Attainment of God Who is Ever Attained -- Brahmalina Swami Ramsukhdas

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Dear Devotees of Divinity,

 

Love and Love alone....

 

Please read the following nectarine words of Swami Ramsukhdasji

Maharaj, Rishikesh and reflect.

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna.

 

Attainment of God Who is Ever Attained

 

God has bestowed upon us this human body so that we may attain

salvation. From this view-point this human life is only to follow

the spiritual discipline. By following the spiritual discipline

every human being can attain salvation, can be liberated from the

shackles of birth and death. Why can he be liberated? He can be

liberated because in fact he is liberated. Therefore first of all a

striver should accept the truth firmly that 'I can be liberated'.

Why can I be liberated? I can be liberated because I am ever

liberated. I can attain God. Why can I attain God? Because He is

ever attained. Can God, Who pervades all spaces, times, persons,

things, states, incidents and circumstances, be separate from us? As

God can never be separate from us, so can we never be identified

with the body. We were transmigrated several species (wombs), we

acquired numerous bodies but no body stayed with us while we ever

remained the same. Therefore a striver should accept the truth that

he has his indivisible relationship with God while the body has its

indivisible relationship with the world. Therefore we can do nothing

with the body for us (the self). If we do any action with the body,

that will be for the world only, not for the self. Every action has

its relationship with the world. The nature of the self is inactive.

If we don't want to do any action, what is the need of the body?

 

Now a striver has to think over, when we can do nothing with the

body for ourselves but we can do only for the world, then what can

we do for us? How can we do it? By thinking over it, we come to know

that we can become desireless for us. Why can we be desireless?

Because we are desireless. We can be free from the sense of

possession (sense of mine) for us. Why can we be? Because we are

free from the sense of mine. We can be free from egoism for us. Why

can we be? Because we are free from egoism. In the Gita also the

Lord asks us to renounce desire, the sense of mine and egoism. Why

does He ask? He asks because we are free from desire, the sense of

mine and egoism.

 

We can accept God as our own. Why can we accept? Because God is

ours. Anyone else is neither ours nor can be ours. We can be

separate (detached) from the world. Why can we be? Because we are

separate from the world -- Asango hyayam purushah (Brihadaranyaka,

4.3.15). It means that we can be free from desire, the sense of mine

nd egoism for us and can be just now. For this there is no need of

the body but it can be intuited by the self. Having renounced labour

and dependence on the non-self (alien) we can get repose and

dependence on God by us. In it we are not dependent but we are

totally independent.

 

We neither has, nor have, nor will have nor can have our

relationship with the body. Therefore we can have meals with the

body we we can't devote ourselves to God with it. We can also not

really serve others with the body, but we can do it by being

detached from the body. How can we do it? We can do it by the self

by being free from evils. Why can we do? Because we are free from

evils -- Chetana amala sahaja sukha raasi (Ram Charita Manasa,

Uttara, 117.2). We can also devote ourselves to God by the self? How

can we do it? We can do it by loving God. Why can we do it? Because

we are lovers of God. We can discuss service and love with the body

but we can't serve and love with the body.

 

With the body, senses, mind and intellect which we have acquired

from the world, we can attain the world, not God. Neither the body

nor the mind nor senses nor intellect can have an access to God.

Would God be realised by them, He could have also been realised by a

machine. Therefore if a striver wants to attain God, he will have to

renounce dependence on the body, sense, mind and intellect as well

as on actions. God is not attained by insentient objects such as

body, etc. He is attained by renouncing affinity with them. It

proves that in order to attain God and to become His lover neither

the body nor senses nor mind nor intellect is needed. The thing

which is acquired with the body cannot be acquired by all but the

entity (God) which is acquired by the self can be attained by all.

God is not He Who is attained by someone and not by others. God is

He Who can be attained by all. Why can He be attained? Because He is

already attained. When there is nothing else besides God, then how

is He unattained?

Gopi Krishna <gopi