अश्विनी कृष्ण प्रतिपदा श्राद्ध, मंगलवार, विक्रम संवत २०६८
Success of Human Life
"Doing" is for others and "knowing" is for the self. If you know the self, nothing will remain to be known. But if you don't know the self, even though having however much knowledge of various arts, scriptures, languages etc., something will remain to be known. But if you realize the self, nothing will remain to be known. Similarly if you attain God, nothing will remain to be attained. Besides "doing" for others, knowing the "self" and attaining God, there is nothing else that you can do, know and acquire. The reason is that besides these three, all other actions, knowledge and attainments will neither stay with you, nor will you stay with them forever. It is merely a false notion if you think that you have achieved something by doing, knowing and acquiring a lot of things that do not remain with you forever.
In the Srimad Bhagavat Gita, a description of the three discipline of Action, Knowledge and Devotion have been shared. In the discipline of action, you have to "do" in the discipline of knowledge you have to "know" while in the discipline of devotion, you have to "acquire". Attain your aim by any one, the remaining two automatically follow suit. If God is attained, nothing remains to be known and done. If you realize the self, God is attained and nothing remains to be done. If you have completed all "doing", nothing remains to be known and acquired.
Listener - What is meant by knowing the self or self-realization?
Swamiji – To know the self means, that just like - Are you the clothes worn on your body? No! Are you the skin or flesh or blood or veins? No! Are
you urine or excrement of the body? No! If you don't accept any one of them as "I", you will know the self. Stick to it and don't eat your own words. To know the self, to work without a selfish motive and to realize God - all the three are very easy. You may follow anyone of the three disciplines which you like.
I want to tell you not proudly but humbly that I have always tried and still I am trying to discover the means to attain God quickly and easily. The process mentioned in the scriptures is long which includes hearing of the scriptures, cognition, constant musing, meditation, supper conscious state with and without option and trance with and without seed. Then this process leads to salvation. I myself have practiced this process. But the only simple fact is that you have to realize "I am not this". Now why try to dig a mountain and complicate things!
From "Ease of God Realization" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Date : 11th September, 2011 - Bhagwat Praapti ki Sugamtaa
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