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It is hard to believe, but there was a time when landing on the moon was quite beyond the imagination of man. Before that, there was a time – once again, difficult to imagine – when flying was beyond man’s comprehension. Just about a hundred years ago, people used to laugh at the Wright Brothers and considered their attempts to fly foolhardy. Similarly, before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876 or JL Baird invented the television in the 1920s, talking to someone situated miles away or seeing people and events from all over the world, seated comfortably at home would have seemed a mere fantasy. Today we accept all this and much more as a matter of routine.

Mankind is now about to witness a discovery, which could be the most significant of all discoveries made so far. Like all revolutionary discoveries of the past, this, too, will at first have its share of disbelief and opposition. But if this is the truth, that mankind has been searching for since the beginning of time, it will soon come to be accepted quite like the so-called modern day ‘miracles’ such as the aeroplane, mobile phone, television and computer.

This discovery is a secret science that promises to free mankind from sorrow, disease, old age and death. This knowledge and wisdom has been lying hidden in our holy scriptures for the past thousands of years, but as its true understanding has not been available, we have not benefitted from it. The truth that all scriptures unequivocally declare and which man has to realise in order to become free from sorrow, old age and death, is that the human being is not man but God. He is fragment of the very God who first created matter and the universe, and then the bodies to live in and enjoy His creation. The same God who pervades all also dwells in all bodies. The ego or sense of I-ness deludes him in the body and he looks at the body as ‘I’ or man/woman and fails to realise that he is God. This ignorance or lack of self-knowledge is the singular cause of all the problems and sufferings of human beings.

Another facet of the truth that we have to realise is that the beings never die or cease to exist, but only change bodies birth after birth. When a body is worn out, the being who is eternal leaves that body and enters a new one. This leads to the inevitable question: If the human being is God and eternal living being, why can’t he save his body from perishing and live in the same body forever, free from old age and death?

The Bhagavad Gita, the holy book that contains the teachings of Lord Krishna, elucidates why this eternal being perishes and changes bodies and also shows the way to overcome this cycle of birth, death and rebirth. It reveals that all beings, comprising the self, have five gross elements along with the mind, intellect and the ego (Verse 7:4). As long as this eightfold nature of the being is intact he remains living and dwells in the body. He perishes when his intellect is lost due to attachment and desire. The eternal Self then leaves the body with the senses and the mind and goes to another body (Verse 15:8). Verses 2:62-63 of the Gita say that when the being performs actions with his mind on the objects, he develops an attachment to the objects. Attachment gives rise to desire, desire to anger, anger to delusion, delusion to confusion of memory and confusion of memory to the loss of intellect. When the intellect is lost, the being perishes. The eternal Self then leaves the body and goes to a new one.

The being, who is in fact God, can save himself from perishing by steadying his intellect. The being who steadies his intellect will not perish or change the body. He will become a non-perishable being and dwell in the same body. The being can steady his intellect by the wisdom of Yog imparted in the Gita. Yog does not consist of performing or not performing any specified actions or abstaining from the enjoyment of any sense objects. Yog is a Discipline of Intellect and consists of performing all the usual actions with a steady intellect fixed on the thought that the fruits(or results) of actions are of God and God is enjoying the sense objects and experiencing the joys and sorrows. This will eventually free the being from the desire and ego and he will break the chain that starts with attachment to objects and ends with the loss of intellect and death. A person who is freed from the desire and ego and whose intellect is steadied will attain the state of Brahm or God. Having become a non-perishable being he will stop changing the bodies and shall dwell in the same body forever.

The wisdom of Yog is lying written in the Bhagavad Gita for 5000 years but its understanding was not available. The understanding of this wisdom has now become available since time has come for a new age in the world where all beings will live in peace, harmony and oneness, having realised that all are same, that is, all are God.

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