Why should we know God?
-It does not matter to God whether one knows Him or not. We know God for fulfilling our own purpose. This world is full of miseries and man likes to be free from all sorts of miseries. Besides, being free from miseries, he wants to enjoy unconditional happiness. Bliss is a quality of God. if one wants to have a thing, then, one has to go to the possessor of that thing, for example, if one wants heat, he has to go near fire which possesses the quality of heat. All worldly things can give us pleasure but that is mixed with misery. Unconditional happiness or bliss is possessed by God only. We should worship God for obtaining bliss, intelligence, knowledge, enthusiasm, contentment, power, patience et cetra since God is the ocean of these qualities.
-All agree that we should do our duties to the fullest, that is, according to our capacity and capability for the development of soul. Development is always in accordance with certain rules and God, who is the controller all living and non-living things of the universe is framer of rules of whole of the physical and spiritual world. Eyes are to see with, ears are to hear with, law of gravitation are some of the rules framed by God. In whole of our behaviour, morality needs to be embedded well and only God knows how our behaviour should be guided. Accordingly, without knowing Him rightly, we cannot do our duties to the optimum as well as bring morality in our behaviour with others. One does an immoral act only, if, he does not know the real nature of God.
-It is only through devotion to God that we start accepting ourselves as a small segment of this whole universe and start realizing oneness of all the things of the universe.
-Why we must know God? For the sake of easy understanding the subject, we may consider God as the ocean of all good virtues and for inculcating good virtues in us for enabling ourselves to deal with ourselves and others in the best possible way, we ought to go to this ocean and bring into our lives good virtues from there. There is a specific methodology to go to this ocean and bring good virtues, which is often called as ‘Saadhnaa’.