To be God-like

In the highest sense of spirituality, we can only say that may we keep on turning ourselves into someone like God. That can only be our constant endeavour. How far we will be able to proceed, that only time can tell. We do not know. But I can never say that I can get Him. How can I get someone within whom I am residing, of whom I am just a small part thereof? I can't bind Him and confine Him in my room. He is everywhere, in everything. The Divine Soul of God is in an already transformed, pure form. I have to keep on trying to transform my soul into that form, since nature wise we are alike.

A river can only keep on moving towards the ocean, so that some day it may become something like an ocean. But the river can never get the ocean within its course!

We also can only try to move towards Him, and be God-like some day. All other attempts to become someone else will turn futile. We surpass everything just like a river. A river surpasses all the hills and dales, valley and village to meet the ocean. But a river can't surpass the ocean. Similarly we cannot surpass God. In our endeavour, we will keep on breaking all barriers, giving up all pride, prejudice and vanity, and continue to move towards Him. That is our destiny.

Translation based on Bengali works of Rabindranath Tagore

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