From bhagavan |
THE 68th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF BHAGAVAN, THE FOUNDER AND THE CORE OF INTERNATIONAL VEDANTA SOCIETY WILL BE HELD AT
KHEMKA HALL,
BALLYGUNGE SHIKSHA SAMITY,
51A, GARIAHAT ROAD, (Near Pantaloons)
KOLKATA-19.
FROM THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATION MAN IS STRIVEING FOR KNOWLEDGE. HE ALWAYS WANTS TO KNOW. HERE I SHARE THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR INNER WORLD - OUR MIND. UNDERSTANDING THIS ONE CAN ACHIVE SALVATION.
From bhagavan |
What is the most pleasant thing in this world? What is most satisfying thing? With my experience of life I would say, the most pleasant and satisfying thing in the world is the pleasure in Samadhi. This is uncomparable. Nothing stands near to this pleasure of Samadhi. There are two types of Samadhi – one, where one goes deep inside and there remains nothing; another is, where there is an unspeakable pleasure. I use to enjoy both these Samadhis.
After this if, I have to pick another thing near to this it would be the ‘divine love’. Yes, this is also very enjoyable. This is quite different from the love between two persons. The love that the world knows is actually affection. However, in the divine love there is also a problem, it needs another thing for its manifestation. But in Samadhi you need nothing.
The name, fame, wealth all that which makes the world run after them is all third graded.
Therefore, my dear, if you really want to enjoy the most astonishing pleasure in this world you have to master yourself to be in Samadhi. Enjoy it.
Life is a path where we struggle for better living. Then we strive for knowledge, which helps us to solve all our problems. In doing so, we understand that until we come to know the real purpose of life, we cannot complete it with all grace.
The zigzag path of life that we usually lead, the most of us cannot complete this. The most of us are not ready to search for the answer of life. Just a handful of wealth satisfies most of us. There are very few who really cannot remain satisfy with wealth or fame. They are the brave heart who conquers life. Get salvation.
To them life is the Highway to reach the Truth or God.
Our soul i.e. the Self is always constant, we cannot deny our Self because it is non-imaginable that without “I” others are existing. At every moment we first accept or feel me then we feel others.
The body and the Soul cannot be the same. Because whatever we use cannot be the user. So, the Soul uses the body and that is why, the Soul is an entirely separate entity. As in the case of a cocoanut the real essence is quite separate from either the water or the outer periphery.
So, Soul is the only Absolute Reality. Horns of a dilemma begins from the very inception;”who am I?” – It should be a question and it must be solved. If we try to answer that; “I am such and such”, then I can only point out my body, or the mind or the intelligence which is not at all the real explanation of “I” or the soul. Because in reverse we do not use the body at all. Then in deep slumber we become ignorant of our body, mind, intelligence i.e. everything which we use in our so called conscious state. So, this sort of consciousness is no consciousness.
Consciousness is consciousness, and cannot be felt what we feel is, that is state. We feel these states as conscious- it is maya or illusion. Absolute consciousness i.e. consciousness itself cannot be a state. State is a passing phenomenon. The real consciousness i.e. Atman which is one without a second is always without any state either dynamic or static. Relativity or Non-relativity is applicable only to one Reality i.e. the Subject. Consciousness, Soul and Real “I” are one and the same.
In this ever changing world we all are trying to invest best of ours to find fulfillment in our life. In this search we are more often misguided with the fact that by merely fulfilling the wants of our mind does not complete oneself, rather the fellow is then left with more complicated situations which generally does not seem to be controllable. So to ask the question - are we content? The answer if we judge neutrally is obvious- No. Why? That we can not answer, and in the process of expressing the reply we exaggerate our might and hide the facts.
I assume who so ever shall be going through these lines, understands that the path of deliverance always starts with the fact of inquiring with one’s self. The people in the path of deliverance is shown the way by the inquiry of –“who am I? Where do I come from?”
As is been told in the “Yoga Basistha”. This inquiry leads to the realization of the Atman or Bramhan which is the true identity of us.
International Vedanta Society is striving hard to manifest the divinity that is already within us by practicing the Upanishads. And under the divine presence of Bhagavan many people are enlightened.
Now as many of the people who got a touch of Bhagavan got enlightened, though not all. However every one of them undergone a wonderful experience of peace and bliss within. “What does that represent; does it bring any benefit to my personal life?” This basic question arises in our mind when we are met with hard line people who say goal of life is to be free from all types of bondage. Does getting liberated bring any change to the present grim scene of the world?
I remember one great event which may just fit here; it is from time immemorial a great conversation between Bhagavan Sri Krisna and his beloved friend Arjuna. If we are familiar with Srimad Bhagavat Gita, then we all know at the beginning, after seeing the great army of the Kaurabs, the opponent of Pandaba,Arjuna the greatest warrior did not wanted to fight ,he got trembled in fear, and hid his fear saying he does not want to fight, what does it get by fighting with own people? It is better to go to the woods and take alms rather to fight with the people who are his relatives, whom he loved so much.
Then came the greatest of blessing in the words of rebuke by Lord Sri Krisna, who said why you act like a meek , if you do not kill these people they shall be brought to their fates automatically, they shall die; it is a previlage given to you that you to fight for good and truth. So be an instrument to the almighty and fear not, fight, because it is your nature, it is your duty.
Actually whenever we are met with words which lead us beyond this material world we basically react by asking ourselves this question what benefit does this bring to my life or to the world?
Is it not true that great many deeds by great many people is just being forgotten, and however great work one has done does not leave a trace behind in this ever flowing time; everything is forgotten. What our great forefathers did, even we do not remember they did so many wonderful things; all are past and gone in the darkness.
Our Bhagavan once said.” Sei Ram o nei, sei Ajyodhya o nei” it means neither Great Rama is there nor his Great kingdom, where everything was so peaceful, so blissful.