|| Shri Hari ||

How to be Free of Sense of Me and Mine? 

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The body merely has it's oneness with the world. The body is made up of the very same five elements that this world is made off.

Chitti jal paawak gagan sameera |

panch  rachit ati adham sareeraa  ||

(Manas 4/11/2)  

 

This body has been received for serving the world.  It is not for our self.  What benefit will the body bring about for us?  What use will this body be for us?  Do not consider this body as yours and for you, rather consider it as belonging to the world and for the benefit of the world.  Thinking so, utilize it for serving this world.  This alone will be of use.   

You may have doubt that with this body we do divine name recitation, meditation, contemplation on God, serving others, then isn't this body being used for our work only?  As such, this body does not come of any use to us;  as no object or action can reach our Self.  By doing Divine Name recitation, meditation, etc. the discrimination opens up (develops) and the in the inner faculties the importance of the world is wiped out.   On complete awakening of discrimination (vivek), relationship with the world is cut-off.  On severing relationship with the world, one experiences That ever-attained Paramatma.  Because the experience of the ever-attained Paramatma cannot take place through inert body-world, rather it takes place on detaching from the world.  Cutting off the relationship with the body and world takes place through "vivek" discrimination,  not through actions.  Therefore the body is not of use to us, only severing affinity with the body is of use to us!   

If we consider the body as being for us, then an affinity, a relationship will be established with the body.  When we contemplate and think about God, then we engage our mind - intellect in That.  Does mind - intellect belong to nature or do they belong to you?   They belong to Nature.  Nature is "par" (belonging to another) and you are "Swa" (Self, one's own).  Therefore with mind-intellect, you will have to become dependent in thinking and contemplating on Paramatma.  In reaching a state of "samadhi"  (deep trance),  you will have to take the support of the inert.  However, renouncing the inert,  it will be possible to be situated in the sentient (chinmay).  By taking the support of the inert, by understanding the inert to be a requirement, an essential need, how will it be renounced?   If salvation is only on cutting off the assumed affinity with this body and the other inert things, then what use will this body etc. be for us?    

 

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From "Kalyaankari Pravachan"  in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji