5.6 - Result Of WORSHIP

Next comes the creeper. The creeper intuitively grasps a strong, powerful tree next to it. The wind will shake out and break the creeper to pieces. But when it twirls round a big tree, the wind can do no harm. The natural tendency of the creeper is to grow upward and upward till the top of the tree is reached. This helps it to get light from the sun, more air, and more freedom and safety from animals, which will bite and eat up the creeper. Similar is the tendency of a week human being who resorts to God as the source of his strength, like the creeper resorts to the neighboring tree as the source of its strength. Like the creeper the human being clings to God and ever tends to mount up higher in his spiritual levels to achieve nobler and nobler objects and to transform himself in to more and more of the like-ness of God till he reaches full Sarupyam, Sameepayam and sayujyam. So long as bhakti is in the lower stages, there is the danger of his Bhakti being disturbed or his safety being affected by other creatures or beings. But when he mounts up higher and higher and reaches the top stages of sarupyam, sameepyam and sayujyam there is no more danger to his existence or perfection. All the above-mentioned examples are all objects that retain their identity as separate from the objects to which they are drawn.