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INTRODUCTION
lis “The soul is indeed below, the soul is above, the soul will be in this whole world. Verily he who sees this, who thinks this, who understands this, who has pleasure in the soul, who has delight in the soul, he is autonomous. He has Swarajya. He has unlimited freedom in all the worlds. But they who know otherwise than this are without Swaraj They have perishable worlds. In all the worlds they have no freedom”
The True way to Brahma World—The way to realise the true self and to enjoy the spiritual bliss is not by following the traditional rituals but by purity of conduct “Now what people call sacrifice, Yagna is really the chaste life of a student of sacred knowledge For only through the chaste life of a student of sacred knowledge does he who is a knower find that world. Now what people call that what has been sacrificed is really the chaste life of a student Now what people call the propriety of a sacrifice is also the chaste life of a student. Now what people call silent asceticism, is really the chaste lise of a student Now what people call hermit life is really the chaste life of a student.”
Next we have the instruction of Indra by the Lord of Creation Indra is actuated by the desire for Brahman knowledge. He goes to the Lord of Creation to beg of him the same know
ledge. The self which is free from evil, lageless, deathless, sorrow'less, hungerless, thirstless, whose desire is Real, whose conception
is the Real. It is such a self that Indra wants to realize. The Indra here is quite different from our old friend of the Rig Veda. Indra here seeks to obtain a knowledge of the Brahman which is the ultimate principle both of the individual and the world. He is told that even the gods in Brahmaloka reverence their selves shaking off evil, shaking off the body as the moon shakes itself from the mouth of Rahu, a perfected soul passeth off into the uncreated world of Brahman and into it, it may pass. Such is the consolation of the perfected soul which has become perfect by knowing its own self. Thus we have a complete change of intellectual attitude. 'Life in the world according to ceremonies and customs is looked down as a source of misery. It is merely to sell one's birthright of freedom, to be ruled over by anything
| SR No. | 011119 |
| Book Title | Samayasara OR Nature of Self |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | A Chakravarti |
| Publisher | Bharatiya Gyanpith |
| Publication Year | 1950 |
| Total Pages | 406 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |