 
### Samarpan

(Giving up all the activities unto Supreme Soul)

Is it so easy?

### BASANTA DAS, M.Sc., PhD

### Samarpan

By Basanta Das

Copyright 2015 Basanta Das

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### Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter-1: Samarpan

Chapter-2: The universe

Chapter-3: Intellect

Chapter-4: Insecurity

Chapter-5: Devotion

Chapter-6: Worship (Pooja)

Chapter-7: Subconscious Mind

Chapter-8: Guide (Guru)

Chapter-9: Family

Chapter-10: Ego

Chapter-11: Professional Life

### Preface

Samarpan, i.e. giving up all the activities unto the Supreme Soul is a book that I wish to write on the basis of strengthening the human intellect towards the reality of modern life. In this age of materialization the human being become more anxious for achieving new heights in all sphere of life. Due to the anxiety, the human mind deviates from the reality, deviates from recognizing the purpose of life, the purpose of the universe, the purpose of the Supreme Soul for making the mankind. The human mind deviates from knowing the human character.

I have tried to explain few aspects of human life on the basis of which one could realize the purpose of his existence. When the human being is able to know the purpose of his existence, definitely he would succeed in his life. We are here to succeed. The Supreme Soul makes the mankind to savour the beauty of the universe.

This book would be helpful for all professionals and relevant to everyone irrespective of age, sex, religion and nationality.

When we watch a movie few scenes are more attractive than others, still we watch the whole movie. Likewise I wish all the readers those who pick up this book should read it completely and if necessary read it many times. I hope this book will be a good friend and guide during the time of distress. Whenever you feel low then start reading this book. I am sure you will get the required inspiration and energy to rise from the difficult situations in your life and taste the success.

Keep one thing in mind that you are here in this universe to succeed.

Basanta Das

Binayakpur, Badhrak, Odisha

INDIA-756125

Email: youth.das2014@gmail.com

### Chapter-1

### Samarpan

The symbolic war of Mahabharata between Kaurabs and Pandavas at Kurukshetra in ancient India witnessed one of the most conscious lessons being taught by Bhagaban Shri Krishna to Arjuna. The lessons agglomerated into the form of Bhagavad Gita. This was a war between two rivalries in one kingdom. The war was so special that this produced one of the most necessity facts, knowledge for the humanity to raise their consciousness towards the purpose of the universe. This is not a story written in many pages of a book but the necessary elements for the human consciousness for a better life, to know the purpose of life and about its creator, the Almighty. In this book I have tried my best to put up some of the facts from Bhagavad Gita to know about the relation between human being and the Almighty. I have tried to put on some light to improve the life in modern days with consciousness of the old teachings.

ye tu sarvani karmani mayi sannyasya mat-parah

ananyenaiva yogena mam dhyayanta upasate.

tesam aham samuddharta mrtyu-samsara-sagarat

bhavami na cirat partha mayy avesita-cetasam.

Above verses are mentioned in verses 6 & 7, chapter-12 of Bhagavad Gita states the teachings of Bhagaban Shri Krishna to Arjuna. He stated "those devotees worship God and give up all their activities unto the Supreme Soul without any deviation, always engaged in devotional activities, meditating upon the Supreme Soul by fixing their mind, for them the Supreme Soul is the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death".

But after getting birth into this magnificent material world and enjoying the benefits of the material world surrounding the mankind, is it so easy for the human being to give up all the activities and life to the Supreme Soul?

Then what should be the meaning of giving up all the activities for a common man unto Supreme Soul?

If anybody keeps his earthly body in front of the image of a God for days or weeks or months, can it be called as surrendering to God?

Then what is Samarpan i.e. surrendering to the Almighty?

How is it done?

How one common man prepares him for giving up all his activities unto Almighty?

Staying from family, home and the material world, living lonely in dense forest and worshiping God, chanting God's name, do you realize these activities will full fill the purpose of Samarpan?

These are many questions out of the box come to human mind.

Getting birth into this beautiful world, why one person should involve himself in devotional activities, try to generate transcendental love for the Supreme Soul?

Is it necessary to realize the eternal feelings for the Supreme Soul in a human's life time?

In the whole universe the human being is great creature. Human being is different from any other creature in this universe, but advanced and intelligent. The big difference between human being and other creatures is the human mind, the intellect. The intelligence of all the human being is not same, then why? Those human being who are able to understand the purpose of his life and his existence, his intelligence becomes better and better from life after life.

One of the most important and necessary purpose of human life is to surrender all his activities unto the Supreme Soul. It is quite different from all other purposes of human life. It is the duty of the human being to understand and realize the necessity of this purpose of Samarpan.

Then for a common man how to prepare for Samarpan?

In the whole universe, whatever a human being can find, it is his own body which is very close to him. Any time do you observe the activities those are going on day after day, month after month and year after year in your body to keep it fit and growing?

Wouldn't you be surprise after observing all those activities those are going on in your own body?

Do you express your gratitude to the Supreme Soul for giving you such a beautiful, strong physical body which is working continuously for your growth unconditionally?

You might have forgotten to express your gratitude while enjoying the material world around you. When a person goes through a tragedy in his life, feels sorrow then for the consolation of his mind and for a faith that he could find a solution to his problem, he finds the way to a place of worship. Whole heartedly he expresses his feelings of sorrow in front of God, pray for help for a solution to his problem.

The feeling of Samarpan should stay always during happy moments as well as tragedy moments. It should not continue only during tragedy moments. The amount of the expression of gratitude during happy moments in life makes life better and better. As per our ancient Indian culture and education the methods of worship and prayers were written in Sanskrit verses from Vedic times. While chanting the Sanskrit verses one should understand the meaning of each word and the whole meaning of the verses.

It would be very much fruitful when one chants the verses knowing the meaning and creating the feelings in his mind according to the verses.

The man can express his feelings in any language but important is the feelings of devotion. For expression of feelings of devotion, a particular language is not necessary.

Through this book I am trying to express my opinion about Samarpan, but I am not able to give up my activities completely unto the Supreme Soul. The journey has started for me. In this spiritual journey, many accompanied persons are needed with whom I can share my experience, feelings, hurdles, success and find out a new way, the perfect way for Samarpan. Accompanied persons share the hurdles, sorrow, happiness and also duty, so the journey becomes easy.

It is very important event in a person's life for giving up all the activities unto the Supreme Soul, for Samarpan. If you could think in this matter sure you have started working to be close to get the transcendental love from the Supreme Soul. So it is necessary for the human being to understand the purpose of the universe which is made with great intelligence by the Supreme Soul for him. In the next chapters it is discussed about secrets of the creation of the universe, creation of human being, the beautiful aspects of creation of this mother earth etc.

There are many aspects required for preparation for Samarpan for a person. Among all those aspects the most important is acquiring knowledge. If the proper knowledge is not acquired one can't work properly. If a person couldn't work properly, he would be deprived from the enjoyment of this material world. When one person is deprived to enjoy the material world, frustration and sadness increases within him. That means he wouldn't be able to full fill the purpose of his life.

Bhagaban Shri Krishna described the knowledge as written in verses-38, chapter-4 in Bhagavad Gita for transcendental knowledge as follows.

na hi jnanena sadrsam pavitram iha vidyate

tat svayam yoga-samsiddhah kalenatmani vindati.

"There is nothing holy and pure like transcendental knowledge. There is no such matter, subjects, process etc. as holy as knowledge. Such knowledge is like mature fruit of all mysticism. One who practices devotional service and become accomplished, acquired this knowledge in due course of time".

Knowledge is second to none; there is no comparison of knowledge with anything else. The person, who has acquired the transdental knowledge, could find all the joy, happiness of this world within him. It is not necessary for him to follow the external world for happiness. The material world is not enough to provide eternal joy for a human being.

So, what should be the type of knowledge?

Is it sufficient for us acquiring higher degrees in subjective studies?

The degrees in subjective studies can help us achieving great success in our professional carrier. But to understand the purpose of life even higher degrees are not capable. It may not be a good choice not to achieve higher degrees. The subjective studies and transcendental knowledge can be acquired parallel way. During childhood and teen age the primary choice for subjective studies and little effort for transcendental knowledge can be fruitful to make a better human being in later life. In professional life, along with the professional responsibilities, the application of the transcendental knowledge could help a person to achieve great success.

