characteristic of the spiritual path is peace?

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People say that the characteristic of the spiritual path is peace. Is it

correct?

 

 

 

It is correct to certain extent till you reach the self (Jeevatma) it is

correct. But the spiritual journey does not stop there. When you differentiate

yourself from your body as pure awareness you will attain peace but you have to

go further to reach the ultimate goal, which is the super self (Paramatma). When

you are travelling in the path to reach the super self after attaining the

knowledge of self, you will loose the peace because that path is full of

sacrifice. Sacrifice will disturb your mind because you have to cut all the

worldly bonds including the bond with your body and even life. While reaching

the self you are eating a sweet, which will give you satisfaction. You cannot

have fruit from the Lord again. You have already eaten the sweet and you cannot

charge money for eating the sweet. Already you are given the fruit when you

attain your self but when you are reaching the Paramatma you are giving the

sweet to Him and you have to suffer with hunger. Therefore the Lord will

pay you for the sacrifice of the sweet. When you loose the peace the Lord

becomes peaceful. Therefore attaining the self by removing the illusion that you

are the body etc., is only a half journey. The Lord is called as Atmeswara in

Veda, which means that He is the controller of even the self. In Advaita

philosophy you are reaching the self, which is only the intermediate station. Of

course you must attain the peace, which gives, you lot of strength so that you

will withstand the suffering by sacrifice in the next half of the journey.

Sankara stopped by preaching this intermediate station to all the people. When a

few people reached this station, then He opened the further path to them only.

He swallowed the molten lead and preached to the disciples that He alone is the

Lord. They realized the self and reached the intermediate station called Brahman

by the path of ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (I am Brahman). Brahman means simple awareness.

The next half path is to reach Lord who is Eeswara.

 

Peace is not the final fruit. Peace is only the intermediate fruit, which gives

you the strength in the journey. The fruit given by the Lord is the final fruit,

which are peace, bliss and all the eight super powers. If one takes a sleeping

tablet, he can get peace during the sleep as well as after awakening.

Detachment from the world gives you the peace (Brahman) but the fruit given by

the Lord is to remain peaceful, blissful while living in this world and helping

the real devotees with the help of the eight super powers (Asta Siddhis). The

fruit given by the Lord will give you the real bliss i.e., the entertainment in

the life game played by you in this world itself which is certainly far higher

than the peace. Sivoham (I am Eeswara) as told by Sankara is the final goal and

not 'Aham Brahmasmi'. Sankara lived in the world and did lot of work. He never

sat idle thinking Aham Brahmasmi like the present Advaita Philosophers.

Patanjali wrote Yoga Sutras and fixed Eeswara as the

final goal. We remember Sankara today as the divine hero but not the other

Advaita philosophers. Sankara sacrificed His mother and earning of money for the

sake of the mission of the Lord. But the Advaita Philosophers sit in their

houses and roll with their family bonds and simply say Aham Brahmasmi. One

should become a divine hero like Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Swami Vivekananda

etc.; they were dynamic doing the Karma Yoga, which was without any selfishness.

Their Karma Yoga was the propagation of the divine knowledge, which is Jnana

Yoga but today the Advaita Philosopher is doing Karma Yoga with selfishness for

his family bonds only. What is the use of their Jnana Yoga?

 

 

 

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