The following excerpt from Ecknath Easwaran’s The Upanishads views life’s as “ … a kind of school in which the individual self is constantly evolving, growing life after life towards a fully human nature.”
The world is the wheel of God, turning round
And round with all living creatures upon its rim.
The world is the river of God,
Flowing from him and flowing back to him.
On this revolving wheel of being
The individual goes round and round
Through life after life, believing itself
To be a separate creature, until
It sees its identity with the Lord of Love
And attains immortality in the indivisible whole.
(Shvetashvatara I.4-6)
I offer to share this inspiring view to other Seekers of understanding of reality. But, I am not seeking to ‘sell’ Hinduism, or to argue that there is only one path to God. Ultimately, we are dealing with beliefs – unproven, unprovable – no matter how many theologians stand on the head of a thumbtack claiming that they have an inside track or the only track to God.
RAJA ARASA RATNAM 