Beyond Body Consciousness: From Limited Attachments to Infinite Inheritance


 

But we must remember that body consciousness does not come in only one form; it has many facets. One of the signs of body consciousness is that a person is always caught in limitation in everything, in an egoistic awareness of the body. For example, such a person will always be trapped in attachment to his small worldly home and his personal relationships. The understanding that, “This whole world is the home of my soul, all souls are my brothers, and I have some duty towards them,” will not be visible in his way of living. From morning till evening, he will remain busy only in serving his small household and his own bodily needs (and even that only from the point of view of the body).

Thoughts like, “I have to do something for my soul’s development too; this big world is also my home, and I have some responsibilities towards it,” will be completely absent. Even if he has some spiritual or soul knowledge beyond this, his intellect will remain limited to the particular satsang he attends or the specific spiritual Godly centre he lives in or visits. He will not consider other Godly centres as his own, nor his own centre as belonging to all; instead, he will create boundaries and divisions.

Because of this, he will not like to meet others, work with the help of others, or accept others’ service as his own. He will hesitate to consider others’ work as “our” work, and he will not like this feeling of shared belonging at all. “This is mine, that is yours” – a person who constantly makes such partitions cannot remain in unlimited happiness, cannot become an heir to infinite Godly treasures, and cannot attain the unlimited kingdom of the Satya Yugi world.

A person who keeps limitations and binds himself in them remains only a king of limitations. How can he become the king of undivided self-sovereignty?

Thus, remaining in limitation through body consciousness means making efforts in a limited way and becoming a partner in limited wealth. Understanding this, a person should sacrifice body consciousness. First of all, after freeing his attention and actions from being centred only on his body, and then from the limitation of dedicating his whole life only to bodily relations, he should become ever-ready to devote his body, mind, wealth, and time to the benefit of society.

One who does not do this has neither sacrificed body consciousness nor given up attachment to bodily relations mentally. The mind of such a person will repeatedly run towards his house and relationships, because in reality he has not yet renounced attachment. One should then understand that his soulful relationship and soulful love with God and with the Godly family are not yet visible. In this short life, if he does not make even this small sacrifice, it is unfortunate: he is deliberately depriving himself of Godly treasures and of a divine family in the future. Just see how harmful body consciousness is.

In this way, after making oneself understand, whatever circumstances come, one should still take some time free from concern for the body and bodily relations, and do something for one’s own soul development and for the soul-upliftment of others. The amount of love one has for bodily friends and relations, for son and father, one should have even more love for the Supreme Father, Supreme Soul, Shiva (Parampita Parmatma Shiv) and His divine family.

If we do not develop a relationship with Parampita Parmatma Shiv as His children – that is, if we do not make Him the authority over everything of ours (just as a person makes his son the beneficiary of all his property) – then how will we become beneficiaries of God’s incomparable treasure of happiness?


 

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