waking Up From A Dream...(part-1)

 

when the soul slowly awakens from the dream of material life, it can understand that it has long served ungrateful masters- the mind and the body. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes....

"At that time the aakened soul says in effect to the mind and body: i am not identical with you. i do not want what you require. i have long believed that i was identical with both of you and we shared the same interest . but now i find categorically i am different from you. i am made wholly from the principle of self-conciousness, while both of you are made of dead matter.... i refuse to be a slave anymore..."

how much courage and support the soul requires at its moment of awakening. as a person who has just begun to regain conciousness after a deep sleep is still drowsy and in danger of being overwhelmed by bad dreams, so the soul is in danger of closing its eyes and lapsing back into unconsiousness.

 

Srila Vishwanath Cakravati Thakura describes that when we initially gain a drop of faith and begin to think," let me become a vaishnava and serve the Lord," the concepts of 'i' and 'mine' are still there but a little more spiritualised... we often suffer from a divided mind, torn between good things we now truly want and the things we actually do... the new will we begin to develop is not yet strong enough to overcome the other will, strengthened as it is by long indulgence. those old masters have grown into fierce masters that seem to come alive with their brutal force once we wish to escape their unrelenting rule...

(to be continued.....)

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