From spirituality point of view the essence of God and Soul always was the same. As detailed in Bhagavad Gita, foremost of all sacred scriptures existing on mother earth if an individual grain of sand is an independent soul atman, the whole mound God Almighty. If an individual piece of puzzle is an independent soul atman, the completed puzzle God Almighty. As per Gita God Almighty truly existed in all living beings including human beings in miniscule form as our soul atman, the spirit within that seems to reside in our heart. If we desire searching God, we have to search within and reach our true inner self.
All my life I have observed people searching for God in confines of temples, churches or mosques. God is never found in religious pursuits of life. God can only be reached through path of spirituality. All souls’ atmans, God was but pure spirit, cluster of unimaginable primordial cosmic energy. Only when perceived from senses point of view things appeared solid, in reality all physical manifest beings on mother earth were simply clusters of atoms and molecules. Even our solar system, all planets, all stars were simply clusters of atoms and molecules, nothing more. When we as souls’ atmans were only spirit, clusters of pure energy… how could God Almighty posses a form (be Sakaar in form, having a form)?
The relationship between souls’ atmans and God becomes absolutely clear when we indulged in formation and dissolution of entire cosmos. As detailed in scriptures of Hinduism when dissolution of entire cosmos occurred (termed Pralaya in Hinduism) all souls atmans in the entire cosmos automatically reached 8.4 millionth manifestation, last in cosmic life cycle. None could escape this cosmic precept of life, not even a single soul atman. Dross impurities within every soul atman removed for ever, all souls’ atmans regained their original pure prime pristine primordial form forever. In laymen terms we could say, the need for the physical manifest world now ceases to exist. From angle of science it means the whole cosmos is simply becomes a big black hole at the time of dissolution of cosmos.
Everything manifest simply disappears into the big black hole and what remains is cluster of all pure souls’ atmans in cosmos. This cluster of pure cosmic energy, the size of half a thumb, the collective power of all pure souls’ atmans in cosmos is what we called God Almighty in all its glory (Brahman in Hinduism). This magnificent magnanimous mass of pure cosmic energy, the size of half a thumb we called God Almighty unable to contain itself for long in its prime pure state again explodes with a big bang… giving rise to a new cosmos, a totally new journey of life. God Almighty (Brahman in Hinduism) was that singularity in the beginning of cosmos that results in explosion of big bang. Although concept of big bang is explicitly detailed in scriptures of Hinduism yet, scientists world over disputed this indisputable fact of life.
From the above analysis it becomes clear that reaching God means realizing our true inner self… our soul atman, the spirit within. The purpose of spiritual path was only one… reaching our true inner self that existed within our heart. Why search for God externally when it all the time existed within us. By indulgence in sacred scriptures we need not gain anything, but the purpose of indulgence in scriptures was realizing this cosmic absolute fact of life that we were primarily a soul atman, the spirit within. As a human being, one endowed with power of discrimination that distinguishes us from animals and also being the highest manifest stage in cosmic life cycle we must sincerely and earnestly try to travel spiritual path to reach our true inner self in present life. Gaining enlightenment is not our requirement but a necessity of our soul atman, the spirit within that resided in our heart.
We must never worship a God having a form as God Almighty always was Nirakaar in form (having no form). To learn everything relating to spirituality, to realize our true inner self our indulgence in 700 shlokas verses of Bhagavad Gita was necessitated… a document available for merely Rs. 40/= ($.60) from Gita press, Gorakhpur, India and that too with English or Hindi transliteration.
If we say the liberated soul atman (after human beings gaining enlightenment reached stage of moksha salvation) entered abode of God, kingdom of God (Vaikuntha in Hinduism), a point of no return… it was purely a metaphorical concept. God Almighty existed everywhere in cosmos in miniscule form as souls’ atmans existing in all living beings all around cosmos. These precepts of spirituality could never be understood literally, they can only be understood through path of contemplation, self enquiry, logical reasoning. Path of spirituality was not difficult to travel except we required becoming a Swami Vivekananda in present life to gain everything we called spiritual.
By: Vijay Kumar “Atma Jnani”… The Man who Realized God in 1993 – (Ref 150903)
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