497. Discovering God
For the miser, GOLD is God. The Westerner has cherished his personality, privacy, and the value of being an individual - individuality. As a result, we can now say God for the Westerner is his individuality. Science has usurped the position of God in the West. Chandrasekar, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics, said Man has created the conception of God as a mental occupation, a pastime. He was an Indian born in an orthodox family. He too was infected to that extent by the atmosphere of the West where God is replaced by the knowledge one has arrived at on his own.
The Buddha analysed the Mind and found Mind dissolved and left him in Nirvana. Ego is a product of Mind. So, Mind can dissolve Ego by analysis. The Self was not created by the Mind. Mind was created by the Self. Mind cannot analyse and dissolve the Self. The Self is Self-existent. But Man has the capacity to discover various things as his God. Sri Aurobindo says that the universe comes to us as values. Whatever values we seek is our universe. Our conception of the universe can be widened. Our experience of our universe too can constantly increase. Man who resorts to this Force can widen his universe to overcome the limits of the present society in the world. To the householder, this holds out an opportunity to expand his accomplishment until it is equal to the accomplishment of the world. Accomplishing in this world is discovering God.
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