What would God care for man’s
perfections or imperfections? Surely He has better tasks to focus His attention
on. In the story of creation, God said, “It is not good for men to live alone.
I will make a suitable companion to help him.” And so man got the joys of
nature all round him and yet remained unsatisfied and lonely; and then there
was the creation of Eve. (Perhaps it’s for this long past necessity, that many
Adams till date consider Eve’s purpose as only to satisfy their need for
companionship.)
The Sunday
religion versus the soiled everyday lustful worship of a common man is a sharp
contrast of distance and mingling with the Supreme Creative Force. The
Shiva-Shakti unison, is the symbolic presentation of the oneness of the Creator
with His Creation, every moment and in every action. Bathing, washing of hands,
wearing particular garments and bending in obeisance, are after all only
exterior motions, attempting to reach the Still Supreme. Great masters have not
exactly abnegated the fun of the world on the journey of enlightenment; in fact
they have understood the blending in the performance of the duties of the body
and that of the soul. The world is too powerful an existence to completely
brush aside for mankind. He may not be able to walk on water but he has the
capacity and the strength in the flow of the liquid to dive and swim his
journey.
The Sunday
religion then, would keep God as a kite flying high in the air, whose string
got detached from man’s fingers, but on the other hand, every moment could
become a thread of connection; the lowest, the grossest and the noblest times
could not exist without the presence of God; since He is the creator in all and
of all. In his omnipresence and omniscience, He could not waste His omnipotence
on molehill matters, assumed mighty, by the miniscule man.
Every moment
then, could be the perfect one of remembrance as against a one day respectably
dressed worship of Puritanism.
The lower
self in its day to day copulation with the lusts of life will gradually climb
the scale of oneness.
I may live
in a palace built on top of a hill, but can I ignore the existence of the
beautiful green farms at the foot of those hills? Wouldn’t I be a fool then, to
believe that my hill top existence would keep me to God and make me reach Him
faster?
beautiful thoughts.
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