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thorns, I can walk more steadily in darknes than in light. I fear that pleasures and happines might betray me. I want sorrow, deep sorrow, fierce like tempests and burning like the forest-fire. This sorrow will not let me sleep during my journey of life. It will always keep me awake.
Who is God ?
He who can fight against his passions and weaknesses is God. He should not only be able to fight against them but also to conqure them. And this conquest should be a permanent conquest that may never again be converted into defeat.
God is he who, at one time, may have been born as a man in the dark lanes of the world. From this state of manhood he should have attained perfection. This state of perfection of man is the high state of Godhood.
Is he a God who incarnates himself not only to destroy evil but also the evil-doer. The destruction of the evil-doer before the destruction of evil is the common course adopted by all the people of the world. What is the speciality of God in it? God is he who destroyes the evil instinct in the evil-doer. The Godhood of God should convert evil. into goodness, poison into nectar.
King of Kings
The ascestic alone is fearless in the world. He is the king of kings. What has he to care for? What has he to worry about ? A sage rightly says about an ascetic :“He who is absolved of desires, of worries, of cares, and who wants nothing, is a king of kings."
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