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Proceeding
on the path of Enlightenment what is it that is difficult to achieve? Even when
it was possible for "swami
vivekananda" to gain enlightenment under the guidance of his spiritual
master... a god realized soul Swami
Ramakrishna Paramhansa, he did not exercise the option! Why?
Enlightenment (also termed as self realization) is the culmination of all we term spirituality. Having reached stage of enlightenmentThere is nothing beyond that is left to be achieved by a human being. Having reached the Mount Everest, Edmund Hillary became quite depressed for he realized that the goal of his life had ended. There was no further to go anywhere? The moment one comes across the final goal of his life... it is all over for life itself. Probably, life loses its meaning.
Is it not true that the essence of life is while pursuing our goal? And one who gains Enlightenment merges his identity with the larger whole... the God Almighty himself. Having lost our identity of life it becomes difficult for a human being to recognize one as a friend, a relative, a teacher and even your parents. For an enlightened person It is never difficult to maintain the relationship but while living in the society it becomes difficult to maintain the balance between the spiritual end of life one has achieved and the relationship with the physical world.
A flower having bloomed loses its meaning... it is no more related with the plant which gave it life and also everything which the bud needed to have flowered into a full-blown. The identity, the ego, the self lost its meaning the moment the bud bloomed into a beautiful flower. As long as the society, the community felt the sweet fragrance of the flower... it got recognition and the moment came the time to wither out and die... none cared! Life moves on and does not wait for anybody.
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The essence of
life lies in moving on and on unless one gains Enlightenment. And this Enlightenment
is the stage when one is totally liberated forever from everything we call as
the materialistic world. Materialism is a phenomenon of the physical world. On
the contrary, Enlightenment dwells in the absolute truth of our life. It is only
related to our true
inner self... our soul (the true self of us). And the moment our soul
"Realizes" and reaches its final potential... the need for the body vanishes.
Every enlightened
soul has to abandon the body for ever... the cycle of life and birth
ceases for this enlightened person. If I say that only two persons have gained
Enlightenment in the last 150 years out of the 6000 million people residing on
mother earth... then Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi
Ramana were truly blessed by God Almighty to have gained Enlightenment
even when the society presently is passing through such a bad phase on the materialistic
plane. Everything presently is measured in terms of materialistic achievements.
In present
times a spiritually
enlightened soul residing in the deep dense forests of the Himalayas
would not find as much public appreciation as the likes of Bill Gates... One who
shall not be able to carry the wealth one manages onto the next life but always
seems to cling on until the last moment of life arrives. The false hope one maintains
that money can buy one the best in life in the present and the afterlife is an
absolute misnomer.
We fail to remember that it is only the likes of Madame Curie who shall gain a special status in the next life for the ones like Madame Curie come once in thousand years... those who dedicate everything one could have called their own to the mankind at large. They truly live for the society until the last breath and it is for that they shall be repaid by God in the next life.
Enlightenment: Spiritual enlightenment meaning definition and relation to Self Realization!
Even
though Madame Curie may not have gained Enlightenment... but chances are that
these thinkers and true philosophers of life would gain Enlightenment a few lives
from now on. A true enlightened person lives like a true trustee believing in
the fact that everything belongs to God and one is only a maintainer on his behalf.
It would not be in the interest of the trustee to look forward to materialistic
riches in life. Every true trustee would do whatever possible within his means
to work for uplifting the society.
I again repeat that every god
realized soul loses everything in the materialistic world. It simply
means our true self, the real self of us who exists within us as our soul... the
moment it reaches its pristine purity, the dross having completely removed...
the physical body losing its meaning... and one truly gains Enlightenment.
Essay
By: Vijay
Kumar "Atma Jnani"
Vijay
Kumar... The Man who Realized God in 1993 explains the concept and meaning of
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the Creator and Man Gods Creator: "Brahman, the Creator" is one. Gods can be many. Brahman created the Universe and in it all Atmans (Souls). These Atmans manifest themselves in different forms to purify themselves. Once purified ... they attain Moksha (liberation). The purified Atmans have been accorded a status by the Society ... we call them God. Man Gods... are those Human Beings, those jivas who in their Life time have liberated themselves from the cycle of birth and death and have become immortal (amar). They are known as amar for they shall not manifest again. |
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Human Evolution and becoming Immortal All these enlightened souls like Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed had transcended life itself. They had become immortal in the true sense that they would not have to indulge again in manifesting life thereafter. Life had truly come full circle for these godly souls. |
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Letter to all mankind and Immortality Understand the noble goal of "Atman" within you ... cause for all misery and fear vanishes. None can cause harm to any "Atman" being immortal. The "Atman" can not itself liberate to rejoin the "Lord" until it has cleansed itself (Karma is exhausted) through various manifested physical forms. |
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Beings and becoming immortal It is absolutely clear that no human being can directly either go to heaven or the kingdom of God. The domain of heaven and hell and also the kingdom of God is open for soul atmans only. In the physical manifest form of life as a human being or any other form... any wishful thinking of becoming an immortal does not exist in the cosmic system. |
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