Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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The Is Only Paramatma

 

Bhagavaan (God) has said in the Gita, " There are two Natures of Mine -

Lower (Apara) Nature and Higher Nature (Para). Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether,

Mind, Intellect and Ego - these constitute My Lower Nature

eightfold divided. And Atma (Self, Spirit) having taken the form of an

" embodied soul " (Jeev) constitutes the " The Higher Nature " . Lower and

Higher Natures are both Bhagavaan's Natures i.e. power and strength of

Bhagavaan. Power does not have an independent existence apart from the

Empowered (i.e. one possessing the power). Being Bhagavaan's powers the two -

Lower and Higher Nature are inseparable from Bhagavaan. Just like a man cannot

show his power and strength disassociated from himself, similarly both the Lower

and Higher Nature cannot be viewed separated or disassociated from Bhagavaan.

The import is that both the natures - Lower and Higher being inseparable from

Bhagavaan are the form of Bhagavaan.

 

In the infinite Universes, there is nothing else except the two Nature

" Lower Nature " and " Higher Nature " in whatever is perceived, heard,

learnt, thought, and imagined in the form of three worlds, fourteen

regions, sentient and insentient, immovable and movable, the creatures

living on land, water and sky, beings which are vivaparous, oviparous,

sattvika-rajasa- tamasa (i.e. being predominantly of the Modes of Nature of

purity, passion and inertia), human beings, gods, manes, Gandharvas, beasts,

birds, insects, butterflies, ghosts, spirits, goblins and Brahma-raakshasas

(i.e. beings who become demons on account of the great sins committed by them

during their life in the Brahmin caste). It is all " lower Nature " whatever is

perceived, heard, read, thought and imagined and also the means such at the

body, senses, mind, intellect, egoism by which it is all perceived, heard, read,

thought and imagined. But he who perceives, hears, reads, thinks and imagines is

" Para " (Higher Nature).

 

All bodies belong to the " Apara " (Lower) Nature, whereas all souls

belong to the " Para " (Higher) Nature. Hence in the infinite Universes,

there is nothing else besides the eight-fold Lower Nature, one Higher

Nature and One God.

 

The Lower Nature (World), the Higher Nature (the Self, Soul), and

Paramatma (God) these three are seen as separate by the Jeev (embodied

Soul), on account of believing the lower nature (Apara Prakriti) as " I " , " Mine "

and " For Me " . In reality, there is only Paramatama (God, Supreme Soul). Nature

does not exist at all. The Nature is perceived only due to one's sight (eye)

being towards it. When one does not cast their sight on it, it actually does not

exist at all. One is a seer in relation to the things seen. He is a witness, in

relation to the things witnessed. When we believe ourselves to be this body,

then Paramatma becomes the world for us. (i.e. Paramatma begins to appear as the

world for us). When both the Lower and Higher Natures belong to God, how can

there be a distinction between " I " and " You " ?