Hinduism, Special Features of Hinduism, Hindu famous Temples in India

The special features of Hinduism

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According to Hinduism, there is Divinity in everything; everyone is an embodiment of God. Humans and God are not two, they are one.

The dream is not separate from the dreamer. But we have to wake up to see that what we have experienced is a dream. Although everything is God, we perceive everything around us as something separate, because we haven’t yet awakened to that awareness. We feel an attachment towards some things and aversion towards others. Because of this, happiness and sorrow have become the nature of life.

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When we awaken to our true essence, there is no ‘I’ or ‘you’ – everything is God. What remains is only bliss. Hinduism teaches that there are many paths that help us awaken to this experience, depending on each one’s Samskara. There is probably no other religion that has so many different paths, practices, and observances.

Sikhism, Miri Piri System

Sikhism: A Miri Piri  System

In the Miri Piri concept in Sikhism a lot of literature has appeared, both in English and Punjabi. We feel that basic concept of Sikhism will not be out of the palace. Before that, however it seems necessary to briefly recount some other fundamental belief that underlines this doctrine:

Spiritual Experience: The bani says, “True is he; true is his creation”. “True are thy continents, and true thy universes. True are Thy worlds and the forms created by thee”. A consequential implication of a Loving God is that He expresses His Love and all virtues in this world. This further fortifies the interference about the reality and meaningless of the universe. If also implies that the universe is not a purposeless mass of confusion, but is directed with a will which is Altruistic. Also, the fundamental Reality is deeply interested in guiding the world in all its spheres. As Emperor and Master of the world, He guides both the piri and the miri aspects of the universe. In facts as its Benevolent Guide, he hardly makes a division between these aspects, which are just man made distinctions of splitting. It gives spiritual sanction to moral life of man, because the Basic Reality is the Fount of all virtues and values.

It in the this background of his description of the Basic Reality and his Spiritual Experience, that Guru Nanak lays down the goal of man in the very beginning of the Guru Granth. He categorically rejects the ascetic path of withdrawl, remaining silent, one-point meditation or the like, but lays down that the path for the spiritual man is to move and work according to His Will. This is the emphatic goal in Sikhism. As compared to the earlier Indian systems it completely changes the very basis and direction of pursuit of religion. The failure of many scholars t grasp the radical departures of Guru Nanak makes, is just due to the lazy notion that Guru Nanak was just a quitetist sant, or a part of the Bhakti movement Keeping into view the spiritual experience of the Guru the changes he made were both natural and essential. For where, God, the miri piri master, is deeply interested in the world, and is guiding all spheres of life with his altruistic will, for the spiritual seeker to drop out or be interested in only a part of if, would be just incongruous, if not defiant, and self-contradictory. Thus in Guru Nanak’s system for a sikh to be a disinterested onlooker of the world and life, is just out of the question. In short, Guru Nanak lays down a fully life-affirming goal for the spiritual man without any aspect of it being taboo him.

Methodology: Straightway Guru Nanak rejects all such worldviews, as directly or indirectly give credence to these institutions. It is important to grasp that there is nothing like half life-affirmation or half life-negation. Life is one composite whole. It has no non-essential compartments that can be ignored or rejected. God is the Gracious Master of the entire universe and life, and for that matter, faith in Him leaves the seeker no choice to select some aspects and leave others. This is the fundamental spiritual fact which has to be grasped, so as to understand the revolutionary changes in goals, direction, ethics and methodology Guru Nanak makes. Thus the first corollary of his system is to accept every aspect of life and share its responsibilities.


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Tread the path of God realization

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The truth that God-realization is the sole end of human existence is reiterated as well as drummed into one’s ears hundreds and thousands of times; but very few people tread the path of God-Realization with unfaltering steps. In imitation of those who refuse to tread the aforesaid path themselves and simply talk and hear of it, others too learn how to talk and hear on it. Hence God-Realization remains a mere charming expression.

