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GOAL OF LIFE AND THE MEANS
bigger. It is still a tree, it is bound to have its existence but our Banyan Tree is much bigger. That is the reason why we say God is a ‘Vata patra sayi’. The importance of the concept of a 'vatapatra or a vatavriksha is, we want to spread like that. Our concern is not only for our shade but the shade for all and try to provide some shelter to others.
This type of altruistic existence when it takes over, then our selfishness or the self which is encasing us all the time starts giving way so that at the final moment of departure from the life, it is not possible for any form to catch you again. This form that has captured us now having left us, no more form is available to capture us and, therefore, we are liberated. This is the truth of 'liberation'. We get liberated only when we grow out of ourselves. We can grow out of ourselves and not destroy self. The 'sanyasi' saying nothing doing, I don't want anything else, I peel off one after the other all the 'kosas' and I am off is one approach. That is not Divinity. God might have blessed them, God always blesses all, because His Love is such that He does not distinguish between a sanyasi and a Grihastha. God will not distinguish. He is
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