Sure, everlasting bliss lies past our senses, and we will attain it spiritually!
Allow us to perceive how…
At any time when we see, scent, style, hear or contact one thing by means of our senses, we both prefer it or dislike it or really feel impartial about it. After we like one thing, we expertise pleasure whereas having fun with it. Therefore, we want to have increasingly of it, and when we now have it, we develop such attachment in direction of it that we by no means wish to lose it, and in course of time, the attachment will get so sturdy and extreme that we start to own it, we hate sharing it with anybody. This attachment and hatred offers rise to passions of anger, pleasure, deceit and greed, which finally lead to monumental ache and struggling. It makes our life depressing.
Furthermore, the happiness we expertise from the 5 senses just isn’t everlasting. For instance, we eat a candy dish and we relish its style. How lengthy will that style final? And since we like its style, we are likely to eat increasingly of it in order that we take pleasure in it increasingly. However overeating results in illnesses within the physique. The regulation of Nature is such that we now have to repay no matter happiness we derive from worldly issues, be it a candy dish or anything. The pleasure derived from any of the senses is momentary in nature and in addition, we now have to repay for the pleasure we loved by struggling an equal quantity of distress in life.
And what’s everlasting bliss?
The final word freedom from all distress means everlasting bliss.
The state of inside bliss that prevails amidst psychological, bodily and exterior afflictions is the bliss of the Soul. As soon as the bliss of the Soul (the actual Self) is attained, it by no means leaves. The bliss of the Soul is everlasting.
How can we attain this bliss?
Bliss is the inherent nature of our true Self (the Soul). But, we’re working after the momentary senses of enjoyment. Why? It’s as a result of ignorance of the Self, the actual Self.
Some might have the knowledge that, ‘I’m not the physique however the Soul.’ However so long as we don’t expertise it, ignorance prevails. Because of the ignorance of the Self, we proceed to consider that, ‘I’m certainly John (please insert your identify right here)’, and I’m experiencing happiness within the sensual pleasures.’ This incorrect perception has resulted within the growth of anger, pleasure, deceit and greed (the passions or kashayas). We expertise happiness due to the Self’s ignorance, which is certainly the reason for worldly life. We run after worldly pleasures to get some solace from the burning struggling on account of our kashayas. And within the course of, we improve the kashays all of the extra. The extra the kashayas, the lesser the expertise of our blissful state.
Because of the intoxication of the ego of ‘I’m John’, one has utterly misplaced consciousness of the Self. All the pieces in worldly life is nothing however intoxication. The meals is intoxicating, and the senses are additionally intoxicating. When most individuals on this planet are intoxicated and working after sensual pleasures, how can we head in direction of everlasting bliss?
A Gnani Purush, the Enlightened One, dwells in everlasting bliss
He’s free from ego and worldly attachments. He has the non secular powers to destroy our ignorance of the Self and make us expertise the actual Self (Soul) by gracing us with Self-realization. When the incorrect understanding of, ‘I’m John’ leaves and the correct understanding of, ‘I’m Pure Soul’ comes about, that’s bliss. After Self-realization, the state of inside bliss prevails naturally, there may be the bliss of the Soul. Consequently, the kashays start to be inactive, which results in additional expertise of the state of inside bliss.
“When you expertise samadhi (enlightened bliss) in a very troublesome state of affairs, know that you’ve got met a Gnani Purush (enlightened one)! ” -Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan
So come on, allow us to meet the residing Gnani and attain Self-realization in order that we can also expertise the everlasting bliss mendacity past the senses. We are going to undoubtedly expertise a very peaceable state even amidst a complete lack of peace on the surface. The bliss of the Self amidst exterior turmoil is the ‘examined’ everlasting bliss! Let’s attain it NOW!!