The Destiny of Man-13.

All these qualifications which now bind you to a little unit of human consciousness, where you identify yourself with the date of birth, height, age, the weight on the bathroom scale, what a great fault!

You a shining center of consciousness beyond time and space, ever free, without limitations, now you are held prisoner by a little confined unit of consciousness, characterized by identification with a body, a name, a form, all these vexing qualifications and limitations.

Can there be a greater bondage?

You are at the mercy of the appetites of the senses, you are at the mercy of the limitations of this physical body, hunger, thirst, heat and cold, and you have to provide for all these factors.

And because you have become habituated to this bondage you don’t even feel it.

If a person is born a slave, he is not aware of his state.

It is only father and mother who were once free and then sold into slavery, they only know, they feel the bondage, the chains, and they long to get back into that state of freedom.

The child who is born into that state is quite content because he knows of no other experience.

But rousing us from this state of complacency our great sages and saints called to us from the tremendous heights of their divine experience and they said :

"What is it you are doing, you mortals wailing and weeping?"

"Why are you prolonging this bondage?"

"Do you not realize that this is not your natural state?"

You have come here and allowed yourself to be bound into this little, abnormal, unnatural state.

This is a disease.

Come, come, wake up from this state, break the fetters of this limited human consciousness and claim your birthright.

Come back again into that shining state of divine consciousness beyond time and space,

beyond all limitations,

where sorrow cannot approach you,

where pain cannot touch you—

into that state of absolute bliss, indescribable peace, total satisfaction, fearlessness, deathlessness!

SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
To be continued .........