Society is the only other name for a collection of individuals. If, comprehending and keeping in view the end of one’s existence, every individual constituting a society begins to tread the path of God-Realization without waiting for others, the society will automatically begin to tread that path. Therefore, ceasing to talk and hear of God-Realization, one should personally be up and doing.

A man begin to do a thing the moment he makes up his to do it. Therefore, instead of putting off the work for the morrow, make up your mind this very day to start trading the path of God-Realization. First of all arrive at the conclusion that God-Realization is the goal of your life. To arrive at this conclusion is to turn the face of your life towards the Lord and directed towards luxuries. We have to turn it towards God; when this has been done, even one step forward will be in the direction of the Lord.

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Turning your face towards the Lord, we have not to stand idle but to walk constantly and carefully on the path towards God-Realization. This is what goes by the name of ‘Sadhana’. In our endeavour for God-Realization all our actions of body, mind and speech have to be done for the pleasure of God and only such actions are intended for the pleasure of God as are to His liking. Hence we have to make our actions conformable to the will of God. Actions which run counter to His will, will be given up as a matter of course.

The principle feature of actions which are conformable to the will of God is an eye to the pleasure of God in every action. And such actions are to protect all, to gratify all, to do good to all, rather than kill others, inflict pain on others or harm; to utter words which are conducive to the good of others, which pay a genuine tribute to the excellences of others, and are true, faultless and called for, or constantly to repeat any name or names of the Lord and read hymns of praises to the Lord, remaining silent otherwise, rather than pronounce a curse on others or abuse others—slander and bear tales against others, tell lies and indulge in the idle gossip; to contemplate good to all, to remain cheerful at heart, to seek self-abnegation, to bear a gentle—compassionate disposition and remain constantly engaged in the thought of the Lord, to practise Japa or Kirtana (chanting) of any particular of any particular name or names of the Lord, adoration and meditation, to cultivate the fellowship of the saints, to render service to the forlon, afflicted and oppressed, indulge in noble thoughts, study sacred texts and offer worship to one’s elders, rather than think evil of others, give way up cruelty and thought of sense-objects. If pursued with a view to the pleasure of the Lord rather than with a craving for enjoyment, these disciplines prove directly conducive to God-Realization. Their prosecution gives rise to love for right conduct, disinclination for enjoyment, purity of mind, a learning towards divine properties, the dawn of knowledge relating to the truth about God and appearance of love for God. This alone constitutes the approved and sure way to God-Realization.

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Even if you have come to know the way to God-Realization, your end will be achieved only by following it. Therefore, let one commence treading it this very day. One should not allow laziness or negligence to come in the way.

Life is constantly ebbing away—death is approaching. If this passes in error, in lust or enjoyment and in thought of the pleasures of sense, human existence will have ended in failure. No alternative will then be left to us except to repent. Therefore, not the least delay should be allowed to mar our undertakings.

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Animate or inanimate all is God

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The entire universe consisting of animate and inanimate being is a manifestation of one and the same God. The selfsame God stands revealed in the form of all these beings and the same Spirit ever indwells them all. Even as the same organism consists of a number of limbs and organs having diverse names and functions, although the spirit indwelling them is the same, nay, the pleasure and pain caused to those limbs and organs—the eternal parts identical in essence with the whole—of the same Cosmic Being or God. Realizing this, gratify all, do well to all and let all remain happily engaged in their respective functions.

When you come to treat all as your own self—to identify yourself with all, your ego-sense and the sense of possession (the feeling fo ‘I’ and ‘mine’) will not remain cramped and cabined. Consequently you will as a matter of course be rid of body-consciousness. For the sake of this limited ‘I’ and ‘mine’ you will no longer wish harm to others nor seek to persecute them taking them to be other than you. On the other hand, recognizing their good and happiness to be your own good and happiness, you will contemplate only that which is conducive to the good and happiness of all and also do the same. A narrow desire will no longer exist in you nor will there linger in you attachment for any object, much less fear of your desire ever appear in you. “Completely rid of attachment, fear and anger” you will get merged in the Divine essence. In fact, he alone who has been “Completely rid of attachment, fear and anger” is ‘stable of mind’ and he alone who is “entirely free from desire, fear and anger” is ever ‘liberated’.

