Dear friends, Salvation -- the state of absolute communion ("sAyujya") with God in his Abode of SriVaikuntam -- is not narrow individual experience but an all-expansive, all-encompassing, all-overwhelming collective one. It cannot be denoted at all with reference to any sense of feeling such as "I", "Me" or "Myself". It is more "We", "Ours" and "All of Us". It is never easy to realize this truth since it involves making a giant, quantum leap from the feeling of individualistic "I" to the universal "WE". It involves moving from the 'first-person-singular' to the 'first-person-plural'? And according to Vedanta, it is only when Man has learnt to make that movement does he find God? It is 'satsangh' alone that can really enable Man to make the vast leap of the spirit. It is only 'satsangh' that can help us move away from the 'first-person-singular' towards 'first-person-plural'? The Bliss of God becomes available to the human soul when it takes up residence there eternally. But even there the Bliss of God cannot be enjoyed in the selfish sense of the individual? The principle of "koodi-irunthu-kUlirndhu?" operates inexorably in God's Heaven as it operates here in Man's world. The TiruppAvai in 30 beautiful stanzas reveals this important truth to us as no other comparable text in Vedantic scripture or literature has ever done or will ever do. ************* Regards, dAsan, Sudarshan Kuwait, 'mArgazhi', 2004 (CE) ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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