Page 55 - Amrit Varta - Issue Feb. 2023 - English

Vol. 27, No.1, February 2023 MA ANANDAMAYEE AMRIT VARTA 43

Krishna affirms that self-realisation or the realisation of Immortality must
be achieved during one’s life in the body and nowhere else. As each human
being creates limitation, imperfection and bondage, so also is he capable of
transcending them. He will finally enter into the planes of fullness, perfection
and freedom.
Our existence is a result of our previous existence. This earth of ours is the
result of an earth that existed before. Everything is evolving. The essence of
evolution is an inner and outer movement. No use taking shelter in our earthly
days and nights, for they are fleeting. We can, we should and we must take
shelter only in Lord Krishna’s eternal Heart, which is the safest haven, where
no day or night is required, since His Heart is Infinity’s Light and Eternity’s
Life.
Nothing else do we need except devotion. Our supreme choice is devotion.
Our heart of devotion responds to His Heart of Love. Says He: “Only unswerving
devotion has the direct and free access to My Life immortal, My Truth absolute.”
(8.22)
What is within will sooner or later be manifested without. The possessor of
divine thoughts will also be the doer of divine deeds. It is possible only for a
dedicated and aspiring man to think of God consciously while leaving the earth
scene.
Krishna tells us how a yogi enters into the Ultimate after leaving his mortal
sheath. “His senses are under control. His mind is placed in the heart. He
meditates on Me. Aum he soulfully chants. He gives up prân, the life-breath,
and enters into the ultimate realisation in Me.” (8.12-13)
The meaning of Aum can be known from books but the knowledge of Aum
has to be achieved by living an inner life of aspiration that will transport the
aspirant to the higher levels of consciousness. The easiest and most effective
way of going up is to surcharge oneself with pure love and genuine devotion.
Doubt, fear, frustration, limitation and imperfection are bound to surrender to
this love and devotion. They have the power to own the world and be owned by
the world. Love God’s manifestation and you will find that the cosmic creation
is yours. Devote yourself to the cause of the cosmic manifestation and you will
see that it loves you and claims you as its very own.
It is true that knowledge can give you what love and devotion give, but very
often knowledge is not cultivated for the sake of Truth, but for the fulfillment
of desires. Fruitless is the pursuit of knowledge when desire looms large in it.
When the aspirant is all love and devotion, he soars.
(to be continued)