God realisation is self realisation

What is self realisation?

Not difficult to answer one would say. To know the self is self realisation.

Fine and very correct. But what is the self? Who are we? And how can we know the self?

These questions have baffled mankind since ages and even after the advent of so many philosophies and religions there are no clear cut answers. Some say something and others says something. There are no definite answers anywhere. Or may be there are but they are hidden in the heap of so many philosophies.

Lord Krishna starts his discourse that came to be known as the Bhagavad Gita by revealing what is the self. There is no need for me to try to decipher his words for you. Why not read and try yourself.

He begins by saying that all bodies are embodied by the all-pervading indestructible.

Again without trying to thrust my own ideas upon you, let me ask you, whom do we regard as the all-pervading indestructible?

Without doubt all the Holy Scriptures be it the Bible, Koran, Guru Granth Sahib or the Upanishads use this term for the entity which we call God.

Now we were trying to solve the mystery of the self. From where did God pop in. He is another mystery which baffles us.

If you also feel so then go back to the afore mentioned words of Lord Krishna. He says that all bodies are embodied by the all-pervading indestructible.

What conclusion does it lead us to?

It is but very clear that he is saying that God lives in each body. In fact he goes on to say that each being is the fragment of God.

Does it mean that the self and God are same? And does it mean that when we talk about self realisation we are talking about God realisation?

By starting his discourse with the information that God lives in every body. Lord Krishna is trying to tell us that the self or soul and God are the same. And when we are talking about self realisation, we are actually speaking about knowing and realising that we are actually God and not humans or men/women.

Lord Krishna says that the self can be known, hold your breath, through Vigyan. Vigyan of course means science. In other words there is a definite science or a practical way by which the self can be known. And this science he declares in no unclear terms is very much different from the rituals we follow in the name of religion.

This Vigyan or science of the self has been explained in very clear terms in the book You Are God by Shashi Verma which is based on the Bhagavad Gita. Log on to www.highestwisdom.com to know more about this amazing science of the self.