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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Playing God

If I ask you what would you do if you are God ? , the frontline and impromptu answers will we something like following
1) Get ourself some big materialistic gifts , a huge mansion , jet , car and so many things etc।2) Do something charitable , may be vanish people's disability
3) If one is very visionary thou may go up to the extent of removing violence , poverty and corruption from world

Now let me break my question into two parts
a) What would you do for yourself if you were God ?
b) What would you do for others (environment,world,Cosmos) if you were God?

Lets hear the answer for first part of the question , it has all the thing to do with you so your focus will be
1) Materialistic pleasure
2) May be some changes in your appearance/body etc.
Now think , who wants these things ? is that you who needs these things or is this God who needs these things. Put yourself in the position of the Gods you believe , I will take example of Trinity of Hindu Mythology , Brahman , Vishnu , Shiva. Lets look in the daily lives of each of them what do they do for their entire Godly life span. If you have ever seen any of their pictures or some of Ramanad's Tele Soaps or read hindu scriptures you would know all three of them are ever meditating. None of them have any special house for themselves , None usage any fancy vehicles ( like pushpak etc.) and none have any specific demands from their devotees , they all claim to be happy by just remembering their names with love and faith.
Does this ring a bell to you , what would mean being God for self .
What I can understand from this observation and Indian scriptures ( like Yoga Vashishta, Samkhya ) that God is ever satisfied in himself , he is ever conscious ( full of consciousness which veda's term as sat-cit-anand). God does not have any desires , he is so much in peace with himself that he does not want to change anything about Thou self. Thou does not care what kind of body he has , He does not need any special kind of food , any special kind of environment because he has control over his mind and hence he has trained his mind to think ( or remain passive) in such a way that it does not crave for desires . Result of all this is a mind without any unfulfilled desires , A mind which is ever happy , A mind which has such a strong concentration that by just a small thought it can start cosmic evolution and by just another it can destroy it . Above all it is so fulfilled and detached that it will not have any satisfaction or happiness by creation and will not have any remorse in destruction ( it's like a full pot can not be filled further and an empty one can not be emptied further).
Now coming back to my first question " What would you do for yourself if you were God ?" , will you change your answer , knowing that its mind which goes behind earthly pleasure and also knowing none of those will ever satisfy it , If not controlled it will always have more demands to satisfy now what is it that you would do for yourself . I guess ask for peace of mind , a focussed and controlled mind , a detached self , a consciousness which can drive or stabilise mind ( and not the other way round). If one can do this , he is God of himself , because now there is no decision about him attached to external environment , its all with in.

I leave the second part of question un answered as of now , but having answered first part we already know what is it more important to any individual so what ever makes happy to you should also be good for others ! as they are also seeking constant happiness ..

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