WORSHIP OF DEMI GODS GOES TO LORD
As this entire creation is super- imposition of Lord Krishna, meditation on Demi Gods is also meditation of Lord buy in a wrong manner as He is the ultimate enjoyer of all sacrifices.
Lord Krishna says in chapter nine of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Yeapianyadevta bhakta yajante shardhyanvitah I
Teapi mamev kontey yajantiavidhipurvkam II
Aham he sarvyagyanam bhokta ch parbhurev ch I
Na tu mamabhijananti tatvenatshchavanti te II
Yanti devandevvrata devanptrianyantiptrivaratah I
Bhutani yanti bhutejya yanti madyajinoapi mam II (9.23-25)
Arjun! Those who with utmost devotion, worship Demi-Gods, they actually worship me only with a mistaken approach.
I am the enjoyer and Lord of all sacrifices; but not knowing me in reality, they fall.
Those attached to Demi-Gods go to those Gods, and those attached to manes go to manes; those who adore spirits go to spirits and those who worship me alone, come to me alone.
Why people meditate on Demi Gods?
The people attached to actions expect a quick result and scriptures have prescribed certain rituals to attain their purpose. Gods able to bestow these results too are narrated in Vedas. To attain material prosperity people get attached to those Gods.
Because of this attachment and desire they go to Demi Gods as per their attachments.
Lord is supreme self and not knowing this embodied souls again enter into cycle of birth and death after exhausting virtues.
Similarly those who are attached with manes and spirits go to manes and spirits respectively.
But those unflinchingly attached to Lord Krishna go to Him without any fear of transmigration
Lord has given an assurance in Bhagwad Geeta that those attached to him go to his servitude without any return to the material world.
It is prime duty of self souls in human form to serve and devote to Lord.
The way is not important, nor is form. One should understand that self of all is one, one’s faith may be different but it should be unaltered and unfettered.
Lord assures that he takes care of the welfare of devotees:
ananyashchintyanto mam ye janah paryupaste I
esham nityabhiyuktanam yogkshemam vahamiaham II ( 9.22)
The devotees, who in a disinterested spirit, constantly worship me, loving none else, ever think of me, to those ever united in thought with me, I take care of their security and needs.
Lord has issued an eternal guarantee to liberate the self soul attached to him.
Attachment with material nature in form of embodiment, mind, intellect, senses and sense objects is bondage and attachment with Lord Krishna is liberation.
Lord Krishna makes it that clear persons performing Vedic rituals prescribed for attainment of heaven, go to heaven and remain there for a good time enjoying the celestial comforts and with their fortunes earned from virtues, then their attributes being exhausted, they again come to earth in karmic transmigration cycle.
Those who are solely attached to lord, loving only him, all the time thinking of him, worshiping him in a disinterested spirit, united in thought with him are always in the protection of lord
The Lord /God Head / the Supreme Self / the atman, the self of universe, project this universe and he is the projected, maintains it and dissolves it.
Lord fulfils his devotee with his attachment where after devotee does not worry about his welfare.
Here welfare is not to be taken in worldly sense. This is assurance of self realization and freedom from every worldly misery.
Lord has not made us what we are. It is the sum of one’s own actions and attachment with them which has resulted embodiment and the embodiment has to undergo reactions.
Due to our limited knowledge, we always blame Lord to have created misfortune and problems for us.
But it is not truth.
Instead self soul has created every thing itself.
Embodiment undergoes reactions of previous identifications with actions in countless bodies already left by self soul.
In fifth chapter lord Krishna says:
na kartitvam na karamarhi lokasya srijti parbhu I
na karamfalsanyogam savbhavastu parvartate II
naadate kasaychitpapam na chev sukritam vibhuh I
agyanenavritam gyanam ten muhayanti jantavah II
gyanen tu tadagyanam yesham nashitamatmanah I
teshamadityavatgyanam parkashayati tatparam II (5.14-16)
Lord does not determine the doer ship or doings of embodied souls, nor their contact with fruit of actions, but it is the nature alone that functions.
Lord Krishna / Omnipresent Supreme Self neither receives sins nor virtues of embodied souls. Since knowledge is clotted by ignorance; hence being constantly falling prey to delusion.
But whose ignorance has been set aside by virtue of true knowledge of self that wisdom shining like Sun reveals the Supreme.
