VEDANTAM FOR BEGINNERS - 45. SWAMI SIVANANDA
========================================================================= Thursday, April 13, 2023. 06:00. TAT TVAM ASI = That Thou Art : The Maha-Vakyas : Post-45. ======================================================================== Realisation : To be continued 1. Means To Realisation : THE GOAL OF LIFE is Self-realisation. It is not the attainment of anything external to us, but it consists in our simply knowing or becoming aware of our eternally Free nature. If it were an impossibility to get convinced that we are Existence-Absolute and eternally Free, why should the Srutis repeatedly teach us that doctrine like an affectionate mother? On the other hand that doctrine contradicts not but asserts our own inner urge, ‘Let me ever live in a blissful state free from all pain and misery.’ How the idea of a snake is negated from a rope-snake, so too, the non-Self is negated from the Self that is eternally existing. That is done through reasoning on the evidence of Sruti passages li