Satsang is the only practice !: Success in Human Life

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Success in Human Life

|| Shree Hari ||

(Manushya Jeevan ki Safaltaa)

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Cow is very useful, very great, we benefit immensely from cows, therefore it is our main duty to protect the cows. However the cow does not have the ability to attain its enlightenment. This ability is only in the human body. The glories of demi-gods (devatas) is also not as much as the glories of human beings. The bodies of devatas are divine. They are not like our bodies made of bones and flesh. Our body has a predominance of earth, whereas the bodies ofdevatas have a predominance of spirit and radiant element. Just as in this light you can see everything, isn't it? This is the radiant element. This is pre-dominant in devatas. When a pig soiled and dirty, passes by us, then we can smell the fowl odour, in the same way, our body is that dirty, that the "devatas" can smell odour from our bodies. But gentlemen! Even those devatas are not eligible for enlightenment. The life of demi-gods (devatas) is only of pleasures. They have divine bodies, their abode is good, their food is nectar filled. However only the human body is great for attaining salvation, and not the bodies of "devatas." Therefore, human body is called the rarest of all –

Nar tan sam nahin kavniu dehi |

Jeev charaachar jaachat tehi || (Manas 7/121/5)

However, the criticism is that even on attaining the human birth, one does not attain one's supreme good and only remains immersed in eating and earning money.

Those who are attached to the two desires - accumulating money and enjoying it, for such men, what is the Supreme Essence ? What is liberation? What is the benefit of ending the cycle of birth and death? What is supreme bliss? They cannot know these things. They do not have the power to understand the Essence, to end the sorrow once and for all and to become ever blissful.

We want to attain that Essence, that can be attained through this human body. How can it be attained? For this there is one main point - Our intention, our aim, must become one of wanting to realize God. Whether we go through suffering, or attain joy, whether we become poor, or we become rich, whether we become sick or healthy, whether we continue to live or we die, whether people honor us or dishonor us, we have to attain salvation. Once the main aim becomes so, then God Realization can be very easy. As long as one does not have this aim, till then God Realization will appear to be difficult. In reality, realization, salvation, enlightenment is not difficult. The reason is, God is present everywhere, God is everywhere, in all space and time, in all beings, in all events, in all actions. There is not a single subatomic particle, where God is not present. The difficulty in realizing God is that one does not have a strong enough want. They are trapped in worldly pleasures and in hoarding. Therefore bringing an end this cycle, one should have the aim of attaining enlightenment.

Greater are objects then money, greater is body then objects, greater is discrimination (vivek) than the body, and greater is the real essence God than discrimination. Therefore one must honor God the most and doing so one should realize God. This is the main duty of a human being and in this is the success of human life

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