But if one in present embodiment attaches himself to the Lord, he assures to look after the emancipation of soul. As a father of all beings, Lord looks after everyone but he too has a preference to his devotee.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS YOUR "SELF"
It may be called awareness, consciousness; life is the part and parcel of Supreme Consciousness. Supreme Consciousness is eternal, so is consciousness in beings.
It is direct imposition of Lord Krishna in the body of beings.
There are misgivings about consciousness and usually body of a person is addressed by a particular name.
Realization of self can be attained by giving up this misgiving.
Ashtavakar says in in chapter one of Samhita:
Atma sakshi vibhuh pooranah eko muktashchidkriyaI
Asango nispirih shanto bharmatsansarvaniv II (1.12)
Self soul is all pervading witness, greatest, perfect, one, detached, action less consciousness, desire less and it is at peace. It is out of illusion that you seem to be involved in material world.
\This consciousness is witness in all beings and by identification with mind it has assumed itself to be the doer.
This consciousness is same in all beings.
The quantum of body has no relevancy with the nature of self.
It is the greatest as it is same in Tolstoy, same in American, same in Chinese, same in Russian, Indian and any other person of any origin.
It is the mind which is the after effect of accumulation of material nature and puts the consciousness in cage of body after body.
This is unending divine play not easily understandable by person of ego of embodiment.
No Rabindernath Tagore, Tolstoy, Wordsworth, Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi or any dignitary has reborn in same shape of embodiment. This is because of quantum of attachment in identification of self soul/ individual consciousness with three evolutes of material nature that difference of bodies occurs.
Lord Krishna says in Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Parkritam svamavshtbhay visjryami punah punah.I
Bhutgramamimam kritsanavasham prikrevashat II
Na mam tani karmarhi nibandhanti dhananjya I
Udaseenvadaseenamasaktam teshu karmasu II
Mayyadheksherh parkriti suayate schracharam I
Hetunaanen kontey jagatviparivartate II ( 9.8-10 )
Lord says that wielding my nature, I release again and again all this multitude of beings subject to the influence of their nature.
Arjun! This action doesn’t bind me, as I am unattached to this work done through nature, standing apart from it.
Arjun! Nature works under my direction, bringing forth the whole creation consisting of animate and inanimate beings: it is due to this, that world continues to be.
Nature is the divine power of Lord Krishna.
Wielding that power Lord releases the multitude of beings at the time of creation and when the time of dissolution comes; all creatures reach the ultimate destiny in nature.
The system requires an understanding as to how everything is working.
Earth water, fire, air and ether are the five common elements in bodies of all beings, starting from creator Brahma to mosquito and they are equally connected imbibed by consciousness.
All beings are the result of their attachment with qualities of nature
Satva, rajas, tamah iti gurha parkriti sambhavah-------------verse 5 of chapter14
It shows that three qualities of nature bind the eternal soul with embodiment.
System is automatic.
Any individual soul leaving a particular body waits for its turn to attain next body allotted to him according to degree of his attachment to actions and desire for their fruits.
Lord is only witness to all actions of nature he being totally unattached with actions of Parkriti.
Though all acts are conducted in the supervision of Lord, but they don’t bind him like that of an individual soul.
This is solely due to identification of self soul with the actions coming out of nature, that it is bound. Detach your self from them you are free.
Daily a wave of individual souls leaves this world and waves of them come to this world, taking different forms.
It is this reason that a continuity of samsara/world is being maintained.
With Lord supervising, the course of life and death being enacted by nature, Lord is all above the acts of nature but still being in all forms as omnipresent.
All sentient and insentient beings are result of nature working. This depicts the movement of world. That which sansriti iti sansarah keeps a movement and continuity till it dissolves in absolute and then at time of creation it is resurfaced by Lord through nature.
See statement of Ashtavakar in chapter one;
Eko vishudhbodhoahamiti nishchaybahinna I
Prajyavalyaagyanam veetshokah sukhi bhav II (1.9)
I am one and only one pure consciousness, with fire of this strong determination; you burn your forest of your ignorance, stay happy, free from attachment and distress.
Attachment and identification is the real cause of transmigration of self soul from one body to other.
