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I am the Soul
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you separate the good from the bad and shows them in proper light. It separates the aspects that are worth emulating from those that are not, and explains their true nature.
You may have heard of the (pit faqti) 'Milk-Water Prudence'. When you place milk mixed with water before a Swan, it splits the two, that is, it drinks up only milk and water remains as residue. This is made possible by the sourness in its beak, the Swan really does not do it intentionally. There is sourness in milk too, which the Swan manages to attract. Thus milk and water get split. In literary parlance this gets termed as ‘Milk-Water Prudence'.
Among the great men who have left a mark on the history of India, several have been decorated with the epithet “Paramahamsa’ (424). Especially among them, Ramakrishnadev who lived in Bengal, was more popularly known as Paramahamsa. The moment you say Paramahamsa, the image we visualise is that of Ramakrishandev.
What is ‘Paramahamsa? (Greatest Swan)? Swan's job is to separate milk from water. One who is the greatest Swan will also be doing something similar yet of a greater calibre. The Swan may just be prudent, but the greatest Swan will be the greatest prudent. Paramahamsa recognises the perishability of the Karma which mixes with the soul to pollutes the entire universe and rejects them impartially like water without any essence. He absorbs rather attains the great energetic Soul that is like the milk. Just like the milk and water, he manages to separate the Soul and the Body that have been living together and appearing as one from time immemorial.
One who after realising this difference, experiences the soul, after experiencing the soul stabilises in it, and after stabilising there gets engrossed with it, is paramahamsa. Whatever may be the religion, path, sect that one may be following, so long as one has experienced the separate entity of the body and the soul and has got engrossed in it, one is ‘paramahamsa'.
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