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.
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.
- It is not yet too late
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