|| Shri Hari ||

Secret of Freedom 

Someone is intelligent,  someone is a dunce; someone is wealthy  and someone is poor;  someone is able and someone is not -  these conditions or states belong to the realm of the world.  If one has to turn one’s back upon the world,  then the sense of being wise and wealthy has also to be given up;   likewise the sense of being foolish and pauper has also to be relinquished !  Reason being that God Realization cannot be had through worldliness;  but it can only be through its renunciation.  The worldly abilities etc., have a limitation, but renunciation knows no bounds or limits.  Renunciation is limitless whereby illimitable and infinite God is attained.  Thus the purport of worldly things, their value and importance that one has in the heart,  have to be given up. No one can give up the world as such, and no liberation is ever possible thereby !  Were liberation thus possible,  then all those who have died should have attained salvation;  because they go away  (from the world), having left behind their mortal coil,  body,  riches,  family etc,  and they do not thereafter write letters, send no messages or news -  they renounce so much indeed !   But liberation  (Mukti) -  is not possible through such outer renunciation only !  Renunciation should be from within,  from the innermost recesses of the heart !   The attachment, intense longing,  lovingness and importance -  these are the causes of bondage -  

kaarananm gunasango’sya sadasadyonijanmasu (Gita 13/21)  

When internally the relation has to be sapped,  then whether a thing is extremely fine or bad,  it is scarce or in plenty - what difference does it make?   

Questioner -  When God created this world,  why at all did He spread out this big and wide network of His Maya (illusion) ?  

Swamiji -  Look, it is said that God’s Maya has entangled us;  but it is not so.  Really viewed,  it is our own dishonesty of regarding God’s Maya as our own that has entangled us.   We get enmeshed only in those things and beings whom we believe to be our own.  We are not entangled in those things etc,  whom we do not regard as our own.  

to be continued......

From book 'Be Good'  by Swami Ramsukhdasji from Gita Press, Gorakhpur