Moment to Speak

The self, or the ātman , is a living being and a part of the Supreme Self. It is the realised meaning of life and is eternally free, unrestricted, transcendent, and effulgent. Everything is unreal except for who you are. It transcends time, space, and causality and is everlasting and unbreakable. It is a being's everlasting essence and light, existing outside of time and space. Transmigration, or freedom, occurs for the Samsār chakra, or the wheel of birth and death. Finding one's true self—the divine and pure essence of oneself—and transcending individuality are the ultimate goals of life exploration. Every being is unique. Unique in birth, growth, decay, and death. Uniqueness is its essential identity, and real identity is its self. When a being takes birth, he comes to this world embedded with the koshas (sheath) of his body-mind-intellect system that propels him outward. The first way he feels the world outside is through his sense perceptions—sound, touch, sight, hea...

Man is in deep slumber under the veil of ignorance. Every dimension of his being is swayed by his sense of ego. The ego is the false sense of identity of the body-mind-intellect system of a being. There is an outward sense of perceptive feeling emanating from the body-mind-intellect system. The conception of "I" is transplanted into that system by juxtaposing everything in a unipolarity of objects with disregard for the subjective dimension. It makes him forgetful of his true identity, the atman, as Sat-Chit-Anand . It exists in all time dimensions—past, present, and future. It is eternal, imperishable, and not conditioned by time, space, or causality. The human being goes on to replicate himself through the cycle of ephemeral transmission of samsāra chakra (the wheel of birth and death) rather than searching for a way out to get out of that cycle by realising the self within. There is a little time in this birth, human being needs to arise and awake to search for r...

The nature of the self (ātman) is aloneness, and that aloneness is spaceless and timeless. Aloneness is consciousness of the self, a state of absolute freedom, and Sat-Chit-Ananda , or Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. In that sense, it is one with the Supreme Self, which is unattached, inseparable, integrated, and a single organic whole. It is above all the dualities and opposites of birth and death, attachments and aversion, anger and calm, joy and sorrow, happiness and distress, pleasure and pain, love and hatred, quench and thirst, and pacification and inflammation. These are all states of mind and, as such, evanescent. Aloneness in the self is kaivalya , the highest state of consciousness of the self. Kaivalya is devoid of any attachment, aversion, fear, greed, lust, anger, bondage, ignorance, and all the vices of one’s elevation in the life-journeying process. However, the created beings, upon their birth, get entangled in the attachments and bondings of the phenomenal world of...