Inspirational

Mind moves on. And the culminating point, the desideratum is the Parama Puruśa [Supreme Consciousness] – the eternal love, the universal love, personified. Your march, your movement, is towards Him. That is, your mind moves from crude to subtle, from matter to Parama Puruśa, and it is the birthright of everybody to march in this universal march, to move along this path of righteousness. Just show the path to all – just tell them, “Oh human beings, the path is ready for you, just come!” Whoever is endowed with a human mind and a human body is entitled to follow this path, and at the end of the journey one is destined to attain Parama Puruśa one day. When Parama Puruśa, the Cosmic Cognition, is your goal, success is a must. Success is with you.

(“Existential Flow and the Culminating Point,” Calcutta, 1986)

During this march, the approach is two-fold. One is: Parama Puruśa [Supreme Consciousness], the love personified, is your goal, and you must get Him. When you have accepted Him as your object of adoration, you must get Him. And while moving towards the Cosmic Goal, towards the Cosmic Cognitive Faculty, your must go on fighting against your internal and external bondages. The eight external bondages of the mind, bondages imposed from outside, are known as páshas(1) – the things which your family, your friends and neighbours have taught you, like hatred, fear, shyness, etc. You must wage war on these imposed bondages.

And then there are the sadripu,(2) the six internal enemies – not imposed saḿskáras (karmic reactions) or imposed bondages, but inborn bondages. One must fight against these eight external bondages and six internal bondages. This fight is with the left hand, and with the right hand, one must serve the entire universe without any restriction of caste, creed or nationality, but rather with the sentiment of Neohumanism: “The universe is mine, all living beings are mine. I am to serve them, I am to help them. If I don’t serve them, if I don’t help them, who else will help them? I am here to serve them!” In this way, if you are fighting against those inner and outer bondages with one hand, and serving the universe with the other, your existence will be blissful in each and every field of your movement – your very existence will be joyful.

(“Existential Flow and the Culminating Point”, Calcutta, 1986)

However great may be the wealth of attainment, it cannot satisfy the hunger of the human mind, which always yearns for unlimited happiness. Those who run after wealth and reputation, name and fame, can never be happy unless they can attain an infinite quantity of the same. But because the world itself is finite, how can the objects of this world be infinite? Besides, it is not materially possible to acquire objects of an unlimited quantity. So worldly achievement – even if it is the acquisition of the whole globe – is neither unlimited nor eternal.

Then what is that eternal object which can provide unlimited joy and happiness to human beings? Only the Supreme Entity (Parama Puruśa), eternal and infinite. The total realization of this Supreme Entity brings about supreme satisfaction. In fact, behind all the unending desires for worldly enjoyment, there lies this hidden desire for Supreme self-realisation. So the attainment of Brahma is the very innate characteristic (Dharma) of human beings, the ingrained nature of all living beings.

“Dharma” literally means an innate characteristic, the nature or property of an object. The property of fire is to burn. Just as fire and its property are inseparable, similarly human beings and their property – their quest for Brahma (the Supreme Entity) – are also one and the same.

(Ánanda Márga, 2)