Yesterday morning was spent reading another article from beloved Yogananda, "The Desires of All Desires", from his book Man's Eternal Quest. His extracts form Gita and Bible were so apt to explain the concept of why should we aspire for GOD always in our life leaving all other desires as secondary. The one part which was so sole stirring was the Mother son example. In our every day prayers we demand / beg worldy pleasure to god, we may ask for a new car, home, a promotion at work, or a bigger salary cheque etc etc....never once we have demanded for God himself. Yogananda, says this resembles the act of a son who comes to his mother only for demanding money for his needs and forget about her otherwise.

This started a lot of thought process in my mind, interms of how do we cultivate the habit of remebering GOD every moment in our life ? Do the normal rituals which were prescribed for Brahmins is an attempt to do it ? In the long course of time have we forgotten the real meaning behind it,and have tried to ape it as it was thought ? I dont know the answers for these questions.. however the article is a nail on the head to bring the point that man's ultimate desire should be to find almighty.

In most of his lesson Yogananda emphasises the point that we are all made as an image of GOD. We dont have to go around to find GOD, he resides within us, with closed eyes and practiced concentration we can find him anytime. Mediation is the key to find GOD.

Another para which dwells on why to forfeit desires, we tend to think this world as real and this is the Kingdom of GOD. However Yogananda, points out that this is not GOD's Kingdom, rather its his laboratory, where he wants to put his children to test. The real test of our god given will and conscience. How much are we ready to use the god given conscience to find our lost treasure, our Heavenly father, The GOD.