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Lecture - 11
Master tries to explain the nature of Realisation. Realisation is something very different from 'liberation'. Liberation or Salvation is 'getting out of the bonds of rebirth'. Once you get rid of the bonds of rebirth, you are said to be liberated from the bonds. That is what we call 'Moksha'. But that is not the goal, though human miseries and struggle make us think it is important to get rid of the pain and getting a kind of tranquility from the operation of bondages. But 'realization' is something much further. It is 'discovering your own Oneness with God. The fact that you are liberated from the bonds does not de facto mean that you are 'realized'. There are probably many liberated people hardly any who has realized, ie., found his oneness with God, the Ultimate being. So, we could think of a large number of liberated souls but not people who have realized God. They may be in the process of realisation in the sense that, after having found freedom from bonds, they discovered that there is more and more to be attained than previously. So you will see that liberation is not realisation.
Secondly, what is realisation? Realisation has been defined by many people as 'the attainment of a state of God with all his powers of creation, sustenation and destruction and so on and so forth. Actually, these cosmic processes are only with God, but not with anybody else. So, even the highest of the Souls in the realized condition will not be given these
powers. It is the exclusive prerogative of the Divine Being alone. That is the distinction between God and the Souls will remain. But an individual Soul, which is going towards realisation will attain a condition which is far beyond all that we have heard from our spiritual savants. God is said to be Sat, Chit, Ananda. Now, this condition goes beyond Ananda. You may ask the question what does it really mean. We cannot express it. It means, Master states, that it is a condition of 'salt without saltishness'. Salt may not be a good word as the sweet. But there is a positive fact which he enunciates of this condition. This condition is the condition of Omnipotent Will. A person who has reached that State of Realisation can do whatever he wants. His will is invincible. Now that condition is what we will have when we realize. I do not know whether that is not a very high state. In fact, he says that, when a person ceases to be then there is realisation. Now this