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Attachment, desire, fear and anger appear only when you keep yourself confined within the narrow limit of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. It is then only that, considering yourself as part from all, cabining your ‘self’ within a small compass and confining your “self interest” within narrow limits, you begin to regard all others as alien, as other than yourself. Then your self-identification with finite objects such as a particular body, country, community, class, creed region, language, honour and prestige, comforts and amenities gradually confines you to narrower and still narrower limits and fills you with fear. Imaging, for the preservation of the aforesaid objects and circumstances, with which you stand identified, that others will put an end to them, you begin to look upon all with suspicion and feel apprehensive with regard to them; nay, reduced to similar circumstances, others too in their turn begin to look on you with suspicion and feel apprehensive with regard to you; nay, the outlook on both sides being changed, mutual faults begin to come to view and jealously, hatred, disgust and animosity grow. Manifesting themselves in the form of violence, these latter incite one to such undesirable misdeeds as lead to the huge destruction not only of yourselves and your adversities but even of numberless innocent creatures unknown to you. This not only hampers the success of your human life, but you have also to depart from this world suffering disquietude, affliction and agony caused by want throughout your life and burning in the fire of terrible anxiety till your last breath; and after death you are cast into demoniac species full of suffering and affliction or consigned to hells subjecting one to horrible tortures.

No living being can escape the consequences of his or her doings. Therefore, perceiving the same Lord or the same Spirit in all, do good to all, gratify all, treat all with honour, bestow love in all, rid everyone of fear from your side. Let no one be subjected to ignominy at your hands or oppressed by you; let no one have fear from you, let no one feel perturbed on account of you and let no one be harmed in anyway by you; let no one be harmed in anyway by you. Keep your thoughts, dealings, and actions full of humility, sweetness, love, truth and benevolence. You will be blessed, others will be blessed, the universe will be blessed; for it is in this way that the Lord, who is the Soul of the universe, will be truly adored.

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God vision, Upasana in true sense

Upasana in true sense

Recognizing that all living beings comprised in the whole universe is so many manifestations of the Lord, salute them all with joined palms compatibility with your external position or mentally bow down to them with devotion. Never harbour ill-will towards any living being whatsoever nor speak bitter words to anyone nor pain anyone’s heart; but treat everyone with respect, love and civility. This  constitutes a form of Upasana (sitting by the side of the Lord).

All that you have in the form of learning and intellect, food grains and wealth, plenty and prosperity, has been vouchsafed to you for being devoted to the service of the Lord. Minister by means of it to all—the destitute and the Brahmanas, widows and alumni, human beings and animals, birds and ants seized with terror and despondency, knowing them to be so many manifestations of God, without feeling proud of it and respectfully offering to them what (really) belongs to them. This constitutes another form of Upasana (sitting by side of the Lord)

A tongue has been vouchsafed to you as a means of singing and loudly uttering the divine and sweet names and praises of the Lord, and a pair of ears as an instrument of hearing the names and praises of God being sung or loudly uttered. Therefore, holding your tongue back from condemnation and applause, disputation and controversy, uttering falsehoods and bitter words, harmful and idle talk, keep it engaged in constantly singing or loudly uttering the names and praises of the Lord and continue at all times to drink with your ears with eagerness and joy the names and praises of the Lord being sung or loudly uttered. This too constitutes a form of Upasana(sitting by the side of the Lord).

A mind has been vouchsafed to you as a means of getting disentangled from the trap of all hankerings and cravings, banishing all thoughts of the world and contemplating on the form and excellences of and the truth relating to the Lord; and reason has been vouchsafed to you to enable you to make it determinate and devote it to God. This is what is meant by offering your mind and reason t God. This is what the Lord expects of you. Therefore, with an undivided mind constantly think of God. This too constitutes a form of Upasana(sitting by the side of the Lord).

