SELF-REALISATION or GOD- REALISATION. Part 4.
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By, Dr. K. ESWARA DUTT.
I, the ‘ SELF’
am the ‘SEER.’ Everything else is
‘ SEEN by me.’ If I am seeing something ,
that is something ‘Other than me.’ If I am
perceiving something, that
object can never illumine me, ‘The Subject.’ Hence,
I am the ‘SEER’. I am
the ‘SELF’.
To realize ‘the SELF’, we need
to abandon ‘DESIRES’.
Total abandonment of desires is called ‘ Shama’.
Because, Desires hide ‘DIVINITY’ in us. Desires beget Desires and that leads to vicious circle. One desire leads to another and that gets
perpetuated. Desires will lead to
‘VASANAS’. Vasanas
need to
be exhausted. For that, we need to take
different ‘BIRTHS’. Hence, ‘Desirelesness alone can lead to ‘Vasanalessness, which alone can lead to purity of mind.’ Without purity of mind, unconditional worship
and unflinching devotion is not possible. Conditional worship
leads to ‘GOD’ as an ‘OBJECT of WORSHIP’, something other than me. Hence, the importance of ‘Purity of mind’ is
emphasized in GEETA and Upanishads. Hence, ‘SHAMA’
is very important in ‘GOD-realisation’.
Restraint of the external functions
of the organs is called ‘DAMA’. Meaning, restraining
the ‘senses’. ‘Shama
and Dama’ are essential for unconditional worship of the
LORD with ‘ANANYA YOGA’, Yoga of non otherness (GEETA). Because, Worshipper’s goal is none other than ‘the WORSHIPPED’. We all worship GOD’
with ‘ANYA YOGA’, Yoga of
otherness, which can only lead to repeat ‘Birth-death- rebirth cycles’ , as we worship ‘GOD’ with desires
and desires beget desires , which
will lead to more ‘Vasanas, tendencies, temptations’ for which ‘JEEVATMA’ has to come back to this
finite world with different ‘BODY GOWNS’
as ‘Man, animal or plant,
depending upon the ‘ VASANAS’.
Hence, the importance of ‘Shama and DAMA’ in ‘ SPIRITUAL UPLIFTMENT’, as emphasized in GEETA and Upanishads.
Shama and Dama lead to ‘VAIRAGYA’. “VAIRAGYA’’ does not mean
renunciation out of dejection, despair and frustration. ‘True VAIRAGYA’ is: intelligent, mature and discriminative renunciation of Power,
pleasure and wealth out of realized knowledge that these things are ‘ finite,
ephemeral and transient’. Out of realized knowledge that everything is phenomenal and
perishable, one worships the LORD with ‘ANANYA YOGA’ to realize that he is none other than the
LORD in his or her true nature. Because,
GOD alone is ‘REAL and everything else is unreal’.
Then, GEETA says: ‘
KALENA’, meaning in due course, he
, the ‘JEEVATMA’, realises that
he is none other than ‘ THE PARAMATMA’. He becomes ‘GOD-REALISED SOUL’. That is
‘ BRAHMIC STATE, GOD HOOD, SELF HOOD’. That is
LIBERATION, NIRVANA’. Sankaracharya did that. Ramana maharshi did that.
We can too. LORD Krishna emphasizes that “none can be eternally condemned”. We too,
can rise up to the ‘higher,
nobler, diviner SELF’ that we are.
So, let us arise, awake
and become aware of our true nature, The ‘GOD-HOOD’.
To be continued.
Dr. K. ESWARA DUTT.
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