The Destiny of Man-15.

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Temporarily you have forgotten your eternal oneness with that.

It is a state where you have wandered away and have become alienated from your source and origin, and that has started all your problems.

All your weeping and wailing, all your present human pains and sorrows and sufferings are to be directly attributed to your having separated yourself in consciousness from that great reality which is the very quintessence of peace and joy.

So from this state where only half the cycle has taken place you have to start the journey back home and complete the cycle and rest once again in that pristine state of divine perfection and freedom.

This is the destiny of man as cognised by seers of transcendental divine insight.

They saw man not as a weeping, wailing, fighting, quarrelling, laughing little earth creature.

They saw within this earth creature potential for God-consciousness, potential for cosmic consciousness, potential for divine experience.

And until and unless that is attained man has not fulfilled his destiny.

This is the vision of man and his destiny of the illumined sages and saints, the Mahapurushas.


But then as all man-made institutions they are perfect when they come into being and gradually the limitations and defects of human nature corrupt them.

And when the spirit is lost overemphasis is given to form and man clings to the outer shell.

So the spirit of the quest and the attainment of once again recapturing that glorious divine state, that spirit is lost. Man becomes satisfied in fulfilling only the outer form of religion, in performing ceremonies and rituals and does not know that he deprives himself of the greatest experience.

The real essence of religion, the heart of religion is God-realization.

Within the context of the great religion of the Vedas and the Upanishads the one insistence is upon realization and direct experience, not merely secondhand experience and outer form, but direct realization.

The outer forms may help if intelligently pursued.

They may bring about a gradual upward rise of the consciousness, day by day, if you are genuine about them.

Otherwise they can become serious obstacles holding you bound forever to a lesser plane of consciousness.

SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
To be continued .........

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