Ramakrishna Sharanam
February 3, 2025 at 03:24 AM
The aspirant after experiencing spiritual beatitude realizes its absence in the object, as it lacks any affinity to the Lord or His essential glories of knowledge, happiness and peace. Its presence is within, though transcending the body.
By entering that light of transcendence with utmost humility and alertness one experiences supreme bliss of quiescence and perfection.
In this respect texts of various strata are invariably unanimous. The variations in the scriptural lore are limited to secondary details such as cosmic creation. True appreciation of the primary principles grant us fruit, knowledge of the Self, which is stainless, undecaying, devoid of body and pure auspiciousness. Siva, the Self, penetrating everything in His wake, lodges Himself in the animate and the inanimate, and wields scepter over the whole universe. He is the causeless cause of all actions.
He is the One remembered, meditated upon, loved, sought after, longed for and realized thus proclaim all the scriptures viz, Sruti, Smrti, Purana, Itihasa, Veda and Upanishat. In matters worldly, He is unattached and beyond compare. Even for want of knowledge through direct realization, He is the one unequivocally established by all forms of authority. That is, even to be able to deny His existence He is.
Such a One is inaccessible to thought; reachable to the ones matured in spiritual practices; the means and basis for any achievement.
*Source:* Shri Ribhu Gita (2.40-42), translated by Dr Lingeswara Rao and Dr Anil Sharma
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