Passage 6

In English

Body, mind and conscience

God is not somewhere outside. He is the indweller in the body. Sin is the result of one's own actions. Hence it is folly to seek God elsewhere. Man wants to know all about the world and ventures to explore outer space. But he is unable to know his own true nature. How is he to know his self? The self is called conscience. The spiritual quest means making use of the vibrations from the conscience to understand the truth. Today man follows only the body and the mind and becomes a prey to all kinds of troubles. Man has to discover his divinity. The answer was given by in the . Without troubling to find out where God is, it is enough if one worships the mother and the father who are the living embodiments of God. By pleasing and acting according to their wishes one can get their blessings. To ignore the deities who are directly visible, in the form of one's parents, it is delusion to search for an invisible God. exemplified this truth when he told king that without the consent of his parents he would not consent to wed , although he had won her hand by lifting 's bow. Similarly; when and came to the forest to appeal to to return to to rule over the kingdom, firmly declared that he had to fulfill the pledge given by his father to and complete his term of exile in the forest. Honouring the words of the parents is the highest virtue. This has to be observed by one and all. and are therefore to be worshipped in the physical forms of one's parents. The two deities have no forms. The forms seen in the paintings of are the products of his imagination. They have no basis in reality. The formless divine has to be experienced in the respiratory process which proclaims the oneness of the individual and the cosmic Self in the sound . In breathing in with the sound 'So' and breathing out with 'Ham,' the life-breath is declaring: "I am God," "I am God."