Q) Why do we need to seek God?
A) Human beings feel a kind of emptiness, a kind of "incompleteness" all through their lives. This is the only reason why they try to seek for something by which they can feel "complete." They try to seek for this "completeness" in either money, power, relationship, education (academics, dance, cultural arts, music, etc.) or any other thing that is external. As long as the seeking is extended outward and the search is only in external things, happenings or objects, the search or seeking will be incomplete and he/she will never be satisfied. This dis-satisfaction will result in many perversions if not directed and controlled in a scientific or age-old prescribed and well-proven methodologies.
This is where Yoga helps. Yogic techniques will provide guidance to the individual who would like to channelize the energies and instead of focusing outward will make every effort to focus inward. This is the stage (or sometimes early also) at which the individual is introduced to a concept called God. At this stage, for the individual God is something still external, because he/she cannot really understand the word as the Truth about God is beyond the mind's understanding power. Hence, there is a limitation of mind and the individual can never cope up with the concept of God.
As the focus turns inward through proper scientific techniques, the individual will start becoming conscious of breath, various vibrations within the body and over a period a time the "stillness" that happens when all effort is stopped by the individual. When the individual becomes conscious of the presence of this "stillness" he/she will be inquisitive enough to go and pursue this "stillness." As it cannot be understood by the mind (because of its limitation) he/she will start becoming aware of its presence more and more.
As the individual becomes more and more aware of stillness, he/she will start feeling "complete" during the phases of "stillness." At this stage the individual will understand that "completeness" can be achieved by not going outward, but by just turning inward. As this stage deepens over a period of time, the individual will start understanding the concept of God and realizes that God is not something that one can seek outside, but one has to seek within and and individual shall not seek God to become something else, but to become complete. Once an individual becomes "complete", then what remains is only "complete".
The "incompleteness" is because of the seeking that is happening all the time as the seeker is seeking for the Seeker outside instead of inside. As the seeker meets the Seeker within the seeking stops. Paradoxically the seeking stops only when the seeker's seeking stops both outward and inward and becomes aware of the "stillness" that is omnipresent and omniscient eternally.
It is not that we need to seek God. It is the seeker who is seeking for the Seeker to become "complete" and become One.
A) Human beings feel a kind of emptiness, a kind of "incompleteness" all through their lives. This is the only reason why they try to seek for something by which they can feel "complete." They try to seek for this "completeness" in either money, power, relationship, education (academics, dance, cultural arts, music, etc.) or any other thing that is external. As long as the seeking is extended outward and the search is only in external things, happenings or objects, the search or seeking will be incomplete and he/she will never be satisfied. This dis-satisfaction will result in many perversions if not directed and controlled in a scientific or age-old prescribed and well-proven methodologies.
This is where Yoga helps. Yogic techniques will provide guidance to the individual who would like to channelize the energies and instead of focusing outward will make every effort to focus inward. This is the stage (or sometimes early also) at which the individual is introduced to a concept called God. At this stage, for the individual God is something still external, because he/she cannot really understand the word as the Truth about God is beyond the mind's understanding power. Hence, there is a limitation of mind and the individual can never cope up with the concept of God.
As the focus turns inward through proper scientific techniques, the individual will start becoming conscious of breath, various vibrations within the body and over a period a time the "stillness" that happens when all effort is stopped by the individual. When the individual becomes conscious of the presence of this "stillness" he/she will be inquisitive enough to go and pursue this "stillness." As it cannot be understood by the mind (because of its limitation) he/she will start becoming aware of its presence more and more.
As the individual becomes more and more aware of stillness, he/she will start feeling "complete" during the phases of "stillness." At this stage the individual will understand that "completeness" can be achieved by not going outward, but by just turning inward. As this stage deepens over a period of time, the individual will start understanding the concept of God and realizes that God is not something that one can seek outside, but one has to seek within and and individual shall not seek God to become something else, but to become complete. Once an individual becomes "complete", then what remains is only "complete".
The "incompleteness" is because of the seeking that is happening all the time as the seeker is seeking for the Seeker outside instead of inside. As the seeker meets the Seeker within the seeking stops. Paradoxically the seeking stops only when the seeker's seeking stops both outward and inward and becomes aware of the "stillness" that is omnipresent and omniscient eternally.
It is not that we need to seek God. It is the seeker who is seeking for the Seeker to become "complete" and become One.
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