The Bhagavad-gita, chapter two text twenty states:
“For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.”
What is our real identity?
Am I American, Indian, black, white, Hindu, Jewish, Christian or Buddhist , Muslim etc?
Am I my thoughts?
Who am I?
Hence, in order to realise that inherent and untainted happiness, which indeed he daily experiences when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential that he should know himself.
I am pure Awareness. This Awareness is by its very nature Being-Consciousness-Bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda).
The thought ‘who am I?’ will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the funeral pyre, it will itself be burnt up in the end. Then, there will be Self-realization
first of all we must come to this realization that we are not these innumerable things that we have been taught to IDENTIFY with. This is the reason we are not in a constant state of full bliss, peacefulness and complete satisfaction. Because these things can NOT satisfy us. All these labels and things are inherently foreign to us, foreign to our real identity.
The only thing that is a constant is service, we are always busy serving on so many different levels. We serve our friends our parents our pets like dogs and cats. We serve the government by paying taxes and following the laws like stoping at stop signs or driving on the proper side of the road. Even if we move to the forest and live alone we will still be serving the dictations of our mind and senses. Our tongue says give me the ice cream or feed me in this way or that and then we work hard to satisfy the demands of the tongue. The same goes for the ears, eyes, genitals etc.
The material service is monotonous and unsatisfying due to its temporary, material and bodily centered nature. But serve we must. The Veda’s recognize this so they recommend to simply turn that service propensity towards Krishna the all blissful supreme eternally lovable master. And Since he is eternal that service will not go in vain, lost or be taken away.
This Seva is the eternal nature of the soul.
We are always serving something, someone, or the dictations of our own minds.
If the mind becomes still, one may live anywhere.
What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul, and God are appearances in it like silver in mother-of-pearl. These three appear at the same time, and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no “I” thought. That is called “Silence”. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is “I”; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
By chanting Hare Krishna you can return to Krishna’s world, the eternal abode of full happiness and knowledge.
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare
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