Be Free of Sin

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

When we live as a physical body, the pains and sufferings of the body are our fate. For one who holds on to the physical body, there is a lack of well being in the mind, as well as the troubles associated with pride, ego and misery. The one who lives in transcendence of body-consciousness gains the Supreme Reality, Parabrahman. To adopt the position of and individual after knowing that one is Brahman, is like a king doing some service like a servant. To become junior in such a way when one is actually senior is akin to committing suicide. This is what is meant by to fall. Illusion shows her power and even though you know that the play of Maya is only illusion, you think her to be real. This is because you are in the habit of thinking in this way. You must give up this habit. Otherwise you will remain a slave to Illusion. How can you be free while retaining this type of habitual thinking?

Remain with the "realization of Brahman." Only then are you identified with Brahman. Otherwise, you again become the individual, the jiva. When only the "Glory of Brahman" gives true happiness, and it is only That which is truly beneficial, why are you again becoming entangled in illusion? Why do you fall into the prison of your own desires? Do you want to be living in prison? Can you say that you are pleased with your condition, and that you want to remain in prison? All of the virtues of desirelessness, non-attachment, fearlessness etc. will be accrued to you simultaneously and automatically, when you give up the notion that you are the body. See what a great injustice you are doing to your Self. Being Brahman, you are very adamantly becoming an individual. To call one's Self the body is the very root of what is called sin. Give up this habit, and be free of sin.