MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES AND SUPER SAINT

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The different pictures of God that man can give must flow out of his own

range of vision and imaginations. Man is a self- conscious being that

eminated from one without blemish. But due to his own imperfections, he

cannot conceive of the real as it actually is. He gives God a conscious

personality like himself in as good a farm as could be conceived by him. He

is expressing his own frame of mind, related to his own notions and needs

and in accordance with the stage of his development. The origin and the

progress of religion provide interesting material of study. The primitive

man was ignorant of the workings of nature and its laws. On the one hand,

he was without resources necessary for his comforts needs and, on the other,

he was beset with thousand dangers. Violence and disease visited him

unaware and carried him off before he became old naturally. When he could

neither understand the natural phenomenon nor control them, he

personified their causes and from the analogy of his own being supposed that

a spirit dwelt in every natural object. Fire provided warmth and enabled

him to cook his food, and was therefore accepted as a kind of God to be

loved and worshipped.

The inclemency and the fury of the elements, however, was supposed to hide a

malignant God behind, that needed to be appeased to avert their wrath

and to win their favour. As civilization progressed and gifts of nature

in the form of crops, etc., through rains multiplied his Gods changed and

evolved. Deities always arise in terms of human needs and get all the

homage and adoration that poetic fancy can imagine. Worship of stars,

mountains, woods, spirits, giants, dwarfs, and fairies, has gone on. It

was, infact, always feat that had made gods for man and it was to enlist

them to his old that he propitiated them and offered them flattery

o ---- them listen to his supplications. The God must have been born

out of fear. Lingam and Yoni and even soil were worshipped as procreative

spirits. Then born the magic. To bring rain in a drought, or a child to a

barren woman or to find cure for diseases or to win victories over enemies,

magic was freely employed. Many prayers are up to this day, of the nature

of magic formulas mumbled over and over again with faith in repetition for

their efficiency and effect. Then the appearance of the dead in dreams and

the fright they caused produced first ancestoral worship and then of the

defenet kings and strong men. But later these human gods were further

humanized so that not strong man but good man began to be adored. As the

horizon of man’s vision further extended, a more exalted concept of divinity

was adopted. He could not then be given a human, for, that would put a

limit to His omnipotence and omnipresence; nor could he be supposed to be

subject to human passion of jeolousy, wrath, revenge, praise or adoration.

So the new god was supposed to be diffused through all matter. This was

pantheism, but this also could not satisfy the needs of human soul, as it

was too abstract and cold to provide-solace and comfort which personal God

could. But the personal aspect of God too, in whatever form one may

consider, has always gone on evolving depending on the level of the

human race, its prejudices and prepossessions. Man does not know God as

He is but as he imagines Him to be. It can be said with good deal of truth

that man creates God in his own image, which sometimes may be more

hallucination or The figment of his own imagination. Persons, in tune with

the infinite could alone give the most correct picture of the Personal

aspect.

 

 

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