The entire material world present in the universe is made for human being. Each person has the rights to enjoy it. One should make himself able to enjoy it. Only the professional carrier could make oneself able to enjoy the material pleasure. To live a life we need money. No one can deny this fact. Again running before money wouldn't fulfil the purpose of life.

After acquiring sufficient money in his life, what should be the duty of a person?

What should be the direction of work of a person, who is already enjoying the material pleasure in his life?

If one observes closely, one can conclude that each person's life goes through the same journey irrespective of the wealth. In childhood and teenage one goes for study, then for professional carrier for earning the lively hood and liabilities towards family. At the time of retirement from professional carrier and from liabilities of the family one started thinking to involve him for religious activities. Started visiting religious places of worship, involve in various other activities and get some consolation to mind. If one notices, one can find that a person doing so loses the important time for 60 years not doing enough to understand the purpose of life. Such a person lives his life with joy and happiness but without fulfilling the purpose of his life. The first and important step towards Samarpan is to know the purpose of life.

The choice for acquiring transcendental knowledge from the teenage or young age would be fruitful for the life as one has a long future in front of him.

Human being does not come for one life. He has to go through many lives, life after life. During one life span even it is very difficult to get success from one unresolved issue.

In this book I have tried my best to discuss some of the facts like the purpose of the human existence, its necessity, importance and joy of transcendental love, the purpose of Supreme Soul. You are free to put up your opinion after reading this book. That is your freedom of choice. If required, you can read the book many times. After all, I wish the human being be able to understand the purpose of the Supreme Soul.

According to all the mythological texts it is mentioned about existence of three places like heaven, earth and hell. Throughout the history of this universe and from the beginning of the human consciousness it is discussed extensively.

Then where are these three places?

Where the man enjoys the heavenly peace?

Where the man enjoys or suffers from the material world?

Where the man suffers the pain of hell?

Don't you feel it as a subject of discussion?

If I am not wrong, the heavenly peace, earthly enjoyment or sufferings and pain of hell all three exists very close to a man.

The physical body of the human being represents the earth. The five senses (Ear, Nose, Eye, skin and tongue) in the physical body of the man feels the joy of the material world. The feelings of these five senses affect the mind. So the mind enjoys the wave of happiness. Like waves in a sea this wave of happiness is temporary. Enjoyment of the five senses doesn't stay forever in human life. The enjoyment of the five senses is centralised with situations in life. But the situations in life are changeable. This is the rule of the nature.

If the man realizes that this material enjoyment is God given and while enjoying this happiness doesn't forget to express his gratitude to the Supreme Soul for the material existence, then this act of gratitude inspires him for heavenly peace. The subconscious mind of the man works to convert the enjoyment of the five senses towards heavenly peace.

But for a man is it easy to make the subconscious mind to work for this?

Each human being is master of unlimited potential. The first duty of a man is to recognize this potential within him. Whatever we think in our conscious mind, it got printed in subconscious mind. In due course of time those matter which are printed in subconscious mind comes out in respective situations in our life. Those we express either through work or word.

Then what shorts of thought should be allowed by the human being in his mind?

What type of thought should the human being think repeatedly in his conscious mind so that it gets printed in subconscious mind and works in appropriate situations in life to make the man able to experience the heavenly peace?

If any wrong work is printed in subconscious mind then what will happen?

If this happens with subconscious mind, surely the wrong work will be expressed in different situations and environments through work or word. When a man does any wrong work or involves himself in wrong discussions, definitely he feels pain and sorrow. When this pain and sorrow becomes intense that is comparable to the pain of the hell. So, a man is bound to feel that pain of hell during his life time only, not after his death. Out of the above discussions, we can conclude that....

Our physical body is earth.

Our subconscious mind is heaven.

And

Our subconscious mind is hell.

Each human being is gifted with the freedom of choice. It is up to him whether to utilize the subconscious mind for heavenly peace or pain of hell. The human being is responsible for whatever situations come in his life. The person who is able to know this fact can make his life happy.

It is required to acquire knowledge for the best utilization of the subconscious mind. If a man focuses on one easy fact and work accordingly, he could lead a happy and successful life. That fact is "I never hurt anybody by my work or word". This affirmation should be repeated many times. By keeping this thought in mind, definitely a human being will be able to lead a happy life and keep the sadness away.

