Worship or adoration of the Divine has the potential to bring one nearer to God. This could take many forms – rituals, prayer, chanting, service and contemplation, to name a few. What is important, however, is how you seek God.
True worship is to realize that every individual is essentially divine. We see others only as good or bad, ugly or beautiful, rich or poor and we treat them accordingly. We miss out the essential core of being, which is divinity. True worship is when we see God in everyone. If worship of God is restricted only to an image, neglecting God’s living images ( all beings (, such worship is incomplete and imperfect.
Swami Vivekananda said, “ If you can not see God in the human face, how can you see Him in the clouds, or in the images made of dull, dead matter, or in mere fictitious stories of our brain? When you see man as God, everything even the tiger, will be welcome. Whatever comes to you is but the Lord, the Eternal, the Blessed One, appearing to us in various forms, as our father, mother, friend and child – they are our own soul playing with us.”
Blessed Be!
Source: Swami Atmashraddhananda
