Just
as we search for the God, the God also searches for the entities in the
universe that may enable Him to express Himself. In fact, we also have a
constant desire to feel that ‘we are’ or ‘we exist’. For some of us it may be a
very casual desire to stand before a mirror, and for a few others, it may be a
strong need to know ‘who am I’. The scriptures say that the God does not need
anything, and hence has no desires, but those, especially the ancient Indian
philosophy, does not rule out the presence of some kind of desire that the God
has. It argues that there must have been some kind of desire of the God that
made Him create the universe. If the God, the most powerful entity in the
world, does have desires to fulfill, He, like us, may be interested in
expressing Himself. A strong argument in favor of this assumption is that the
God, being the creator of this universe, may love to look after His creation
ever remaining close to His creation.
We human beings, the superior most living beings on the
planet earth, have all the qualifications to become the entities through whom
the God may like to act and express Himself. The ancient Indian scriptures are
the source of knowledge about repeated rebirths in various life forms, the
ultimate being that of being born as human beings when the man gets the freedom
and opportunity to prepare himself for salvation, the blissful state of
permanent union with the God.
The God, the creator of the universe, is also believed to be
the one who maintains it and has the wisdom of when to destroy it when it
becomes necessary. Perhaps, He, himself, is the universe. When we elevate our
consciousness from the level of self-consciousness to the level of universal
consciousness, we become most eligible candidates through whom the God will
love to express Himself. When this happens, we develop within ourselves a part
of those kinds of powers that help us in all such thoughts and actions that are
for the benefit of the universe.
Is it not better to understand the God as a very superior form
of energy pervading in this universe to support the maintenance and destruction
of this world? And, is it not better to understand the human beings as entities
having many affinities with the God and having needed physical abilities to
accomplish the tasks the God proposes? Just as we search for the God, the God
also searches for us. The God proposes and searches for the right ones from
among us to accomplish the tasks He has proposed. The sun does not revolve from
the east to west; it is the earth that revolves from west to east. The
objective view is that the God, not the man, who proposes. If we accomplish
what the God proposes, we swim downstream with much ease.
Our search for the God is of far less consequence than the
search of the God for resources that can maintain His creation in a happy and
healthy state, because that is where our welfare rests. If we work upon us to
qualify for the God’s selection process, we come closer to our ultimate union
with the God.
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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