LIMITS OF WORSHIP IN INDIAN RELIGIONS

Abstract

For many, religion is the way one relates oneself to a personal creator-God, and this relation must express itself in worship. In this sense, worship has become a defining factor of religion. Wor·
ship is here understood as a means on the one hand of expressing one's loyalty to God, on the other of achieving one's ultimate goal in life, namely, salvation. Or, in general, worship may be taken to mean the very religious attitude of man so that to think of a religion without worship is an obvious contradiction in terms. Similarly, in this line of thinking, it is almost impossible to understand a religion which sets limits to worship. On the contrary, worship has become almost the measuring rod of religiosity: one is religious to the extent to which one worships.