A corporeal frame has been vouchsafed to you as a means of ministering respectfully to your elders, the ailing and the helpless, as so means of ministering respectfully to your elders, the ailing and the helpless, as so many manifestations of God, of worshiping Gods, the Brahamanas and the wise, of protecting the oppressed and gratifying all. Therefore, keeping your body under control, continue with your body to accomplish the work of ministering, rendering bodily service to and protecting all according to their needs. This too constitutes a form of Upasana(sitting by the side of the Lord).

Human life has been vouchsafed to you as a means of realizing the truth relating to God, securing God-vision or developing love for the Lord, which is difficult to develop. This constitutes the supreme goal of human existence and to make an all-out effort to the best of one’s ability for the attainment of this goal, remaining constantly on the alert, constitute the paramount duty of man. True Upasana consists in remaining scrupulously engaged in discharging this obligation. Contrary to this, all endeavour made in the vain hope of acquiring enjoyments or pleasures, counting on them and craving for them, constitutes an error and is tantamount to suicide. Therefore, completely giving up the false hope of and longing for enjoyment or sense-gratification, keep your human life constantly devoted in every way to the means of God-Realization—to any type of Upasana in the form self-knowledge, action for the sake of God and worship of God according to your circumstances and liking. This constitutes the best use of human life and in this lies the fruition of human existence. This is true Upasana or sitting by the side of the Lord.

How to Attain Eternal Joy Peace

How to attain eternal joy and peace

Joy and peace do not inhere in the living beings and inanimate objects in which you seek for them; they themselves suffer from want and deficiency. While you are deprived of joy and peace in their absence, the more they come to you the keener will be your want and deficiency; and joy and peace will stand remoter from you to the same degree. Joy and peace will reign where there is all-sufficiency and permanency and where want is completely absent. God alone is such an entity. One should to realize God. Without Him the world is full of wants. All wants will cease the moment you realize Him and eternal, genuine and infinite joy and peace will be attained by you.

The realization of the aforesaid all-sufficient God is the true goal of your life. It is for this alone that human life has been vouchsafed to you, so that, giving up the infatuation for living beings and inanimate objects that are deficient and suffering from want, you may engage yourself in an endeavour to realize God and fulfil your life by realizing Him. Falling away from the goal of human existence, if you fail to do so, you will engage in actions which will not only result in the failure of your human life but will also mar your future. Descending into demoniac states of existence and the darkest hells you will become unhappy.

The number of times you have to breathe in this life is pre-ordained. The body will cease to function the moment the number is completed; and the act of respiration is uninterruptedly going on. Therefore engage yourself quickly in the endeavour for attaining your true goal. Do not give way to error and sloth. Neither engages in idle and harmful pursuits not worth undertaking nor put off the endeavour for the realization of your end for the morrow. Engage this very moment with an undivided mind in the endeavour for the attainment of your goal. There is no knowing when death overtakes you. You must reach the goal before it comes.

No inanimate object, living being or circumstance belongs to you nor is it intimately related to you nor again will you gain or lose anything as a matter of fact if these objects or living beings or circumstances are united with or disunited from you, if they come to you or leave you. In vain have you forged a tie of affinity with them and have consequently not only fallen into the quagmire of misery and bondage but continue to perpetrate newer sins by conceiving likes and dislikes. God alone is your own, and He is ever with you. Neither conceives full relationship with them nor hates them regarding them as alien to you. Remain equipoise in getting or not getting them and, perceiving God as uniformly present in all of them at all times and under all circumstances, remain absorbed in God-Consciousness.

Integral transcendent perennial unending joy abides in God alone; it is His very essence. When God flashes to you through the whole world everywhere at all times, the world itself would turn out to be joy incarnate in every way at all times in your eyes and you too will become joy personified. But until and unless you are able to see God in the world the world would remain an ‘abode of suffering’ and a ‘fountain of misery’.

