YOUR SUPREME GOAL
It
is rewarding of great religious merit and by the unique grace of God that this human
body has been obtained by you. This human body is like a comely and cosy bark
to take you across the ocean of sorrow in the shape of mundane existence. Therefore,
let this ocean of worldly existence be crossed before this bark dashes against
some rock and meets with wreck, or, in other words, so long as this body is
intact and not overtaken by death..
The
mundane existence consisting of birth and death is absolutely transient, full
of shortcomings and hence the very ocean of misery. Even as high as well as low
waves rise and disappear in the sea, so higher and lower form of life appears
and disappears in this world. Of all these forms the human is the only form
tenanting which the soul can through spiritual endeavour cross the fearful
ocean of misery in the shape of births and deaths. This human body, however, is
most fragile. Just as a drop of water lying on a lotus petal roll down at the
touch of a slight breeze, so does this fall in a trice. Hence success in one’s
spiritual endeavours should be achieved even before you drop this body.
You
are not the body, you are the soul. The soul is an eternal reality free from
birth and death. It has neither origin nor end, neither joy nor sorrow. Birth
and death, joy and sorrow have been ascribed to it due to its identification
with Matter, it’s being tied down to a causal, astral and physical body.
The
physical sheath, which is made up of the five elements, is inert. The
consciousness appearing in it is traceable to the astral body which indwells
and animates it. In fact the astral body too – consisting as it does of
seventeen or nineteen components (the five vital airs, the five senses
perception, the five organs of action, the mind and the intellect or the mind,
understanding, intellect and ego)—inert by nature; borrowing light from the
conscious Self it gets animated and animates the physical body in its turn.
Ignorance
consists in forgetting one’s spiritual nature or falling down from one’s
sublime character as being a ray of God. It is the ignorance which constitutes
the causal body. Even though the soul does not undergo birth and death nor it
experience joy and sorrow, its ignorantly misconceives itself as subject to
birth and death and as the experience of joys and sorrows. This constitutes its
Jiva-hood. And as long as it continues to account itself a Jiva the cycle of
birth and death or the stream of worldly existence will know no remission.
Having
descended to the plane of jivahood, by ignorantly ascribing the properties of
the body to itself, the soul regards the birth and death of the physical body
as its own, the agonies of birth as its agonies, the pangs of death as its
pangs, the inanity experienced by the vital air as its hunger, considers itself
impure from bodily impurity and looks upon bodily damage as its own damage and
devise ways and means of avoiding or removing them. Though absolutely
unattached, it undergoes suffering by subjecting itself to attachment and
aversion and though blissful by nature, suffers from bodily suffering,
ignorance consists in that alone and it is due to this ignorance that the ocean
of mundane existence continues.
What
you have to accomplish in this life is to get rid of this ignorance—to cross
the ocean of mundane existence. It is to accomplish this purpose that you have
been endowed with the human body. Therefore, turning your mind from worldly
property – gain and loss, you should purify your mind, realize your true nature
through worship of God and, getting established in your own spiritual being,
cross this unsubstantial yet terrible ocean of worldly existence. You are
neither the world nor the body. You are not the mind, the intellect or the
senses, nor do they belong to you. All these are other than you; for they are
all objective, while you are the perceiver of them all. As a matter of fact
there is no entity other than God or the self. Realizing this truth, be
accomplished of your purpose. Take it for certain that you are not material and
transient body; you are the Spirit consisting of Truth, Consciousness and
Bliss.
The
human body has been vouchsafed to us through the gratuitous grace of the God.
Even gods and demons possessed of the highest authority and wealth and
commanding the greatest power and might long for the human body is the supreme
ladder to God- realization, the sole objective of embodied existence. God
–realization is the supreme object of human pursuit and the human body has been
bestowed on a Jiva journeying from time without beginning, with a passport for
the attainment of his supreme end of human endeavour. Says Goswami Tulsidas—rarely
does God, who loves the Jiva without any self-interest, graciously bestow on it
a human form”
Remember
to make the most of the human body is to direct all the thoughts of the mind
and the activities of the body to the sole end of God-Realization. One should
no longer have any attachment for one’s pursuits nor for their fruit. Let God
alone and not enjoyment is the goal of one’s life and for the realization of
this realization of this end let one lead a peaceful life embracing divine
virtues and reposing one’s faith in the benign dispensation of the Lord and
therefore feeling happy under all circumstances; and let God-Realization be
achieved in the end.
Men
who keep their body employed in the satisfaction of lust, anger and greed,
gratifying their pride arrogance and egotism, jealousy, animosity and
bloodthirstiness with a view securing transient delights and enjoying them
undergo lifelong suffering. Such is the terrible consequence of perverting the
human body.
The
Lord permeates whatever living beings there are in the world; they are all the
diverse endless manifestations of the Lord. Therefore, perceiving the Lord in
all and harming none in the least and contemplating the good of all, continue
to make headway on the path leading to God-Realization; but remain constantly
alive to the fact that they are mere co-travelers. The relationship you bear
with them here is not real. Therefore deal with them innocently with an eye to
their good—serve them to the best of your ability. Neither conceive an
attachment for anyone anywhere nor hate anyone. Cherish a true spirit of
service to God. Then every action of yours will turn into an act of worship to the Lord and your
life will be crowned with success.
The
fruitfulness of human life does not lie in the acquisition of dominant
authority, extensive fortune and affluence, boundless renown and fame and the
highest worldly success. If all these circumstances and objects turn our face
from God it is far better to turn our back on them or put an end to them as one
would do in the case of a deadly poison agreeable to the taste or an enemy bent
on treacherously taking our lives by posing as a friend. The true success of human life
lies in every moment of it being dedicated to the service of God and every
breadth of it remains steeped in the remembrance of God.
Those
living beings, objects and circumstances alone are really conducive to your
good, from which you derive encouragement, energy, help, co-operation and light
in striving for God-Realization; they alone should be had recourse to and
accumulated according to your needs. This is what goes by the name of satsanga
or association with the good. All the rest is kusanga (association with the
evil ), which is worth giving up in toto, being harmful in every respect.
Therefore keep your life scrupulously devoted to God and God alone. Really
speaking, in this alone lies humanity. Here alone lies true development.
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