[Lecture written up by DN Persaud c1961 ]
It is true that this search for happiness or joy may often be directed in the wrong direction , for instance the burglar who feels that robbing his neighbour of of his goods would bring him happiness, and so he robs him and so on.
Then there are those who feel the accumulation of wealth or worldly good would produce happiness and so they strive after these things. Some would climb mountains, others dive into the depths of the ocean.
It is indestructible. It is all pervading. It is infinite, absolute, untrammelled and possessed of its won unity and bliss.
The cosmic process has assumed the five stages; matter, life, mind, intelligence and bliss.
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If we are to ask any number of people we meet, one question – what is it you desire most , we would invariably get the same answer, regardless of the fact that these several people be drawn from different ways of life or of different status and differing from each other in every way possible, that answer – I desire most to be happy or the things which would make me happy. The words may not be the same, but an analysis of the answers would boil down to the fact that the desire is happiness.
If we are to ask any number of people we meet, one question – what is it you desire most , we would invariably get the same answer, regardless of the fact that these several people be drawn from different ways of life or of different status and differing from each other in every way possible, that answer – I desire most to be happy or the things which would make me happy. The words may not be the same, but an analysis of the answers would boil down to the fact that the desire is happiness.
This shows clearly that all human
endeavour is with this one objective to obtain happiness and joy.
It is true that this search for happiness or joy may often be directed in the wrong direction , for instance the burglar who feels that robbing his neighbour of of his goods would bring him happiness, and so he robs him and so on.
Then there are those who feel the accumulation of wealth or worldly good would produce happiness and so they strive after these things. Some would climb mountains, others dive into the depths of the ocean.
First of all , what is worship
The definitions given in the dictionary
are
- adoration paid as to a God
- religious service
- profound admiration and affection, etc etc
Now what is the purpose of worship,
this adoration to God, this love and reverence which is adoration?,
What is the purpose?
In Hinduism, the highest and ultimate
conception of the Supreme is that it is is Eternal.
It is indestructible. It is all pervading. It is infinite, absolute, untrammelled and possessed of its won unity and bliss.
In the cosmic process, dualities and
oppositions which obscure the infinite undivided reality arise.
The cosmic process has assumed the five stages; matter, life, mind, intelligence and bliss.
The human being is at the fourth stage
of Vigyana or intelligence. He is aware of the universal reality
which is operating the whole scheme. He seems to know mater life and
mind. He has mastered to a large extent the material world, the vital
existence and even the workings of the mind, but has not yet become
the completely illumined consciousness.
Even as matter is succeeded by life,
life by mind and mind by intelligence, even so the intelligent man
will grow into a higher and divine life.
God's purpose for the world or the
cosmic destiny for man is the realisation of the immortal aspiration
through this mortal frame, the achievement of the divine life in and
through this physical frame and intellectual consciousness.
The Divine dwells in the inmost being
of man and cannot be extinguished.
It is the inner light the concealed
witness, that which endures and is imperishable from birth to birth,
untouched by death, decay or corruption
It is the principle of the Jiva, the
psychic presence which changes and which and grows from life to life
and when the ego is completely harmonised by the Divine, it ascends
into spiritual existence which is its destiny and until this happens
it travels from birth to birth.
So the purpose of worship like that of
all other endeavours is the attainment of this unity or harmony which
is called self Realization.
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