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Undaunted march ahead

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The joy of God-realization is far greater than the greatest than the greatest enjoyments of the world and has no parallel. Never let your endeavour for God-Realization be interrupted in the least for the sake of any worldly enjoyment. Do not let the Discipline followed by you for God-realization does not get slack on any account whatsoever, nor should you mind what others say or do. The course of discipline followed by you should be genuine and free from blemish.

He who abandons his faultless discipline or noble pursuit through fear, misgiving opposition from the people and other causes goes down in the scale of spiritual evolution. Your pursuit should be innocent and of the right type in the eyes of God—in the eyes of your own self (Atma). Then you should not feel worried, whatever others may say, and should steadily and unflinchingly remain engaged in that noble pursuit with reverence and faith.

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Obstacles may come in the way of your Sadhna, and you may be faced with unfavourable circumstances of a formidable type and terrible calamities; but do not get unnerved by them. Pinning your faith in God with a guileless mind persevere in your Sadhna and pray to God that He may remove all the obstacles by His grace. God will surely do so. He has proclaimed in the Gita that His grace enables those who devote their mind to Him to surmount all obstacles and difficulties and head towards their goal.

The goodwill of the world, popular esteem, respect and applause too sometimes prove very great obstacles in our Sadhana. They divert our mind from real spiritual Sadhana and lead us to engage in an endeavour to exalt and adore our name and personality. The aspirant then takes to the pursuit of pleasing the world instead of God and takes to the pursuit of pleasing the world instead of God and devotes himself to forbidden practices favoured by the world and meets with a fall. Similarly bodily comforts, sense-enjoyments too, made available by those possessed of reverence, constitute a great impediment in one’s Sadhana. Inclination for the gratification of senses brings one’s spiritual Sadhana to an end very soon. Therefore don’t be afraid of suffering, adversity, unfavourable circumstances and censure nor fall into the snare of honour, prestige, adoration, luxury and so on. Guarding against both these types of impediments remains constantly engaged with supreme devotion in an innocent spiritual discipline.

There should be no ostentation in your Sadhana. Outward show of Sadhana is a sheet humburg. Remain inwardly devoted to spiritual discipline. Purging your heart of lust, anger, greed, violence, animosity, hypocrisy, arrogance and all other impurities, keep it ever immaculate and pure. If people, judging you from your outward appearance, do not call you a sadhaka, it will be supreme gain to you, your wealth of spiritual discipline will grow from more to more. If, on the other hand, people outside speak ill of you, account yourself particularly lucky and a favourite of the Lord; for in that case your purity will be enhanced, your immaculacy will grow and your attachment to the world will be abraded. Your mind will not fall a prey to any allurement.

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Your Sadhana will always be attended with reverence and faith, vigilance, assiduity and activity. Irreverence, carelessness, sloth and indolence make once delinquent. Remain constantly devoted to your Sadhana with zeal, faith and joy.

Never get bored in your Sadhana, never get impatient; prosecute it with patience. Only go on pursuing it. Believe it, you will undoubtedly succeed. If some delay is taking place, it is only because you are being rendered fit, by being purged of all dross, to meet the most beloved Lord without any let or hindrance—because you are being adomed for meeting the Beloved

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It is not yet too late!

You are not the body; you are not Brahmana, Ksatriya, Sudra or Vaisya, nor a father, son, husband, teacher, wife, mother, and so on in the real sense of the term. You are the Spirit, consisting of truth, consciousness and bliss, or an eternal particle of God.

 This body as well as the names denoting relationship with it are all assumed and only showy or work-aday-adopted in the work-aday world only for practical purposes, they neither constitute your essential character nor stand in any relation with you.

It is due to your identification with the body and names denoting relationships with it that you have begun to look upon the body as your own self and living being and inanimate objects connected with it as your own and conceived as attachment for them and, entangled in desire or craving for them, are feeling miserable without any cause. And so long as you remain identified with the body and the names denoting relationships with it, this suffering of yours will not cease, no matter what your external status comes to be.

