The one you love must be worthy of worship, and the one you worship you must be in love with. If there is a difference between the two, then there is a problem, a big problem. If you can’t worship your lover, then drop him or her, whatever, I don’t know. And if you can’t love your gods, those gods must be thrown away.
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Acharya Prashant: The mind is all and everything. The prayer is to nourish the right and auspicious parts of the mind. The mind is the highest and the lowest. And the mind can take you higher and higher. And the mind can take you, that is, itself, lower and lower.
Gods refer to the forces inside the mind itself that offer it ascension and upward propulsion, and conversely, ‘danavs’ or demons refer to the forces within the mind itself that sink it into all kinds of depravities and perversions. Both these reside very much within the mind itself. Are you getting it?
There is a very famous verse in the Amrit Bindu Upanishad. It says the mind is its own best friend and its own worst enemy. Your best friend and your worst enemy are not at all outside of you. Since you are all and everything, therefore, your friend is within you and so is your enemy.
Why do the gods have diverse names, as have the demons? Because there are various kinds of forces within that help you and there are various kinds of forces within that drown you, sink you, depress you. There is no god out there somewhere. The prayer is to oneself. It’s a kind of reminder to oneself. It’s an encouragement to oneself. It’s a monologue. You could even call it a pep-up talk to oneself. There’s nobody anywhere else. It’s a soliloquy!
