|| Shri Hari ||

The Flow of Spiritual Truths

A sure means of getting rid of sins is - not accepting the sins  in you, and not repeating the sinful acts.   It is only due to repeatedly making mistakes that sins continue to remain.  Virtue and vice both arise and perish, but we (Self) remain at all times.  Similarly this world is also perishing, whereas God is Eternal.  Therefore the Self and Paramatma (God, Supreme Consciousness) are One, whereas the world and the flaws/sins are one.  The point is that our relationship is withParamatma, not with sins and the world.   However, on turning away from Paramatma, we have assumed our relation with the world.  This is a mistake!   We ourselves have accepted a relationship with this world and this body; the body and this world have not assumed an affinity with us.   We only have become distant from Paramatma. Paramatma has not become distant from us.  Therefore the world and this body are not mine and I am not theirs; and Paramatma is mine and I am Paramatma's – Accept today itself!   This body is a part (element) of this world, and I am a part (element) of Paramatma.  Dedicate the body to the service of the world and dedicate the Self (swayam) to Paramatma - that is all an aspirant (sadhak) has to do.  

On assuming this world as his own, man is trapped, and he undergoes many different kinds of suffering.  He thinks this body, wealth, property, house, family etc. are his, and he is their master.  But as such he becomes their slave.   The misconception of becoming a master, but as such he becomes their slave.  This is the absolute truth.   Man should want to serve those things and have no hope and expectation from them, have no sense of  mine (mamta) in them.  One must serve, even the body.  Give it food, water, etc., but do not consider it to be yours.  We cannot keep the body forever.  We cannot make the body according to our wishes.  We cannot make the changes to it that we want.  Then how is it ours?   Money, property, houses, etc. also we are unable to keep it as we wish.  Therefore "they are mine" is nothing short of false.    

They have been received to serve, therefore, serve them with the spirit of selflessness.  They appear as ours, than it is God's generosity.  God gives in such a way that the receiver perceives the thing as his own.  This is the extra-ordinary generosity that though giving everything, He has kept Himself hidden.  To consider those things that are given to us as our very own is mis-utilization of God's generosity.  Therefore that which is not yours, do not consider as yours, and become inclined towards, that which in fact is your very own (Paramatma).  (to be continued)   

Ram Ram 
From book in Hindi "Sadhakon ke prati"   by Swami Ramsukhdasji