Eternal Union with God and Its Realization
30th July, 2013, Tuesday,
Aashadh Shukla Ashtmi, Vikram Samvat 2070, Mangalvar
Prakriti (Nature) and Purusa (soul or spirit) - "Both are said to be without beginning" (Gita 13/19). Though both of them are beginningless, yet they are distinct in nature. Prakriti is always active while in Purusa there is no activity at all. This distinction should be understood clearly.
In the scriptures Prakriti is said to have two states - inactive and active. But in fact the form state is called inactive when it is compared with the active state otherwise activity in its subtle form never ceases. For example when we perform our daily duties during wakefulness or when we are asleep, the activity in the form of decay of body never stops. In sleep also there are three kinds of activity. The first is that our light sleep gradually turns into sound sleep *. The second is that by removing our tiredness we are refreshed. The third one is that the body decays and paces towards extinction. This activity of decay naturally goes on constantly from the creation to the dissolution of the universe. Prakriti is said to be inactive when the universe is dissolved. Why is it said to be inactive? It is said to be inactive because there is no creation at that time. In reality Nature never remains inactive. In Nature activity goes on during all states - of wakefulness, dream, sleep, unconsciousness, trance, creation, new creation, dissolution, and final dissolution all the time. An activity is going on every moment in all the evolutes of Nature such as minds, intellect, senses, bodies, riches, stars, planets, sun, moon, earth and oceans etc. There is a continuous process from birth to death in them even though they appear steady in the middle. Actually there is no such steadiness. When we say that water of the Ganges is flowing at the same place where it was flowing yesterday, it does not mean that it is steady at the same place, but it means that it is continuously flowing. Similarly the bodies and the world are also vanishing continuously, though they seem steady. But God and the "self" remain uniform without the least activity or change or decay. had there be any activity in them, they would have not remained uniform but would have changed.
Everyone realizes that the self is distinct from every activity of Nature. Our activities of today are different from those of boyhood. The body passes through childhood, youth and old age naturally without making any effort while I (the self) ever remain the same. We have identified the self with the body. So the activity of the body appears to be the activity of the self. So we say, "I am young, I am a young boy, I am old, I am sick, I am healthy etc," Identification of the self with the body is ignorance and its non-identification is wisdom. Lord Krishna declares - "The knowledge of Kshetra (body) and shetrajna (self) is true wisdom. This is my verdict" (Gita 13/2) .
An aspirant should realize the fact that all activities occur in the body only. It is only the body which lives and dies, while the self is ageless. Death destroys the body only. All physical activities of the gross body, reflection of the subtle body and trance* of the causal body come under the sway of death while the self is not subject to death. There is no activity at all in the self. The self stands witness to all activities. He who remains established in the steady self is liberated, while he who is established in the active body is in bondage.
From Book in English "Sahaj Sadhana" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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