Sunday, October 2, 2011


Ashwin Shukla Chaturthi,  Shanivar, Vikram Samvat 2068

Harm by Attaching Importance to the Perishable


What is our main mistake?  We commit an error when we attach more importance to the kaleidoscopic and perishable world and body and assume it to be real, and we consider the conscious, unchangeable and imperishable soul to be peripheral and ancillary.  We regard the body's honor and dishonor as our own.  Thus by attaching importance to the body, the insentient and the unreal, we do all the work, slighting the sentient and the real.  We are here to stay in this world, we are from here only -  in this manner we assume ourselves to be the body and this world.  Respect given to this body, becomes our respect, the criticism of this body, becomes our criticism – in this manner, giving importance to the inert, we moved on, and completely neglected the importance of the sentient, conscious element, as if it is non-existent !  In the predominant element, we developed the feeling of secondary. And that which is unimportant, we have assumed it to be main.  That which is natural and innate, we condemn it and that which is unnatural we revere it -  this is the basic error that gives birth to several other errors. The saying goes - 
Dhur bigade sudhare nahin, kotik karo upaaya |
Brahmaand lou bad gaye , Vaaman naam na jaaya || 
IIf something goes wrong at the root, it can't be reformed even though millions of methods are applied.  Of all the manifestations of God, the tallest incarnation was "Trivikram",  in which the Lord Vishnu disguised as a dwarf became so tall that He covered the entire universe with His three steps. Though this was God's tallest incarnation, but it was called the "dwarfish incarnation" because Lord came as a dwarf at the beginning.  Similarly you have committed the basic error that you have attached importance to the insentient.  This basic error will lead you to endless errors.  If we wish to correct this error, then a very important and essential point is to not attach importance to the inert body that is impermanent and perishable.   (to be continued)   
From book "Ease of God Realization" in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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Date : 29th September, 2011 – Naashvaan ki mukhyataa se haani


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