Pinnacle Of Spirituality

SR No.: 032343
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Raj Saubhag Satsang Mandal
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 188
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 42 MB

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38. Self-Realisation
After Shrimad and Shri Sobhagbhai of Sayla met for the first time towards the end of Vikram Samvat 1946, Shrimad's spiritual progress gained considerable momentum. Shrimad poured out his heart in long letters written to Sobhagbhai, his soul-mate, addressing him with titles such as "Respected Sobhagbhai "Atma Vivek Sampan" one who can discriminate between the body and the soul. A month after their first meeting, Shrimad wrote from Vavania : "My thoughts dwell incessantly and undividedly on the ultimate meaning of Soul." Who else would have such constant meditation ?' - Only a soul who had an experience of inner joy.
Shrimad, at the beginning of 1947, wrote to Shri Sobhagbhai, on the auspicious day of Gnan Panchmi, a day in honour of wisdom and insight, addressing him: “Most worshipful, possessor of the seed of Enlightenment, most gracious, Shri Sobhagbhai." Sobhagbhai was instrumental in Shrimad recalling the advanced spiritual state he had attained in his previous lives, which enabled him to progress considerably faster. Shrimad always expressed tremendous gratitude to Sobhagbhai for this. Elsewhere Shrimad writes : "It is by your grace that I am experiencing joy, and is due to my karma that I suffer." He further writes: "All great Souls have sung the glory of the knowledge which you possess."
As Shrimad's Darshanmoh, the Karma which leads to delusion and misidentification with the physical, the root of all Karma and thus rebirth, gradually got eroded, he gained a direct experience of the Soul. In Vikram Samvat 1947, he attained pure Samyag Darshan, Self-Realisation, the turning point in spiritual terms.
In nineteen forty seven I knew, that Self-Realisation had dawned. As my learning and experience grew, the light of my own true nature shone.
How blessed the day is today! In a letter to Sobhagbhai, he wrote : "That I have experienced my Soul is beyond doubt, and that I am free of the bonds (of delusion and passions) is an eternal truth." Again in Vikram Samvat 1947, he wrote to his Soul-mate Sobhagbhai : “Since dawn, God has shown me amazing grace and I am experiencing True ParaBhakti (devotional union)."
It is the legacy of Shrimad's letters which provides us with such wonderful insights into the joy of Self-Realisation and the practical aspects of the path to it. Seldom does a Self-Realised Soul so openly and intimately discuss such matters and it is by the grace of the relationship with Sobhagbhai of Sayla that we have access to these.
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