|| Shri Hari ||

How to be Free of Sense of Me and Mine? 

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I am not this body - accept this point with a firm conviction. I was never this body, nor can I ever become this body, nor can I ever remain this body and nor am I this body at present.  I am entirely separate from this body.  What is the way to recognize this?  If I was not separate from this body, if I was one with this body, then after death the body too would leave with me, or along with the body, I too would remain.  However, neither the body goes with  me, nor do I remain with the body,  then how can I be considered as being in the body? Just as I go away from this building then the building does not go with me.  THe building remains right here, and I go away.   Therefore I and the building are two, not one.  In this same manner the body and I (Self) are two, not one.  On clearly gaining knowledge of this, the egoism (I-ness) is wiped out.

I am this body, the body is mine and this body is for me - these three are the main mistakes.  In reality,  I am neither the body,  nor is the body mine,  nor is the body for me.  How is the body not for me?  I am the one to remain forever, constantly whereas the body is the kind that is changing all the time-constantly.  This body is at all times-forever separating from me,  Is there a moment, that this body is not disconnecting with me? Man believes that when this body dies, when there is separation from this body; that from birth to death this body remained ours.  One is belief at the grossest level.  From a subtle view the body is constantly dying.  Let us say that someone's life-span is 100 years and he has turned one years old, then are 100 years still remaining? Now only 99 years remains.  The sight only goes towards the point that the child is growing - this is absolutely false idea, as such he is reducing. We too think that we are growing, we are living -  this is absolutely false;  the truth is that we are dying.  

Just as we believe that after death, separation takes place from the body, similarly there is separation taking place from this body every single moment.  Therefore that which is all the time disconnecting from us, how can it be "for me?"  Think about it, do you have any authority or control over the body? If you had control, then do not let it fall sick, do not let it become weak, at the very minimum, do not let it die.  When we have no control or authority over it, then how can it be mine?  What I was in childhood, that same one I am right now.  Our "sense of being" is at all times seen as the same "as-is" but the body is constantly changing;  then how am I the body?  

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From "Kalyaankari Pravachan"  in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji