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<font size="4">God's Debt</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And paying here God's debt to earth and man.</p>

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style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>What is this debt that God owes to earth and
man? We understand the debt that man and earth owe to God, their creator. But
how is God indebted to his creation? Besides we learn that God pays his debt
through his representative, his protagonist upon earth, the aspiring human
being.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>First
let us understand the mystery of God's debt to man. We know, in ordinary life a
subordinate has a duty towards his superior, the lesser owes a debt to the
greater. That is easily understood. Likewise the superior also has a duty to
his subordinate, the greater has his duty to the smaller. The child owes a debt
to his parents; no less is the debt that the parents owe to the child. The
parents not only bring forth the child, but they have to bring him up, nourish,
foster, educate and settle him in life. We know also, as the scriptures tell
us, that there is a debt man owes to the gods. The paying of the debt is
described in the institution of the sacrifice <i>(yajna). </i>It is through his
sacrifice that man achieves what he has to achieve upon earth. It is the
giving-of what one is and what one has<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>–
to the gods – the sacrifice mounts carrying the offering to the gods. But the
sacrifice is not a mere one-sided movement, the sacrifice brings from the gods
gifts for the man – material prosperity and spiritual fulfilment. Man increases
himself in this way, but thereby increases the gods also. The offering that man
brings in his sacrifice – all his possessions-his earthly possessions, but
chiefly his possessions of the inner world, the wealth of his spirit, the
virtues of his consciousness – all go to the gods and increase them, that is to
say, they become more
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>manifest and more powerful
upon earth and in <span style="background-color: #FFFFFF">earthly</span> existence and in the service of man.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
sacrifice going up to the gods as offered by man means the sadhana, the inner
discipline that he follows by which he lifts up his being with its mental and
vital and physical formulations to their higher and higher potencies upon
earth. The dedication of the normal powers and faculties to the gods means
purification and release from the bondages of ignorance and egoism. This serves
to make the gods living to us, bring them near to our terrestrial life, to our
normal consciousness. This is what is meant by increasing the gods – man's duty
or debt to the gods. In answer there is a corresponding gesture from the gods,
with their immortalising reality they dwell in us and fill our being with their
godlike qualities, their light, their energy, their delight, their very
immortality. Man increases the gods and the gods increase man and by their
mutual increasing they attain the supreme increment, the Divine status, so says
the Gita.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Now,
we go beyond the gods, to the very origin, God himself, the Supreme. What is
the debt that God, the Supreme, the Divine, owes to us human beings? We owe to
God everything, our life, our very existence, our soul and substance given to
us by him, then how is he indebted to us? What kind of debt he has incurred
which he has to pay to his creature, the human being? Primarily because he is
the Divine Father, he has to take charge of his own creation, see to its growth
and fruition and fulfilment. Indeed that is the role of the Divine in us (and
above us and around us): that is his work, the Divine Work. Since he has put us
out of his consciousness (for a special experience of growth and development),
it is also his work (and duty) to bring us back to him: after a process of
self-separation a process of self-integration. Man, so long as he is a separate
consciousness has to dedicate, lift up and unify this separative conscious
being to the whole being and consciousness. This is how he discharges his debt
to the Divine, and the answering grace of the Divine is the clearing of the
debt which He owes to His creatures.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What
has been said of man is equally applicable to earth. The destiny of man is the
destiny of earth as also the destiny of earth is the destiny of man. For man is
an earthly creature, is</p>


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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>born out of earth and he
grows with the growth of the earth; equally the earth grows with the growth of
man.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
reality it is God's growth in man and earth that is reflected and embodied in
the growth of man and earth. The debt spoken of is the debt of God himself to
himself. In other words, it is a work, a mission that he has himself taken upon
himself for his own mysterious delight of existence.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Earth
moves forward through man who is its flowering and man moves forward through
his representative, the higher man, who reveals and embodies still greater
potentialities of God's creation, having the privilege of being so conscious as
to contact the gods and God Himself – he is master of life-force <i>(aswapati</i><b>);
</b>he climbs to the summits and brings down upon earth the heavenly riches and
the Divine Grace, which fulfils, transmuting all debits into credits.</p>

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