Spirituality & Bliss

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dear friends

Every spiritual aspirant aims at the bliss to be obtained by himself

(Atmaananda). Salvation means liberation from all the worries and misery.

Sayujyam or Kaivalyam means reaching the God to attain the bliss because God is

Infinite Ocean of bliss. If this is the aim of spirituality, how is it different

from materialism? In materialism also every body wants to release from worries

and misery and wants to attain permanent happiness, which is called bliss.

Therefore, there is no difference between a materialistic aspirant and a

spiritual aspirant.

 

The only difference between these two aspirants is that the materialistic

aspirant uses the worldly items as instruments to attain the goal and the

spiritual aspirant uses God as instrument to attain the same goal. Remember that

enjoying bliss is enjoying the fruit you have earned. If you enjoy the bliss in

this world, nothing remains for the upper world. In the upper world you cannot

do any effort (Karma) and earn the bliss because it is only the world of

enjoyment (Bhogaloka) and not the world of any effort (Karma Loka). Therefore,

you must think of reducing your desire to enjoy the bliss-fruit obtained from

God. Even if you store a part of the fruit for the upper world you have to come

back to this earth again to do the spiritual effort. It has lot of risk because

when you return back again we don’t know the atmosphere in which you will be

placed and so you cannot be sure of this spiritual effort.

 

Then what is to be done? Go on doing the spiritual effort without aspiring for

the bliss-fruit. Surrender the fruit to the Lord and you have no aspiration for

that fruit. You are entering into the service of Lord as His beloved servant.

You must aspire the bliss of the God and not the bliss for yourself. This means

you should do such service to the Lord so that it pleases Him. The bliss or

pleasure of the Lord should be your goal. If Lord is pleased you are pleased. In

the service even if you undergo loss and get troubles and misery, it should be a

pleasure for you because the service is going to finally please the Lord. This

is the highest path in which your bliss-fruit is infinitely multiplied and is

beyond any account.

 

When the finger of Lord Krishna was cut, Draupadi tore her sari and banded the

finger. It was a very costly sari and she is sitting in the sacrifice of

Rajasuya. If then the sari is torn, she will loose wealth. She knows it and

Pandavas lost the kingdom after the sacrifice. She was prepared for all this

because her goal was only to please the Lord. When she applied the piece of

cloth as a bandage, she never aspired the bliss-fruit for that service.

Therefore, that piece was infinitely multiplied into several saris and was given

to her by the Lord at a proper time. Similarly, when you sacrifice the

bliss-fruit to the Lord, it will be infinitely multiplied and He will give you

whenever the right occasion comes according to His discrimination. In this stage

the Lord is pleased to see you enjoying the bliss and therefore, you must enjoy

the bliss because that pleases the Lord.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

 

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