THE REAL GOD & GOD-HOOD

While almost all religions of the world have tried to personify GOD in some way or the other, the reality could be that GOD is in fact the cessation of boundaries and end of localized identification.

The concept of GOD is not there to make us superstitious, dogmatic, puritan or unduly religious. He is not be unnecessarily feared or slavishly obeyed. Though most of the religions have tried to personify HIM, some even believing that HE can actually re-incarnate in human form, the fact it seems is that GOD is in reality the ultimate state of being which is beyond the constraints of time and space – which can be achieved by humans only if they follow the right path in the right earnest.

GOD means dissolution of self, GOD is the elimination of selfishness. GOD does not come, we don’t reach GOD. HE just happens. GOD lies as the ultimate reward of meditation. GOD happens when during meditation subject gets completely absorbed into the object, so much so that one can not find the difference. The two have become one, nay not become one, they have just happened. 

GOD is the end of duality. HE is the potency of Cosmos. HE is the ultimate expression of the power of totality. Some have called HIM as pure and unconditional love. It means the same – HE stands for union, integration and the sense of universality. An unethical man may have focus, concentration and he may be an expert in his field and very successful in life. In some sense, he has the conditions of ‘GOD -HOOD’ – when he works he looses sense of time and space and goes into the flow. But that alone is not going to take him too far. He is bound to come down in this life or in subsequent lives. Only those habits, practices and behaviours which do not satisfy the personal ego and rather which help others can eventually lead one to GOD – HOODS. 

GOD – HOOD is simply the end of conditions, restrictions, limitations, boundaries and freedom from all types of narrowness and sense of self. It is the most natural yet the ultimate state of existence. To achieve GOD – HOOD, one has to follow ethics, values and principles and cultivate a universal outlook, unconditional love and selflessness.

Conditions, restrictions, limitations and boundaries have to completely go. These have to go from the conscious and unconscious minds. These have to go from all aspects of one’s behaviours. It’s not like you improve on a single front and stay the same on the other. It has to be inclusive, all encompassing, all round and holistic. 

The path to GOD – HOOD is laden with ultimate complications, with the most deadly and deceptive delusions, and earthful of challenges. One has to follow his conscience, the universal values, the tradition and all that will take him closer to his goal. GOD – HOOD is neither worldly detachment nor withdrawal. GOD HOOD is the accomplishment of the ultimate. It happens with co-culmination of wisdom and right attitude and at the ripe time.

Religions are indicators. They show us the path. Spiritualities belonging to different religions try to explain the laws and the broad guidelines to achieve GOD – HOOD. Most religions believe in life after death. They also believe that you reap as you sow. If you have done good deeds, you will be rewarded. If you have done bad deeds, then you will be made to suffer. However these seem to be conditionalities. These are paths to existential cycles. These are the games that creation plays. These contribute to the journey, the journey gets bigger.

GOD – HOOD can give us the best in this world and also in the other world. We can earn wisdom and wealth and protect ourselves from deadly situations created by wicked men and unruly nature. It should be our prerogative to come closer to GOD – HOOD and that too in this very life time. The stepping stones to GOD – HOOD also include coming closer to perfection, cleanliness, orderliness, sense of proportion and sense of moderation. Universal values like truthfulness, honesty, industriousness, sincerity, loyalty must also be pursued. Though it’s difficult to pursue these values in the contemporary world, but that is the challenge before us – how to manage with these ethics even in these tough times.

In the end, it can be said that attaining GOD – HOOD must not mean becoming the master of universe, rather it should imply becoming inseparable with the existence. Miracles, supernatural powers, mastery of elements – these are peripheral incidents in the voyage of GOD – HOOD.

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