Guest guest Posted July 31, 2001 Report Share Posted July 31, 2001 "Man is the embodiment of perfection." By Pujyaswami Atmanandaji Indeed man is an embodiment of perfection. Look from any angle. Physical body is perfect, beautiful. Emotionally he can feel what no others can ever imagine. Intellectually the advances in science etc are mind-boggling. He being the very inventor of Super Computers obviously has a mind which is much more advanced than that too. He goes around with a Super-super computer on his shoulders all the time, his own head with its brain. Spiritually he has the capacity to transcend time. He can change his destiny. He can realize the transcendental truth. He can awake to a state where he himself is the infinite & immortal truth. He can be one with God himself. He is potentially God, and can awake to that state too. The Upanishads educate us to keep that alone as our real goal of life, and also reveal the methodology of this inner awakening too. What more can we ever imagine or hope for ? This is if he gets the right knowledge. The problem today is that even though this guy has an inimitable, sophisticated, portable, super computer right on his shoulder, but he neither knows how to operate it, nor is made aware of it. Our education system is indeed in shambles. We are educated just to make a living, nothing else. Ignorance of his real truth, potential & capacities has brought about mis-apprehensions about himself being limited in time, space & capacities. The situation is comparable to mis-apprehending a piece of shell on the sea shore to be a piece of some silverware or some such thing. Once the basis is wrong there-after the entire calculation goes haywire. Isn't it strange that very rarely people know about the truth of their own Self, yet claim to know so many things. The state of most of the people is comparable to a dream state. Living in a world which is projected & transitory, yet as long as he dreams he takes all that to be real. Just as we get up from our dreams and realize that it was all a projection, so also a person going into the truth of life comes to realize that the divisions, limitations, including the very continuum of time & space are not really there. This entire world is like a big dream in the mind of the creator. It is not really there. There is one thing which always remains and we all are basically that. Once this discriminative capacity & understanding is brought about thereafter it will be directly perceived that 'Man indeed is an embodiment of perfection'. Source: Poojya Swami Atmanandaji, the founder of Vedanta Mission studied under the guidance of Swami Chinmayanandaji and he is a great Vedantin. Let me take this opportunity to thank Swamiji for granting permission to post this excellent article which appeared in Vedanta Sandesh June 2001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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