2. All life forms are part of you
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May 25, 2012
Bhagavan Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita, again & again you lose the experience of the ultimate truth, the remembrance of the ultimate truth.
What is the ultimate truth here? Bhagavan says very clearly, all life forms are part of your own self. That is the ultimate truth. You forget this truth again and again, because of confusion. Moham takes away this truth that all life forms are part of you. Moham means destroying the self because of confusion.
Do not miss this truth. Again and again, have some experiences which will remind you of the ultimate truth.
It is a very subtle subject. Please listen intensely, step by step.
First: all life forms are part of me – this is the truth.
Once you understand this, sometimes you feel - yes, if I take a handful of clay, if I understand this clay, if I know this clay thoroughly, I will then know all the clay on planet Earth.
Same way, when you are living, you are Life. So all life forms on planet Earth is you, is part of you. Just as all the clay on planet Earth and the clay in your hand are not too different, all the life on the planet Earth and the life in your body are not too different.
You feel that you almost understand this, but not!
Many times, you accept the truth, all life forms are part of me, and I am part of all life forms. But the problem is, when you make serious decisions in your life, this truth is forgotten. You don't make decisions based on this truth. Why? The confusion, the cognizance you take of the problem, becomes more powerful than the ultimate solution you carry in your inner space.
All of you have thousands of ultimate solutions in your inner space – love, compassion, joy, I am part of life and life is part of me, etc. But when a problem comes, when you are expected to take decisions, when you need to take cognizance of some issue, of some problem, the cognizance of the problem looks more powerful in you than the cognizance of the ultimate solution, the spiritual truth.
Listen: there are some truths for which you don't need any practice; just a balanced body is enough. It is just a knack! You need to keep the body clean and keep it there when the truth is told to you! Bhagavan says this truth that all life forms are part of you does not need any spiritual practice prior to the experience and post-experience. It just needs a clean stomach, that's all!
In Vedanta, there are some truths for which you don't need any practice; just a clean body is enough. If your stomach is relaxed, if you don't have much load and constipation on the stomach, and you are sitting with a cool feeling in the body - that is enough. You will simply catch the truth!