The ONLY God Modern India Should Worship.

Namaskar Readers,

We see that every religion has its prime figure or an idol to worship. Christianity has Jesus Christ and his Apostles, Islam has Prophet Muhammad with Allah as the only God, Hindusim is a Polytheistic Religion with a manifold of various Gods within itself.

Please observe why we worship God. Every god is a source of inspiration for us to seek perfection, to seek true knowledge. In terms of devotion, people serve gods simply because of love or maybe any desire or wish but the essential concept of 'god' is to have a physical figure which we can focus on, to walk on our path. In Southern India, there are many many villages which have assumed an imaginary form as their own god!  In Ancient Times, every village had their family god. Even some tantric practices include assuming a deity simply by imagination!

It is a famous saying that 'God has not created men, but men has created God.'

In our context, this saying is actually true.

But unfortunately this concept of god has been corrupted now. This vividness of gods now cultivates religious fanaticism and religious divisions. Because of this constant quarrelling among religions, the youth, the new generation now thinks that how can this religion make us harmonized if they're busy fighting among themselves - And the youth debunks everything!

The 'so-called' frontline religious leaders are now busy just in proving their religion superior to others. 

To summarise everything I want to mean here,

I would like to quote Sri Ramkrishna in this matter. When a devotee asked Sri Ramkrishna that if all religions are essentially same, why there are so many gods, so many scriptures and so much difference?

Sri Ramkrishna, without a moment of hesitation, replied, " When you were young, it was difficult for your mother to keep you hydrated by water as you did not liked to drink it. Thus, your mother made lemonade or any other tasty juice to let your body get water. In the same way, all the religions are but variety of juices and drinks whose essential ingredient is water. As people in the beginning stages of spirituality do not like to drink pure and formless religion, there are diversed choices of tastes in the form of these gods and goddess and magical stories. It is just to make you attracted to it. In Reality, spirituality is completely formless and odorless, pure and prestine. I myself have tried every religion and have settled on the same conclusion - Liberation. "

All this is clear now. You may ask now that WHICH RELIGION is the best and the fastest to reach our goal. The answer my friend, comes from the chief disciple of the 19th Century Mystic Sri Ramkrishna - Swami Vivekanand.

When Swami Vivekanand was young, maybe a child of 10 years, he went to a local fair with just 2 rupees to spend. Instead of spending the rupees in tasty sweets or merry-giving-rides, he bought a statue of Lord Shiva with the 2 rupees. He loved how Lord Shiva sat in meditation in that statue.

Now, when he was passing by, he saw a boy of age 3 or 4 playing at the middle of the main road. He was busy in his play when suddenly a carriage of bullock was coming towards him. The bullock was coming towards him so swiftly that none had time to react. The little Vivekanand saw all this and not taking a second of time, threw the Shiva Statue from his hands and pushed the child away from that carriage.

Alas!

The child was saved and the Shiva Statue lied on the ground broken into pieces.

We had seen earlier that how Vivekanand loved the statue. Still he threw it to save a living life.

In this simple story, the gigantic mindset and the divine character of Vivekanand is visible to us. This story itself defines the destiny of that great Modern Saint which in his later life he was to achieve.

His only medium of worship was service to his fellow beings. To save a LIVING GOD, in a moment he threw that dead statue which just helped a devotee to focus a form to worship.

We can see his celestial mentality in a letter which I've mentioned here :-

"May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls—and above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship."

Letter to Mary Hale. Written from Almora on July 9, 1897. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Part-5. Page-137.

Thus, I conclude,

It is the selfless service of our mates, seeing in them the living god, the only god visible and provable, whose worship the Modern India Needs.

"They live those who live in the service of needy, others are more dead than alive."

Thank You,

Daksh Parekh.