Where did I come from?
From my mother’s womb.
How did I reach my mother’s womb?
I was in my father’s body. I descended into my mother’s womb in the form of water, pure and white.
How did I come into my father’s body?
It is from the food that my father ate. The fruit in the food must have bathed in the tree where I dwelt.
How did I enter that tree?
From the salt particles pulled out of the tree.
Water comes from the earth, not from the five great elements… If that’s the case, have I dwelled in the five great elements?
Everything in this world is made of the five great elements, right? Then, in this journey, I must have dwelled in many different bodies. I must have taken many births as a stone, as grass, as a dog, as a woman, before obtaining this human body.
Born in one body, when it merges into the five elements, it moves to another body from there. In this human birth, which I have received like a blessing after the journey through many lives, why am I engaging in cruelty and sin?
A person should follow a way of life that benefits himself, his family, and the society equally. That is the eternal dharma.
That is why the sages taught to salute all living beings, rivers, trees, and mountains seen with the eyes.
There are no distinctions in this world. If everything here is like that, then isn’t it all mine… don’t I have to merge back into these five elements again tomorrow…?
If so, do we need caste here, or religion? There is no need for further differentiation of humanity… Don’t all beings have the same rights? Then the thought that all this is only to make myself comfortable is how distorted and cruel it is.
Should I seek salvation from the cycle of birth and death and go to heaven? Is there really a heaven here? No. I know now that there is nothing like that. The one who thinks he is bound is indeed in bondage. However, since I know I am not bound, I am now in freedom.
I am this Brahman. Yes, I am Brahman!
The religion of India is a sacred dharma that cannot be claimed by any other religion or culture in the world. It is a culture that sees the nation as a mother and worships at her feet. No matter whom one prays to, it ultimately reaches the same God, as expressed in the prayer ‘Sarva Deva Namaskaram Sadashiva Pratigachchati’.
A culture that prays for the welfare of the world every day, “loka samastha sukhino bhavanthu”