True Nature of Worship by Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya..Part - 6

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Dear All,

 

The true meaning of *upasana *is to link the inner self with the Supreme

Soul. Just as using some system when an empty reservoir is connected to a

filled reservoir, the water begins to flow from the filled one into the

empty one and the latter also gets filled up like the former. In the same

way by establishing contact with the Supreme Soul all His divine greatness

designs to flow into the sole of the *upasaka*. But if some obstruction were

placed in this connection, the flow would stop. Water would not reach

reservoir and man would not attain greatness.

 

Cold iron receives heat from fire when it comes near it. But if a board of

wood is placed between it and fire then iron would be deprived of the heat

of fire. In the same way, in the process of *upasana *when the obstacle of

doubts and desires is put between the soul and the Supreme Soul, man gets

deprived of receiving the grace of the Supreme Soul. It can be assumed about

a devotee in whom inculcation of Supreme Soul's attributes is not seen that

between his soul and the Supreme Soul lie the obstacles of desires, wants,

passions, and delusions and unless these hindrances are removed, the true

fruits of *upasana *cannot be attained.

 

Of all the people that pray and perform rituals, most do not perform *

upasana*, but they only make a show or imitation of it. Either they are

driven by ignorance and emotional excitement or the thought of displaying

their importance through *upasana *pervades their minds. Or the objective of

their *upasana *is fulfillment of some desire and not the attainment of the

Supreme Soul.

 

The long cherished aim of human life is to attain spiritual peace. The bases

of this peace are those attributes, which are the natural qualities of the

Supreme Soul and can be attained only through *upasana*. But the true *upasana

*is that which is done only for its own sake without any other motive. Begin

doing *upasana*, which is free from all expectations, to establish contact

between your soul and the Supreme Soul. And by attaining divine light and

greatness experience the infinite *upasana *and the life that is brimming

with the grace of indestructible peace and unalloyed happiness. Every

feeling, thought, action and object becomes a form of *upasana *— in order

to attain that high state it is our pious duty that daily we must continue

(for a short time at least), to perform *upasana *of the Supreme Soul with a

true and devoted mind. This apparently small effort of *upasana *when

becomes an integral part, an essential requirement of our life and when its

absence begins to cause discomfort, then in this practice of *upasana *itself

would start inducing the joy, the eagerness, the inner force of the

individual self (to unite with its Supreme Origin). The effect of this

enriched feeling and bliss of *upasana *would then sustain during the entire

long period of the day and for all that time we would experience the

proximity of the Supreme Soul.

 

This way our brief attempt of *upasana *would gradually mature and

assimilate internally, its effect would augment, deepen and sustain for

longer and longer periods and if our sincerity and emotional depth in

this *upasana

*simultaneously get enhanced in greater proportions, then there is no doubt

that through this brief *upasana *we would enter into the state where the

self identity, the beings and the whole world appears to be contained in God

and God appears to be pervaded in everything, every where in the world. Each

action and reaction, feeling and thought, even the inhalation and exhalation

of breath begins to be experienced as a form of God.

 

 

.... To Be Coninued ....

Author : Pt Shriram Sharma Acharya

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