Guide To Piligrims

It is here man is called to rise above his lower consciousness, to see Him as omnipotent, in all things and to identify Him with everything animate and inanimate. Every man we see is to be seen as the Lord himself: “Yastu sarvani bhutani atmanyevanupasyati”…

“God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He them.”

“It is not only the temple which is the house of the Lord where we worship, but the whole world of God’s creation. The kingdom of God is not in any particular place or time. It is like lightning, it is here, there and everywhere. The kingdom of God is within man.”

“Man is born not of the flesh alone but also of the Spirit, Every man is conceived of flesh and of Spirit. Of the flesh he is flesh. From flesh spirit cannot be born. Spirit can come only from Spirit. Spirit is the living reality in man which knows freedom and understanding; it is that of which we know neither the beginning nor the end.” The Vedas proclaim:

“Narayana parojotih atma narayanah parah Y ascha kimchit jagat sarvam drisyate sruyate piva Antarbahischa tat sarvam vyapya narayanah sthitah “Whatever is in this World, whatever we see and hear, whatever is inside, in all these is present the All-pervading Narayana.” This Narayana is the Superme Light and the Spirit in man.

It is this Narayana, this Supreme Light, Brahman, that we have to see in all, whether rich or poor, young or old, male or female, of whatever faith he or she may be, animate or inanimate. One in all, all in One: “Anubrahma paryanta jeevaikya bimbam.”

The living soul of all that is created by God is Brahma. Of his animate creations, man is the last envisaged by God in the process of world evolution, and in man He found a perfect being in which to implant the means of understanding the truth of life, that he is a part of the Supreme and that the purpose of his life is to realise this.

Do we not go to temples and prostrate before stone idols thereby solemnly and silently proclaiming and accepting the Divine in the stone image?

Did not the Lord come out of a wooden pillar when Hiranya challenged Prahlada to prove His omnipresence?

Did not the Lord come out of the stone when Markandeya embraced the Sivalinga?

What greater proof do we require of His omnipresence?

Until we accept God’s Law of the equality of mankind and endeavour to see the One in us in all others by fulfilling His Will, as against man’s law of individuality, sectarianism and pursuit of personal aims and gains, we cannot rise above the lower ignorant consciousness of mind and body and realize the eternal Dharma, for so long as we follow the dictates of the mind and seek the pleasures of the body we shall not progress towards realisation of the Truth.

“Not al who cry ‘Lord, Lord’ shall reach the kingdom of God but those who fulfil the will of the Heavenly Father”.