To progress towards GOD

SYNOPSIS: To progress on the path of GOD must be the aim of human life. The earlier it is accomplished in life the better. When we progress towards GOD, He also progresses towards us and we unite with GOD. READ THE FULL ARTICLE BELOW -

There is an uncountable and innumerable steps distance between the soul and GOD. When this distance is met GOD and the creature unites, the soul and GOD unite and the individual soul unites with the Universal Soul.

We have got this human life to cover this distance. The whole purpose of human life is the unification of the individual soul with the Universal Soul.

If we march one step towards GOD, He takes ten steps towards us. This is an irrefutable principle and we must have full faith in it.

In our life span of 80 years, if every year daily we march one step i.e, in a year we progress 365 steps towards GOD, He comes 3650 steps closer to us. Therefore, since childhood, the younger ones must be taught to progress towards GOD. It is the responsibility of the father and mother that they teach their children to sincerely progress on the path of GOD. If we do so, the father’s and mother’s debt is created on the children. If we have just given our children education and have taught them worldly affairs or that trained them for business we have not created the mother’s and father’s debt. Because we have not shown the children the way for their welfare, what has to be done for it we have not taught. But since childhood, if we have taught them to progress one step towards GOD, we have encouraged them to move on GOD’s path.

If we have got the inspiration to progress on GOD’s path at the age of 30, we have to take two steps daily towards GOD. This is because we have till now not made any progress towards GOD. Therefore, instead of one, we have to progress two steps towards GOD. In other words, it means we must bring intensity in devotion. If we do so, GOD will also progress 20 steps daily towards us. In other words, GOD will also intensely progress towards us.

If we have wasted 50 years of our life and have then understood this fact, we have to progress 3 steps daily towards GOD. It means we have to bring more intensity in devotion. Then GOD will progress 30 steps towards us which means that GOD will also take faster steps towards us.

In all three categories in which we fall, we must act accordingly and progress towards GOD. If it is a young age one step towards GOD, if it is middle age two steps towards GOD and if it is older age three steps towards GOD. In other words, it clearly means that there should be more intensity of devotion in middle age than at younger age and the intensity of devotion in older age should be even more than in middle age.

The principle is that as the time in life decreases, the intensity of devotion should increase. This must be followed as a principle in life.

By doing so, we will find that before the end of our life we would have reached very close to GOD and only a few steps would remain between us and GOD. If due to old age, our body strength gets decreased then too GOD will take us in his leap which means that GOD will clear the remaining gap from His side in the last stages and the unification of the individual soul with the Universal Soul will happen.

It is a principle that devotion never goes waste. The body, soul and wealth dedicated to GOD never go in vain. This is a divine principle because GOD is so kind and merciful that He takes the remaining steps from His side and does the welfare of a soul. The devotion undertaken in the older age also does not go in waste and therefore the question does not arise that the devotion done in middle age or at a young age will go in waste.

If we have undertaken devotion sincerely and if something remains unfulfilled then too the kind and merciful GOD fulfills it from His side. If in the devotional path there remains some gap between the devotee and GOD, then to GOD fulfills it.

Always the last distance is covered by GOD. However intense the devotion of a devotee is, then to it is not in the capability of the devotee to fulfill the last two-finger gap. That two-finger gap, one of GOD’s kindness and second of GOD’s mercy is always fulfilled by GOD. The lively example of this is in the Shree Krishna incarnation when Bhagwati Yashoda Mata tried to tie GOD with a mortar. When Bhagwati Yashoda Mata tried to tie GOD with the mortar, GOD did a pastime and made all the ropes of the house insufficient. Mata then tried to join all ropes of the house but then that too it fell two fingers short. The saints have done a sweet interpretation that the two-finger distance can only be fulfilled by the desire of GOD. The devotee however hard he may try will remain two fingers distant from GOD. At last when GOD will want then only those two-finger distances would be met. When Mata finally failed then GOD by His own wish fulfilled those two fingers gap and got tied in the love bondage.

The essence of this divine pastime is that the last distance is always fulfilled by GOD, only then the unification of the individual soul happens with the Universal Soul. It is clear from this fact that the soul has no power and no capability on his own to find oneness with GOD, it is only because of the kindness and mercy of GOD that the devotee attains GOD.

But the start has to be made by the devotee. The devotee has to take the resolution to progress on the devotional path and make the progress. After undertaking devotion at younger age, he has to bring intensity in middle age and more intensity in older age then he will reach extremely closer to GOD. Then the leftover distance, in the end, is always covered by GOD. Also since beginning GOD helps the soul in his progress. With one step towards GOD, He reciprocates with ten steps from His side.

Therefore, in life, we must progress on the way that leads to GOD and the sooner it starts in life, the better.

English Translation vetted by Sheelnidhi Gupta