02-25-2008, 12:00 AM
Hi Shaboy:
Worship in the "Godly" sense is basically love. Loving.
So my answer is a total yes.
Life, ideally, should be a long and endless act of worship to all things. (I'am soo sweet!)
Besides, God is the unmanifested, ultimate reality AND the manifested reality. You can't really love God and shun everything else. God is everything... even those little fuckers that work for your destruction and ruin night and day. They are God, so love them, but from far away.
The question is: Is the act of worship an act of pure love or you want something out of worshiping of a deity, ghost, guru, ally, animal or person?
If you want to get something out of it you may want to call it ritual, just to mark the difference.
In the line of my previous example, you can't think "Well Krishna, I'll repeat your darn long mantra a million times but after that you will free me from rebirth for all eternity."
That's not the idea. Loving worship may atract blessings, gifts and all... but they are not the point.
It we think that way we are no different from the average street ****: we have a merchant mentality.
You may pull things of deities, ghosts, gurus, allies, animals and persons... but it's rather difficult to be a merchant with God.Excuse my english, it's not my mother tongue.
Worship in the "Godly" sense is basically love. Loving.
So my answer is a total yes.
Life, ideally, should be a long and endless act of worship to all things. (I'am soo sweet!)
Besides, God is the unmanifested, ultimate reality AND the manifested reality. You can't really love God and shun everything else. God is everything... even those little fuckers that work for your destruction and ruin night and day. They are God, so love them, but from far away.
The question is: Is the act of worship an act of pure love or you want something out of worshiping of a deity, ghost, guru, ally, animal or person?
If you want to get something out of it you may want to call it ritual, just to mark the difference.
In the line of my previous example, you can't think "Well Krishna, I'll repeat your darn long mantra a million times but after that you will free me from rebirth for all eternity."
That's not the idea. Loving worship may atract blessings, gifts and all... but they are not the point.
It we think that way we are no different from the average street ****: we have a merchant mentality.
You may pull things of deities, ghosts, gurus, allies, animals and persons... but it's rather difficult to be a merchant with God.Excuse my english, it's not my mother tongue.