Thursday, May 30, 2013

How to be Free from Bondage


||  Shri Hari  ||

How to be Free from Bondage ?
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People hold the opinion that bondage is eternal and they can attain salvation by being free from this bondage. But in fact this is an error of judgement. Had there been bondage, none could have been emancipated because the real never ceases to be. The Lord himself declares “The real never ceases to be” (Gita 2/16). Had bondage been real, it would have not ceased to exist. It seems to

exist like the face in the looking glass. Similarly the worldly entities such as body, family, property and riches etc., appear to be yours because you regard them as yours. But were they yours a hundred years ago and will they remain yours after a hundred years? So they were neither yours nor will remain yours. At present also they are decaying all the time. So can that which is perishing be existent? You have committed an error by regarding the unreal as real. If you renounce this misconception, emancipation (salvation) is self-evident. Therefore bondage is merely assumed. While emancipation is axiomatic and there is no delay in it.

If you have a conviction that you can’t by free from bondage, then you won’t be because you (self) are a part of God. If you have accepted it, you yourself will have to reject it. If you think that salvation is far away from you, how can it be attained quickly? In fact there was no bondage in the past, nor will be in future nor is at present while you were emancipated in the past, will be in future and are also at present.

Everyone loves his mother. But do you love her as much today as you did in the past?

This is an example (sample) of the worldly love. In business first you see the sample shows the quality of the commodity. Now you love your wife, sons, money and property and are attracted towards them while in childhood you loved your mother the most, you were attracted towards her and could not live

without her. This sample is the touch-stone of the worldly love and attraction. It means that all the worldly affection or attraction is short-lived.

Listener - Sir our affection has changed from parents to wife, from wife to sons, from sons to grandsons.

Swamiji - Then why do you entertain new affection? Your old affection is leaving you and thus you are being emancipated.

Listener - We don’t want to entertain new affection yet it so happens.

Swamiji - If you don’t want to entertain it, do I force you to do so? Who

forces you? Don’t entertain the new one, the old one will perish. Are you not emancipated from childhood and boyhood? In fact emancipation is self-evident and natural while bondage is artificial and man-made. If you don’t entertain it, it will be renounced. An easy method to be free from bondage is to fulfill the just and righteous desire of your kith and kin which are within your power and resources, without expecting even the just fruit. Thus by rendering service to others without expecting any service from them, you will be emancipated. But if you expect others to serve you, you will be deprived of emancipation and they will not serve you.

If you expect service from others, they don’t serve you. But if you don’t expect them to serve you, they serve you. So you are not at a loss. You want to give money, food and clothes etc., to a sage who does not want to take them. But do you want to give to a thief or a robber or a pick-pocket who want to take them? You will not be at a loss without having any desire. You honor and praise those who don’t want to be honored and praised. Then why do you want to be indigent by having desire? (to be continued)

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

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