|| Shri Hari ||
Everything is Only God
(Sab Kuch Bhagwaan hi Hai)
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Question ‒ Everything is only God - what is the spiritual practice that can help one realize this ?
Answer‒ There are three spiritual disciplines to realize this - Karmayog, Jnanayog, and Bhaktiyog. In Karmayog an aspirant sees action in inaction and inaction in action.
कर्मण्यकर्म यह पश्येदकर्मणि च कर्म यः । (गीता ४/१८)
Karmanyakarma yah paschyedkarmani cha karma yah (Gita 4/18)
In Jnanayoga, an aspirant sees the “self” (spirit) in all beings, and sees all beings in the "self" -
सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि । (गीता ६/२९)
"Sarvabhootasthamaatmaanam sarvabhootaani chaatmani" (Gita 6 / 29 ).
In Bhaktiyog, an aspirant sees God in the world and the entire world in God -
यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति । (गीता ६/३०)
"Yo maam paschyati sarvatra, sarvam cha mayi pashyati" (Gita 6 / 30 ).
By seeing action in inaction and inaction in action, the action (karma) does not remain, only “inaction” remains. By seeing the “self” (spirit) in all beings, and seeing all beings in the self, the beings do not remain, rather only “self” (aatma, spirit) remains. By seeing God in the world and the entire world in God, only God remains, the world does not remain. Inaction (remaining untainted), Self and God - all three are one and the same. It means that the outcome of all the three yogas - Karmayog, jnanayog, and Bhaktiyog - is realizing that “All is God.”
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In karmayog, through renunciation of selfishness, one performs actions only for other’s happiness, therefore the desire for his own happiness is removed. By being free of wanting his own pleasures, the sense of I-ness does not remain in him. When sense of I-ness is wiped out, the world’s independent existence does not remain and only God remains.
Jnanayogi by giving importance to the discrimination between the real and unreal, rejects the unreal and becomes established in the real. Even though he is established in the real through discrimination the existence of the world remains in a subtle way; because while doing his spiritual practices, intensity of detachment was not there. Due to lack of intense detachment (vairaag), even though he experiences, a fraction of attraction and attachment (sense of I-ness) subtly remains within him. Due to the subtle I-ness remaining within,
there arises differences among the various philosophers and his own philosophy, principles and spiritual disciplines appear to be superior. If intense detachment develops, one realizes the real essences, then this subtle I-ness does not remain and “Everything is only God” is realized.*
Bhaktiyogi sees God in all and everyone in God. Therefore in his vision neither “I” or “mine” remains, nor you and yours remains, nor this and his, nor that and theirs remains, rather only God remains. From an ordinary perspective, I am, the world is, and God is - such sentiments remain, but a devotee only has the sentiments of divinity (presence of God). Therefore, the sense of I-ness is very easily wiped out in him and he is able to realize that all is only God.
From book in Hindi "Bhagwaan aur Unki Bhakti" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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