Sunday, November 28, 2010

Radhanath Swami on Death for the Soul

From the spiritual perspective, death means forgetfulness or ignorance of our true identity. This ignorance simply means identifying with what we are not. As long as we are thinking that we are this temporary material body, mind, and intelligence, we are trying to experience pleasure and fulfillment through this medium. But we are not this body. We have never been this body. We are eternal souls, and the real happiness that we are all searching for is within our very selves. Therefore, this cloud of forgetfulness is likened to death for the soul.

19 comments:

  1. wonderful message

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  2. Very true. Forgetfulness is the disease. Thank you Radhanath Swami.

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  3. thank you very much for wonderful article

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  4. Excellent analysis. Thank you for sharing.

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  5. Unfortunately, though everyone is dead, everyone thinks they are happy!!!

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  6. Such a simple instructions - to move our focus from the temporary body to the eternal soul.

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  7. such a enlightening analogy by Radhanath Swami. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. We constantly need spiritual sages like Radhanath Swami to remind us and guide us.

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  9. Forgetfulness of our real spiritual selves is death... so most of us are the living dead! Only such powerful words of Radhanath Swami can wake us up...

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  10. As long as we are thinking that we are this temporary material body, mind, and intelligence, we are trying to experience pleasure and fulfillment through this medium-By Maharaj.

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  11. Radhanath Swami gives the true definition of death of a living entity.

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  12. Death for the soul is a catchy title for the sorry state of affairs in most people's lives. Radhanath Swami brings out the point in beautiful words.

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  13. Great message from Radhanath Swami which Krishna also gave to Arjuna on the battlefield on Kurukshetra. Even if we can imbibe a bit of it, it can help us become humble and meek.

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  14. Let us take shelter of Radhanath Swami’ messages and protect ourselves from the death of our soul.

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  15. "We are not this body. We have never been this body. We are eternal souls"-wonderful statement.

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  16. Not to know that we are not the body but the spirit souls and enjoy in ignorance is committing spiritual suicide.Thank you Maharaj for aptly calling it a death for the soul.

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  17. It is also said that a person who does not do the inquiry of absolute truth in human form of life is like an two legged animal. However, Radhanath Swami puts the definition of death in a more thought provoking way.

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  18. Our real well wishers like Radhanath Swami is really concern with our soul.

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