It is due to the misconception that, falling a victim to the feeling of mineness, attachment and desire, you find yourself held tight by endless ties of expectation of various kinds. It is because of these ties that, given over to concupiscence, anger and greed, you are perpetrating newer and newer sins of diverse kinds. And that is why you will keep burning till the last breadth of your life in the flames of ever-new anxieties appearing in myriads of forms. In consequence you get three things:

•       An ever burning flames of anxieties
•      A rich stock of sins perpetrated for the gratification of desire and
•     The failure of human life, which keeps you tied to the cycle of births and deaths.

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You were not endowed with a human body in order to abuse your reason and thereby prolong the cycle of births and deaths, tighten the grip of ignorance, and confirm the prospect of your passing through demoniac wombs and undergoing tortures in terribly tormenting hells. You were blessed with this human body in order to enable you to escape from the cycle of births and deaths and realize your true and eternal nature, which is essentially spiritual and blissful, or to realize God, to cut asunder all your bonds for good and to get established in God once for all.

It is not yet too late, things can be mended even now by waking up and returning to the path of virtue. Human life can still be made a success. Realize and accept the above truth this very day, nay, this very moment and give up your false identification with the body and the names denoting relationships with it. And recognize yourself to be the eternal spirit, which is truth and consciousness crystallized, or an exclusively devoted servant of God participating in His divine play as such. You will no longer conceive any feeling of mineness or attachment for living beings and inanimate objects of this world nor will you entertain any hope of desire for them. All your activities in the work-aday world will now be carried on as through in a dream or as a holy service to God.

The moment such a consummation is reached all your anxieties will melt away, no thought of sin will ever touch the fringe of your mind and, getting firmly established in your spiritual essence or in the life Divine even here, you will have achieved the ultimate and supreme end of life.

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Why fear death, what is Death

Why fear death ?

Even as a living body passes through the stages  of boyhood, youth and old age, death too in realty is no more than a phase of the body. It is the parting of this body and the soul which is known by the name of death. Really speaking death is no bugbear, it is a mere change of body. Even as a man puts on a new garment, changing the old, the jivatma (the soul seated in Prakrti) seeks another body casting off the former. In fact the soul remains unchanged in substance.

You are afraid of death simply because you regard the physical body as your own self. The body is material; it is brought into being in the mother’s womb. And that whichever comes to be will surely perish. Like its creation its dissolution too is quite natural and normal. Your real self, however, who is spiritual in essence, is eternal; it is free from boyhood, youth, old age, disease death and so on. Hence you no cause for fear of death. Such fear is sheer ignorance.

This death of the body too takes place only so long as the soul remains seated in and falsely identified with the mutable and transient evolutes of Prakrti and continues to recognize them as its own self. The moment it flashes on the soul, the moment he comes to know that all these changes are nothing but transformations of Prakrti, that he is only their witness ever unaffected by them, you will be freed from the shackles of birth and death—shackles which do not exist in reality but are fancied.

This prakrti (matter) and its evolutes too do not really exist in the form you perceive them. They are all Maya (illusion) or a mere sport of the Lord. Taking the form of the play, the playthings and the player He Himself is carrying on this play. Birth too is a form of the Lord assumed for sport and so too is death. He alone appears in the form of death. If, knowing this fact and recognizing the most beloved Lord arrived in the form of death, you embrace Him, all the horror of death will be transmuted into supreme bliss. Meeting the Lord you will become highly blessed and eternally happy. Therefore do not fear death, see God concealed behind it. You will have Him the moment you see Him. So long as you gaze on outward charm He remains concealed from your view, though open to view. once you recognize Him He is ever visible, He alone exists-everywhere, at all times, in all forms, in all circumstances and in all names and forms

The fulfilment of human life too lies in this alone. Human life has been vouchsafed to us for this very purpose that in this the soul may be freed from the false bondage of matter, that, realizing its true nature, it may rise from Jivahood to the state of eternal Spirit. The eternal Self, it ever is; it is the role of a Jiva assumed by it that is withholding from it the realization of its true self. It is for this reason that, though ever existing in its own self.

