"Man is the embodiment of perfection." By Pujyaswami Atmanandaji

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"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