Dear friends,
Salvation -- the state of absolute communion
("sAyujya") with God in his Abode of SriVaikuntam --
is not narrow individual experience but an
all-expansive, all-encompassing, all-overwhelming
collective one. It cannot be denoted at all with
reference to any sense of feeling such as "I", "Me" or
"Myself". It is more "We", "Ours" and "All of Us". It
is never easy to realize this truth since it involves
making a giant, quantum leap from the feeling of
individualistic "I" to the universal "WE". It involves
moving from the 'first-person-singular' to the
'first-person-plural'? And according to Vedanta, it is
only when Man has learnt to make that movement does he
find God?
It is 'satsangh' alone that can really enable Man to
make the vast leap of the spirit. It is only
'satsangh' that can help us move away from the
'first-person-singular' towards 'first-person-plural'?
The Bliss of God becomes available to the human soul
when it takes up residence there eternally. But even
there the Bliss of God cannot be enjoyed in the
selfish sense of the individual? The principle of
"koodi-irunthu-kUlirndhu?" operates inexorably in
God's Heaven as it operates here in Man's world.
The TiruppAvai in 30 beautiful stanzas reveals this
important truth to us as no other comparable text in
Vedantic scripture or literature has ever done or will
ever do.
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Regards,
dAsan,
Sudarshan
Kuwait, 'mArgazhi', 2004 (CE)
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