Our Life is a very valuable, precious gift of the God.Man is
called
as a master of all animals (i.e. living beings). According to Darwin's
theory of evolution the life from the single cell like Ameba has
been evolved
to the stage of a man after many many centuries of struggle for
exisitence.
Our life is the musical expression of the God`s love and his blessing.
The origin of our life is not here but in heaven. There in the
perfection
of the Divine plenitude we are born. What appears to us, as material,
earthly, flesh-bound life is in reality divine. The religion and
philosophy
have confirmed, and support the non-earthly origin of our life.
Scientists
think that life does not originate on our planet, philosophers say
that
life has its source in cosmic region and theologians believe that life
is a gift of God.From these inspirations arise the fine offspring of
the
soul, poetry, philosophy, religion, art etc. When you begin to think
that
you are born in heaven your mind can no longer be fascinated by
unheavenly
things, which are surrounding us. We are very much fascinated to
know about
the creator of this universe. At this stage a self-introspection
starts
to know whom am I? What is the force which upholds the universe?
What is
that by which we live, by which after death we live again? There is
one
infinite, eternal, changeless, Existence, the ALL from that ALL comes
forth,
to that all returns. "The one only without a second" (Chandogya.VI).
People
gave many different names to that ALL .The most ancient and well known
and accepted name is "BRAHMAN".Western philosophers gave a name as
God."God
in his own nature." Man naturally bow down to this BRAHMAN the supreme
power and started praising, worshipping by paying highest respect with
humility.This shaped into the true supreme Divine love together with
the
steps leading to it is called Bhakti/Devotion.The Devotion is of the
nature
of love only because it is the opposite of the hatred and it is
expressed
by words, and deeds.The Bhakti is firm love.Shri.Madhwacharya the
founder
of the Dvaita philosophy has stated that there is no place for
Bhakti in
the form of hatred.Shri.Jayateertha in his "Nyayasudha" Defines Bhakti
as under: "It is a continuous flow of love uninterrupted by
thousands of
obstacles, which is many a times dearer than one's own self and
other belongings
and which has the knowledge of unlimited, infinite, flawless,
auspicious
qualities of God." Man's love of God (Bhakti) should possess this
quality
of clinging firmly to God at all costs. It is only such a love that is
capable of revealing to the soul his true relation to the God as his
image
(pratibimba)
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