Who is Your Very Best Friend?

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Who is Your Very Best Friend?

 

By Dr. Frank Morales, Ph.D.

(Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya)

 

 

Do you have friends? Of course you do! Who doesn't have friends?

To even pose such a question would seem silly to many of us. As

human beings, most of us are social by nature, and we need to express

our need for relationship in the form of our many friends and loved

ones. Most of us even have one or two people who we would call our

very best friends – people whom we trust completely, and who we know

are always there for us in times of trouble.

 

While almost all of us can say that we have truly good friends,

however, the truth of the matter is that most of us have no real

knowledge about who our truly best of friend really is. The very

best friend that we have is the same one whom we tend to ignore the

easiest. Indeed, most of us spend much of our lives running away

from our very best friend as fast as our little feet can take us.

That very best friend in your life is Bhagavan: God. It is God who

is not only your very best of friends, but who is responsible for the

friends that you do have now.

 

Accepting the reality that God has given us the gift of friendship in

our lives, I want to pose an interesting question to you.

 

Think of the very closest friend that you have in this world. This

person cares about you and would do anything for you, right? Of

course he would. Well, this is my question: Do you have any friend

or loved one in the world, including even your very best friend, who

you can say will never abandon you? Do you have a friend who, in

fact, will look after you and follow you as you traverse lifetime

after lifetime, sometimes being in male bodies and sometimes in

female bodies, sometimes in the body of a slug or sometimes in the

body of a king; who will be there as a silent witness seeing you in

your best of times, but also seeing you when you're at your very

worst? If you answer this question honestly, you know that there is

absolutely no one – however much they may truly love you – who would

be willing to do this for you. No one.

 

Yet you do have such a friend. God as Antaryamin (the Inner Witness)

patiently and lovingly accompanies us as we journey from one life to

another. Bhagavan (God) doesn't ever judge us or abandon us. Rather

God chooses to reside ever-present within our hearts as the silent

witness of our actions, emotions, and thoughts, observing us in our

good times, and at our very cruelest and most selfish times. Yet,

even more so than the most loving parent we could ever imagine, God

never gives up on us. Instead, He waits patiently and lovingly, our

True Friend, yearning for us to come to the realization that we are

never alone. He waits for us to quiet our mind, to still our

uncontrolled desire for selfish pursuits, and to turn to Him and His

loving embrace.

 

To know this Eternal Friend, we must cultivate love and devotion

(bhakti), for this is all that God asks of us: that we make Him the

priority in our lives, and that we try to love our very Best Friend

as He loves us. This friend has written us a letter of love called

the Bhagavad Gita. Read Bhagavan's letter to you, love Him, and live

His Dharma daily. Thus you will know more joy, more peace, more

fulfillment, and more bliss than any human friend can ever give you.

You will directly experience the love of Bhagavan.

 

 

The Author:

Dr. Frank Morales (Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya) has been a

practicing American Hindu for over 30 years. He has a Ph.D. in

Religious Studies and is recognized as one of the leading Hindu

Acharyas in the nation. He is the Founder and President of the

International Sanatana Dharma Society. To contact Sri Acharyaji,

email him at: info.

 

 

His primary websites are:

 

http://www.dharmacentral.com

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http://www.drfrankmorales.sulekha.com/