A company of man

The social science says man is a social animal. It is true because man cannot live alone without company. He needs association with people. Thus family, society is created. Man is engaged within their ranges throughout his life. In worldly pursuits he forgets his mission of being brought in this world. He limits himself the objective or material world which depends on logics of science. In the run of finding the ways of material happiness
he forgets that the logic of science has a limited arena. The area where logic of science ends spirituality starts. The logic of science does work within the five elements called water, fire, space, air and earth. The scientist is not able to create natural air, natural rain, water and fire. 
It is only the super human power or god who is able to create these things. In order to find the god path we must take the path of spirituality. Spiritual path is the only path to make us realize our self. Spirituality says that man is not an animal because animals are born with cruelty as a nature and spend their life in a cruel way. But cruelty is not man's nature. 
Love is the one and only nature of man. Man is the best and the highest creation of the divine. Even though he may be born with cruelty, he can get rid of it by adopting the spiritual practice. The world is like a divine garden where men are the flowers with beauty and fragrance. They are like stars which decorate the blue sky at night. Her, stars mean the light of wisdom and knowledge that God has gifted to every man. If he tilts to the spiritual side then only he could act wisely and use his knowledge for the welfare of the living being. Spirituality makes him realize love for everyone and equal mindedness. Man is born to love and serve others. To bring out the love principle which is kept in the heart of each and everyman at the time of birth? Man only needs to stir it by help of selfless service and purity of mind and body. Where it is stirred properly it is spread and his every action will be sweet and sacred like sugar. Man must not be confused with the termed religion and spirituality. Religion means the rituals, customs and traditions followed by different groups of  people. The realization of self is spirituality. So spirituality means the conduct and character. Pure thought, pure vision and sacred work are spirituality. Spiritual practice opens the eyes of wisdom. Spiritual
practice does not mean merely sitting at a corner and closing eyes for long hours. It is just waste of time. Avoidance of bad Company, association with the people having good and sacred thought , engaging oneself in meritorious acts and remembering always the distinction between the transient (world) and the permanent (God) are the examples of spiritual practice.
Bad company does not mean the external friends who act selfishly on our bad days. The sense organs and mind are the topmost dangerous things. With lust, anger, hatred and ego they try to pollute man's intellect. So if a man wants to redeem oneself he must control the sense organs and mind and stop doing according to them. Good company is the intellect which god has given to every man as a gift. If man uses intellect and discriminative power he could always act wisely and his work always makes himself and people around blissful and happy. He needs external good company too because they burn and sharpen his intellect like gold and blade by their pure thoughts and good
conduct. Man should always realize that he is born in this world to serve others. If he works selflessly and with pure heart his work itself becomes a spiritual practice and it leads him very close to the super power i.e. God. 
God is the only source from where man comes, so a man's only destination is to go back to its source. Between the birth and death there are two stages of every man has to pass through. They are growth and decay. During these two periods if he remembers God, keeps him in his heart and does every work forgetting his self for the welfare of other being, his every action become worship and thus he will be able to be free from the cycle of rebirth and attains liberation i.e. his ultimate goal.
But now a day's man has forgotten his greatness. He is ignorant about the divinity within. So he is deeply drowned in the company of his sense organ and mind. He acts according to his minds and does what his sense organs order. He is merged in lust, anger, greed and ego.

BY :-  Sujan Adhikari.
email :- sujan90@hotmail.com

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