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As soon as we think that, "I am this body," I'm not liberated. And as soon as I know perfectly well that, "I am not this body," I am liberated. This knowledge gives liberation

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"As soon as we think that" |"I am this body" |"I'm not liberated. And as soon as I know perfectly well that" |"I am not this body" |"I am liberated. This knowledge gives liberation"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

So our this unnecessary, puffed-up claim is not there. Therefore we are already liberated. We don't have to seek for liberation. Liberation means to become liberated from these nonsense, false ideas. That is liberation. As soon as we think that, "I am this body," I'm not liberated. And as soon as I know perfectly well that, "I am not this body," I am liberated. This knowledge gives liberation. Therefore Śukadeva Gosvāmī says, prāyaścittaṁ vimarśanam. To develop your knowledge, that will give you relief.

So actually we, the living entities, we are part and parcel of God, but we are very minute quantity, infinitesimal. And God is infinite. So infinitesimal, our magnitude is, I've several times explained, one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. So you cannot even imagine with your material senses. Therefore aṇor aṇīyān, smaller than the atom. The same thing—we are also spirit, and Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Lord, is also spirit. Qualitatively we are one. But we are the smallest and He is the greatest.

So we accept it immediately from the Vedic information. Therefore our position is sane. We do not falsely declare that, "I am God." Just give proof that you are God, then claim. But some rascal claims that he's God, and other rascals, they accept that he's God. God is not so cheap. God, as we get description from Brahma-saṁhitā, yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ (Bs. 5.48): many millions of universes are coming out from the exhaling of God, and again they are disappearing by inhaling of God. That is God. By simply breathing, millions of universes are being created, and millions of universes are being dissolved simply by inhaling. This is going on. So how we can claim?

So our this unnecessary, puffed-up claim is not there. Therefore we are already liberated. We don't have to seek for liberation. Liberation means to become liberated from these nonsense, false ideas. That is liberation. As soon as we think that, "I am this body," I'm not liberated. And as soon as I know perfectly well that, "I am not this body," I am liberated. This knowledge gives liberation. Therefore Śukadeva Gosvāmī says, prāyaścittaṁ vimarśanam. To develop your knowledge, that will give you relief.

So our knowledge is perfect because we know that we are very small particle of spiritual spark. That is our constitutional position. And God is the Supreme, the greatest spiritual identity. Eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). He's supplying all the necessities of the small spiritual sparks. Because we know rightly, and as we are part and parcel of God, minute particles, therefore our duty is to serve God. Just like this finger is part and parcel of my body, this finger is not enjoyer. The body, or the chief place in the body, the stomach, he's the enjoyer. Similarly, God is the center of all creation, the whole universal body. Therefore He's enjoyer, we are servitor.

Page Title:As soon as we think that, "I am this body," I'm not liberated. And as soon as I know perfectly well that, "I am not this body," I am liberated. This knowledge gives liberation
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-25, 12:19:03
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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