Feeling of Oneness (Apnapan) with God

"Sab mama priya, sab mama upajaaye"  (Manas, Utter.  86/4)

"Ishvar ansh jeev abinaasi"  (Manas. Utter.  117/2)

"Mamaivaaansho jeevaloke"  (Gita 15/7) 

In this manner, God and Saints all say that jeev (embodied soul) is a part of Paramatma (God).  Therefore we are God's only, and until we do not accept this, till then even though being God's, we will not benefit from it.  As long as we remain distant from Paramatma, till then we will not gain peace and joy.  We will not experience bliss. 

"Sanmukh hoyi jeev mohi jabhin,  Janma koti agh naasahin tabhin.

On turning towards God, sins of a million years are destroyed.  Therefore gentlemen!  Please do me a favor, and accept that I belong to God, and I do not belong to anyone else.  Here a doubt may arise, that if we do not belong to anyone else then how will the support and maintenance of the world go on?  How will the mothers take care of their children?   The resolution to that there is no greatness in nourishing and caring by considering someone as yours.  Everyone takes care of their own child as in this there is no bravery.  A mother who cares for an orphan child, who is not related in any way, people look upon her with gratitude. The greatness and peace comes from caring for the child as her own, even though the child is not hers.  The child too will be deeply influenced by such a mother.

A long time back in the "Kalyaan" magazine, in the monthly portion, an incident was printed.  It is about a village.  There in a Muslim family,  a child was born, but the child's mother died at birth. That poor man was extremely sad.  One being the death of his wife, and the second was the dilemma of caring for a new-born.  Nearby, there lived a cowherd man.  They too had a new born child.  When the cowherd man's wife found out about this incident, she asked to care for the Muslim child. She raised both the children.  She fed them both her milk, she was fond of them both and loved them both. In her mind and sentiments, there was no duality that one is my own child and the other is someone else's child.  When the child grew older and reached student age, she asked the Muslim man to take him and educate him and do as he pleases.  The boy received much education and became a pharmacist in a hospital.  On the other side, the cowherd mother heart had weakened and was admitted to the hospital for treatment. 

  

 (To be continued)

From "Bhagavaana se Apanaapana" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji

Ram Ram

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Feeling of Oneness (Apnapan) with God  

 Gentlemen! When we become God's, then it becomes essential for us to conduct in the best of best ways with God's creation – this world.  This entire world is the Lord's, and everyone in it is our master.  On having such sentiments, our conduct with them will be very good.  Our conduct will be one of renouncing and sacrificing, our treatment will be one of seeing to their well-being and of serving them.  By this our conduct will be purified.  Our spirituality will be perfected, and we will be liberated from this world.  Therefore by being God's, do His work.  Serve all seeing them as God's creatures. Within have the sentiments that -       

Sarve    Bhavantu    Sukhinah,       Sarve     Santu    Niraamayaa,

Sarve Bhadraani Pashyantu, Maa kascchid Dukh bhaagyebhevet.

May all become happy, may all be free from disease;  May there be nothing but auspiciousness in everyone's lives; May no one undergo pain or suffering. If we develop such sentiments, then whether the entire world is happy or not that we do not know, but we will certainly, without any doubt, become happy.

  Do me a little favor!  Understand this point attentively!  In the path of devotion, only the sentiments have to change that I am God's and God is mine; This world is not mine and I am not of this world.   It has come in the Gita - 

              Ananyaascintayanto    maam    ye   janaah   paryupaasate;
             tesaam nityaabhiyuktaanaam yogaksemam vahaamyaham. 

                                                                                                         ( 9:22)

"To those men, who worship Me alone, thinking of none but Me, who are
ever-devout, I make provisions to protect what they have and I also provide them with all the necessities that are required." (Gita 9:22) and

"ananya chetaa satatam...  tasyaa ham sulabh paarth"  (Gita 8/14).

To become God's exclusively and to contemplate on Him means – I am only God's and only God is mine.  For those who do so, God says – "tasyaahum sulabh"  i.e. He who uniquely, undividedly, and exclusively becomes Mine, who remembers and retains Me, to him I become easily attainable.

Gentlemen!  He who is a trader, if he is shown something good, then he will not leave it; because in it he will gain a lot. Similarly, he who desires his spiritual progress, for him a very great and simple-straight forward point is  to concede, to adopt that I am God's and God is mine.  If this belief is firmed, fixed, and unyielding, than today itself one can attain perfection, absoluteness. Do me just a little favor. Have that much kindness and consent to this point firmly - that "I am God's and God is mine".  It is the truth!  I am not deceiving you.  Before you were God's, in the end you will be God's, and now too you are only God's. Whether you concede to it or not, you are only God's, of this there is no doubt.

