What Exactly is Self-realization ?
Once a person has lived according to the light of his heart for some time, he is then brought into contact with certain sources which will help him to find the path back to his soul, then his Atma, and so continue progressing spiritually. Eventually he blossoms out into a fully realized being. A realized person no longer has any religion, for the purpose of religions is to lead to union with God or the realization of oneself. He is beyond religions or beliefs. He sees all beings as a part of himself – as only one being, and makes no difference between people, whatever their religion or race. A realized person therefore spreads Peace around him wherever he goes. The following quotation gives us more details.
The Aim of Life
In a preceding article, we said that man was on the Earth for a specific purpose, i.e. to attain divine realization, also known by several other names such as Self-realization, spiritual enlightenment, cosmic enlightenment, liberation, the Mastery of Life. In fact, all these names designate this state where man realizes, no longer intellectually but permanently, in his every day life, in his whole being, that he is one with the Divinity and with the whole creation. Not only is he, from then on, aware of his immortality, but Wisdom and the Love of God have also become a part of him to the point that he no longer lives for himself as he had been doing for ages, but lives to serve God and for the good of all beings. While the ordinary man’s love for others is always motivated by more or less selfish factors, a realized person, on the other hand, loves each being without any condition, even those who hate him, for his nature has simply become love and no ounce of wrong-doing or indifference is to be found in him.The Sadguru
He is no longer attracted to worldly things. Never again will he pursue any personal or selfish goals. One who has attained this state is called a Master (he is also given other names) for from then on, he perfectly masters his mental, emotional and physical nature, as well as the laws of nature and spiritual laws. Only the person who has reached this summit is called Sadguru, the true Master, the true Guru, the true Instructor, for having trodden the entire path which leads from dark valleys of ignorance to the summit of the mountain of enlightenment, he is perfectly capable and has all the necessary experience to guide his brothers and sisters who accept to be trained in order to reach this same sublime goal.
A God Who is Unaware of his True Nature
When one reads the Scriptures of different religions of the world, one is struck by the recurrence of the number seven. This is because God always expresses Himself in the manifested world through a combination of seven energies in order to realize His goals. And this is what the Greeks, for example, mentioned in their mythology, an echo of the primordial and eternal wisdom, in giving a lyre with seven strings which sing the mysteries of nature. Therefore it will not be surprising to learn that man also is a being made up of seven bodies which correspond to states of consciousness of the same number, of which the most gross is that of the physical body, and the most subtle is that of the Atma (Spirit), a pure ray of God in man. It is this Atma which makes man a true son of God or a god as the Lord Jesus Christ said in Palestine, “Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, 'I said, Ye are gods' ?” (Bible, John 10:34) Lord Krishna had taught the same thing three thousand years before, to his beloved disciple Arjuna, “He who sees that the imperishable Supreme Lord is equally dwelling in all the perishable beings, truly sees.”(Bhagavad Gita 13:28)
Working for the Common Good
Everyone must eventually go through this stage, for the goal of man as one body is to become a fully fledged Being who, having realized his full potential, will then take his place as a competent agent of God in the universe, and carry out the tasks for which he was created at the beginning of time. When one has thus realized his true nature, one knows that one shares the same soul with all other beings, and that one must contribute to the Common Good.
We may know of realized Masters who guide disciples, but we know much less about the very few Avatars who after having left Earth for very high planes, come back to help humanity in times when it has to make a choice and change direction. In both categories we find the Torch Bearers of the Sacha lineage — today led by Shri Hans Raj Maharajji Sacha Baba.
Sacha Baba Maharajji constantly reminds us to pray for the world in order to help it take the right path and make the right choices. Man is a spiritual being endowed with a heart and a mind. It is now time for the mind to allow the heart to express the soul’s guiding voice, which alone can allow humanity to live harmoniously as a spiritual being, and safely enter an era of higher spirituality.
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