Worship of God..

Child of God…

According to Vedas, we all are his son and daughters. We all are capable of the most direct relationship with him without any intermediate. As we know, a child has the closest direct link to her mother and father. The child will not accept anybody between her and her father and mother. So is our relationship with God. Indeed, it is closer than any relationship that we know in the world. Therefore, we should be bold enough in rejecting anybody who intends to position himself between us and god. Nobody can claim to be his only child or his messengers. Every human being is capable of being in union with god provided he/she can prove him-/her-self to be his worthy child by way of noble acts in the world. Knowing him is the only way. Yajurveda (31.18) says, ‘nānyaḥ panthāḥ vidyate ayanāya’.

Worshiping God…

The soul is not made up of matter, and therefore, it never undergoes any change nor does it die. It’s eternal. The soul has been transmitting from one life to another and will continue to do so. Only the human life provides the unique golden opportunity to come out of this cycle of birth and death through self-realization and God-realization. For the soul to realize itself it must be able to de-link itself from the mind through meditation. When the soul is de-linked from the mind then it can truly know itself, called self realization. Subsequently, with the grace of God, that soul may be able to realize God. This and this alone is method to worship God, and to Him alone is worship due and to nobody else. This requires purity of mind through an upright moral code of conduct and continuous practice to control the functions of the mind.

According to Vedas, there is no sense in worshiping God in temple, mosque, church, or any other man-made structure. If we must look for a conductive location then it can be such location where the Mother Nature shows her pristine beauty in an unpolluted form. Yajurveda (26.15) says,

In the valleys of mountains and near the confluence of the rivers, our intellect gets purified (for realization of self and God)

- Dr. Haeish Chandra.