Through Thy Grace O Lord Destroyed is My Illusion and Regained is My Memory

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Dorothy Clarke Wilson has written a book wherein she tells the story of how the baby Moses was abandoned by his mother, a Hebrew slave, and found by the Pharaoh’s daughter who brought him up as a prince until he discovered his real identity and made it his life’s mission to lead his countrymen out of bondage and into the Promised Land.

In the like manner, we too have forgotten our real identity that the source from where we come is God Himself, and the reason why we are in bondage is because we are slaves to our ego, and thus unable to reach our ‘Promised Land’. If we look deep down into our selves, we shall find that what we intensely desire, and is our seeking, is ?nanda, joy. Remember that this Joy was ours at one time, but as of now we have no memory of it at all. We only seek that which we have lost, and in this case, seek instinctively. The search for Joy is verily the search for God. You cannot find one single person on earth that does not seek joy. A thief goes about his job in the hope that one day, having amassed enough, he will give up thievery.

Ego, being the obstacle, the moment it undergoes dissolution through total surrender, we get our memory (smriti) back. It does not take even a second. Ego keeps us bound to the earth, but at the same time it is of utmost necessity as an instrument for our day-to-day functioning and in our gaining of experience from life. But the sad fact is that we go on repeating the same mistakes again and again; hardly ever do we seem to learn from experience. What we do not learn is that all worldly desires are, after all, material, and that matter cannot give us anything more than material happiness. Being temporal in nature, worldly pleasures can never give us the satiation (tripti), that is our true seeking.

Ego is the finest form of matter. Says Krishna in the Gita: “The five elements (conditions of material being - earth, water, fire, air and space), the mind (with its various senses and organs), intellect, ego; this, as a unit, is my eightfold divided nature" (Ch 7, verse IV). But the truth of the matter is that we are also of the higher and something else (Spirit) too. And unless we get that something else, satiation will be found to be wanting. Upon realizing that however fine the ego may be, is, after all, matter - only then do we come to experience for the first time that ego not only keeps us linked with the universe, but also delinked from God - the Cosmic Consciousness.

But how will you let go of the ego? Because, if letting-go is your doing then too, as doer, you will again stand behind the act of giving up. The ‘I’ as doer will keep standing as it is. That is why, it is almost impossible to renounce the ego.

There is only one way to do so. Excepting for mahatmas (the great souls), like Mahaveera and Buddha who were able, for others, unless shraddh?, faith, becomes so deeply pregnant that it gives birth to bhakti or devotion, ego is impossible to renounce. Love is the first link in this series. There are three different forms of love: Love which flows from you towards your youngers is called sneha, affection; towards your equals, is called py?r, love; towards your elders, shraddh?, reverence. Love for God, bhakti or devotion, the fourth, is objectless obeisance in wonderment, and can therefore not be categorized. True devotion, without any expectation of reward, is of the spirit, and thus non-material. All other forms of love are material, but devotion, the highest, is spiritual.

The ultimate point in Devotion is when the lover too has disappeared and only pure Love remains, the devotee being merged in Devotion to become Love Incarnate. Then, in this surrendering there is a total annihilation of the ego, and this phenomenon too descends upon you through His Grace, and is not of your own doing.

That is why, in the ending chapter of the Gita (18 : 73), the protagonist Arjuna says to Krishna: “It is through Thy Grace, O Infallible One, that destroyed is my illusion and regained is my memory. I am now firmly established, my doubts dispelled. I will act according to Thy word.”….Acting ‘thy word’ means, now with my ego removed, all actions that henceforth proceed through me – as an instrument – shall be in accordance with the very laws governed by Cosmic Will. Hallowed be Thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth…

(The great word of the teaching is given and Arjuna, the chosen human soul is once more tuned, no longer in his egoistic mind but, in this greatest self-knowledge, to the Divine action).

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