O’ Lord ! O’ My Lord ! May I never forget You !
|| Shri Hari ||
Real Doctrine of God
Swami Ramsukhdas
|| Shri Hari ||
Real Doctrine of God
tvameva mata cha pita tvameva
tvameva bandhuscha sakha tvameva |
tvameva vidyaa dravinam tvameva
tvameva sarvam mama devadeva ||
Swami Ramsukhdas
|| Shri Hari ||
Real Doctrine of God
All acquired things are not ours - this is the considered view of the Lord. Whatever materials - body, senses, mind, intellect, life-breath, riches, property, objects etc., there are , these are the evolutes of nature and the world is also an evolute of nature. So, all of these have identity with with world, while the self, being a fragment of God, has its identification with Him. Therefore, all of these are not our personal possessions, but have been bestowed upon us, so that we may utilize them properly. Besides these, the virtues such as good conduct, renunciation, dispassion, kindness and forgiveness etc., are also not personal; being divine traits they also belong to God. Had these been ours these would have also remained with us and no one could have acquired them, without our permission. But it is not so. When we accept these as ours, we are proud of these and pride is a root of demoniac endowment.
When we regard a thing which really is not ours as ours, it captures us. Materialistic things such as body etc., are neither ours nor for us. Had they been ours, they might have provided us full satisfaction, when we acquired them. But these never satisfy us, and add fuel to desires. But if we realize God, we are fully satisfied, and we attain perfection and nothing further remains to be gained (acquired). As a lost child is not pleased and satisfied with any other woman except his own mother, similarly, we are not satisfied with any other state except God-realization. Therefore, so long as we have the desire to acquire something, it means that we have not acquired our very own i.e. God.
We neither brought the worldly things with us, nor can we carry these with us and at present also, these are deserting us, constantly. While presently these are under our possession. It behoves that we use these for the welfare of the world, rather than lay claim to them. The Lord is so generous and gracious, that He bestows these upon us in, such a way, that they appear to us to be ours. If we use them for our selfish motive, it means that we misuse His generosity and grace. Therefore, in order to rectify his error, a striver should surrender these to the Lord, with a discriminative insight.
If a striver whose only aim is God-realization, gives a serious thought to the topic, he will come to know the truth, that all the acquired things such as the body, rank, right, education, knowledge, riches and property etc., belong to the world, and so they should be utilized for the world. We may call them either of the world or of nature, or of God, but these are not ours. So how can they be for us?
A striver has neither to regard a thing as his, nor has to perform any action for him. The actions, which are performed by him for himself, bind him because the Lord declares -
‘One is bound by actions other than those performed for the sake of sacrifice (Yajna) (Gita 3/9).
‘Actions including the stored ones of the person who performs them for the sake of sacrifice are dissolved entirely.’ (Gita 4/23)
God is the Almighty Lord of all the worlds (Gita 5/29).
When a man regards himself as the Lord of his objects and possessions, he forgets the real Lord, and thinks of those objects and possessions. Therefore, a striver should live like a servant to the Lord, Who is the only master of the entire universe. By becoming an instrument in His hands, he should perform his duty, with the body, senses, mind, intellect and material bestowed upon him by Him, without having any pride of ownership.
Having surrendered everything and actions to God, he should not be swayed by the pairs of opposites, such as profit and loss, honour and dishonour, pleasure and pain etc., because these are the gifts of God and so they are His. Performance of duty, joyfully under the available circumstance means the practice of His teaching.
Narayan ! Narayan !! Narayan !!!
From ‘Real Doctrine of God’ by Swami Ramsukhdasji published in ‘Kalyan Kalpataru’ Edition - June 2015.
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