This is the religion of humanity. It is above all the religion. It satisfies the purpose of the Supreme Soul for making the mankind. Though it is difficult to adopt this thought but by doing so repeatedly this becomes possible. By inspiring the mind for this type of thought, no doubt a day will come when a person can hesitate to hurt other person.

The meaning of Samarpan is to involve in the purpose of the Supreme Soul. There are so many examples present in the nature and the environment for acquiring knowledge. With a healthy body and balanced thought if the human being could be able to acquire the knowledge to praise the Supreme Soul for the importance of this creation, then he fulfils the purpose of Samarpan up to some extent.

Samarpan is a state of the mind in which a man could feel the presence of the Supreme Soul in the world around him. This is a balanced state of mind in which the human being could see the whole world full of the consciousness of the Supreme Soul and do his duty towards himself, his family and the society. Staying in the society and doing the duty when a person acquires the transdental knowledge full fills the purpose of Samarpan.

From the verses-19, chapter-7 of Bhagavad Gita, Bhagaban Shri Krishna described the stages for acquiring the transdental knowledge.

bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate

vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma su-durlabhah.

A human being has to take several lives, life after life. In each life a man could be able to acquire some knowledge. He may or may not be able to resolve an unresolved issue in one life. In this way in the circle of birth and death, after many lives a human being could acquire the transcendental knowledge. This is called as evolution of the consciousness. The particular life in which the human could see the whole world with the presence of the Supreme Soul that life becomes valuable. In that life the human being could acquire the knowledge of a great soul.

So, for human being, time of one life is not ample for getting whole knowledge. In one life, a human being could be able to acquire only little knowledge. The quality of knowledge which is to be acquired in the next life, that depends on the knowledge which is being acquired in present life. Like a student gets admission to an upper class in school or college only after passing the lower class, the human being acquired knowledge step by step in each life.

But what happens to a student when he could not utilize a year's time in a class and do nothing during that year?

Obviously, he couldn't be able to pass the class and denied from taking admission to the upper class.

Likewise if a human being wastes the whole time of a life without doing anything to acquire even a little bit of transcendental knowledge, then how he could be able to acquire more knowledge in next life?

He is choosing not to evolve his consciousness. This is an act of his freewill.

One can ask a question. How the knowledge is transferred to the next life after death?

This is a secret formula of the creation of this universe.

Memory and understanding are two different aspects in life. Memory stays with the human being in a life but understanding stays forever. Understanding is an act of the consciousness. This is the property of the soul. This helps for the evolution of the consciousness. Memory helps the human being for getting material enjoyment in one life where as the understanding helps the human being for getting heavenly peace and transdental love from the Supreme Soul.

Out of many gifts the human being gets from the Supreme Soul during his birth to the universe, there are two most important gifts, one is his physical body and the other one is his consciousness, the intellect. But after enjoying the whole life when the human being dies, he only takes the consciousness with him to next life leaving behind the physical body.

Then in which direction the human being could focus his work, for the physical body or for the consciousness?

If one focuses his work only for the development of his consciousness then what would happen to physical body?

Physical body is a medium for the development of the consciousness. If the medium is not strong then how the consciousness will grow? So work should be of two types, one work for the growth of the physical body and the other for the growth of the consciousness. Here I would like to express one amazing fact that there is no need to work separately for the growth of the consciousness. While working properly for the physical body one could work for the consciousness automatically. Work is for the physical body with feelings for the growth of the consciousness. The involvement of the feelings with the work helps for the development of consciousness. While working for the physical body if one tries to feel the highest feelings that act as a strong element for Samarpan.

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### Chapter-2

### The Universe

The human being doesn't create anything without a purpose. No material, instrument, is being made by itself. According to need the human being first imagines, creates the concept in his mind, makes a drawing and then would be able to create a thing.

What should be the purpose behind the creation of this great universe? Why this universe with great beauties and amazing actions is being created? Who is the creator of the universe?

Many questions like this may come to your mind?

To get the answers to these questions we need to have a logical discussion about this matter. You would agree with me that we need intelligence for creation of anything, a house, a toy, an instrument, an automobile instrument etc. To fulfil a necessity in life, the human being first imagines about a thing then creates a design in his mind and then realizes the final product in physical form.

