How to be Free from Bondage ?

||  Shri Hari  ||

How to be Free from Bondage ?

(बन्धन कैसे छूटे ?)

 

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Listener - How to wipe out the impressions of attachment or the sense of mine accumulated for ages?

Swamiji - Darkness prevailing from eternity is removed as soon as a match is lighted. It has no power to resist light. Similarly your error is perishable.


The remedy to wipe out your attachment or the sense of mine is to have a desire to give to others rather than to take from them. Give to others whatever you have unconditionally at the time of their need. But if you have a desire to take from others, it will give birth to new attachment or the sense of mine.


To render service to others without expecting any fruit is the Discipline of Action (Karmayog). To have no affinity for the world is the Discipline of Knowledge. No one else except God is mine - This is the Discipline of Devotion. The world is mine and for me - this is the Discipline of Birth and Death or bondage. Now follow the cycle of birth and death. The choice is yours! Accept any one of them which is beneficial. Your affinity for God is natural while for the world it is assumed. Renounce your affinity for the world yourself because it is temporary. It can’t persist. The saying goes “that a sensible man discards his relationship with the world at the outset
because he knows that it will end in smoke”. (continued...)


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How to be Free from Bondage

||  Shri Hari  ||

How to be Free from Bondage ?

(बन्धन कैसे छूटे ?)

 

People hold the opinion that bondage is eternal and they can attain salvation by being free from this bondage. But in fact this is an error of judgement. Had there been bondage, none could have been emancipated because the real never ceases to be. The Lord himself declares “The real never ceases to be” (Gita 2/16). Had bondage been real, it would have not ceased to exist. It seems to

exist like the face in the looking glass. Similarly the worldly entities such as body, family, property and riches etc., appear to be yours because you regard them as yours. But were they yours a hundred years ago and will they remain yours after a hundred years? So they were neither yours nor will remain yours. At present also they are decaying all the time. So can that which is perishing be existent? You have committed an error by regarding the unreal as real. If you renounce this misconception, emancipation (salvation) is self-evident. Therefore bondage is merely assumed. While emancipation is axiomatic and there is no delay in it.

If you have a conviction that you can’t by free from bondage, then you won’t be because you (self) are a part of God. If you have accepted it, you yourself will have to reject it. If you think that salvation is far away from you, how can it be attained quickly? In fact there was no bondage in the past, nor will be in future nor is at present while you were emancipated in the past, will be in future and are also at present.

Everyone loves his mother. But do you love her as much today as you did in the past?

This is an example (sample) of the worldly love. In business first you see the sample shows the quality of the commodity. Now you love your wife, sons, money and property and are attracted towards them while in childhood you loved your mother the most, you were attracted towards her and could not live

without her. This sample is the touch-stone of the worldly love and attraction. It means that all the worldly affection or attraction is short-lived.

Listener - Sir our affection has changed from parents to wife, from wife to sons, from sons to grandsons.

Swamiji - Then why do you entertain new affection? Your old affection is leaving you and thus you are being emancipated.

Listener - We don’t want to entertain new affection yet it so happens.

Swamiji - If you don’t want to entertain it, do I force you to do so? Who

forces you? Don’t entertain the new one, the old one will perish. Are you not emancipated from childhood and boyhood? In fact emancipation is self-evident and natural while bondage is artificial and man-made. If you don’t entertain it, it will be renounced. An easy method to be free from bondage is to fulfill the just and righteous desire of your kith and kin which are within your power and resources, without expecting even the just fruit. Thus by rendering service to others without expecting any service from them, you will be emancipated. But if you expect others to serve you, you will be deprived of emancipation and they will not serve you.

If you expect service from others, they don’t serve you. But if you don’t expect them to serve you, they serve you. So you are not at a loss. You want to give money, food and clothes etc., to a sage who does not want to take them. But do you want to give to a thief or a robber or a pick-pocket who want to take them? You will not be at a loss without having any desire. You honor and praise those who don’t want to be honored and praised. Then why do you want to be indigent by having desire? (to be continued)

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Discrimination between the Real and the Unreal

||  Shri Hari  ||

Discrimination between the Real and the
Unreal

(सत्‌-असत्‌का विवेक)

 

