Friday, March 3, 2017

ACKNOWLEDGING GOD IN VEDANTA

Acknowledging God is important in Vedanta, not because God needs and wants us to do it, but because we need and want us to do it.  Communing with God is communing with our true selves, Atman/Brahman.
It is not as though God is unaware of our acknowledging Him.  As the Eternal Witness He is aware of everything that happens in the world of form.  And it is not that nothing comes of the acknowledgement. Something comes of any contact we have with Him, even if a mere nod.
Acknowledging God is a celebration. It is the Joy part of Vedanta’s definition of God, which is Sat-Chit-Ananda: Absolute Existence, Absolute Consciousness, Absolute Joy.  We exist absolutely, are conscious absolutely, and, when we acknowledge God, are joyful absolutely.

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