As per the Adi-Shankaracharya three things are very scarce, very rare to get. Those are the birth as human being, desire to liberate & satsang i.e. virtuous company.
Everybody is born as a human animal, manushya-pashu to relieve & release from the clutches of being animal is very difficult rather rare. Since everybody is engaged in fulfillment of the instincts in one way or the other. These instincts are food, sleep, sex which is common to any animal as well. Baring the quality what is difference is, then, between human animal & other animals? Thus graduating from human being from the human animal is no less than the birth itself!
The soul is eternal whilst body just acts as its vehicle. Just the thought even, to get liberated does not arise in the mind. Since everybody is so engrossed in ones’ tangible life that, rest all seems futile & looks nonsense. As one gets so dependent on his own intellect that, for him everything else seems irrelevant. So, mere thought of liberation does not arise in the mind.
Being in the virtuous company i.e. satsang is not so different too! If one says something out of compassion in the world full of selfishness it would be taken otherwise. Scriptures are not written to be kept in the cupboard. They need to be read, thought over, assimilated & get their gist in practice as per ones’ capacity.
The only difference in animal & human being, as per our Guru, is that a human being can elevate himself from his level, animal cannot. But, to progress to the level of thinking is also difficult. Saint Dnyneshwar too emphasized on the fact saying getting into the fold of divinity is the result of virtuous acts of births after birth.
One needs to start somewhere. Since the fruits are going to be eternal & everlasting. Tragedy is one cannot compel others to get into this neither get the taste of this. One has to come forward & adapt to the world of divinity.
September 2, 2009
Vijay Yelmelwar
Everybody is born as a human animal, manushya-pashu to relieve & release from the clutches of being animal is very difficult rather rare. Since everybody is engaged in fulfillment of the instincts in one way or the other. These instincts are food, sleep, sex which is common to any animal as well. Baring the quality what is difference is, then, between human animal & other animals? Thus graduating from human being from the human animal is no less than the birth itself!
The soul is eternal whilst body just acts as its vehicle. Just the thought even, to get liberated does not arise in the mind. Since everybody is so engrossed in ones’ tangible life that, rest all seems futile & looks nonsense. As one gets so dependent on his own intellect that, for him everything else seems irrelevant. So, mere thought of liberation does not arise in the mind.
Being in the virtuous company i.e. satsang is not so different too! If one says something out of compassion in the world full of selfishness it would be taken otherwise. Scriptures are not written to be kept in the cupboard. They need to be read, thought over, assimilated & get their gist in practice as per ones’ capacity.
The only difference in animal & human being, as per our Guru, is that a human being can elevate himself from his level, animal cannot. But, to progress to the level of thinking is also difficult. Saint Dnyneshwar too emphasized on the fact saying getting into the fold of divinity is the result of virtuous acts of births after birth.
One needs to start somewhere. Since the fruits are going to be eternal & everlasting. Tragedy is one cannot compel others to get into this neither get the taste of this. One has to come forward & adapt to the world of divinity.
September 2, 2009
Vijay Yelmelwar