So, we have to accept the presence of intelligence before creation of this universe, the intelligence, the Supreme intelligence. What should be the purpose for creation of this whole universe by the Supreme Soul?

Except the physical body what is close to a man is his intelligence. Intelligence is not physical. It is difficult to find the intelligence in the physical body. But what is the need of intelligence without the physical body? What shorts of actions give pleasure to the intelligence?

Imagination is an action of the intelligence and another action is feelings. Bad feelings and good feelings both are the actions of the intelligence. The good feelings like love, affection, kindness, non-violence and the bad feelings like jealousness, wrong ego, violence etc. both are there together complementary to each other. These both types of feelings are natural. But to feel the good feelings is the purpose behind making the mankind. It is not possible to feel good only for a soul by itself. To feel the good feelings it is necessary to exchange. With which one can exchange the feelings? Therefore another soul is needed.

The presence of the intelligence of the Supreme Soul before the creation of the whole universes is acceptable. Before the creation of the whole universe there was only supreme intelligence in nothing. There was nothing but supreme intelligence. As we have discussed intelligence is not physical, so it is possible to be there with nothing.

The Supreme Soul felt the necessity for exchange of feelings. With whom it is possible? Possibly it is a companion soul, a consciousness. To get ultimate pleasure of feelings, one soul may not be sufficient. The Supreme Soul realized the need of many souls; so many companions with whom the exchange of feelings could take place and get as much pleasure. So, the Supreme Soul imagined about the creation of as much as possible companion souls so that the exchange of feelings is possible in huge scale.

Who are those companions of the Supreme Soul?

They are you, me and the whole human beings.

How, so many companion souls will be there with the Supreme Soul in nothing? How they will recognize the Supreme Soul as there no shape?

In our society parents do everything possible to make a beautiful home, spent money on children's education, do hard work to earn money to meet the need of the family and children. In the exchange for their hard work, dedication, affection, what they expect from their children? No doubt it is the feeling of love the parents expect from their children. There may not be any higher expectation rather than love and caring.

Before the creation of the whole universe the Supreme Soul might have expected same thing from his fellow companion souls. That is the reason why the Supreme Soul started creating a universe which should have each and every element for human beings needs, luxury and enjoyment. So that after getting every needs fulfilled from the nature the human being could start loving the nature, start loving its creator the Supreme Soul. The human being could exchange all the possible highest feelings with the Supreme Soul and with the fellow companion.

Out of this thought of the Supreme Soul the creation of the whole universe started from nothing. The whole universe is made up of five basic elements (earth, water, air, fire, sky). These five elements are known as panch mahabhuta in ancient Indian literatures. These five elements are nothing but the five consciousnesses created from the Supreme Soul. These are not physical but only consciousness. These are the energy of the consciousness. That is why Bhagaban Shri Krishna told to Arjuna which is narrated in verses-20, chapter-10 of Bhagavad Gita about his presence in each and every elements of the whole universe.

aham atma gudakesa sarva-bhutasaya-sthitah

aham adis ca madhyam ca bhutanam anta eva cha.

The meaning of above verses tells "O Arjuna, I am the Supreme Soul, seated within all the elements. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all things".

According to modern science there is no lose of energy, only it can be transferred from one form to other. So, the beginning, middle and the end of all the elements in this universe is only the transfer of energy from one form to other. This form of energy is consciousness. The energy of consciousness starts from nothing and also merges in nothing at the end.

There is the presence of the consciousness of the Supreme Soul everywhere in the whole universe. The knowledge to recognize the omnipresence of the consciousness of the Supreme Soul is necessary for the preparation for Samarpan.

The whole universe is made for the mankind, so that it helps the mankind to live the life. From the birth to death, a human being could find each and every necessary element from the universe. To use the elements the human being has the intelligence. He has the power to imagine, he has the power to create and he has the power to utilize the things.

The universe not only supplies the necessary elements but also it is made to stare, it is made to attract the companion intelligence. There are many processes still going on which surprises the human mind. It is an amazing act of the human mind to observe the processes those are going on in the nature and if suitable follow them in day today life. By observing the processes and having logical discussions the human beings could be able to find out purpose of the processes. By doing so repeatedly human being could be able to gain lots of knowledge by virtue of which they could start creating things by his own. This has happened in due course of time so that the universe present now with us is made.