A devotee see eternal game of Lord Krishna in every act of material as well eternal Nature of Lord Krishna as explained by Lord Himself in chapter 7 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta and referred to in analysis of verse 3 to 7:
manushyanam sahareshukashchit yatayati sidhiye I
yatatamapi sidhanam kashchitmam veti tatwatah. II (3)
Lord says that out of thousands of the human beings, one may try to realize and attain the self/god.
Out of those making efforts, only a rare knows me completely.
It is a revelation of a stark and bitter truth.
The attachment factor is so deep rooted that embodied soul is not ready to know itself because the ‘ego’ about the self being embodiment.
Its complete identification with modification as body makes it unidentifiable.
Sages who have attained this , have been trying to make the human beings to know their true ‘selves’ but none is going that way making space for darkness to stay.
bhumiapoanlo vayu kham manoh bhudhirev ch I
ahankaram etiayam me bhinnah parkriti ashatdha II (4)
Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect, and ego are eight folded different type of my nature.
Lord unfolds eight types of his transient nature. There are two types of nature of which self takes shape.
Unanimated and animate
But both are the shapes which the self has transformed into. Lord unfolds eight types of his transient nature.
Earth, water, fire, air and ether along with mind set, intellect, and ego are unanimated nature; it is unanimated nature of Lord Krishna. These are not different from the self.
This is the knowledge which is the crux of this chapter whereby a seer can realize his own self.
That is why it is knowledge which discovers existing truth which is a sort of science of true nature of self.
aparmayam itastuanyam parkritim vidhi me pram I
jeevbhutam mahabaho yayedsm dharyate jagat II (5)
Oh Mighty Armed! Another superior nature of mine is the individual soul nature whereby I create and hold this universe
The other nature is animated individual soul nature of the almighty self whereby this universe is created and sustained by self.
Now it is abundantly clear that self/supreme self divided itself in two forms to play with itself and enjoy with itself.
This not deliberation of seers or philosophy enunciated by some persons who have discovered something new and they formulating some fiction.
It is the voice of eternal self who came to bestow deliverance on earth, cow and learned from the misdeeds of wicked.
It is simple statement for those who pray for and want deliverance.
Self is all pervading in all forms and spreading everywhere and in all directions.
It is not only to be seen but it is to be kept before oneself so that one is able to recognize one’s true self.
etatad yonini bhutani sarvarhinitiupdharay I
aham krisanam jagatah parbhavah parlayastatha II (6)
Presume all the beings held in the union of these two types of nature and I with these two forms of nature, create and destroy this universe.
These two animated and unanimated form of nature are the real cause of this whole universe.
What one can see or hear or has read about or heard of, all is outcome of union of these two.
These forms and beyond them, creating these forms, forming and transforming them.
This is self manifold, expanded in such a manner that it is not possible to count or access its modes.
One can be able to count particles of dust in entire universe in one’s life time but it is not possible in many lives like this to count the forms of lord.
World is daily changing its form and new species come into being , old still being subsisting and changing, going vanishing not to come back again.
What a wonderful phenomena, but one in human form and blessed with intellect, still failing to realize self.
Embodiment after embodiment by transmigration is resultant.
Life does not cease with end of body.
Mattah partram naanyat kinchitasti dhananjay i
Mayi sarvamidam protam sutremarhigarhaev ii (7)
Dhananjaya! There is nothing other than me; I am sewn in all this like beads of thread.
The Lord says that there is nothing except me all around.
i pervade this universe like beads of one length of thread are sewn in that length only.
While beholding beads a wise man can see only thread all around but an ignorant person shall see separate beads without looking at the reality of thread length.
Such an easy spectrum cannot realize by ignorant because of power of material nature pervading over them.
Without having inside glimpse of ones own ‘self’ ignorant sees different shapes and forms emanating from one another.
Ignorant sees difference in the shape of modification.
When embodied self soul sees different color, forms and action of self, it is confused about even its own identity.
Such is the inscrutable power of the qualities of nature that self souls have forgotten their true selves.
In upcoming verses Lord is going to further elaborate it.
the Lord has referred to a very simple example of a thread which can be understood even by a layman but the forceful qualities of nature are so interwoven around the individual self that it is not ready to shed the imaginative cloak of embalmment forcibly he has been put in him by his own foolishness of identification with material nature.
In the form of mind body set up which too is the part of this nature but identification tag put with that set has been constant cause of bondage.
