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extraneous cause is no use. It cannot help us. That has been amply proved. Then what? Can you die? And everybody must die. All must die. Why not make use of it? Put this body to the use of Dharma-of Swadharma-for nature.
Who am I? The problem is what is that which is my Self, which I have got, to know. In this search it is better to be objective rather than subjective, for you are your own object! You are not that now. You have to grow into it. Tell yourself 'I shall not spend all the 24 hours in looking after this body'. It is only an instrument -
Sarira Madhyam khalu Dharma Sadhanam
All look after the body. Do, but you are not doing even that properly. It is also unconscious. The material is Nature. How to come to terms with it unless you see true and original nature, the creator of the organic body? This is the concept of original Reality, which is called as TAM by Shri Ram Chandraji. That or Tam is not a Hindi abbreviation of Tamas. It is Tam - that, or the object - the second accusative case of 'Sah'. And precisely that is 'Tat Tvamasi'-the object. If you know the object, then identify with it. Then you begin to draw the sustenance of the Source. 'Tatwamasi' is more important than 'Sohamasmi'. But let that be. We are not concerned with that now. But remember one thing, Sohamasmi is ancient, but just because it is ancient it is not true, and just because something is modern it is not false.
You must be led to divinisation of your nature. If you reach this, then everything follows. You can develop a Philosophy if you want. You can have an experience.
But for Shri Ram Chandraji it is a Reality, a most natural and outstanding reality. It is that which makes us most natural, most divinely natural. Now some of you may ask, is it a philosophical arrival at this truth? How do you expect us to come into this contact with that Reality? It is a question that has to be asked.
We know of the Christian concept of the sinner. Man is born in sin! So they have baptisms and other things as well. That is the first thing. Now most of us here are under another Cosmic illusion - under Maya. Everything is