Self Realization

Remember that if you want to emulate someone, if you want to have someone as your perfect role model, the best person you can choose is GOD.

God is all mighty, all powerful, all attractive, all good, all knowledge, all opulent, and all renounced. This combination of transcendental qualities is indeed rare in fact humanely impossible.

However when you choose God as your ultimate hero and decide to emulate him, you take your first step towards self improvement.

When you take this first step, you realize that there is no better hobby than the pursuit of perfection.

As you are always thinking of God, negative thoughts do not enter your mind.

When you realize this your mind is filled with positive thoughts.

And when your mind is saturated with positive thoughts, your journey towards self realization begins.

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Self Realization

Remember that the Lord is present in all living entities as the witness to their deeds.

Just like an indulgent parent who allows his or her child to play on its own and experience life on its own terms, God allows the living entity the freedom to use its faculties to experience life.

However as long as the child is under the observant eye of its parent, both are content that nothing wrong will happen.

But when the child while playing, wanders out of the eagle eye of its parent trouble begins.

Now the child is in the clutches of the material world without the parent coming to rescue the child.

The ardent struggle of the child, to escape the clutches of the material world results in the birth of destiny, which in turn causes endless births and deaths.

This tussle between the child and the material world goes on till the child realizes its true self as a child of God and focuses its sight on the Lord.

And as soon as this happens, the journey towards liberation begins.

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Self Realization

Remember, whereas Arjun is Nar and the Supereme personality of Godhead is Narayan, the living entity is like Karna.

Just like the soul that was Karna, left his mother’s finger and went astray in the market the living entity has also left God and has plunged itself into the endless vortex of Maya.

As soon as a soul leaves the protection of God and begins its sojourn into the big bad world, its cycle of births and deaths begins.

After several million births as cells, amoeba, grass, plants, shrubs, trees etc it enters the animal kingdom.

After several million births as various animals it at last enters the Human form.

The destiny of the soul begins with its first birth as a human being.

This endless cycle of births and deaths in the human form, climaxes when the soul realizes the futility of this cycle .

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Self Realization

Remember that The Mahabharatha is a story of every living entity.

Imagine a mother who has twin children. The mother loves both equally and prays for both of them.

One day the mother takes the children to the market. Because she has to do some shopping, she can not carry the kids and so she tells them to keep holding her finger lest they get lost. Each child is holding the index finger of her two hands.

Now the mother is busy selecting items for shopping. One child is still holding her finger, but the other one gets distracted by the happenings around and leaves her finger. This child is so attracted to the colorful toys that are being hawked in the street that he runs after the hawker in a trance.

After some time the mother realizes that one child is missing. She panics. And the first thing she does is to hold the other child close to her breast, while crying for help.

Every one runs helter skelter and all arrangements are made to find the lost child. But the child has vanished into the crowded market.

Now while both the children are in the same market, seeing all that is going around, one is safe in the arms of his mother and the other is on his own.

Both, the Mother and the lost child are distressed. Both are searching for each other. But this Maya Lok looks so attractive to the lost child that it keeps getting distracted and losing its way. As long as they do not find each other the ordeal will not be over for both of them.  

Karna and Arjuna are the two children and God is the mother.

Self Realization

Remember, the three major extensions of the Supreme personality of Godhead are

Maha Vishnu

Garbhodkasayi Vishnu

Kshirodakasayi Vishnu

All the infinite universes created by infinite Brahmas are held in their respective places by Maha Vishnu.

In each planet of each universe the Supreme personality of Godhead enters as Garbhodaksayi Vishnu.

And furthermore, in each atom of each planet the Supreme personality of Godhead enters as Kshirodaksayi Vishnu also known as the Super Soul.

Whereas there is a soul in every living being, the super soul is existing even in the non living things.

In each set of gross, subtle and causal body that is living, there is a soul and a supersoul.

Self Realization

Remember that if you aspire for liberation, your should reject the sense objects as poison and seek forgiveness, straightforwardness, kindness, cheerfulness and truth as nectar.

The human body consists of three layers:

Gross, Subtle and Causal.

The gross body is made up of the three material ingredients namely Ether, Air, Water, Fire and Earth.

The Subtle body is made up of Senses, mind and intelligence.

The Causal body contains the soul.

And above all these is the Super soul which is an extension of God.

The root cause of one's endless births and deaths is- Attachment.

From attachment to an object desire is born. From desire fear emanates which slowly turns into anger. Anger quickly turns into illusion and from illusion comes false ego. It is the false ego which makes one commit acts which result in the birth of one's destiny.

Self Realization

Remember that the self realized man acquires an inner spiritual glow because he is devoid of any false ego, and has purged himself of all passion and ignorance which are the root cause of all material miseries.

Remember that the self realized soul is always content with what it has and does not crave for any material thing.

Remember that the desire less one does not exhibit his knowledge, experience and talent to  impress others.

Remember that regardless of his status in life, the desire less one views everything without any ulterior motive or impression.

Remember that the self realized soul is full of guileless sincerity.

Remember that the self realized soul is content in both sleep and when awake.

Remember that the self realized soul is devoid of thoughts, feelings, senses, intelligence and ego even when he is possessing them.