Query:
I have been searching for full attainment and "mastership" for a long
time! I am frustrated at not attaining full enlightenment yet (among other stresses
in my life). Please tell me how to heal my anxiety, depression, and stress. I
first need to heal physically, and then I can concentrate on spirituality again.
If there is a way I can contact a Master or if you can give me any help, advice,
guidance, or even if you can teach me yourself for awhile, I would be grateful!
Vijay Kumar:
If only you could
understand the meaning of enlightenment! How difficult it is to reach the stage
of enlightenment can only be guessed from the fact that only two persons amongst
6500 million people existing on Mother Earth gained enlightenment in the past
150 years! They were Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana!
In
the entire history of mankind... only two ladies till date have gained enlightenment
(kaivalya jnana)! They were the famous philosopher Gargi and Maitreyi, wife of
Sage Jnanavalakya (the compiler of Brihadaranakya Upanishad! The famous Gargi
and Maitreyi colleges in New Delhi, India are reminiscent of the status these
two ladies gained in their lifetime!
Gaining
enlightenment as a lady is extremely difficult. One need manifest the form of
a man to do it! Why is it so difficult for ladies to gain enlightenment? It is
for the prime reason that the inherent feeling of Moha (attachment) that binds
ladies with other humans is so strong that to get out of the clutches of Moha
(bondage of attachment) was possible only for Gargi and Maitreyi!
Enlightenment
is not a state of being as most people in the West think! Gaining enlightenment
is reaching the end of the cosmic journey... the 8.4 millionth manifestation!
Having reached the stage of enlightenment (aka Nirvikalpa Samadhi in Hinduism)...
one finally transcends all barriers of worldly life (aka Samsara in Hinduism).
Before
we indulge further on the subject of enlightenment... we need understand that
it is our soul atman that is on its cosmic journey of 8.4 million manifestations
(an earthly abode of 96.4 million years)! If we do not believe in the concept
of soul atman manifesting one form after another... the concept of enlightenment
will totally elude us!
It
is our soul atman residing within our heart that is the master and controller
of the body and not otherwise! It is not possible for the body to manifest a soul
atman! Every soul atman manifests a body to work out its karma... remove the dross
impurities within! The moment complete dross impurities within the soul atman
remove... it reaches the stage of enlightenment!
Devoid
of all dross impurities within... the liberated soul atman finally regains its
lost original pure pristine form! To remove the impurities within the soul atman...
every human being requires traveling the path of absolute truthfulness in totality!
Practicing absolute celibacy for a minimum continuous period of 12 years is another
necessity!
The
practice of celibacy (Brahmacharya Vrata) for a continuous minimum period of 12
years results in total awakening of the Kundalini. The awakening of the Kundalini
results in opening of the Shahastra Pushpa (thousand petalled Lotus) existing
within our brain behind the forehead! The moment this happens... one gains enlightenment
immediately!
The entire
Wisdom of the Cosmos is now at our tips. The moment I realized God in 1993...
It was as if I had dictated the contents of the sacred bible and the Koran in
one of my previous manifestations! Everything in the sacred Bhagavad Gita of Hinduism
was clear to me like ABCD! After gaining enlightenment... one practically gains
omniscience forever!
Gaining
enlightenment is reaching the level of Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ
or Prophet Mohammed! If we do not believe in the concept that every human being
has the potential of becoming a Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or prophet
Mohammed... one shall never gain enlightenment in ones lifetime!
Belief
or no belief... gaining enlightenment means the end of journey for human beings
and also the soul atman within! Devoid of all impurities within... the soul atman...
the purified soul atman need not manifest a body again! The moment one gains enlightenment...
the necessity of performing karma ceases forever!
Bhagavad
Gita... the sacred Bhagavad Gita of Hinduism is one single document that contains
everything worth knowable on the spiritual path! The knower of Bhagavad Gita finally
becomes the knower of all! All kinds of anxiety, depression and stress result
from our remaining engrossed in trivialities of life... the wanton desires and
greed for materialistic riches!
On
the path to enlightenment... the foremost of all requirements is establishing
absolute control over the five senses and the mind! This is one of the most difficult
tasks encountered by travelers of the spiritual path! As long as we allow our
bloated ego to dominate the worldly life... the burning sensation, nervousness
and other physical symptoms continue affecting us.
Negative
thinking mars everything on the spiritual path! We simply need to indulge in positive
karma (Punya karma) all the time. If we are born at the karma index of 46, our
effort should be to reach level 47 at the earliest. At 99 one reaches the level
of Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Prophet Mohammed!
At
hundred one gains salvation (moksha) forever. Gaining salvation ends the journey
of life for the soul atman within. The liberated soul atman finally enters the
abode of God... the kingdom of God (aka Baikuntha in Hinduism). The kingdom of
God is a point of no return! Having reached the portals of kingdom of God... the
liberated soul atman remains there for eternity!
As
human beings we also need remember that only after crossing 7.3 million manifestations
in the insect, plant and animal form... our soul atman within manifests the human
form! The form of human beings is the highest manifest stage in the cosmic life
cycle. Only as human beings one gains enlightenment and finally salvation... never
otherwise!
The
essence of gaining enlightenment is decreasing the impurities within the soul
atman! There is nothing that is required to be gained... we only need shed the
impurities within! Similar as we remove the impurities from the ore to extract
metal... we also need to remove impurities... the dross contained within our soul
atman!
Our every
act in this world must be orientated towards decreasing the impurities within!
The moment impurities within the soul atman reduced to zero... the soul atman
regains its original pure pristine form... gets liberated forever from the cycle
of birth and death! Having gained enlightenment one becomes immortal for all practical
purposes... never before.
More
Advaita Vedanta related links...
Gaining
Enlightenment - Path
of Enlightenment - Kali
Yuga and Enlightenment - Enlightenment
and Karma - Path
to gaining Enlightenment - Enlightenment
May
God bless all!
Always
there to clarify your queries (send
your query),
Full text of query:
I have been searching for full attainment and "mastership" for a long
time! I have actually gotten myself into an anxiety/depression kind of disorder
(which I have tried to self-heal) because of how much I am frustrated at not attaining
full enlightenment yet (among other stresses in my life). Please tell me (if you
can) how to heal my anxiety, depression, and stress (I have many physical symptoms
that accompany these things such as muscle tension and burning, nervousness, hypersensitivity
to EVERYTHING---even "not so bad things"-----and many more symptoms.
I think I first need to heal physically, and then I can concentrate on spirituality
again. But I am asking for guidance on both----If there is a way I can contact
a Master (I am sure that the master is within me, but I am having a hard time
finding it or manifesting my own mastery!) or if you can give me any help, advice,
guidance, or even if you can TEACH me yourself for awhile, I would be forever
greatful?
