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You may remain in the same body, but if you are not under maya, bodily concept of life, that is called mukti, liberation

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"You may remain in the same body, but if you are not under māyā, bodily concept of life, that is called mukti, liberation"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

When we give up this māyā conception of life, that is mukti. You may remain in the same body, but if you are not under māyā, bodily concept of life, that is called mukti, liberation.

Self-realization does not mean something humbug. Self-realization means to understand his real constitutional position, what I am. Just like Sanātana Gosvāmī approached Śrīla Gaurasundara, Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He asked, ke āmi: "Who I am?" Ke āmi . . . ke āmi, kene āmāya jāre tāpa-traya (CC Madhya 20.102): "What is my constitutional position? Why I am suffering the threefold miseries of this material existence?" This is the enquiry. Everyone is suffering. Somebody is in ignorance: although he is suffering, he is thinking that he is very well. This is called māyā. Māyā means you are accepting something which is not. This is called māyā. Mā yā: "What you are accepting, that is false." This is called māyā. So we are accepting, "I am this body," "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am Christian," "I am Hindu," "I am black," "I am white," "I am thin," "I am fat." So this is māyā. So when we give up this māyā conception of life, that is mukti. You may remain in the same body, but if you are not under māyā, bodily concept of life, that is called mukti, liberation.

So therefore it is said, daivī sampad vimokṣāya. Mokṣa, mokṣa means liberation. If you develop this daivī sampat, then you become fit for becoming liberated, because our . . . what is the position? Why you are suffering? Why we are dying? Why you are taking birth? Why you are becoming old? On account of this material body.

Page Title:You may remain in the same body, but if you are not under maya, bodily concept of life, that is called mukti, liberation
Compiler:Soham
Created:2024-04-20, 16:07:15.000
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1