(Post 16)
(Source: http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2003/Mar_Apr/v1.AwakeningDivinity)
Those who worship God begging for a few worldly possessions or for fulfillment of ego-centric desires can't be true devotees, even if they spend all their time in prayers and rituals.
Glad consent to God's will is the real spirit of devotion; it is the prime condition to be fulfilled for being a devotee in its true sense.
God has assured His devotee in the Gita - 'yogakshemam vahamyaham' - I will provide for all your needs.
True! God does take care of his devotee but He has not promised to satisfy his cravings.
Yoga and kshema mean taking care of your physical, mental, intellectual and spiritual well-being. Don't chase the mirage of passions and desires; it devalues the dignity of devotion and the eminence of God's grace. The relation between the deity and the devotee is graceful and dignified only when the devotee doesn't beg for anything but rather offers to entirely give himself to the divine. God has already given you so much! He has created you. He is always taking care of your yoga-kshema, without your praying for it.
God is not a particularly embodied being. It is we who have conceived Him in various forms. If it is a must to give a definition, God could only be vaguely described as an infinite ensemble of supreme moral principles, saintly ideals and nobility. Faith in divine values and ideals, and a self-disciplined endeavor to live for high principles is true devotion and enlightened worship.
(Source: http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2003/Mar_Apr/v1.AwakeningDivinity)
Those who worship God begging for a few worldly possessions or for fulfillment of ego-centric desires can't be true devotees, even if they spend all their time in prayers and rituals.
Glad consent to God's will is the real spirit of devotion; it is the prime condition to be fulfilled for being a devotee in its true sense.
God has assured His devotee in the Gita - 'yogakshemam vahamyaham' - I will provide for all your needs.
True! God does take care of his devotee but He has not promised to satisfy his cravings.
Yoga and kshema mean taking care of your physical, mental, intellectual and spiritual well-being. Don't chase the mirage of passions and desires; it devalues the dignity of devotion and the eminence of God's grace. The relation between the deity and the devotee is graceful and dignified only when the devotee doesn't beg for anything but rather offers to entirely give himself to the divine. God has already given you so much! He has created you. He is always taking care of your yoga-kshema, without your praying for it.
God is not a particularly embodied being. It is we who have conceived Him in various forms. If it is a must to give a definition, God could only be vaguely described as an infinite ensemble of supreme moral principles, saintly ideals and nobility. Faith in divine values and ideals, and a self-disciplined endeavor to live for high principles is true devotion and enlightened worship.
