Philosophy Of Liberation Interfaith

Author(s): Paramhansa Maharaj, Donald Howard, Veena Howard
Publisher: USA Santmat Society of North America

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Being forsaken of consciousness, all the forms (realms of Non-Conscious Nature) will vanish. The various components of Nature the Gross, the Subtle the Causal and the Supra-Causal which form a physical body, will vanish leaving only the Pure Self devoid of the realms. This State will be a State of Liberation. The Pure Self despite its all-pervasiveness is unattached to material pain and happiness. However, by virtue of the Pure Self's association with the cit (mind) and jar (non-conscious, body), the existence of jivatma (individual soul) appears. The individual self experiences then pleasure and sorrow. Ultimately, this experience of pain and pleasure is unpleasant and therefore should be destroyed.
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By destroying this association of the Pure Self with mind and body, the above described experiences of pain and pleasure are dissolved. This association is the cause of pleasure and pain and of the existence of the individual self, the experiencer.
103. The individuality of the soul came into existence and therefore can also be destroyed. However, the Pure Self being infinite in nature is beyond destruction and cannot be destroyed by the extinction of the individuality of the soul. In any lifetime when the individuality is vanquished in the state of Samadhi (perfect meditation), only then is the soul liberated in life and also in death. Without liberation in this lifetime, the practitioner will take birth again and again. However, by virtue of being a seeker, the practitioner will take human birth in good families. The practitioner will be influenced by his spiritual undertakings in previous lives, continuing on the road to Liberation.
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