WHY WE REVERE WHO WE REVERE

WHY WE REVERE WHO WE REVERE

Man instinctively bows down before men of character. Where he sees a shortcoming in himself, he pays obeisance to one of richer resource, as if by way of recompense for failing to actualise in his own life what seemed possible in the realm of dreams. Now fulfilment of sorts he seeks in adoration of the great ones in whose lives he finds the fulfilment of his failed aspirations. Thus, reverence wells up from the inner recesses of the heart in intuitive apprehension of one's future fulfilment, now realised vicariously through appreciation of attributes in another that one sees as one's own in the making indistinctly. This is the science of adoration at its spiritual-psychological causal level.

Written by Sugata Bose