Man, His Own Masterpiece

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Man, His Own Masterpiece

 

The descent of God as Avatar and the ascent of man to Divine Perfection are two

axioms of faith. Is the ascent of the man an outward phenomenon, an extraneous

pursuit? To a question from a devotee about where one can find God, Sainath of

Shirdi said, " Awaken your inner self. You will find God " . It is probably worth

contemplating on this comment by the Saint God. Mind, which is at times a

perpetrator of myth, is also the means through which one can practice

discrimination. The discrimination between myth that is transient and the truth

that is eternal. This discrimination is accomplished not by any intellectual

means, but by sheer insistence and honest yearning for the self-transformation.

Such attributes will eventually lead one to the right master and the master will

lead the seeker to his own self. Smt. Mani Sahukar writes in " Saibaba, the Saint

of Shirdi " , the integral and harmonious realization where the seeker rises to

higher and higher level of consciousness is the ultimate goal of the Vedic and

the Upanishadic teachings. This fact can well be summed up by quoting the

beautiful words of Dr. Radhakrishnan, one of India's most enlightened

philosophers- " Liberation is not the isolation of the immortal spirit from the

mortal human life, but transfiguration of the whole man. It is attained not by

destroying but by transforming the tensions of human life; man's life, mind and

body are not dissolved but are rendered pure and man becomes his own

masterpiece. "