MEANING OF WORSHIP

Main purpose of worshipping Absolute or God is to shed arrogance of mind, which can entice any person into building false ego as a doer of work or duty or acquirer of great knowledge leading to tremendous achievements and respect in life.

Bargaining of worship for fulfilment of worldly gains is like selling gold as scrap. Many would question that if one would not request God for better life than whom should one? For them, a midway is, pray twice - once with a list and second time without a list of jobs to be given to God.

God has declared that He knows our past, present and future and already doing the best for us in every respect. Thus there is no need to ask. If one insists, then God directs the beggar-devotee to one or more of 330 million demi-gods/goddesses/angels to attend and Himself turns away. (Reference: Srimad Bhagwad Gita).

'Four kinds of people remember God on this earth. First, who are unhappy with life. Second, who bargain worship for business-like worldly gains. Third, who try to define God by acquiring knowledge and understanding (intellectuals). Fourth,  who simply love "Me"/God and always seek God's company. Out of these four types of devotees, only the fourth category, those who love "Me"/God alone acquire "Me"/God. (Bhagwad Gita).

Practically uneducated and yet celebrated devotee like Saint Kabir sang 'World has died reading scriptures, and yet no-body realized God; four-lettered word, LOVE, whoever has understood, is indeed the realized-one' ("Pothi pud-pud jug mua, hua na pandit koi; dhie akshar PREM ke, padhe so pandit hoi").

TO ENJOY IS LIFE

Secret of happiness on this earth is enjoy doing ones own duty, without much attachment to the fruit of the duty. Attachment to acquisitions or rewards of work only holds us back from moving forward. One must set targets to achieve, as this is important for efficiency of performing duty. But, attachment to results, if not achieved, leads to disappointment (unhappiness), which further reduces the zeal to perform duty. Like our most-desired toys of childhood no-longer interest us now. Likewise, we might discover that our present achievements may mean trivial to us in future. The best way to celebrate the achievements is to share acquisitions with contemporary peers, less successful than thou - not enslaving them to laziness, but encouraging them to take their duty more seriously. Last and the most important aspect is not to allow one's success go to the head and fire the ego. For this, dedication of achievements to  ONE - GOD - hiding behind our temporary identities is the technique. These fundamentals are derived from over 5000 years old treatise on Self-mangement: Bhagwad Gita. Omn, Amen, Amin!

HARLOT OR MAAYAA

1. Maaya, demons, opposition to the right path are created by God to test if His seeker truely loves Him or has some fears/desires on his list. 
2. True seekers of God, say no to tentalizing maaya politely with folded hands & proceed ahead with unitary focus on meeting God.
3. The purpose of maaya, according to Gita is only to provide an unfailing test on seekers of God, as this knowledge is denied to fickle minds. 
4. Knowing God is the sole purpose of knowledge. Bhagwat Gita is the only scripture that describes God in 1st person and directly envisions God. 
5. Only those devotees of Truth/God, who can conquer maayaa by self-disciplline, can realize God.
6. Maayaa is conquered by seekers of Truth/God by refusing to accept ill-gotten powers/wealth/comforts/sensory pleasures, just as test-hurdle. 
7. Indian mythology calls maayaa as illusionery feminine-image of God, and wise take a direction opposite to instinctive maya-net to realize God. 
8. According to Gita, everything that alienates man from God is maayaa/corruption. Seekers of God renounce maayaa (which includes our false egos too). 
9. Counterpart of illusionery woman harlot has a parallel in "maayaa" in Indian mythology. She allures man to worldly desires by indisciplline.

PURPOSE OF LIFE

Purpose of this human life is not just to achieve happiness - it is to achieve ETERNAL BLISS, advises Bhagwat Gita.

All living-beings on earth wear a protoplasmic (matter/energy) clothing for a life-time (like a jail-uniform) which gives them their individual but temporary identity.

Life on earth is like a prison, from where, prisoners refuse to escape despite when its doors are open: biggest surprise! Our attachment to this jail of highs and lows of life is responsible: Bhagwad Gita. 

"Working on assigned duty with full sincerity without attachment to the fruit of all activities of life is the simplest way to achieve best in this life and attain Bliss/God": Bhagwad Gita 3.19.

All living-beings are like God's robots, doing useful work without realizing this fact. Man knows this and yet wastes life to reap unjustified profits from work. 

An earthworm unknowingly does more useful work by making the top soil more fertile for food production than a lazy-man wasting life making only lame excuses.

Life on earth is evolving through approximately 8.4 million species of pleasure-hunt:  looking, unknowingly for the same TRUTH, which they once ignored.
 

Only persons of limited intelligence see themselves as one-time personalities living on earth and behaving as mere assemblages of atoms of matter/mud.

LIFE - A HURDLE RACE

Life is a hurdle race - the bigger the hurdle one crosses, the bigger the achievement.

All living beings are given a protoplasmic dress at birth, which grows to an optimal size for carrying out some work in a requisite survival-niche.

Reward of work carried out may be proportional or out-of-proportion to work performed, depending on factors understood or not undestood by mind, which is a habitual exploiter in the situation.

Smart people become observers of their own mind, and do not un-necessarily react to relative situations of happiness, stagnation and unhappiness.

God has made man to act and not to react and stay even-minded in success or failure by remaining unattached to the world - Bhagwat Gita.

Like our body organs are serving  with dedication to us, without wish of focal enlargement of any hardworking organ like heart, liver, etc; man has to learn to behave working peacefully within the norms of the bigger organism, called society.

GOD, GURUS AND US

1. This universe is connected to God's naval via an energy-lotus chord. Must listen to our gut-feeling: maybe, it is God calling. Omn, Amen, Amin! 
2. The whole universe is like ONE VIRAT living being. Selfless karma and welfare of all is the key to authentic existence and true self-love.
3. Guru/teacher/religious leader has a purpose to facilitate understanding of truth for ignorant common man & not misuse followers for power.
4. Raam, Krishna, Budha, Christ, Mahaveer, Mohammad and other great ones have left positive marks on us, so that we love and live happily thereafter, not to politicise.
5. Wisdom lies in understanding one another to unite and strengthen our positivity, rather than finding reasons to differ to flaunt false egos.
6. Destination of man is to be God by self-realization, bargaining less than that is fooling oneself. Chew comments at http://twitpic.com/1ttcxj .
   
7. It is better to fall in line with the principles governing the universe - everything surrendering to Nature - than to invite the dooms day by destroying nature . 
   
8. See how our embryonic body cells surrender identity to become brain ,heart, liver, kidney, rectum, etc., despite all having the same DNA. Any rebel cell can be cancerous. 
   
9. No one can order blessings. 
   
10. The only level of identity that has some purpose is self-confidence. Beyond that is a problem.
    
11. A wise person is ever-ready to learn from every incident and any other being. Egoistic person misses all opportunities to learn. 
    
12. Like one "peel-off" the skin by a beautician, removes millions of dying cells to invigorate us, nobody is supposed to live in form for ever. 

BEAUTY IS JOINING TRUTH

Secret of eternal beauty remains as ever: "Satyam (to truth) Shivam (being attached) Sundram (is beautiful). The funda of looking good is therefore: always remain attached to truth (Satsang).

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and duty in your own hands.

Any attainment, whatsoever, if not permanent is no attainment. Likewise, beauty lost with time is no beauty.