|| Shri Hari ||
(सत्-असत्का विवेक)
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We have established defects in us by ourselves. We have strengthened them by giving them existence. Therefore not giving existence to defects and the establishment of faultless state in ourselves and in other persons is our duty. The feeling of purity (fault lessness) in one’s own self and in other person is Self-realization, it is liberation.
(11)
Our existence is not dependent on any object, thing, activity or particular individual. Every object is created and destroyed. Every person takes birth (union) and death (separation). Every activity has a beginning and an end. But the knower of these three, the divine consciousness is never created, nor destroyed. It is neither born (unites) nor does it die (disunites). It has no beginning and an end. That existence ever remains one and the same. Absence is never felt of that existential reality - “Naabhaavo vidyate satah” “The real never ceases to be.” The realization of automatic establishment in that reality is the freedom from the cycle of birth and death
during one’s own life-time.
A person lives in the misconception that by getting a certain thing, on meeting a particular person, by performing a particular activity, he shall be free from the cycle of birth and death. But there is no such thing or individual or activity by which a man can attain freedom. A thing, a person, an activity are means of binding a person. By disassociation from these, a man can get freedom. Therefore it is desirable on the part of the aspirant that he should form his nature (habit) to remain alone,
without things, persons and activities. He should give importance to such experience and remain in such state for more and more time. It is every person’s experience that during the period of sound sleep, man remains naturally without the presence of any person, thing and activity; but without man the things, persons and activities do not remain. If we form the habit of remaining without these things during the waking state, then we shall attain freedom i.e. liberation. The presumption of our affinity for the person, activity and things itself does not allow us to become independent and even without our liking makes us dependent. We should think over - what is that thing which shall remain with us forever and with which we shall remain for ever? Who is that person who shall remain with us all the time and with whom we shall remain? Which is that activity which we shall continue to do
forever? No object, person or activity shall remain with us forever. One day we shall have to be deprived of the person, object and activity. If we accept our dissociation from them in the present time, then liberation is self-evident.
(continued.....)
From book in Hindi "Amartaa ki Aur" and in English "Discovery of Immortality and Truth" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
We have established defects in us by ourselves. We have strengthened them by giving them existence. Therefore not giving existence to defects and the establishment of faultless state in ourselves and in other persons is our duty. The feeling of purity (fault lessness) in one’s own self and in other person is Self-realization, it is liberation.
(11)
Our existence is not dependent on any object, thing, activity or particular individual. Every object is created and destroyed. Every person takes birth (union) and death (separation). Every activity has a beginning and an end. But the knower of these three, the divine consciousness is never created, nor destroyed. It is neither born (unites) nor does it die (disunites). It has no beginning and an end. That existence ever remains one and the same. Absence is never felt of that existential reality - “Naabhaavo vidyate satah” “The real never ceases to be.” The realization of automatic establishment in that reality is the freedom from the cycle of birth and death
during one’s own life-time.
A person lives in the misconception that by getting a certain thing, on meeting a particular person, by performing a particular activity, he shall be free from the cycle of birth and death. But there is no such thing or individual or activity by which a man can attain freedom. A thing, a person, an activity are means of binding a person. By disassociation from these, a man can get freedom. Therefore it is desirable on the part of the aspirant that he should form his nature (habit) to remain alone,
without things, persons and activities. He should give importance to such experience and remain in such state for more and more time. It is every person’s experience that during the period of sound sleep, man remains naturally without the presence of any person, thing and activity; but without man the things, persons and activities do not remain. If we form the habit of remaining without these things during the waking state, then we shall attain freedom i.e. liberation. The presumption of our affinity for the person, activity and things itself does not allow us to become independent and even without our liking makes us dependent. We should think over - what is that thing which shall remain with us forever and with which we shall remain for ever? Who is that person who shall remain with us all the time and with whom we shall remain? Which is that activity which we shall continue to do
forever? No object, person or activity shall remain with us forever. One day we shall have to be deprived of the person, object and activity. If we accept our dissociation from them in the present time, then liberation is self-evident.
(continued.....)
From book in Hindi "Amartaa ki Aur" and in English "Discovery of Immortality and Truth" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.