Self Soul is one and only one.
As we see Material nature divided in various material components, Eternal nature too has spread itself to take shape with association of material nature in form of three modes forming goodness, passion and ignorance.
Earth, ether, air, water, fire are basic elements
A pure self soul soiled by plethora of attachments and reactions, comes into a particular womb as per reaction of its nature.
Nature of eternal soul is never changed. It is the identification which appears to soil it. By assuming this soul free one attains freedom. It is so easy, yet appearing difficult because our not being ready to identify our real selves.
This is the effect of inscrutable power of Lord Krishna that the self soul is playing with material nature.
Ashtavakra tells king Janka the reason for bondage and mode to be free in same chapter in verse ten:
Yatra Vishvamidam bhatee Kalpitam rajjusarpvat I
Anand Parmananda sa bodhtuvam sukham char II (1.10)
As Snake appears to be transposed on a rope though it is not there, this entire universe appears to be transposed in same all blissful Self in you, knowing this you be happy.
This is revelation of an existing fact.
As material nature is being illuminated by same self in all beings, material nature is also same in all beings and non-beings.
This universe proves to be a Super Transposition of same self coming into being and vanishing like shade of an object. This universe is appearing, changing and is being annihilated daily but still it appears to be permanent. This is the illusion, yet embodied self soul are indulging
Lord Krishna reveals in verse 4 chapter 9 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
mya tatamidam sarvam jagatavyakatmurtina I
matsthani sarvbhutani na chaaham,am tesguavashtita II
The whole of this universe is permeated by Me as un manifest divinity, all embodiments rest on the idea within me. Therefore, as really speaking, I am not present in them.
All the being abides in me but see wonderful power of divine yoga; though creator and sustainer of all beings, I do not dwell in those beings.
Air borne out of ether moving everywhere, born out of ether ever remains in ether, like wise all beings originate from my thought abide in Me.
Muktaabhimin mukto hi badhi\o badhabhimaniapi I
Kinvadabti satyeyam ya mati sa gatirbhavet II(11)
Where in mind, one presumes itself free, it is free but when it assumes itself bound, it is bound. Truly said it is thinking which makes one bound or free.
Self soul is free but when it identifies itself with material mind body set it assumes itself to be doer of natural reactions and seeks fruits for them. It is the mind set which binds by attachment and by detachment it liberates.
It is direct imposition of Lord Krishna in the body of beings.
There are misgivings about consciousness and usually body of a person is addressed by a particular name.
Realization of self can be attained by giving up this misgiving.
Ashtavakar says in in chapter one of Samhita:
Atma sakshi vibhuh pooranah eko muktashchidkriyaI
Asango nispirih shanto bharmatsansarvaniv II (1.12)
Self soul is all pervading witness, greatest, perfect, one, detached, action less consciousness, desire less and it is at peace. It is out of illusion that you seem to be involved in material world.
\This consciousness is witness in all beings and by identification with mind it has assumed itself to be the doer.
This consciousness is same in all beings.
The quantum of body has no relevancy with the nature of self.
It is the greatest as it is same in Tolstoy, same in American, same in Chinese, same in Russian, Indian and any other person of any origin.
It is the mind which is the after effect of accumulation of material nature and puts the consciousness in cage of body after body.
This is unending divine play not easily understandable by person of ego of embodiment.
No Rabindernath Tagore, Tolstoy, Wordsworth, Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi or any dignitary has reborn in same shape of embodiment. This is because of quantum of attachment in identification of self soul/ individual consciousness with three evolutes of material nature that difference of bodies occurs.
Lord Krishna says in Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Parkritam svamavshtbhay visjryami punah punah.I
Bhutgramamimam kritsanavasham prikrevashat II
Na mam tani karmarhi nibandhanti dhananjya I
Udaseenvadaseenamasaktam teshu karmasu II
Mayyadheksherh parkriti suayate schracharam I
Hetunaanen kontey jagatviparivartate II ( 9.8-10 )
Lord says that wielding my nature, I release again and again all this multitude of beings subject to the influence of their nature.
Arjun! This action doesn’t bind me, as I am unattached to this work done through nature, standing apart from it.
Arjun! Nature works under my direction, bringing forth the whole creation consisting of animate and inanimate beings: it is due to this, that world continues to be.
Nature is the divine power of Lord Krishna.
