God has made man the best among all living beings. To be a human being is the spiritual ability to be self-aware. This is the ability which makes the journey to salvation possible. A man who performs virtuous deeds to reach heaven is never immortal, can never attain salvation. The human body is not just a body. He is a conscious soul. The soul itself is the nourisher of this body. As soon as the soul comes out of this body, the body starts getting deformed. Wisdom, action, enjoyment, ego, greed, attachment are the religions of the body and mind, not of the soul. Due to lack of self-knowledge, there is a misconception that I am a body and not a soul. This is ignorance.

The body is made up of five elements: earth, water, fire, air and sky, which is physical, impermanent and perishable. After death the body gets destroyed, but even after the body gets destroyed we continue on the next journey. Like leaving old clothes and wearing new clothes. This body is just our clothing, which is made up of material substances. We are not the owners of the house, but the people living in it. We say again and again that we are not the body but the soul, which is consciousness. The soul has no caste, it is not Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya or Shudra.

It is only the power of consciousness, which is equally prevalent in all types of living beings. This soul neither belongs to any caste nor to any ashram. The soul has neither caste nor religion. These four ashrams are not even those of Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha and Sannyasa. The soul is neither a doer nor an enjoyer nor an object to be enjoyed. Beyond these three, there is the incorporeal, the formless and the mere witness. Some people say that this is the severe Kaliyuga, this is the fifth period. There can be no salvation in this. In this context, Acharya Ashtavakra says, ‘If you establish yourself in consciousness, you can attain liberation.’ Just as darkness disappears as soon as the lamp is lit, in the same way, shouldn’t the darkness of ignorance disappear with the light of self-knowledge? Can.
As soon as ignorance disappears, all the misconceptions of the living being disappear. The soul is conscious, free, pervasive everywhere, it is not bound by any bond. The soul has no form, it is formless. Creation is the form of that formless being. Shapes change and change, but the basic essence remains the same. Just as various ornaments are made from gold, they get spoiled, but the basic element gold remains the same. In this way we can say, the soul is the truth and the soul is ancient, the soul is eternal.

In physical and social life, so many deeds, activities, movements, methods, actions and reactions have taken place and are taking place even now. It is impossible for a human being to become an expert in all these subjects. Similarly, it is not possible to obtain biological and experimental knowledge of all these. Therefore, instead of feeling sad about being deprived of their knowledge, one should focus on the ultimate goal of elemental knowledge. Philosophy is not infinite and innumerable like worldly subjects. This is the basic element of religion, philosophy and spirituality. Any person who reaches this far is able to do so only on the strength of his own spiritual practice. No seeker has come to tell the truth of attaining this ultimate point to any living person. Every man has to discover it himself. We definitely experience that there is only one best point of knowledge of the elements. To reach this point, first of all we have to turn away from worldly attractions. It is also important to keep in mind that the aversion should be natural and should not put pressure on the soul. Disenchantment with worldly attractions should increase in such a way that man forgets both positive and negative thoughts about them from moment to moment. Philosophy will never be found in the material activities of this world. Its origin will be from the depth of spiritual knowledge. As man’s self-knowledge deepens, his philosophical knowledge will become true. Man is the only creature in the earth full of living beings who has the opportunity to increase his spiritual knowledge by giving up the life of ordinary enjoyment and consumption. Probably, a human being takes birth only so that he can be free from the vicious cycle of life and death. The supreme state of self-knowledge gives man the initiation that no matter how beautiful and attractive this world and its various subjects may appear to the open eyes, but in reality all this is nothing but a blissful dream. That is why it should be the first duty of an awakened person to concentrate and gain knowledge on the means of complete liberation from the worldly attachments.

Following this path is not easy for a person. The subjects of the world fascinate so much that often even the devotees who have received deep education in spiritual practice become anxious about it. In such a situation, how can a person with ordinary mind and intellect be inclined to get attracted towards worldly matters? Be it a seeker who has touched the depth of spiritual practice or an ordinary human being, there should always be two experiences in front of him. First, they should be aware at every moment of the truth that their body is perishable and their soul is indestructible. Second, the truth of man’s physical body getting burnt in the crematorium. This axiomatic self-knowledge will stabilize man at the ultimate point of a single spiritual subject. By being self-oriented, man will get the knowledge by himself that by becoming strong in the soul, he will be free from the petty cries of life and death and will be placed in the supreme abode of the time-manager. Will get. With this knowledge he will consider even possible death as a normal occurrence.