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Jatin’s World View – April 1, 2005

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1. The Creator, God, created the creation. After creating the entire creation, he had one last item he had left to create for the universe to be totally engaged. To help Him complete the task, he summoned an angel. Angel came. The Creator told the angel that He, the Lord, had one last job to do in making of the universe.

He told the angel, “I have left the best for last”. God said, “I have here the real meaning of human life, the treasure of life, the purpose and goal of all this that I have created”. “Because this treasure is valuable beyond description, I want you to hide it. Hide this treasure so well that human beings will know its value to be immeasurable.”

Angel recommended hidden location such as highest mountain top, great desert wilderness, vast reaches of universe. God refused. Finally God said, “Hide treasure of life within the human being. He will look there last and know how precious this treasure is. Yes hide the treasure there”.

2. This treasure and the search for it are the real goal for me – the life’s journey.

3. The phenomenal universe is impermanent and constantly changing, evolving, growing, decaying and dying. It goes on endlessly this way – coming, going, dying. That is the nature/society.

4. Man, who gets attached to the Nature/Society (the phenomenal universe) with all of its changing forms is sure to come to grief in the end. At the same time, the nature/society plays an important role in helping to achieve the realm/state of self-realization/immortal.

5. The pain and fear of death that are natural to the nature/society (material world) are meant to guide a person the ‘treasure’.

6. A time comes when the individual realizes that there must be more to existence then this. Then he/she begins to seriously look for an alternative as the ultimate purpose of life.

7. The treasure has numerous definitions:
1. Bible calls it the image and likeness of God.
2. Hinduism calls it Atma or the Real-Self.
3. Judaism calls it the Light.
4. This real self is not recognizable by the 5-senses or the human mind. It is hidden treasure within the soul, and dwells in the innermost chamber of the ‘heart’. It is very subtle, unfathomable, and eternal. It existed at beginning of creation, exists now, and will continue to exist in the future.
5. Because of Man’s ignorance of this highest Truth of inner self, he has created the imbalance in the Nature/Society and in his life.
6. Eliminating the mind and ego by desensitizing the senses are the primary paths to the Heaven/Enlightenment/Divinity/Realization.
7. Service to others helps to reduce personal desires, makes one humble, and eliminated the internal devils - pride, ego, hatred, jealousy, lust, etc.
8. Ultimately my life is about ‘unlearning’ the bad and learning about the ONE. It should be about ‘selflessly serving’ others as His instrument in the dram of life. After knowing and learning all of that, only thing that matters to Him is how well did I practice the unwavering universal Human Values of Truth, Love, Peace, Righteousness, Non-Violence; which ultimately brings me closer to the doors of Heaven – the seat of the universal Soul/Atma.