Wielding that power Lord releases the multitude of beings at the time of creation and when the time of dissolution comes; all creatures reach the ultimate destiny in nature.
The system requires an understanding as to how everything is working.
Earth water, fire, air and ether are the five common elements in bodies of all beings, starting from creator Brahma to mosquito and they are equally connected imbibed by consciousness.
All beings are the result of their attachment with qualities of nature
Satva, rajas, tamah iti gurha parkriti sambhavah-------------verse 5 of chapter14
It shows that three qualities of nature bind the eternal soul with embodiment.
System is automatic.
Any individual soul leaving a particular body waits for its turn to attain next body allotted to him according to degree of his attachment to actions and desire for their fruits.
Lord is only witness to all actions of nature he being totally unattached with actions of Parkriti.
Though all acts are conducted in the supervision of Lord, but they don’t bind him like that of an individual soul.
This is solely due to identification of self soul with the actions coming out of nature, that it is bound. Detach your self from them you are free.
Daily a wave of individual souls leaves this world and waves of them come to this world, taking different forms.
It is this reason that a continuity of samsara/world is being maintained.
With Lord supervising, the course of life and death being enacted by nature, Lord is all above the acts of nature but still being in all forms as omnipresent.
All sentient and insentient beings are result of nature working. This depicts the movement of world. That which sansriti iti sansarah keeps a movement and continuity till it dissolves in absolute and then at time of creation it is resurfaced by Lord through nature.
See statement of Ashtavakar in chapter one;
Eko vishudhbodhoahamiti nishchaybahinna I
Prajyavalyaagyanam veetshokah sukhi bhav II (1.9)
I am one and only one pure consciousness, with fire of this strong determination; you burn your forest of your ignorance, stay happy, free from attachment and distress.
Attachment and identification is the real cause of transmigration of self soul from one body to other.
A devotee see eternal game of Lord Krishna in every act of material as well eternal Nature of Lord Krishna as explained by Lord Himself in chapter 7 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta and referred to in analysis of verse 3 to 7:
manushyanam sahareshukashchit yatayati sidhiye I
yatatamapi sidhanam kashchitmam veti tatwatah. II (3)
Lord says that out of thousands of the human beings, one may try to realize and attain the self/god.
Out of those making efforts, only a rare knows me completely.
It is a revelation of a stark and bitter truth.
The attachment factor is so deep rooted that embodied soul is not ready to know itself because the ‘ego’ about the self being embodiment.
Its complete identification with modification as body makes it unidentifiable.
Sages who have attained this , have been trying to make the human beings to know their true ‘selves’ but none is going that way making space for darkness to stay.
bhumiapoanlo vayu kham manoh bhudhirev ch I
ahankaram etiayam me bhinnah parkriti ashatdha II (4)
Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect, and ego are eight folded different type of my nature.
Lord unfolds eight types of his transient nature. There are two types of nature of which self takes shape.
Unanimated and animate
But both are the shapes which the self has transformed into. Lord unfolds eight types of his transient nature.
Earth, water, fire, air and ether along with mind set, intellect, and ego are unanimated nature; it is unanimated nature of Lord Krishna. These are not different from the self.
This is the knowledge which is the crux of this chapter whereby a seer can realize his own self.
That is why it is knowledge which discovers existing truth which is a sort of science of true nature of self.
aparmayam itastuanyam parkritim vidhi me pram I
jeevbhutam mahabaho yayedsm dharyate jagat II (5)
Oh Mighty Armed! Another superior nature of mine is the individual soul nature whereby I create and hold this universe
The other nature is animated individual soul nature of the almighty self whereby this universe is created and sustained by self.
Now it is abundantly clear that self/supreme self divided itself in two forms to play with itself and enjoy with itself.
This not deliberation of seers or philosophy enunciated by some persons who have discovered something new and they formulating some fiction.
It is the voice of eternal self who came to bestow deliverance on earth, cow and learned from the misdeeds of wicked.
It is simple statement for those who pray for and want deliverance.
Self is all pervading in all forms and spreading everywhere and in all directions.
It is not only to be seen but it is to be kept before oneself so that one is able to recognize one’s true self.
etatad yonini bhutani sarvarhinitiupdharay I
aham krisanam jagatah parbhavah parlayastatha II (6)
Presume all the beings held in the union of these two types of nature and I with these two forms of nature, create and destroy this universe.
