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Ma Gurupriya ji's reflections on Poojya Swamiji's morning messages (Prabhata Rashmih)
Date: 13 December 2024
Venue: Vijnana Bhavan, Narayanashrama Tapovanam

Elaborating on the chapter “Self-realization-an all-time Sadhana” (from Prabhata Rashmih, Vol1), Ma reiterates that the major hurdles in the path to Self-realization are ego and ‘mineness’. The aim of a seeker must be to drop the ego, the limited, separate identity. The goal is to live a life free of ego, possessiveness, and desires. Whenever the ego creeps in, he must discover it and remove it. This process calls for alertness and attention.

It is easy to experience the self in meditation, but it is difficult to realize the same universal consciousness in the wakeful interactions. So, the interactional sadhana is very important, where one is seated in self-knowledge through all speech, actions, and interactions. Realizing that everything is subsisting on the Supreme Lord, one must develop a uniform, universal vision.

A seeker may meditate and remain absorbed for a couple of hours in a day. He may also take up contemplation and enquiry. But in human life, the dominant feature is the state of wakefulness, where we are active and interactive. Unless the spiritual fruition takes places in this active and interactive state, it can never be useful to a seeker.

So, the ultimate spiritual goal of a seeker is to acquire that illumination or wisdom, by virtue of which he will be able to remain constantly in communion with the goal. He who has gained Yogic integration, with equal vision everywhere, perceives the self as abiding in all beings and all beings as dwelling in the self. A seeker must cultivate this expansive outlook, an unbroken continuous vision.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
4:10 - मया ततमिदं सर्वं…Bhagavad Gita 9.4
9:35 - तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन..Bhagavad Gita 4.34
1:03:20 - सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि...Bhagavad Gita 6.29

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