 (To be continued)

From "Bhagavaana se Apanaapana" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji

Ram Ram

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Feeling of Oneness (Apnapan) with God

Feeling of Oneness (Apnapan) with God

 As such, equanimity is the essence.  It is said in the Gita – "Ihaiva tairjitah sargo yehaam saamye sthitam manah" (Gita 14/25).  Meaning, he whose mind is established in equanimity, while living he has conquered this life. This means that in whose heart there is equanimity, if things are created or destroyed, if they come and go, there is no unevenness, no favoritism, no likes- dislikes, no elation or dejection.  When there is not the least bit of affect when things and persons come and go, then we have gained victory over this life.  However, if we are affected by their coming and going, then we are fallen; we are defeated.The world has become victorious over us.  No one likes to fail.  Everyone likes to be a winner.  He whose mind is established in equanimity, he can win today, at this very moment.  He can become victorious.  Gita says – "nirdosham hi samam Brahm tasmaatbrahmani te sthithtaah |  (Gita 5/19).  Meaning,  those great souls, whose inner faculty has become free of flaws and is in perfect equanimity, they are established in That Paramatma (God) who is Existence, Consciousness and Bliss Absolute.  What an extraordinary point this is.It is the main goal of man to attain Paramatma (God).  Every brother and sister in any state can attain that element, that Essence, Paramatma, because this human body has been received to attain That Essence.   However, we consider the perishable things as ours and get bound.  From the very beginning these things were not ours, and later on also they will not remain ours – this is the truth.   In between by accepting them as ours, we get trapped.  If we do not consider these are ours and if we put them in the best of best practices and top most behavior then we will not get trapped in bondage.   The extent to which the possessiveness in those things diminishes, to that extent we will become liberated.   

Our oneness with God has always been there and will always remain.  Only we have become distant from God, God has not become distant from us.  We are God's and God is ours. 

As  abhimaan   jaayi   jani bhore,

mein sewak Raghupati pati more.

                                                 (Manas, Aranya, 11/21)

Meerabai who became so great, had the sentiments "Mere to Giridhar Gopal, doosero ne koyi."  That One Lord (Giridhar) aloney is mine, no one else is mine. 

 (To be continued)

From "Bhagavaana se Apanaapana" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji

Ram Ram

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Feeling of Oneness (Apnapan) with God

Feeling of Oneness (Apnapan) with God

Shree Hari

4th April, 2012, Wednesday 

Chaitra Shukla Dwadshi, Vikram Samvat 2069, Budhwar 

As such we are God's and this world is also God's; but when we want to seize it, possess it, when we want to consider it is ours, then we are trapped.  We hold the view that as many things and individuals that come under our privilege,  that much we will become great, we will become the master of those things and individuals; but such a notion is entirely wrong.   We become dependent on all that we consider as our own such as, the money, the family etc.  We become subordinate to that thing, those persons.  The misconception is that we have become their masters, but actually we become their slaves.  This is to be understood extremely well, not just to be heard and shared.  You yourself think about this!

You endure so much worrying about those things, houses that you consider to be your own. Those that you do not believe to be your own,.  You have not the least concern or care about them.  You are affected by the associations and disassociations of the family that you believe to be your own.  However, those that you do not consider as your own, you are entirely unaffected by their association or disassociation.Similarly with money-wealth, land-properties and other possessions that you consider your own, the weight of responsibility of those things, its worries, its care and protection etc. rests on your shoulders.  But that which you do not consider to be your own, you are not bound by those things.  Think about this rationally. In this world, the few houses, few individuals, a little money (thousands, millions) that is there with you, you are bound by those houses, those people and that money.  That which you do not consider as your own, you are entirely free from those houses, people and money.   Thus you are mostly free in this life.  Only a little liberation is remaining!  Liberation is the name of becoming freed.  You are completely free from the money that you do not consider as your own.   You have no attachment to it.  You are unaffected by its gain or loss.  In other words, you remain in equanimity, whether it is gold, soil (mud, earth) or stone.   There is no affect on you whether it comes or goes.

"Samloshthaashmakaanchanah (Gita 6/8).In this manner, in honor or dishonor; friend or foe if remain unaffected and in equanimity."Maanapamaanyogastulyastulyo mitraripekshyoh" (Gita 14/25). 

 (To be continued)

From "Bhagavaana se Apanaapana" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji

Ram Ram

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The Aim of Human life

The Aim of Human life

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Baden  bhaag  maanush  tan paavaa,

Sur durlabh sab granthanhin gaavaa.

                                                            (Manas 7.43.4)

Therefore we should sincerely devote ourselves from our heart to attain God-realization and should not miss this golden opportunity.

