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Namah Vol. 27, Issue 3, 15th October 2019

much distorted, — is that man is fundamentally, instinct of divinity is expanding to embrace
in his core nature, divine. The divinity he and include others. We feel sympathy for
seeks is within him. In fact because it is within our fellowmen, not just for those who are
him he seeks it here and there, somewhere our fellows but also for those who are very
or everywhere. Even the atheist who strives different from us in their way of life and
for a better and more perfect world order is customs.
in search of this concealed divinity within.
The man who is in the grips of dangerous This does not end here. Our intuition for
addictions is suffering because he feels the divinity extends beyond man and we feel for
loss of this inner divinity which is the source other creatures, for animals and even plants
of all joy and peace and thereby seeks it through and rivers and our material environment.
alternate routes. In fact it is never lost but Thus we progress from our crude initial
veiled so to say. The thicker the veil the cruder start towards a more and more refined and
is man’s life and his efforts to reclaim this lost expanded state of self and being. As we thus
paradise that he carries within him take the progress, it becomes increasingly impossible
form of crude means that would make him to shut God in any narrow fixed formula
feel empowered and give him momentary of life or to imprison His vastness into any
thrills and satiety. By various means he tries dogmatic belief systems that go by the name
to rebuild this lost divinity but fails and falls of religion. Creeds and cults and sects may
frustrated since he is searching the right thing have been necessary in our early primitive
in the wrong place. In fact if we look closely conceptions of divinity. Our egoistic self
we shall find that much of our suffering stems extends towards other ego-selves that share
from the fact that we instinctively expect the our ideology and beliefs.
world to be perfect. In our relationships too
we want others to be perfect while deeply Our idea of the One
oblivious of our own imperfections.
But since this divinity within us is One in
The intuitive sense of divinity its infinity, we also wish to see this sense
of the One expressed in every other life.
This instinctive need for a better and better But since our idea of the One is limited
life takes various forms in man. On the by our narrow conception, therefore we
one hand it creates in him an urge for try to either eliminate or crush down or
constant progress towards perfection. On relegate to an inferior position all that does
the other it is also the root cause of his not conform to our own belief system, be
perpetual dissatisfaction and consequent it religious or ideological since they are
suffering! This search for improving our two sides of the same coin, for religion like
own condition initially takes the form of Ideology is mind-born. They both catch
selfish endeavours. We are driven by desire the shadow of something true but neither
and ambition without care or consideration understands what this shadow is nor how
for others. But as man evolves into a better to realise it in life. The only difference is
specimen of humanity he begins to seek the that while religion approaches it through
betterment of others as well. It is as if our the heart and hence sees behind this shadow

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