Tuesday, October 4, 2011


4th October, 2011, Tuesday
Ashwin Shukla Navami,  Mangalvar, Vikram Samvat 2068

Harm by Attaching Importance to the Perishable


When you have a firm conviction (strong belief) in a thing, you have neither doubt nor curiosity about it.  You neither doubt your name nor have any curiosity to know how and why the name is what it is? For how long it has been so and why was that name given?    Once you get married, you don't doubt whether you have a wife and she does not doubt whether she has a husband.  Why a husband?  How is he the husband?  For how long?  For how many days he will   remain?  -  Such thoughts never arise at all!  Similarly when you identify yourself as the body with a firm conviction,  you regard its honor or dishonor, praise or blame etc.,  as your own (of the self) without doubt or questioning that how are these mine?  Even on accepting artificial assumptions, our state becomes like this, then if we accept our natural state, the fact that "God is ours and we are God's ," you will attain the supreme bliss.  Even if you become alert right now, then it is a very good thing, or else when will you become alert?   
The thing that is born (created) and later perishes requires effort and time to acquire.  But spiritual enlightenment is spontaneous and axiomatic and it needs no action or time.  The body undergoes birth and death while the self remains the same.  The Lord declares, "The multitude of beings, coming forth again and again merges" (Gita 8/19).  It means that the body takes birth and dies while the soul (self) remains the same.  So you should have a firm conviction that you (self) are different from the body.  So how does it make any difference for you (self), if the body is honored or dishonored.  In the same way as honor or dishonor does not make any difference for a stone?  You should accept the truth that God is yours.  If you don't understand it, obey the scriptures and saints,  that God IS and He is mine.  Then He will shoulder the responsibility and lead you to God Realization.  But if you do not obey His words, or accept the opposite, then you yourself will have to shoulder the responsibility, in other words you will have to suffer the consequences.   
You or even the great scientists can't prove that "the body is I".  How can you prove the wrong to be right?  You have caught hold of the wrong thing by identifying yourself with your name, body, caste, order of life, stage of life and country etc.,  and you are not prepared to loosen your hold i.e. renounce it.  Now there is no question of having any curiosity.  But you doubt God's existence which is beyond doubt.  If you have to doubt, doubt the world's existence or your judgment. You should be curious to know these two.  You may be a believer or a non-believer but don't follow the reverse path to the right one.  The world or the body is perishable, because it neither existed nor will exist, so how can it exist at present?  If you understand this fact in right perspective, everything will be OK.     
Narayana !  Narayana !!  Narayana !!!

From book "Ease of God Realization" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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