भाद्रपद शुक्ल दशमी , बुधवार , विक्रम संवत २०६८
Realization of Freedom
from Evils
Man (Self) being a part (ansh) of God is "saadharmya" identical with God in attributes. As God is totally free from flaws (evils), so is man. Being free of flaws, (nirdoshtaa) is not acquired by his own effort, rather it is innate and axiomatic. In the Ramcharitmanas Saint Tulasidasa declares -
"Ishvar ansh Jeeva abinashi | Chetan Amal Sahaj Sukhraasi || (7/117/1)
Soul being a part of God is naturally sentient, pure and an embodiment of bliss.
People have a strong conviction that they will get rid of their flaws, they will become free of evils, then only they will be able to realize God. But the method of attaining God is quite different from that of gaining mundane worldly things. Attainment of worldly things is attainment of the unattainable. While God being eternally existent, is the attainment of the ever attained. The self (soul) is inherently free from flaws (evils) and is ever attained. So, this fact is to be accepted. Purity (flawlessness) is not to be inculcated. Be indifferent to flaws (evils) rather than trying to wipe them out. If you try to get rid of them, by accepting them in you, you will rather confirm them, make them more solid. The reason is that your wiping them out supposes their pre-existence.
Every aspirant has the experience that faults (evils) were more forceful, more lasting, more frequent before he began his spiritual discipline, than they are today. This difference in measure should encourage an aspirant and bring about increased enthusiasm that really these faults are not inherent in him. Had they been a part of his nature, these changes (difference) could not have been observed and perceived. The point is that there are changes (differences) in the degree of faults (evils) while there is no change in the self. It means that faults (evils) are distinct from the self.
All evils such as desire, anger, greed, infatuation, pride and jealousy etc., are "Asat" (unreal) i.e. have no existence of their own and are born because of your affinity for the unreal. As while asleep, forgetting wakefulness, and one begins to dream, so by assuming relationship with the unreal, you become unaware of your inherent pure flawless nature and feel yourself as impure (with flaws). These evils make their dream like appearance but as such have no independent existence of their own.
Evils appear and disappear while the unpolluted self ever remains the same. It is the common experience that evils flash while we remain intact. We are aware of the appearance and disappearance of evils because of our inherent purity. Without being free from flaws, one cannot become aware of the flaws. It is because we are free of flaws, that we are aware of the flaws and that which we are aware of is quite distinct from the self. Whatsoever impurities there may be, they are felt only in the mind and intellect but never in the self. But by identifying the self with the mind and intellect we assume that they are in us. The mind and intellect being the evolutes of Nature (Prakriti) have flaws and are perishable. Our relationship is neither with the mind-intellect, nor with the flaws (evils) that come in it.
From "Sahaj Sadhana" in Hindi and English by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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Date : 5th September, 2011 - Nirdoshtaa ka Anubhav
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