Page 454 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
The answer was clearly explained by our Great Master Rev. Sri Ramchandra that the kingly thing in man is thought. It is necessary to identify this faculty mainly in man otherwise it is essentially same as in any other animal and he is essentially endowed with the two well developed faculties of thinking (reasoning) and capacity to express the feelings. Everyone agrees that life is meant for happiness and that is the purpose of creation of God.
But what is happiness and by what means to achieve it is a question that is making everyone to ponder over. Man using his intelligence and capacity is trying to explore various possibilities to bring in happiness in this world. But still there is lacuna and some unknown dissatisfaction in the hearts of all. The material comforts or reaching heights in a profession, family life or in society is still not giving happiness which is lasting. Happiness derived due to any kind of achievement in the material life is only temporary. So it is essential to know that we need to also have a Spiritual Goal to be happy. In our day to day life, we find people being unhappy in spite of having all material acquisitions of comfort and also achieving name, fame and adequate progress in their professional careers because, all progress is in material/ worldly sphere, which is only limited or finite. So if we try for finite with finite, then we cannot be happy, as we are infinite by nature being an amsa of Divine.
So in this connection we have to contemplate on the sentence of our Rev. Master that ‘We should attempt the finite for the Infinite’. Attempt means a sincere effort to achieve what we want and just not try and leave it. He further says ‘if we attempt for the finite alone we proceed with an unsound base. The idea should be to proceed from the finite to the Infinite. It should be the idea that we should also make the finite to be merged into the Infinite’. The human being who is superior to all other beings of
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