Life is beautiful… Life is Bliss… Life is a journey.. Life is to be lived… Or Life is fate, Life is a destination and has a purpose, Life is karmic suffering… Life is a undoubtedly a Gift.
When the higher calling happens, we see ourselves getting attracted to the knowledge about the macrocosm (Universe), quantum, multiple dimensions, the magnificence of the multiverse and it’s essence (tattva)and the microcosm (beings, plants, animals), we realize how ignorant we are! The microcosm is a replica of the macrocosm.
When a divine design leads us into this inquiry of Who am I? What is the purpose of my life? Am I divine really? What happened to me before birth and after happens after birth?, the universal consciousness (Paramatma) slowly introduces us to answers to these questions depending on the strength of the inquiry. When this happens, the maya veil starts to recede exposing us to the atma (Soul / Jivatma) in us which is the same version or a drop of the Paramatma. Clusters of realized Jivatma (individual consciousness) and unrealized Jivatma waiting to be enlightened form the Paramatma (Universal Consciousness). So all jivatmas (souls) are interconnected but alas, under maya’s influence we live as individuals attaching ourselves to a false identity / ego and say “Iam this…, I am that..I like this… I hate that…, I am Superior, I am inferior etc. etc. How powerful these chains (ego) that limit us seem…this overpowers, does mind hacks and limit us. The shackles of such false identity, false perception that “ I should live happily without any consideration of other beings’ happiness is so petty and baseless. We are busy with “Birth-life-eat-sleep-entertainment-death” cycle that we keep accumulating karmic effects and get caught in this vicious cycle and get in the whirl of multiple / endless births..
Birth as a human being is a gift. Are we treating it this way and cherishing it? We can either slip back in evolution of birth cycles from human beings to low life forms or by deliberate choice evolve to noble souls / saints / devas and move to higher realms of the universe and thus experience the nature of various planes / lokas. How we make use of this human life is what decides our evolution. Most of us are busy chasing happiness and assume that if we accomplish something then we will be happy and mostly attach this to materialistic things. Is suffering fully bad? What is moksha? Is it worth pursuing that and how can we get moksha? Why am I here? What happens if my realized jivatma merges with Paramatma? If life is a gift then will moksha deprive us of that?
As a beginner seeker, I am beginning to understand that the noble jivatma which attained moksha sought knowledge on “Who am I?”, meditated, had completely surrendered to the divine force, had selfless approach (sarve jana sukhino bhavantu) and saw the universe as interconnected / aligned system, propagated love and compassion, sought the knowledge of universal truth (Vedas), maximized their body, mind and potential to the fullest and allowed Jivatma to express, understood the macrocosm and the microcosm very passionately. They attained these through Knowledge path or bhakthi path (devotion).
Creation, Maintenance and Destruction of the macrocosm is Paramatma’s duty while Jivatma creates, maintains and destructs within the realms of the universe (microcosm) and hence a mini Paramatma. The same essence which is pervading in Paramatma is in all Jivatmas. If we don’t realize this, we will be plagued by ego, dwaitham (difference & division) self-interest, and the jivatma is suppressed to express or do creation.
So what is the way out?
Athma Vidya is the art and science of knowing the Brahman (Jivatma) in the self. If a jivatma seeks this knowledge truly with devotion, the universe provides the jivatma with Guru through which the Knowledge can be understood and realized.
We can experience the true self that is “just being as we are” only if we have all consuming love for it.
— Sashirekha