(Saadhak kaun Hai?)
Shree Hari
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The body changes every moment but an aspirant surely does not change every moment ! not in the least bit ! How can one who changes every moment become liberated? How will he be eternal? No one can destroy the self - "vinaashamavyayasyaasya na kashrichitkartummarhati" (Gita 2/17), but the body can't escape destruction. That which is imperishable, that alone attains liberation. How will the perishable, attain liberation? There is only delusion of bondage. When this delusion is destroyed (removed) - it is called liberation. Therefore, once delusion is wiped-out, a man does not again get deluded - "yazgyaatvaa na punarmoham" (Gita 4/35).
The reason is that at the root, in fact, delusion has no existence at all. That which is not there in the first place, that itself perishes. That which exists, does not ever perish. The real never ceases to be and that which ceases to be is not real, but it is unreal (temporal).
Nasato vidyate bhaavo naabhaavo vidyate satah | (Gita 2/16)
As a dining room is the place for dinner, so is this body the place to enjoy pleasure and to suffer pain. He who undergoes pleasure and pain is not the body. The place of experience is different from the experiencer. The body is just the outward garment. Whether we wear a red, black or white colored garment or any other clothes, it is surely not our true self (swaroop)! Similarly a man or a woman is only the outward garment. The self is neither a man nor a woman nor a eunuch. God, Prakriti and soul - the three are without any gender.
Everyone feels the absence of body, senses, mind, intellect and egoism but no one ever feels one's own absence. We (The self) transcend that whose absence is felt. Our existence persists continuously. In sound sleep the body, senses, mind, intellect and egoism all merge. No one declares that he died in sound sleep and now he has regained life. We exist in sound sleep, therefore we say that I slept so soundly that I knew nothing. Our existence remains the same in sound sleep. The reason is that our existence (sense of being) does not depend on egoism or on intellect or on mind or on senses or on the body. Our existence is independent. There is non-existence of the gross, the subtle and the causal bodies but we (the self) never cease to exist. Therefore the self is formless. We are formless but we regard ourselves endowed with form in the form of the body. This is the main mistake. We have to repent for this mistake. In repentance there are three factors -
The reason is that at the root, in fact, delusion has no existence at all. That which is not there in the first place, that itself perishes. That which exists, does not ever perish. The real never ceases to be and that which ceases to be is not real, but it is unreal (temporal).
Nasato vidyate bhaavo naabhaavo vidyate satah | (Gita 2/16)
As a dining room is the place for dinner, so is this body the place to enjoy pleasure and to suffer pain. He who undergoes pleasure and pain is not the body. The place of experience is different from the experiencer. The body is just the outward garment. Whether we wear a red, black or white colored garment or any other clothes, it is surely not our true self (swaroop)! Similarly a man or a woman is only the outward garment. The self is neither a man nor a woman nor a eunuch. God, Prakriti and soul - the three are without any gender.
Everyone feels the absence of body, senses, mind, intellect and egoism but no one ever feels one's own absence. We (The self) transcend that whose absence is felt. Our existence persists continuously. In sound sleep the body, senses, mind, intellect and egoism all merge. No one declares that he died in sound sleep and now he has regained life. We exist in sound sleep, therefore we say that I slept so soundly that I knew nothing. Our existence remains the same in sound sleep. The reason is that our existence (sense of being) does not depend on egoism or on intellect or on mind or on senses or on the body. Our existence is independent. There is non-existence of the gross, the subtle and the causal bodies but we (the self) never cease to exist. Therefore the self is formless. We are formless but we regard ourselves endowed with form in the form of the body. This is the main mistake. We have to repent for this mistake. In repentance there are three factors -
1. I have to accept my mistake of assuming the self as the body.
2. I have to repent for my mistake that in spite of being a sadhak, I have committed such a mistake.
3. I should have a firm determination that in future I'll never commit such a mistake i.e. I'll not regard the self as the body. By these three factors there is closure to that repentance and the sadhak gets established in his real unmanifest self.
Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!
From book "For Salvation of Mankind" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram
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