Cleanliness of Worship
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Dasbodh; Chapter 8, Subchapter 8, Verse 15
While searching for God, the devotee became one with Him. There is no seperation at all between God and the devotee
.When it is said that "God should be worshipped with clean hands," it implies that God is to be worshipped without any dirt of illusion, or ego. God should be worshipped abandoning all association with the body and worldy affairs.
When it is said that you must understand God first, is implies that you should make your vision "all pervasive." As the sky pervades all, so also, does God pervade all. Keep in mind that God is in all. The light perceived in the sunlight, and in the moonlight, is none other than the light of the Self.
The God that pervades the world also resides in us. As the sky rushes in and fills a vessel, likewise, the Self has rushed in and filled us. When the vessel, or the body breaks, the embodied portion of the sky merges with the sky at large, just as the light of the Self merges in objectless Brahman.
How to describe the Self? It is thinner than water, and lighter than a flower, yet more heavy than a mountain. It is very subtle and very peaceful. When you look at others, always look upon them as the Self. Do not focus on their body. The crowning jewel of spiritual study is that the mind should stabilize in the "One without qualities."
Shri Siddharameshwar Maharaj - From Amrut Laya; Lecture 20 - Edited slightly
Another thought about worship....
-Bruce Currie
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