Most holy places in India are situated on mountaintops. And I could not find any person who could give me an apt answer for this trend? Is it because God doesn’t want to see you? Or is it because he wants to test your patience? It took a lot of time for me to interpret about why is it so difficult to visit a pilgrimage of your choice even when you have enough money and power!
The basic reasons
1) So that you don’t carry your materialistic possessions and burdens when you have to climb the hilly terrains
2) So that you focus only on God, and in times of difficulties you remember Him and only Him
3) And when you are aware of your destination or aim, you are least bothered about the path you take and the trivial difficulties you face to achieve your goal
When you apply the same philosophy to survive in the material world, life becomes very easy. That is one of the reasons why human beings are always asked to have an ambition in his/her life. Without having a dream to achieve, life could become a bit boring and petty things could seem like huge problems.
When you open up to the universal consciousness, the whole world acts as a teacher and you tend to get messages, information, and guidance from anywhere and everywhere. It so happened that I was watching a Tamizh serial on Sun TV (Vishu’s Aratai Arangam), and I found a guy giving meanings to the five fingers a man possesses.
He said…
The small finger signifies power
The ring finger signifies wealth
The middle finger signifies sex
The index finger signifies U, I, ME, EGO
The thumb signifies the Almighty, God
A man in any particular time of subsistence is behind one of these things. And the whole rat race of human existence is based on these important factors.
He added that while meditating, we keep our index and thumb fingers together, and the other 3 fingers stretched out to imply that we don’t want power, wealth and sex, but want to dissolve I, ME, EGO in the Divine Almighty.
Hence, it can undoubtedly be said that even saints aren’t peaceful with themselves. Like any other human beings, they also have worries, stress and deadlines to meet - just that they don’t aspire for power, wealth or sex but all they allure is to reach God.