This Kali-age (Kaliyuga) is the age in which God-realization can be attained much more easily thaen in the other three ages. But how harmful and shameful it is to waste that time of human body in enjoying worldly pleasures and doing sins and injustice! The sacred books, our own intellect and the society—all consider these sinful actions highly unjust and disgraceful. Now the question is what to do?

There is no use crying over split milk. Take a firm determination today that in future you will neither waste your time nor commit sins nor do injustice but try to find out means to have devotion to God and to realize Him at the earliest.

Listen to what I say. It is within your power to realize God because this human body has been bestowed upon you for this very purpose. Every human being is free in God-realization, no one is dependent, while it is not within your power to become a millionaire or a landlord or get honour and fame. Therefore the main goal of this human body is to attain Him. But a human being does not pay attention to it.

It is said in the Raamacaritamaanasa:—

Kabahunk kari karunaa nar dehi, Det es binu hetu sanehi.

                                                                                   (7.44.3)

Pay attention to this verse. It is mentioned here that God, a well-wisher without reason by His grace, has bestowed this human body upon us. So we should be free from sorrows and attain Him. The implication to be understood is that God has an intention for our benediction. So if we make a little effort, His intention may come true.Man does not pay attention to the fact that God by His grace has bestowed this human body upon him, believing that he will attain Him. But if he does not attain Him, it means nothing but betrayal towards Him. It is a great loss to commit sins such as falsehood and fraud etc,. in this human life.Take a firm decision that from today onwards you will not commit sinful and unjust actions but attain God-realization. Just as a businessman tries to find out the commodity which may be more profitable to him, in the same way you should try to find out the means to realize God. If you meet a saint or an exalted soul, who has attained God, ask him how to develop devotion to God and attain Hin and be free from bondage of worldly life,Therefore arouse the true desire so that you may definitely attain Him as is expressed in the Raamacaritamaanasa:—

Jehin ken jehi par satya sanehu, 
So tehi milai na kachhu sandehu  (1.259.3)

Naaraayana! Naaraayana! Naaraayana!

From ‘Jivanopayogi Pravacahna’ in Hindi and ‘Art of Living’ in English by Swami Ramsukhdasji Maharaj.

Ram Ram

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The Aim of Human life

The Aim of Human life

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Worldly pleasures can be enjoyed in every form of life. A sow can give birth to ten or twelve young ones at a time. So is it a great achievement for you to produce two or three children? If earning money is an achievement, .serpents have a lot of money because they live at such places where there is money. If leading a luxurious life and enjoying the worldly pleasures is an achievement, there are dogs in cities like Bombay which get all the luxuries that are not available to most of the people. They travel by cars and aeroplanes and every luxury is provided to them, It is a matter of fortune that even dogs may get so many luxuries. Therefore it is a matter of serious blunder and degradation to waste the most precious and rare human life in accumulation of wealth and enjoying the worldly pleasures by sinful acts like falsehood, fraud and dishonesty and paving the way lo hell. Therefore be careful to achieve the highest and the noblest goal of human life which can't be achieved in any other form of life.

 A man has to suffer the pains in eighty-four lac forms of lives because of the sins done in the human body. All the four ages — Satya, Tretaa, Dwaapara and Kali are spent in undergoing sufferings of the world and hell, yet the deadly snis committed and accumulated in human life are not exhausted. But God being gracious bestows human life upon us so that we may attain Him. The almighty God whose mere thought creates and rears the infinite universes, is prepared to obey us if we love him from our heart. The cowherdesses (Gopis) say to Lord Krsna, "If you dance a bit and play on flute, we shall give you butter-milk." And Lord Krsna starts dancing and playing on flute. Just imagine theimportance and dignity of this human life which makes Lord Krsna dance. But it is a blunder if in this Life we commit sinful actions and thus make preparation to pave the way to hell for suffering tortures. We should take the best possible advantage of this human life.You have come to Vrindaavana. so it is advisable for you to visit the temples and behold God and take bath in the Jamunaa, Find out things which are helpful in God-realization. This is a place of pilgrimage, so visit temple to behold God, attend the programme of loud chanting, listen to divine stories as well as religious discourses and take full advantage of your visit to this place. What is the use of wasting your Time in visiting movies and dramatic performances etc., here? These things are better available in big cities like Calcutta and Bombay. Similarly take advantage of human life which has been bestowed upon you by God's grace. Don't waste it in worldly pleasures and enjoyments which can be available even in the life of a dog, a pig, a donkey or a crow. We are fortunate enough that we have got this human body which even demi-gods can't get.

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From ‘Jivanopayogi Pravacahna’ in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji Maharaj.

Ram Ram

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