Fwd: That All Pervading Divinity Alone Is Our Nature

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Hare Krsna

 

Abandoning all attachment to the results of his

activities, ever satisfied and independent, he performs no fruitive

action, although engaged in all kinds of undertakings. GITA 4:20

 

A person in the divine consciousness, although

engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving about,

sleeping and breathing, always knows within himself that he actually

does nothing at all. Because while speaking, evacuating, receiving,

opening or closing his eyes, he always knows that only the material

senses are engaged with their objects and that he is aloof from them. GITA 5:8-9

 

 

In the Self there is no doership or enjoyership in the least bit -

"naivam cinchitkaroti sah," (Gita 4:20), "naiva cinchitkaromeeti" (Gita

5:8). Whatever actions have been performed in the 8.4 million forms of

life, none of them can reach the Self, because the department of Self

is totally different from the department of action. So long as a

spiritual aspirant performs actions for himself, his sense of doership

(egois) persists, because without a sense of doership, performance of

an action for one's own self cannot be proven. Therefore those

spiritual disciplines which are practices for one's own salvation,

continues to keep the ego safeguarded as-is. Whatever actions are done

with egoistic notion cannot ever lead to one's upliftment and

salvation, because egoism is the root cause of bondage (cycle of birth

and death). Therefore a spiritual aspirant should not give importance

to activity, and instead give importance to the Self.

 

The body's relationship is with the world, and the Self's relationship

is with Supreme Consciousness (God). The body is a part of Nature,

whereas the Self is a part of Supreme Consciousness. Rather, it is not

possible for the Self to be ever established in the body. But man out

of his ignorance, assumes himself to be established in the body. In

this there is a vital fact that a man inspite of assuming himself to be

established in the Self, does in fact not become a doer or enjoyer -

"sharirasthopi kaunteya ne karoti ne lipyate." (Gita 13:31). It proves

that the realization of the Self as not being a doer or enjoyer is not

attainable through any spiritual practices, rather it is a natural

state. Therefore a spiritual aspirant is not to try to wipe out

doership and enjoyership, rather he is not to accept it at all in the

Self; because in reality, they are not in him. In Gita, God has

explained the abscence of enjoyership by giving the illustration of

ether and the

abscene of doership by giving the illustration of the sun

 

Those with the vision of eternity can see that the

soul is transcendental, eternal, and beyond the modes of nature.

Despite contact with the material body, O Arjuna, the soul neither does

anything nor is entangled. GITA 13:32

 

 

Divinity (existence) cannot rest in the body or in Nature (prakriti).

It is all pervading like ether - "nitya sarvagatah" (gita 2:24). It

pervades all bodies, within and without. That all pervading divinity

alone is our nature.