When I go deep into the life histories of the great
people of exemplary character who dedicated their lives for the cause of the
truth, including even those who were believed to be the incarnations of the
God, we find that all of them sacrificed all what ordinary human beings could
never have thought of sacrificing, went through excruciating conditions of
painful penance and fiercely struggled against the tyrannical ways of the
people with greedy and violent minds. None among them, without exception, targeted
happiness and peace for himself; they lived for nothing but only to make others
happy.
When
I try to fish out something worth reading out of the voluminous mythological
literature, I find that the God, whom the man has always tried to elevate to
some unapproachable heights above the seven skies, was often found walking
holding the hand of some poor and lonely fragile old man in a stinking narrow
lane. I find it extremely difficult to disassociate such impressions of mine
about the God, His incarnations and his selfless followers from the concept,
the theory and the practices of spirituality and religion.
The
‘Sadhya’ (the thing that must be achieved), the ‘Sadhan’ (the
tools needed to achieve what must be achieved), the ‘Sadhak’ (the one
who tries to achieve what must be achieved) and the ‘Sadhana’ (the
rigorous efforts needed to achieve what must be achieved); they all lie the
circumference of the wheel of human life moving with the propelling force of
constant and undiminished experiencing of the pains of others as if they were
one’s own. The spirituality and religion target realization of the God, the
ultimate truth, which, in fact, is ‘the thing to be achieved’.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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