|| Shri Hari ||
Perfection of Human Life in the Awakening of Love
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On the attaining salvation ‘I am liberated; or ‘I am Yogi’ of ‘I am wise (jnani) – this kind of iota of ego persists. This ego does not become an obstacle in attaining salvation, but it is an obstacle in the awakening of love i.e. in infinite bliss. Due to this slightest ego, there remains differences in philosophers with each other. After the rise of love, such type of differences do not persist. Therefore the complete accomplishment lies in the awakening of love.
The nature of God is ‘sat-chit-anand’ embodiment of existence (reality), consciousness, and bliss. There is limitless, infinite and endless beauty in ‘reality’, there is limitless, infinite and endless glory in consciousness and there is limitless, infinite and endless sweetness in bliss. There is beauty in the real due to the fact that each one possesses the attraction of one’s own existence and he feels that he should always remain alive. There is never distaste in one’s own existence. There is glory in consciousness because one feels proud - ‘I am the knower of so many things’, in this way one feels that he has special knowledge (wisdom). Truth, consciousness and bliss - these three being one in essence, appear different due to the angle of one’s vision only. In fact where there exists the reality, there also exists consciousness and bliss. Where there exists consciousness, there also is the existence (reality,truth) and bliss. Where there is bliss, there also persist truth and consciousness. In God (the entire form of God) there is existence, consciousness and bliss in complete form but in his ‘ansh’ (part, fragment) the soul, they remain in their partial form.
The beauty, glory and attraction (sweetness) which are seen in this world, are perishable. But by supposing one’s own relationship with this world, the vision of man is limited and fixed in the world only, it does not go beyond the world towards God (supreme Reality). Due to attachment to the world, he assumes the perishable beauty, glamour and attraction (sweetness) of the world as permanent and real. Although the apparent beauty, glamour and attraction, visible in the world, is also a glimpse, a replica of that Supreme God, but the person does not presume it as God’s and assumes, its independent existence and gives all the importance to it. By giving importance to worldly beauty, mineness arises; by giving importance to glamour, desire arises and by giving importance to sweetness, attachment arises. As a result of which his life becomes changeable (miserable), disquiet and dependent. But when the supposed relationship with the world does not exist, then the attachment, desire and mineness are destroyed and the person become faultless, peaceful and independent which means that he becomes completely free from the bondage of this world. When the selfless grace of God makes that salvation tasteless, then the real love arises. For instance, due to the rising of the sun, the light of one thousand watt lamp of electricity does not diminish, but in the light of the sun its importance does not get recognition, similarly, when love is awakened, then flawlessness, quietude and independence, don’t disappear, but they don’t get recognition and don’t have so much importance and then ‘I am without any defects, I am quiet, I am independent’ - This subtle ego and all the philosophical differences, which arise from this ego, totally disappear which means, that non-dualism, qualified non-dualism, dualism, nondualistic-dualism etc., all such differences are transformed into God’s manifestation which is a Reality. Therefore in the heart of a devout devotee who has realized ‘All is God’, there remains no insistence of any particular view, rather there remains equal respect for all sects and views. There being no insistence for any specific sect, he never has any disrespect for any sect, or religion or opinion etc.
Narayan ! Narayan !! Narayan !!!
From article by Swami Ramsukhdasji in 'Kalyaan Kalpatru' from Gita Press, Gorakhpur, Issue - dated Jul 2014