What does God feel?
From our childhood, we are taught to pray to God. We are told to revere him, respect him. We are told that he provides us with everything. So, we ask him for a lot of favours. I remember, when I was a child, I used to pray to him asking for good brains, good marks etc. A younger cousin of mine used to ask "Ummachi, ball kudu, bat kudu." Child's innoncence.
As we grow up, we continue to ask for many other things in life. We keep a photo of all gods before the exam. We break coconuts in a Ganesha temple. We ask for a job. Parents ask him to give them a good groom for their daughter. Like this, we keep asking for a millions of things throughout the life. Even at the fag end of the life, when we are eighty plus, we perform puja's and ask for more years to live, as if all that is not enough. So, all the time we keep begging for something. Give me this, give me that. Will there not come a time when we stop begging him for all such material objects?
If I were a father, and my son asks me for toys in his childhood, I will happily give him that. If he asked for a bike as a teenager, I will give that, if I can afford it. A little later, if he asks for some girl, I will agree to that. But, as I grow older, and he grows older, I would like him to stop asking me for things. I would never want to see him shamelessly beg. Instead, I would like him to come to me, to be with me. I would want him to come to me not with another request to be fulfilled, but with a heart full of love for me. I would never want to see his palms folded and cupped, but would like to see then wide open to embrace me.
In the Mahabharatha, we all know of this episode where Arjuna and Duryodhana approach Lord Krishna before the war. We know that Duryodhana asked for the whole of Krishna's army, while Arjuna was happy to have Krishna with him. We also know what happened in the end.
One who has God with him, has everything with him.
As we grow up, we continue to ask for many other things in life. We keep a photo of all gods before the exam. We break coconuts in a Ganesha temple. We ask for a job. Parents ask him to give them a good groom for their daughter. Like this, we keep asking for a millions of things throughout the life. Even at the fag end of the life, when we are eighty plus, we perform puja's and ask for more years to live, as if all that is not enough. So, all the time we keep begging for something. Give me this, give me that. Will there not come a time when we stop begging him for all such material objects?
If I were a father, and my son asks me for toys in his childhood, I will happily give him that. If he asked for a bike as a teenager, I will give that, if I can afford it. A little later, if he asks for some girl, I will agree to that. But, as I grow older, and he grows older, I would like him to stop asking me for things. I would never want to see him shamelessly beg. Instead, I would like him to come to me, to be with me. I would want him to come to me not with another request to be fulfilled, but with a heart full of love for me. I would never want to see his palms folded and cupped, but would like to see then wide open to embrace me.
In the Mahabharatha, we all know of this episode where Arjuna and Duryodhana approach Lord Krishna before the war. We know that Duryodhana asked for the whole of Krishna's army, while Arjuna was happy to have Krishna with him. We also know what happened in the end.
One who has God with him, has everything with him.
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