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Those things, persons and activities of the past and the future that the aspirant gives importance to, thoughts (memory) of those come to his mind automatically, even without thinking and desiring. The aspirant meditates upon God in order to remove the memory of those thoughts. But it is a principle that which automatical come to mind (in memory), those things cannot be eliminated by making a conscious efforts to remove that automatic flow of thought. Rather, fresh thinking creates new impressions of fresh thoughts. So the previous thought does not get removed but in fact it gets additional strength. The automatic flow of thoughts gets eliminated by automatic flow of fresh thoughts or by being completely silent. The meaning is that, on realizing the reality or on being actionless or on Self Realization or on loving God, the automatic flow of thoughts connected
with world comes to an end. “To be silent” means that the aspirant should ignore the automatic flow of thoughts, that is he should consider it neither appropriate nor inappropriate. He should not consider them in him nor should he start any fresh thoughts by himself. He should have nothing to do whether a thought comes to his mind or whether it does not come. He should not be the doer of things that are done nor be the enjoyer (consumer) of things that happen. He shall slowly become quiet and will be free from all thoughts. But he should not insist on becoming free from thoughts or free from enjoying pleasures. By doing so, the aspirant shall become free from what he thinks and what thought comes to his mind naturally - “Naiva tasya krutenaartho naakruteneh kaschan|” (Gita 3/18).

In this world that great soul has no use whatsoever for things done nor for things not done.” 

Because of the relationship of organs of actions in the performance of actions and because of relationship of the inner-sense with the occurrence of actions - both (performance and occurrence of actions) of them are unreal.
  
By being free from doing and happening of events, one’s own existence in eternal reality, which is automatic, shall be realized. 

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The unreal does not exist which means that this illusionary appearance moves into non-existence. But the knowledge of this fact does not change into non-existence. We are naturally established in this knowledge. The body is perishing every moment, therefore the body does not exist but only the self exists. The existence of the self transcends clime, time, things, persons, states, incidents and circumstances. 

Actually the unreal does not exist but it is only the real which exists. There is only the assumption of the unreal. This assumption of the unreal does not let us accept the real. The wrong assumption is wiped out by accepting the real assumption. In fact there is neither the wrong assumption, nor the right one, only the self exists. 

Just as hands, legs, nose, etc., are the parts of the body, the unreal is not even a part of the eternal truth. The one which remains flowing (going away continuously) and which is defective, is not a part. Just as phlegm, urine, etc. which are flowing and boils etc which are changeable do not constitute parts of a body, similarly the unreal (illusory), flowing and changeable does
not constitute the part of the truth (the real).     

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Discrimination between the Real and the Unreal

||  Shri Hari  ||

(सत्‌-असत्‌का विवेक)

 

PLEASE IGNORE PREVIOUS POSTING.  RE-POSTED WITH SOME CORRECTIONS

 

 

 

 

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By possessing a thing we exist, and even when the thing does not remain with us, we exist. When a person is living with us, we exist and we continue to exist even when he is not with us. We exist while performing some activity and even when we are not performing the activity, we exist. Everyone has got the experience of these two situations. This proves that our existence is not dependent on any thing, person or activity.  

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The unreal has no existence and the real never ceases to be - It means that whatever reality is seen, that belongs to eternal reality and not to the unreal world. No one can ever deny the existence of this eternal reality. Someone believes in the existence of God and someone in the existence of the soul and someone believes in the existence of material world. If someone says that he does not believe in any kind of existence, then at least he believes in his own existence! The meaning is that all accept in some or the other form the eternal existence (is), may be that they give it any name. No one can
reject the reality of existence (or deny it). The reason being that by denying existence, will be denial of one’s own existence, whereas no one ever feels the absence of one’s own existence. 

(13) 

One whose existence is never absent i.e. which exists in every place,
time, object, person, activity, situation etc., that reality is not achieved by performing any activity. The reason is that which is ever present is never non-available. When we do something, then it shall be achieved, such type of thinking strengthens body consciousness. Every action has a beginning and an end, therefore only that thing will be acquired by action which does not exist. But it is because of his affinity for Nature that in every being there is an impetus to act, which does not enable him to be free from action. It is necessary to stop the flow of activities, that which is not to be done, should not be done and that which has to be done, should be done by being non-egotistical and desireless i.e. nothing should be done for one’s own self, rather it should be done for the welfare of others. The impetus of activities shall never come to an end if one performs actions
only for one’s own self; since our existence is always eternal and the actions are transient. Therefore by performing actions for the benefit of others, the impetus for action will be pacified and the association with nature shall come to an end and the existential reality present in all places, time etc., will be revealed and realized.   