He alone is out of sorts, who are Prakrtistha-established in Prakrti; while he alone is healthy who is established in the self. The criterion of health is to see God, to discover God alone even in spite of diversity in dealings on established in the Self is the goal of human existence and true sadhana or spiritual discipline consists in thoughts and actions leading the goal alone.

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Who is real saint?

It is not necessary that a saint or exalted soul should come into limelight and should be called or recognized as such. On the other hand, of those celebrated saints who are called and recognized as such real saints are few and far between. Real saint are exalted souls are they who see God everywhere and who perceive everything and every living being to be no other than God.

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Real saint or exalted souls cannot be recognized through outward characteristics. They cannot be weighed on the scales of mundane intellect ridden by ignorance any more than a diamond on the scales used for weighing huge logs of wood or blocks of stone. Nevertheless it is perfect true that getting attuned with God, the mind, intellect and senses of a saint or exalted soul are completely sublimated. Hence a saint or exalted soul has no attachment nor hankering for sense enjoyment nor does he claim anything in the world of senses as his own. Service to God alone, the holiest of the body, continues to be performed as a matter of course by his mind, intellect and senses.

In the eyes of a saint or exalted soul the world of matter 

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does not exist in the form we see it. Hence he remains established forever in the absolute divine essence, which completely transcends the dualities of the world. He is never moved by any worldly gain or loss, joy or sorrow. He never gets perturbed or delighted; he never feels worried nor does he hanker after anything. He remains ever equipoise and is ever unaffected in the natural course, His heart is nonetheless naturally very tender; though harder than adamant in the midst of the greatest calamity appearing to befall his own self, he is softer than a flower in others’ distress. He melts under stress or the slightest agony experienced by another and sets about relieving his or her distress like one attached. Honour and ignominy are of little account in the eyes of a saint or exalted soul. He neither seeks honour nor does he fear ignominy. Remaining free from pride as a matter of course, he nevertheless bestows honour on others. Though risen wholly above the concepts of good and evil, he remains spontaneously engaged in doing good to others. He is incapable of doing an ill turn to another in the same way as nectar is incapable of killing anyone; nay he conduces to the good of all in the same way as all get light and heat from the sun.

A saint or exalted soul imparts instruction to the world, not by his speech but by his very life. Every movement of his or her naturally serves as a means of relieving the sufferings of the world; weaning the world from evil ways it puts men on the right track and is helpful in attaining blessedness, the great goal of our life. Even lakhs of artistic speeches delivered by men who are attached to the world are not so effective as the silent speech of an exalted soul. In fact there can be no comparison between a mere lip sermon and a sermon crystallized in one’s very life.

It is exceedingly difficult to get hold of a saint or exalted soul. Even if we meet one it is most one it is most difficult to recognize him or her. Yet even such a casual meeting does not go in vain. Even as fire burns no matter whether it is make consciously or unconsciously, and even as contact with nectar brings a dead body back to life, whether it is made consciously or unconsciously, so does one’s meeting with a saint or exalted soul, whether it is brought about consciously or unconsciously, burn away one’s sins and affliction and confers immortality in the shape of final beatitude. Although it is not easy to recognize a saint or exalted soul, you should understand that for your purposes indeed a saint or exalted soul is he whose fellowship reduces your attachment to sense-enjoyment and enhances your love for God, eradicates your demoniac propensities and implants divine virtues in you and, weaning your mind intellect from sense-enjoyment, turns them towards God.

An exalted soul neither proclaims nor advertises his sainthood. His very existence is naturally conducive to the good of the entire living creation. No matter whether  he comes into limelight or not, whether he comes into limelight or not, whether people come to know him or not, divine virtues and God-consciousness emanate from him in the same way as fragrance naturally emanates from a garden of fragrant flowers.

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