Who are we?
Who are we?
The rays of the Sun are always dependent on the
Sun. We cannot separate rays from Sun however hard we may
try. There is no existence of rays without Sun
Similarly we can understand who we really are.
We are spirit soul & by its presence in our body, all our senses are
operational. This spirit soul is fragmental part & parcel of Super Soul
& is eternal. Soul is present in the heart of the living entity, and it is
the source of all energies for maintaining body. Energy of the soul is spread
all over body, and this is known as consciousness. Since this consciousness
spreads the energy of the soul all over body, one can feel pain & pleasure
in any part of the body
The soul is individual, and he is transmigrating
from one body to another, just as a person transmigrates from baby to
childhood, from child to boyhood, from boyhood to youth, & then to advanced
old age. Then change called death takes place when we change to a new body,
just as we change our old dress to a new dress. This is called transmigration
of soul
When a soul wants to enjoy this material world,
forgetting his real home in spiritual world, he takes this life of hard
struggle for existence. This unnatural life of repeated birth, death, disease,
& old age can be stopped when his consciousness is dovetailed with supreme
consciousness of God
As soon as one understands the existence of the
soul, he can immediately understand existence of God. The difference between
God and the soul is that God is a very great soul, and the living entity is a
very small soul; but qualitatively they are equal. Therefore God is
all-pervading, and the living entity is localized. But the nature and quality
are the same
Where does the soul come from? Originally the
soul comes from God. Just as a spark comes from fire, and when the spark falls
down it appears to be extinguished, the spark of soul originally comes from the
spiritual world to the material world. In the material world he falls down into
3 different conditions, which are called modes of nature
When a spark of fire falls on dry grass, the
fiery quality continues; when the spark falls on the ground, it cannot display
its fiery manifestation unless the ground is favorably situated; & when the
spark falls on water, it becomes extinguished
As such, we find 3 kinds of living conditions.
One living entity is completely forgetful of his spiritual nature; another is
almost forgetful but still has an instinct of spiritual nature; & another
is completely in search of spiritual perfection. There is a bona fide method
for attainment of spiritual perfection by spiritual spark of soul, and if he is
properly guided then he is very easily sent back home, back to Godhead,
where from he originally fell
This explanation finds parallel in our identities
& bonds in this material world-professional, personal, societal, familial
etc. If we are cut-off from our roots then we have no individual existence
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