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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What is the essence of self-realization according to Siddharameshwar Maharaj?
One will certainly reach reality through devotion to the self. All doubts are dispelled and all problems related to worldly life are resolved through self-knowledge. This is my experience.
Chapter 3: How does self-knowledge resolve worldly problems?
The answer to who am I will reveal one's true nature.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of the question 'Who am I?' in self-discovery?
One who has the desire for their wellbeing, to be liberated from mental bondage, acquires the knowledge of the self sooner or later. and avoids birth and death. Humans alone have the ability to think and to understand their true nature. To attain self-realization is to fulfill one's duty, which is to live as reality while in a human form. The one who resides in each heart is reality.
And that alone is real. One who takes refuge in the seen perishes. But one who takes refuge in reality attains eternal peace.
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All appearance is illusion and the witness is reality. The scene is false because it is visible. The individual seer remains only as long as the objects are taken to truly exist. There is nothing apart from the seer and the seen in the world.
Chapter 5: Why is the concept of the seer and the seen important in understanding reality?
Whatever is seen is an illusion created by the eyes. In a mirror a face is seen. But the fact is that there is only one you. One who worships the self will become the self because you become whatever you worship. The mortal world is only dust. So why worship it?
Chapter 6: How does one attain eternal peace through reality?
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When objective knowledge comes to an end, The individual seer does not survive as a seer. At that moment the pride of I just melts away. As the individual being is conceptual, so also is the seer. If you call this city Bombay, it appears as Bombay If you call it earth, it will appear as earth. It all depends upon the seer's concept. If you call an object a chair, it is a chair.
If you call it wood, it is wood. If you call the all as reality, then the all is reality. If you call it the world, it is the world. Perception of objects depends on the concept of the seer.
Chapter 7: What is the relationship between ego and reality in spiritual practice?
But reality is beyond concept and no concept can capture it. There is a woman whom one calls his wife, another calls his sister, and a third calls his daughter. Actually, she is nothing but a lump of flesh and bones. Whatever you give a name to comes to exist. All is conceptual and depends upon the concept of the seer. The world and the beings in it are conceptual.
The seer who takes the world to be real is the ego and that ego has to be eradicated. If the ego vanishes then only reality remains. Reality is without attributes. It is not color.
Chapter 8: Why is detachment essential for inner peace and realization?
It is not music. It is not yellow or black. The ghee which is liquid and the ghee which is solid are the same, just as water and ice is the same. When a seed meets the earth, there is a rise of consciousness. All that you see and perceive is nothing but the reality. What you see is only the qualified consciousness just as you see that bangles or armlets are both made out of gold.
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you must stop insisting that good alone should happen to this body you have become the gross body because only one body is the object of your concept but all others should be considered as God There is no other reality, with or without quality. All is the reality. Because we categorize all objects, there is the ego. But all other objects are the reality only.
There is no need to change the form of the objects. Only the attitude of the seer must change. Reality is the same even when it is in a state with attributes. You should see reality in whatever state that exists. Even the atoms and molecules of a chair are all the reality. Once this attitude is taken, then you yourself are reality.
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Even though one sleeps, awakens or goes about, one has not slept, awakened, gone about or taken a meal. When all is reality, who is eating and sleeping? The one who is without quality and the one with quality who is speaking are both God. Whether a king is sitting on the throne or hunting, he is always a king. The one who is walking and talking is the idol of consciousness.
When the ego self disappears, that is a sign of the ultimate experience. Ego is not reality but appears as such. Everything is consciousness. It is not necessary to say, I am reality. Birth and death belong to this I. The five elements, as well as consciousness, are just as they are, but the subtle body which calls itself I and which is full of desire eventually succumbs to death.
When someone tells us so-and-so has expired, it means the name is dead. They came, therefore they died. Eradicate from your mind that you are some particular I. That is a sign of knowledge. One who says, I am the one who experiences is swallowed by the demon and still remains within the illusion.
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