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Friends, in today’s Gospel, we see Jesus praying to his Father. We are being given a share in the inner life of God, the conversation between the first two Trinitarian persons. And what are the “things” that have been concealed from the learned and revealed to the little ones? Nothing other than the mystery of the inner life of God. Now why, precisely, is this knowledge concealed from the learned and disclosed to children? The clue is in the next statement: “All things have been handed over to me by my Father.” What is the essence of the divine life? It is a play of giving and receiving. The Father, forgetting himself, gives rise to the Son, and the Son, refusing to cling to himself, receives from the Father. The Holy Spirit is this mutual sharing of the Father and the Son. God’s own inner life is a looking toward the other in love. From Adam and Eve to today, the fundamental human problem is that we seek something other than God. We seek to fill up the ego with stuff, such as sex, pleasure, power, honor. But this will never work, because we’ve been wired for God, and God is love.
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‘पितृदेवो भवः’ अर्थात् जन्म दिने बाबुलाई देवता समान मान भन्ने धार्मिक मान्यताका आधारमा आज छोराछोरीले पितालाई विशेष सम्मान गर्छन् । पिता गुमाएकाहरूले भने उपत्यकाको उत्तर–पूर्वी भेगस्थित गोकर्णेश्वरमा गई तर्पण, सिदा दान र श्राद्ध गर्ने परम्परा छ । त्यस्तै, बेत्रावती उत्तरगयालगायत पवित्र स्थलमा आजकै दिन पितृप्रति सम्मानका साथ श्राद्ध गर्ने गरिन्छ । यसो गरेमा पितृ ऋणबाट मुक्त भइने शास्त्रीय मान्यता छ । त्यसैले आज बिहानैदेखि गोकर्णेश्वर र बेत्रावतीलगायत स्थानमा मेला लागेको छ । गोकर्णमा विशेष मेला लाग्ने भएकाले आजको औँसीलाई गोकर्णे औंसी पनि भनिन्छ । भाद्र कृष्ण औंसीकै दिन वर्षभर देवकार्य, पितृकार्यलगायत धार्मिक कर्मका लागि अत्यावश्यक पर्ने कुश उखेलिन्छ । हिन्दूहरुले कुश, तुलसी, पीपल र शालिग्रामलाई भगवान् विष्णुको प्रतीक मान्दछन् । कुशलाई भगवान् विष्णुको प्रतीकका रुपमा मानिन्छ । आजका दिनमा घर घरमा नयाँ कुश राखेमा रक्षा हुन्छ र छोएमा पापमुक्त भइन्छ भन्ने मान्यता छ । औंसी बाहेकका दिन उखेलिएको कुश भने त्यसदिन मात्र प्रयोग गर्न सकिने धार्मिक विश्वास छ ।