Fwd: Experiencing Immortality

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Hare Krsna

 

For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me. GITA 6:30

 

A person in Krsna consciousness certainly sees Lord Krsna everywhere, and he sees everything in Krsna. Such a person may appear to see all separate manifestations of the material nature, but in each and every instance he is conscious of Krsna, knowing that everything is the manifestation of Krsna's energy. Nothing can exist without Krsna, and Krsna is the Lord of everything--this is the basic principle of Krsna consciousness. Krsna consciousness is the development of love of Krsna--a position transcendental even to material liberation. It is the stage beyond self-realization at which the devotee becomes one with Krsna in the sense that Krsna becomes everything for the devotee and the devotee becomes full in loving Krsna. An intimate relationship between the Lord and the devotee then exists. In that stage, the living entity

attains his immortality. Nor is the Personality of Godhead ever out of the sight of the devotee. To merge in Krsna is spiritual annihilation. A devotee takes no such risk. It is stated in the Brahma-samhita:

 

premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti yam syamasundaram acintya-guna-svarupam govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

"I worship the primeval Lord, Govinda, who is always seen by the devotee whose eyes are anointed with the pulp of love. He is seen in His eternal form of Syamasundara situated within the heart of the devotee." (Bs. 5.38) At this stage, Lord Krsna never disappears from the sight of the devotee, nor does the devotee ever lose sight of the Lord. In the case of a yogi who sees the Lord as Paramatma within the heart, the same applies. Such a yogi turns into a pure devotee and cannot bear to live for a moment without seeing the Lord within himself.

 

 

O Arjuna, I control heat, the rain and the drought. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both being and nonbeing are in Me. GITA 9:19

Places change, times changes, things change, activities change, states changes, circumstances change, incidents change, but we (Self) remains the same, at all times. The Self is changeless. Waking, dreaming and sleeping - these three states change. But we (Self)remains one only and therefore we know these different states and the changes therein, as well as, the beginnings and ends thereof. If we ponder from a gross perspective, just as we went from City A to City C, then first we went from City A to City B and then from City B to City C. Had we been in City A only at all times, then how could we have arrived at City B and City C? and vice versa. Thus, we are neither residing in City A, nor in City B, nor in City C. These places are separate, but we are one (and the same) only. We remained the same in City A, in City B and in City C. Similarly, we remain the same in waking state, in

dream state and in deep sleep state also. Hence, one must see what is unchanging and not what is changing. In other words, we have to experience "non-attachment " within us."Rahata roop sahi kar raakho , bahta sang na bahije"Recognise the form which stays, don't get carried away with that which flows (like water)We don't have any relationship with that which changes - this is immortality (liberation) . This immortality is self-proven, obvious and natural. This immortality is not something that requires anything to be done. We have only assumed our relationship with the changing, perishable and destructible (it is not actually so).