond the domain of thought and speech and, as such, inexpressible.
However, the identity of God and the Self in true and this is the reason the Upanishads declare the divinity of sentience to be the quintessential feature of life. But, although, all of sentience is divine, it is the human species alone in its highly evolved state that can reach this sublime spiritual level.
All things said and done, man is divine and through ignorance lends divinity to an imaginary God who is but his image for He is human creation in a sense. But the transcendental being does exist in all splendour but again it is the Self of man, nay, man himself shorn of human attributes and devoid of name and form. Complex it may seem and incomprehensible at that but once the realisation dawns, clarity comes and conception shines in self-luminosity. Then it is forever the Self brooding on the Self barring occasional lapses into the subtlest charms of magical Maya which yet mesmerises for the moment quite incomprehensibly.
But that is still not to say that this imaginary God plays truant. He simply does not exist the way the Semitic religions project Him to be.
The Hindu has caught the life-breath of his God in his own Self and this is the supreme truth in the realm of relativity while in the domain of the absolute the Self transcendental reigns as the solitary monarch of singular survey.
So, do not cower before your imaginary God and consider yourself helpless in the absence of divine grace. With spiritual understanding the tide will change and God will be put in His due place as secondary element to the prime power of the Self which, O man, you yourself are in your pristine purity, in your native nascent innocence.
Seek no more the grace of God but shower it copiously on Him. This is the radical stance that needs to be adopted to throw off all information garbage received from childhood before one is ready to be aware of one's own divinity which alone is the true divinity that exists. All else is secondary nonsense which may and must be discarded in the fullness of time in realisation.
Written by Sugata Bose
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