Digest Number 396

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Jai Sriman Narayana!

 

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> -Message: 12

> Thu, 16 May 2002 11:22:45 -0000

> "Sudha" <sudharama

>About Life

 

>Namasthe,

>I have a question here.If the sole purpose of human

>life is to worshio God who has given birth to him

>then why did god created the man at all.>

 

We originally belong to the nithya vibhuthy or the

parmanent abode. We are now in the Leela vibhuthi or

the God's play ground. We came here thinking that this

is amusement (jest like we visit Disney Land). When we

go to the Disney, atleats, we are aware that what we

see is only temperory and rather unreal. However, God

has created the Leela Vibhuthi so perfectly that

although it is transient and ever changing, we are

thinking that this is permanent and and that I am the

body. We get different bodies based on our karma. God

has given the intellect to the human so as to

contemplate on who he is and what is his/her goal.

 

If one is tired of the cycle of birth and death and

are tired of the leela vibhoothi, then we have to

think of GOD. Serving God is our real constitutional

position in the paramenent abode. If we do not think

of God, we continue to accumulate Karma and are bound

to be in the Leela Vibhoothi. By serving God, we

slowly develop attachment to God and develop mental

detachment to the things in the Leela Vibhoothi.

Moreover, God is the only person who can remove our

karma. By serving God, we develop love toward Him.

This love makes us transcend the material world.

 

>A teacher wants a student to do his homewrok pefectly

 

>and not to praise him. Similarly a man should do his

>worldly duties perfectly. Does he need to praise the

>teacher again and again.

 

It is not that the God wants us to praise Him; If we

realize our identity that we are athmas, and if we

realize that Athma is like a sharira or a covering for

God and that God is the real owner of our athma and

sarira, and when we realize the Kalyana Gunas of God,

we automatically praise Him. GOD owns this Athma, jest

like we own the clothing/shirt we ware. God is going

through so much trouble to rlieve us from the

suffering and bondage to the body. A child fully

engrossed in the play does not want to come into the

house. God is our mother who wants us to enjoy the

parmanent joy.

 

>What is the sole purpose of god in creating man

We are part and parcel of God. We are like His anga as

our hair is the part of our body. The hair can not

exist without our body, but we can exist without the

hair. Our true enjoyment lies in serving Him our

owner. Man's intellect allows this realization. After

innumerable births in darkness, we have finally come

to the human life. He has given this life to realize

our true nature and act as His instruments.

 

Jai Sriman Narayana!

Narender Reddy