The complexity of faith ----- emphasized by Ramanuja is quiet simple to him Faith is both cognitive and emotive. It is the recurrent if not quiet unremitting self reminding of a supremacy and also a growing subservience in love. Further it sometimes manifests as loud praise and is on other occasions merely cherished consciously but quietly. It may be a wordless ecstasy wrapping one away into remoteness from the world or the active source of composure in the midst of hectic activity. For Ramanuja Faith is an integral yoga with components of worship, discrimination, meditation, devotion, surrender, steady remembrance of the Lord. He actively turns to god and a realised inability to be sustained by anything except God. God alone is the unfailing source of sustenance, the actively breaking away from things and dwelling continuously on god. Faith only makes for a godward orientation of all ones actions. Thus:
1. Faith is a continuous contemplation.
2. It implies profound humility in relation to the Lord.
3. an acceptance and persuit of God as the supreme goal.
Thus Devotion of the above kind would make one skill in action as well, as what ever he does is offered to God. naturally he will offer his best in every thing he does. he performs every task with a loving keenness as an offering to the Lord. The measure of Faith is to have even more of it. he realises that God is that platitude of all that a man's heart can rightly crave for. he realizes that the finite self depends solely on the supreme self. he then observes the maya of god and sees him in every thing and every body. and that there is no distiction between the finite and supreme self. he understands the facts of how god is omnipotent omnipresent. He sees God as the adhara for every thing. he understands the meaning of tat tvam asi. Brahman is said to be the very life breath of the self. Brahma has its root and abode in that lies in that rests on that. Ramanuja insists that the individual soul finds its completion in the higher self only. its a direct discovery of being utterly grounded in god.
For Ramanuja the concept of the body as the defect of the soul has not held any significance. in fact he is marvelled at the utility of the body to realise that Brahman. which is the most significant function the body does perform.
What if one thought there was nothing to seek as here and now he is playing the role assigned to him. he does live every instance as if for god as he feels god is with him at all times. concentrates on the present and forgets the past or future. faces life with this new vision this body this thought this mission is dedicated to God.
to be continued of course.
1. Faith is a continuous contemplation.
2. It implies profound humility in relation to the Lord.
3. an acceptance and persuit of God as the supreme goal.
Thus Devotion of the above kind would make one skill in action as well, as what ever he does is offered to God. naturally he will offer his best in every thing he does. he performs every task with a loving keenness as an offering to the Lord. The measure of Faith is to have even more of it. he realises that God is that platitude of all that a man's heart can rightly crave for. he realizes that the finite self depends solely on the supreme self. he then observes the maya of god and sees him in every thing and every body. and that there is no distiction between the finite and supreme self. he understands the facts of how god is omnipotent omnipresent. He sees God as the adhara for every thing. he understands the meaning of tat tvam asi. Brahman is said to be the very life breath of the self. Brahma has its root and abode in that lies in that rests on that. Ramanuja insists that the individual soul finds its completion in the higher self only. its a direct discovery of being utterly grounded in god.
For Ramanuja the concept of the body as the defect of the soul has not held any significance. in fact he is marvelled at the utility of the body to realise that Brahman. which is the most significant function the body does perform.
What if one thought there was nothing to seek as here and now he is playing the role assigned to him. he does live every instance as if for god as he feels god is with him at all times. concentrates on the present and forgets the past or future. faces life with this new vision this body this thought this mission is dedicated to God.
to be continued of course.
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