Essence of All Spiritual Disciplines...(continued)
As a dining room is the place where meals are eaten, so is
this body a place where pleasure and pain is experienced. He, who experiences pleasure and pain, is not the body, but the self which identifies itself with the body. The place of experience is different from the experience. The body is like the garment which is different from us. As by changing numerous clothes, we don't become numerous, we remain the same. As by discarding old clothes we don't die and by wearing new clothes we are not born, similarly by casting off old bodies we don't die and by acquiring new bodies we are not born.* It means that the body is born and it dies but we are not born nor do we die. If we (the self) died, who will bear the fruit of sinful and virtuous actions? Who will go to different wombs and to heaven and hell? Who will be bound? Who will be liberated? Our life does not depend on this body. Our life is very long – beginning-less and end-less. We are not born at the time of new creation, nor do we die at the time of final dissolution, but we remain the same – "sargeapi nopjaayante pralaye na vyathanti cha" (Gita 14/2)
Our nature and the nature of the body are totally different from each other. Neither have we union with the body, nor does the body have union with us. As the body lives in the world, likewise we don't live in the body. There was never our union with the body, nor is, nor will be, nor can be. In fact we don't need the body. Even without the body, we don't lose anything. Till now we have acquired and cast off numberless bodies but has it made any difference in our existence? What loss have we sustained? We have remained the same – "Bhootgraamh sa evaayam, bhootvaa bhootvaa praleeyate" (Gita 8/19)
All people realize the absence of body, senses, mind, intellect and ego but no one ever realizes the absence of the self. For example in sound sleep, I died. The reason is that even in the absence of the body, we existed. So when we are awake, we say that I slept so soundly, that I knew nothing. It means that we existed the same in sound sleep. It proves that our existence does not depend on the body, senses, mind, intellect and ego. All – gross, subtle and causal bodies cease to exist but the self never ceases to exist. (to be continued)
From book "Sab Sadhano ka Saar" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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If in doubt regarding the translation, please read the original Hindi message by Swamiji.
FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT Date : 15th March, 2012 "Sab Sadhano ka Saar"
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As a dining room is the place where meals are eaten, so is
this body a place where pleasure and pain is experienced. He, who experiences pleasure and pain, is not the body, but the self which identifies itself with the body. The place of experience is different from the experience. The body is like the garment which is different from us. As by changing numerous clothes, we don't become numerous, we remain the same. As by discarding old clothes we don't die and by wearing new clothes we are not born, similarly by casting off old bodies we don't die and by acquiring new bodies we are not born.* It means that the body is born and it dies but we are not born nor do we die. If we (the self) died, who will bear the fruit of sinful and virtuous actions? Who will go to different wombs and to heaven and hell? Who will be bound? Who will be liberated? Our life does not depend on this body. Our life is very long – beginning-less and end-less. We are not born at the time of new creation, nor do we die at the time of final dissolution, but we remain the same – "sargeapi nopjaayante pralaye na vyathanti cha" (Gita 14/2)
Our nature and the nature of the body are totally different from each other. Neither have we union with the body, nor does the body have union with us. As the body lives in the world, likewise we don't live in the body. There was never our union with the body, nor is, nor will be, nor can be. In fact we don't need the body. Even without the body, we don't lose anything. Till now we have acquired and cast off numberless bodies but has it made any difference in our existence? What loss have we sustained? We have remained the same – "Bhootgraamh sa evaayam, bhootvaa bhootvaa praleeyate" (Gita 8/19)
All people realize the absence of body, senses, mind, intellect and ego but no one ever realizes the absence of the self. For example in sound sleep, I died. The reason is that even in the absence of the body, we existed. So when we are awake, we say that I slept so soundly, that I knew nothing. It means that we existed the same in sound sleep. It proves that our existence does not depend on the body, senses, mind, intellect and ego. All – gross, subtle and causal bodies cease to exist but the self never ceases to exist. (to be continued)
From book "Sab Sadhano ka Saar" in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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If in doubt regarding the translation, please read the original Hindi message by Swamiji.
FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT Date : 15th March, 2012 "Sab Sadhano ka Saar"
http://www.satcharcha.