The Vedic-view is to see this world as
‘Mystic की पाठशाला’ –
i.e. to see the mastery
and majesty of Lord’s creation, to see His hand in it, understand His purpose
and make this life successful. The results of this
world view are enlisted below.- One feels joy seeing the majesty and mastery of creation of God. Many people want to see miracles and they make huge rush to magical performance shows. But by careful observation, one can realize everything in this world as a magical creation of God. Simply because of our familiarity of seeing it every day, and our attitude of taking everything as granted we don’t realize it. In the Bible, following passage appears
"But
ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the
air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach
you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not
know that the hand of the Lord has done this?”
– Job 12:7-9.
Simply watching a bird, one can be
perfectly God-conscious. There is no machine of modern times as advanced in
flying in terms of size, navigational abilities and intelligence, as the birds.
Even the scientists are amazed by the migration of birds!
“Birds can track the sun, the moon and the stars, using their
apparent movement as a compass. Birds also use other senses. They can detect
weak magnetic fields with tiny magnetite crystals in their heads. They follow
faint odors as does a salmon returning to its birth river from the ocean. They
can see polarized light and use barometric pressure. Along with memory and
genetic urges to head in a certain direction, birds use a combination of these
senses to cross continents and oceans.”
– Steve Tomasko, “Mystery of Bird Migration: How They Get Here from
There”.
In Science Café, Columns (April 4,
2000), the
new paper co-written by quantum physicist Simon Benjamin of Oxford University
and the National University of Singapore describes the way the bird’s eye works as ‘really amazing’ and better than their
attempt to recreate the process in the lab. ‘The bird, however it works,
whatever it’s got in there, it’s somehow doing better than our specially
designed, very beautiful molecule,’ he said. ‘That’s just staggering.’
When we carefully ponder who has given
these abilities and intelligence to a tiny bird, one can easily understand that
it is none but all merciful God. When we see in everything around us with such
vision then we are able to connect everything with God and see his magic in
every creation. Then, even watching a small bird also can
give us immense pleasure of entertainment by making us understand the magic of
God along with great spiritual enlightenment.
- One understands the purpose of creation. After watching the artistry and majesty of creation of the Lord, one naturally appreciates His supreme hand and ultimately wants to know the purpose of His creation. Then one actually turns to revealed scriptures as per one’s own tradition and tries to understand and live by the prescribed guidelines. This makes life not just the journey from doing this chore to other, but sincere living in symphony with nature and God. Such life is called as ‘Karmayoga’ and it frees one from chains of good or bad reaction.
- One honors one’s own right to live as well as that of others. Sri Ishopanishad describes that God is perfect and complete and everything in His creation is also perfect and complete. He is the supreme proprietor and it urges one to abide by the arrangement of God for each living entity and accept only things necessary for ones living and not to encroach on the necessities of others. When one realizes the supreme propriety and controllership of God,one becomes grateful for the gifts received from God and does not try to work very hard to increase his possessions for artificial internal security and exterior pomp. In such gratitude, one actually honors life of his own self and that of others and tries to make meaningful utilization of it.
- One understands the
merciful nature of the God and develops love for Him. For disobedient living entities, who desire to stay away from God to try to lord over, God has orchestrated this elaborate creation of material world and has provided abundant facilities to fulfill their desires. Even people denying existence of God are given benefit of all this arrangement. When one actually understands this fact, he becomes convinced of the merciful nature of God. He realizes that he could reap much more benefit, if he actually lives by the God-given system and obeys the laws by God. He develops attitude of love for God and expresses it by glorifying Him, using his possessions for His service and living a life of devotion for Him.
