You should know you are not the body, but the divine reality, pure wisdom, all-pervading light, infinite love, everlasting joy, all put together. That you are. Ordinarily man things he is a body subject to birth, growth, decay, disease and death. But he is truly the changeless, birthless, deathless Atman, whose nature is bliss and peace. To realize this is to attain God consciousness.
Man, in his state of ignorance, dwells in body-consciousness. When he rises to God-consciousness, he knows he is God.
An Incident
Once when Swami Ramdas visited the house of a devotee in
Swami Ramdas said, “God has come to see God.”
Swami Ramdas (1884 – 1963)
(Source: Book - God Experience, Swami Ramdas)
1 comments:
There are certainly other more complete ways to describe God Consciousness. The impersonal awareness the swami describes is only the first stage. Also, telling people they are God is a disservice. We are part of God. We do have many of God's qualities, but not all of them. Also, we aren't as powerful because we are very small in comparison. God makes universes. We can't even keep our clothes from wearing out.
Merging with the whole and losing one's identity is the highest goal for some. But other individual souls, jiva atma, can achieve higher states of God Consciousness.
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