Friday, September 23, 2011


Ashwin Krishna Ekadashi, Shukravar, Vikram Samvat 2068


There is No Delay in Attaining Spiritual Enlightenment


The gist of the topic which I am going to explain is that we should renounce whatever is unfavorable to our progress, whatever is not beneficial, rather harmful for us. That is all there is to it.  There is nothing lengthy and complicated.  Peace immediately follows renunciation.  "Tyaagaachaantianantaram"  (Gita 12/12). Tell me frankly if there difficulty if any at all in this sort of renunciation, so that we may discuss it further, and expound clearly and with ease.   Don't bother about what people will think of you or whether they will honor or dishonor you, or praise or blame you.  If you want to attain spiritual enlightenment, don't bother about what people say or do.  Narayana Swami declares - 
"Tere bhaave jo karo bhalo buro sansaar
Narayana tu baith ker apno bhavan buhaar || 

"You need not bother about the good or evil the worldly people do.  You should cultivate virtues by minding your own business." 
Spiritual enlightenment which follows renunciation is to be attained just now, it requires no delay.  But people think within that it will take its own time.  Gentlemen, I have thought over it deeply and come to the conclusion that it is something pertaining to the present rather than the future.  What is to be constructed takes time, but what already exists does not take any time, it is attained instantaneously.  Therefore that which is false, unreal, improper and useless in our knowledge, is to be renounced. That is all.  Renunciation is instantaneous and so is self-realization or spiritual enlightenment. 
The Lord declares – " the unreal has no existence and the real never ceases to be"  (Gita 2/16), and further He declares,  "the truth of both has been perceived by the seers of truth."  The term "perceived" rather than "done" has been used.  The reason is that it takes time to do a piece of work but it does not take much time to see it.  If you take time, it means that you don't like to see, you rather like to do,  the Disciplines of knowledge, Devotion and Action bear instantaneous fruit in the form of spiritual enlightenment because it is neither to be constructed nor to be brought from somewhere, nor to be carried anywhere nor to be changed.  Therefore how can it need any time?  Think over it. 
(to be continued)  

From book "Ease of God Realization" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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Date : 21st September, 2011 – Bhagwat Praapti ki Sugamta 


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