When one realizes that "I have no connection with this body, this country, this wife, these children, these are all illusory," that is called liberation. That is called brahma-bhutah prasannatma

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"When one realizes that" |"I have no connection with this body, this country, this wife, these children, this soc . . . these are all illusory," |"that is called liberation. That is called brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

When one realizes that "I have no connection with this body, this country, this wife, these children, this soc . . . these are all illusory," that is called liberation. That is called brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā (BG 18.54). People are suffering, identifying himself with these false things, which is not. Ātmānaṁ tri-guṇātmakam. Tri-guṇa, these, all these materials, they are manufactured by the three modes of material nature.

740118 - Lecture SB 01.16.22 - Honolulu

When one realizes that "I have no connection with this body, this country, this wife, these children, this soc . . . these are all illusory," that is called liberation. That is called brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā (BG 18.54). People are suffering, identifying himself with these false things, which is not. Ātmānaṁ tri-guṇātmakam. Tri-guṇa, these, all these materials, they are manufactured by the three modes of material nature, and he's . . . he has no connection with the material nature. But somehow or other, he is now fallen in the ocean of the . . . just like you have no connection with the ocean. Your place of living is land. But somehow or other, if you are thrown in the Pacific Ocean, that is a very troublesome business. You have to swim always. You have to protect . . . but still, you are unsafe. It doesn't matter you are a very great swimmer. Doesn't matter. When you are in the Pacific Ocean, you are in danger. So similarly, when that very man is taken away from the Pacific Ocean and put into the land, then he becomes prasannātmā, "Oh, I am saved."