AVOID A VOID --------------Bhagavad gita We may sometimes feel a void within. This sense of incompleteness, even emptiness, in our hearts is due to our not having a satisfying object for our love. We generally offer our love to the people and things of the world, but experience soon reinforces what we subconsciously know: nothing of this world satisfies our heart’s longing for love. Nonetheless, our longing for love is so indispensable among our core needs that, hoping to find fulfillment somewhere, we keep shifting our love from one object to another. Unfortunately, nothing fills the void; in fact, experience enlarges it as we find more and more objects incapable of filling it. For some people, this inner void becomes so gigantic that it consumes their entire sense of being – and even their conception of all of existence. Due to being repeatedly disappointed in their attempts to fill the void, they infer mistakenly that the void itself is the undeniable ultimate reality of life. So they make entry into that void the supreme goal of their lives. Gita indicates that both these categories of people – the materialists who live with the void and the voidists who live to attain the void – are victims of a root misconception: the assumption that the only way to fill the heart’s void is by a worldly, material object. The Bhagavad-gita (09.11) points to the cause of this misconception: their ignorance of a non-material, other-worldly object of love, the transcendentally enchanting supreme person GOD. When we offer our heart’s love to God, he being eternal and perfect reciprocates beyond our expectations, and fulfills our heart’s longing completely. Learning to love God, therefore, is the best way, indeed the only way, to avoid a void within. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 09 Text 11 “Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be.”
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