Dear Ones,
The above pour is often explained by Sri Chinmaya as :-
Non Apprehension of the reality and
Misapprehension of unreal to be real!
In yesterday's post, we dealt with exactly the same thing where taking wave (our physical identity) to be real was the misapprehension of unreal to be real
and
Inability to know and experience the reality of ocean (our God-hood) is the non apprehension of the reality referred above.
What does Mahavir give as the ultimate solution to this problem?
It apparently is a very difficult solution because, due to our Ignorance/Ego, we are not able to experience that we and God are one and as a cure for this disease, Mahavir Swami says, Go and realize your SELF, realize/experience that you are God, then only this ignorance will vanish.
Arey Sahab, if I had known the secret of how to remove the ignorance, then I myself would achieve that. I am not able to remove my Ego and have been suffering for several births and incarnations simply tell me-Realize the SELF and then your Ego will vanish?
A visitor comes to Sri Ramana and says, I have to catch the evening train, I have couple of hours with me and in this short term, I need SELF-REALIZATION!
What has to be really understood from the above Gospel?
- One has to be convinced that the permanent remedy to the disease of Avidya, Asmita, Raga, Dvesha, Abhinivesha, Vasana diseases is realization of the only purpose of human birth-TO REALIZE SELF OR GOD.
- The above conviction is the starting point of spiritual sadhana and not the end. Mere understanding or mere knowledge of the above will not fetch us Realization.
- It requires years and years or may be few births of rigorous spiritual sadhana under the watchful eyes of a realized Master or the chosen God.
- The decline in ego and arising in sadhana are inversely proportional. The more you ascend in sadhana and experience in sadhana, the lesser and lesser will be your ego within you.
- This can be easily visualized and understood by one simple thought. When we have seen Swami in Sai Kulwant hall, was there any ego in us? Was there any thought about ourselves as a person with so and so name, form, identity, etc.
- This vision of Sai/God has to be understood/equated with spiritual experience in Sadhana and then we can easily know that the spiritual experience and ego can never co-exist.
- At the end, in one birth, at one moment, as taught in all the previous themes and all the posts, the subtlest of the ego - the avidya must leave us and God must take us to Him like the salt doll merges with the ocean, never to come back as a salt doll again.
- It is then that there is neither non-apprehension nor misapprehension because, the person who can non-apprehend or misapprehend — does not exist any more. He has ascended from Man-Man to God-Man!! Story is over. The picture of that God-Man's life has ended with a happy note. Drama of life is over.
Hari Aum Tatsat.