 

 

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From book in Hindi "Amartaa ki  Aur" and in English "Discovery of Immortality and Truth" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.  FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT - http://www.satcharcha.blogspot.com/ Date : 21st May, 2013 -   (सत्‌-असत्‌का विवेक)

Discrimination between the Real and the Unreal

||  Shri Hari  ||

 

(सत्‌-असत्‌का विवेक)

 

 

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While possessing a thing, we exist, and even when the  thing does not remain with us, we exist.   When a person is living with us, we exist and we continue to exist even when he is not with us.   We exist while performing some activity and even when we are not performing the activity, we exist.   Everyone has got the experience of these  two situations.   This proves that our existence is not dependent on any thing, person or activity.   

(12)  

The unreal has no existence and the real never ceases to be -  It means that whatever reality is seen,  that belongs to eternal reality and not to the unreal world.  No one can ever deny the existence of this eternal reality.   Someone believes in the existence of God and someone in the existence of the soul  and someone believes in the existence
of material world.     If  someone says that he does not believe in any kind  of existence, then at least he believes in his own existence!  The meaning is that all  accept in some or the other form the eternal existence (is), may be that they give it any name.  No one can reject the reality of existence (or deny it).  The reason being that by denying existence, will be denial of one’s own existence, whereas no one ever feels the absence of one’s own existence.  

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One whose existence is never absent i.e. which exists in every place, time, object, person, activity, situation etc.,  that reality is not achieved by performing any activity.  The reason is that which is ever present is never non-available.  When we do something, then it shall be achieved, such type of thinking strengthens body consciousness.  Every action has a beginning  and an end,  therefore only that thing will be acquired by action which does not exist.  But it is because of his affinity for Nature that in every being there is an impetus to act, which does not enable him to be free
from action.  It is necessary to stop the flow of activities, that which is not to be done, should not be done and that which has to be done,  should be done by being non-egotistical and desireless i.e.  nothing should be done for the welfare of others.  The impetus of activities shall never come to an end if one performs actions only for one’s own self;  since our existence is always eternal and the actions are transient.  Therefore by performing actions for the benefit of others, the impetus for action will be pacified and the association with nature shall come to an end and the existential reality present in all places, time etc.,  will be revealed and realized.   

  (continued.....)

From book in Hindi "Amartaa ki  Aur" and in English "Discovery of Immortality and Truth" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.  FOR MESSAGE IN HINDI PLEASE VISIT - http://www.satcharcha.blogspot.com/ Date : 21st May, 2013 -   (सत्‌-असत्‌का विवेक) IF YOU HAVE BENEFITED FROM THESE MESSAGES, KINDLY FORWARD TO OTHERS. ENGLISH: http://www.swamiramsukhdasji.net HINDI : http://www.swamiramsukhdasji.org

Discrimination between the Real and the

||  Shri Hari  ||

(सत्‌-असत्‌का विवेक)

 

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We have established defects in us by ourselves. We have strengthened them by giving them existence. Therefore not giving existence to defects and the establishment of faultless state in ourselves and in other persons is our duty. The feeling of purity (fault lessness) in one’s own self and in other person is Self-realization, it is liberation. 


(11) 

Our existence is not dependent on any object, thing, activity or particular individual. Every object is created and destroyed. Every person takes birth (union) and death (separation). Every activity has a beginning and an end. But the knower of these three, the divine consciousness is never created, nor destroyed. It is neither born (unites) nor does it die (disunites). It has no beginning and an end. That existence ever remains one and the same. Absence is never felt of that existential reality - “Naabhaavo vidyate satah” “The real never ceases to be.” The realization of automatic establishment in that reality is the freedom from the cycle of birth and death
during one’s own life-time. 

A person lives in the misconception that by getting a certain thing, on meeting a particular person, by performing a particular activity, he shall be free from the cycle of birth and death. But there is no such thing or individual or activity by which a man can attain freedom. A thing, a person, an activity are means of binding a person. By disassociation from these, a man can get freedom. Therefore it is desirable on the part of the aspirant that he should form his nature (habit) to remain alone,
without things, persons and activities. He should give importance to such experience and remain in such state for more and more time. It is every person’s experience that during the period of sound sleep, man remains naturally without the presence of any person, thing and activity; but without man the things, persons and activities do not remain. If we form the habit of remaining without these things during the waking state, then we shall attain freedom i.e. liberation. The presumption of our affinity for the person, activity and things itself does not allow us to become independent and even without our liking makes us dependent. We should think over - what is that thing which shall remain with us forever and with which we shall remain for ever? Who is that person who shall remain with us all the time and with whom we shall remain? Which is that activity which we shall continue to do
forever? No object, person or activity shall remain with us forever. One day we shall have to be deprived of the person, object and activity. If we accept our dissociation from them in the present time, then liberation is self-evident.

(continued.....)


From book in Hindi "Amartaa ki Aur" and in English "Discovery of Immortality and Truth" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.