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Source: The Hindu (http://www.the-hindu.com)

 

Man finds security in the presence of God

 

CHENNAI, JULY 2.The Absolute Reality which is non-dual, is

identical with the Self (Atman). The Self is self-revealing and

its essence is consciousness and hence it is referred to as being

(conscious). It is limitless in space and in time. These

attributes are intuited in one's experience of the Self, which is

blissful. The knower and the known (subject and object) exist in

the consciousness. The non-dual consciousness is not opposed to

subject-object duality and can be compared to water and the wave

existing in the expanse of the ocean. From this analogy it is

possible to gain insight into the nature of the Supreme Reality.

The entire manifestation derives its being from this Reality.

 

Due to a certain adjunct this all-knowing Reality becomes God

(Iswara), who is also omniscient and whose manifestation is this

manifold creation. Thus God is both the efficient and the

material cause of this universe of insentient and sentient

beings. The limitation at the empirical level does not have an

independent reality and is a component in our process of gaining

knowledge of the objective world.

 

In his discourse, Swami Dayananda Saraswathi said the search for

understanding this truth was instinctive in human beings. The

feeling of insecurity starts as an infant when the baby begins

its independent existence from its mother. At that stage it is

totally helpless and has absolute trust in its mother and then

also in its father. But as it grows up, this trust gets eroded

when it understands the limitations of its parents. The search

for psychological security which is centred on the ``I''

continues till it ends in the presence of the Almighty.

 

How does a person find this security in his life? Sunlight can

enter a dark room only when the windows are opened; so also an

aspirant must welcome God into his life. It is possible to

discover God and connect to Him through knowledge. Just as love

unites two people, it is necessary to emotionally connect to God

through His manifestation which is before us. One need not know

botany to appreciate the beauty of the forest; likewise, when we

appreciate this universe in its totality, one develops the

intuitive understanding that it is the Almighty who is manifest

as this diversity. The understanding of the Divine in the

biological, physical and physiological orders must be extended to

the psychological order also to discover the freedom ``to be''.

The human mind is complex and it has the capacity to exercise

this choice.

 

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