Mail from Poojya Guruji Q: Poojya Guruji, When will I be free from the bondage of samsar - the endless cycles of birth & death? Hari om. Well, if you want the undiluted truth, then the truth is that ‘you’ will never be free, for the simple reason that even right now itself, you are basically free. You just dont know that. Dont be disappointed. It is just a case of delusory self-perception. A case of mistaken identity. Try to appreciate what I am driving at. Mukti is never of the ego, but from the very ego itself. Freedom is not something which the Jiva ever gets, but it is freedom from this very notion of being a Jiva. When you say ‘I’, then what comes to your mind? well, if it is just a striving individual, well then you better continue to study shastras still more deeply, till this individuality is realized as a mistaken identity, a misapprehension.
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Remember the famous example of rope & snake. Not knowing the rope as a rope we just erroneously take it as a snake. This does not mean that just because some reliable and respectable person has now told you that this snake is not a snake but just a rope, that we start repeating and believeing this ad nauseam. Please see this fact that our respectable well-wisher is not saying that the snake is rope, but is saying that there is no snake whatsoever, except in our own mind. So negate the notion of snake and then again see, you need not repeat my words but just see what exactly it is. Individuality is like a conditioned manifestation of consciousness
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