Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Natural Renunciation and Self Attainment

 

What a seeker wishes do, is already happening on its own! Just like he

desires to renounce the world; then the world is naturally and

constantly being renounced on its own. And he seeks to attain Paramatma (The

Supreme Self) then that Paramatma is already ever-attained.

 

On one hand, the inert nature (the body as well as the world) is of one type

while the spiritual essence (the embodied soul as well as The

Supreme Self) is of completely different type. The natural dissipation

is the very nature of Prakriti (the world and the body) while the

natural presence is the very nature of The Self.

 

In Prakriti (Nature - the World and Body), ever-changing activities

continue perpetually. The world never rests irrespective of its states

of existence. Nature's involvement in its activities remains as is

irrespectively - be it day-to-day individual conjugation and separation with the

worldly things or the cosmic creation and dissolution as such. Therefore, we

experience the world , but not its attainment. In other words, our body as well

as wife, son, wealth, land, house, etc. were never there with us in the

beginning, will not be there with us in the future, therefore at present also

they are all continuously departing away from us.

 

But, the sense of self (essence) is self-attained because it never

departs from us. It is everyone's experience that our body is not the

same as the one we had in our childhood - that body in childhood has

completely departed from us; and even now the body is departing from us all the

time. But, I (swayam) is the same as it was in childhood.

Therefore that which is rejecting us continuously is verily unreal and

is subjected to perpetual departure by nature. Whatever remains as-is

with no taints of separation alone can be The Real; and is naturally

ever-attained (its attainment is ever established in itself).

 

Separation is very natural to the unreal, it does not need to do

anything for that because it is bound to tread a perpetual path of

separation by nature. Such natural separation is self-established in its very

nature. Such natural departure is never-absent in the world -

neither can there be any obstacle to it nor can there be any rest for

it.

 

Just like the earth keeps revolving around its own axis on its own, that world

one can perceive (by seeing, hearing, understanding) continuously it is

separating from everything that it comes in contact with. The existential world

keeps entering dissolution. Be it the creation, sustenance or dissolution; be it

birth, life or death; be it childhood, youth or old age; natural separation

remains intact being embedded in the very nature of this world. Even the

ghastliest acts there remains a natural dissipation whether one is aware of it

or not.

 

The Real is eternally ever present. The Real was never unattained. It is not

unattained at present and it will not be unattained ever. It is

impossible for The Real to be unattained at all. The Real is ever

attained across the space and time in all individuals, objects, states,

situations, incidences, etc. remaining as-is in Absolute Completeness.

Attainment of The Real is self-evident and self-established - no need to do

anything for that! Whether one is a sinner of all the sinners or an ignorant of

all the ignorants or a saint of all the saints or a scholar of all the scholars

or a realized one or an ardent devotee of The God, The Real (the self-evident

Essence of Life) can neither be unattainable for any one nor can it be

unattained by any one. The only difference one could perceive is - an ignorant

is never aware of that experience and a man of wisdom is ever aware of that. One

cannot experience the self-attainment only due to an error, due to sheer mistake

in treating the unattainable as attainable and attainable as unattainable.