These two animated and unanimated form of nature are the real cause of this whole universe.
What one can see or hear or has read about or heard of, all is outcome of union of these two.
These forms and beyond them, creating these forms, forming and transforming them.
This is self manifold, expanded in such a manner that it is not possible to count or access its modes.
One can be able to count particles of dust in entire universe in one’s life time but it is not possible in many lives like this to count the forms of lord.
World is daily changing its form and new species come into being , old still being subsisting and changing, going vanishing not to come back again.
What a wonderful phenomena, but one in human form and blessed with intellect, still failing to realize self.
Embodiment after embodiment by transmigration is resultant.
Life does not cease with end of body.
Mattah partram naanyat kinchitasti dhananjay i
Mayi sarvamidam protam sutremarhigarhaev ii (7)
Dhananjaya! There is nothing other than me; I am sewn in all this like beads of thread.
The Lord says that there is nothing except me all around.
i pervade this universe like beads of one length of thread are sewn in that length only.
While beholding beads a wise man can see only thread all around but an ignorant person shall see separate beads without looking at the reality of thread length.
Such an easy spectrum cannot realize by ignorant because of power of material nature pervading over them.
Without having inside glimpse of ones own ‘self’ ignorant sees different shapes and forms emanating from one another.
Ignorant sees difference in the shape of modification.
When embodied self soul sees different color, forms and action of self, it is confused about even its own identity.
Such is the inscrutable power of the qualities of nature that self souls have forgotten their true selves.
In upcoming verses Lord is going to further elaborate it.
the Lord has referred to a very simple example of a thread which can be understood even by a layman but the forceful qualities of nature are so interwoven around the individual self that it is not ready to shed the imaginative cloak of embalmment forcibly he has been put in him by his own foolishness of identification with material nature.
In the form of mind body set up which too is the part of this nature but identification tag put with that set has been constant cause of bondage.
Self Soul is one and only one.
As we see Material nature divided in various material components, Eternal nature too has spread itself to take shape with association of material nature in form of three modes forming goodness, passion and ignorance.
Earth, ether, air, water, fire are basic elements
A pure self soul soiled by plethora of attachments and reactions, comes into a particular womb as per reaction of its nature.
Nature of eternal soul is never changed. It is the identification which appears to soil it. By assuming this soul free one attains freedom. It is so easy, yet appearing difficult because our not being ready to identify our real selves.
This is the effect of inscrutable power of Lord Krishna that the self soul is playing with material nature.
Ashtavakra tells king Janka the reason for bondage and mode to be free in same chapter in verse ten:
Yatra Vishvamidam bhatee Kalpitam rajjusarpvat I
Anand Parmananda sa bodhtuvam sukham char II (1.10)
As Snake appears to be transposed on a rope though it is not there, this entire universe appears to be transposed in same all blissful Self in you, knowing this you be happy.
This is revelation of an existing fact.
As material nature is being illuminated by same self in all beings, material nature is also same in all beings and non-beings.
This universe proves to be a Super Transposition of same self coming into being and vanishing like shade of an object. This universe is appearing, changing and is being annihilated daily but still it appears to be permanent. This is the illusion, yet embodied self soul are indulging
Lord Krishna reveals in verse 4 chapter 9 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
mya tatamidam sarvam jagatavyakatmurtina I
matsthani sarvbhutani na chaaham,am tesguavashtita II
The whole of this universe is permeated by Me as un manifest divinity, all embodiments rest on the idea within me. Therefore, as really speaking, I am not present in them.
All the being abides in me but see wonderful power of divine yoga; though creator and sustainer of all beings, I do not dwell in those beings.
Air borne out of ether moving everywhere, born out of ether ever remains in ether, like wise all beings originate from my thought abide in Me.
Muktaabhimin mukto hi badhi\o badhabhimaniapi I
Kinvadabti satyeyam ya mati sa gatirbhavet II(11)
Where in mind, one presumes itself free, it is free but when it assumes itself bound, it is bound. Truly said it is thinking which makes one bound or free.
Self soul is free but when it identifies itself with material mind body set it assumes itself to be doer of natural reactions and seeks fruits for them. It is the mind set which binds by attachment and by detachment it liberates.
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