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Articles: Devotion | Love is the Key
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Man is designed that he can derive anandha (bliss) and maintain it only through association with his kind .To divest oneself of all contacts with others, and tread a lonely path is a sign of weakness, of fear, not of courage. Lively association alone produces morality, justice, compassion, sympathy, love, tolerance, equanimity and many other qualities that toughen and train character, and mould the personality of man. Culture is the consequence of the co - mingling of hearts and heads.
A group of individuals, who are charged with or contempt of each other, cannot produce any beneficial effect on any of its components; a common outlook, or rather, a common inlook, is he essential factor, Sama-chintha – the sameness of beliefs, opinions and attitudes- is the prime factor.This Sama- chintha must result in a flood of anandha (divine bliss) that envelops and enthuses the entire group.
If the individual knows he is Divine and that all else are equally so, that consciousness is the best bond for Society, that anandha is the best atmosphere to sustain the Society – how can a person who knows that all are Divine keep away from the God He recognizes? “I am he, he is I, both I and He are kith and kin in Him.” This awareness is so thrilling so satisfying, so uplifting that each Society is the noblest Sathsang (holy company ) man can ever come into.
This Universe Enveloped in God
Shutting yourself in a room and offering incense and flowers to a picture or image of God, singing His glory are very pure substitutes for the discipline that will liberate you from ignorance. All beings re images of God, all mere His pictures, then, why shut yourselves in? All creation is marching on a pilgrimage to Him; why then behave as if you are trekking it alone? You believe that the time spent in church ot temple or the domestic shrine in adoration and in ritual worship is devoted to God and the rest is spent for other purposes. But you cannot demarcate and delimit the realms of God and man like that. God is ever with you every where vasudhevassarvamidam-“All this is God..
”Society is the school where this lesson is taught to those who earnestly seek.
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