It is one of the duties of a human being to understand the purpose of the universe. It may not be possible in one life but continuous effort doesn't go waste. After few lives, it may be possible for human being to acquire the transcendental knowledge but the effort should start from now.

The beauties of the universe, the freewill and ego of human being, the feelings of mankind are tools to recognize the Supreme Soul. It is necessary for human being to create awareness for acquiring transcendental knowledge within them while enjoying the material world. After all, one should start loving the Supreme Soul for creating such a beautiful universe, creating mankind, creating everything he has in his life. It is necessary to know how to express the gratitude to the Supreme Soul. Creating good feelings within the human mind fulfils the purpose of the Supreme Soul.

It is a primary duty of the mankind to keep the nature protected. Nature and mankind are complementary to each other. Mankind get every necessary thing from the nature and in other way, protecting the nature is only possible by the mankind. Due to development of the industrialization the nature gets damaged. It is necessary to keep a balance between industrialization and nature. Natural calamities those the mankind has seen rarely in the past now happens frequently here and there throughout the world. Now a day we could see new types of natural calamities coming up.

It is a duty of every human being to do some work to protect the nature. The awareness is necessary among all. At least one can plant trees around his habitation and try to protect trees.

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### Chapter-3

### Intellect

Where is the intellect in the human physical body?

It is difficult to know. It is possible to do surgery of the each and every physical part of the human body but there is no proof about the surgery of human intellect by any surgeon.

Intellect is not physical. It is a type of wave that flows from the human body to the environment of the universe and vice versa. The intellect tries to develop itself from the continuous process going in the universe. Human physical body is attached to the earthly mater where as the human intellect is attached to the Supreme intellect.

What is the difference between a live human body and a dead body just at the moment of death?

A live human body holds the physical body as well as the intellect or the consciousness where as at the moment the human body dies there wouldn't be the intellect. The physical body after death decays where as the intellect doesn't.

Where does the intellect go after death?

The intellect changes the medium. To get perfection in a new creation of anything the human being tries to make and if necessary breaks it until he becomes satisfied himself with the new product. By repeated making and breaking the human being could develop the ability for perfection.

Likewise, by changing the medium i. e. the physical body, the intellect creates opportunities to develop.

According to modern science, it is discussed about the evolution of the physical body of all the living beings in this world. But is it logical? If the human beings are evolved from the monkeys then why after millions of years passed still the monkeys in habit? Do not you feel it surprising?

Evolution of the physical body doesn't take place rather it is the evolution of the intellect. According to need the intellect choose its physical body.

For the evolution of the intellect, the physical body is just like a tool.

There is a possibility of the intellect to merge with the Supreme Soul but it is not possible for the physical body.

In ancient Indian literature from thousands of years before, it is described about the need for the development of the intellect. It may be difficult to predict the time period in which the Gayatri mantra was created, definitely not in recent centuries. The Gayatri mantra is accepted as the highest mantra of all times. It is accepted as the first mantra of the whole universe. Let us discuss the mantra and its meaning.

ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः

तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं ।

भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि

धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

"O Supreme Soul, embodiment of vital spiritual energy, destroyer of sufferings, source of peace, like bright sun, best choicest, destroyer of sins, divine, may inspire our intellect to gain the transdental knowledge".

In short we can say "O Lord thank you very much for guiding my intellect in the righteous path".

In this mantra first appraisals of the Supreme Soul is done and then pray for our need.

What is that need?

In human life the development of the intellect is the ultimate necessity. The need of human life is to develop the intellect to gain the transdental knowledge.

In ancient India, during Vedic times Sanskrit was the main language. So all the mantras and lessons, texts those were got birth from that time were written in Sanskrit. A mantra is a combination of appropriate words which were created for a particular purpose.

A regular practice of chanting mantras helps the human mind to tune according to meaning of the mantras. It is necessary to know the meaning of mantras. If one couldn't understand the meaning of the mantras, then he wouldn't be able to create the feelings in his mind. While chanting mantras, creation of the feelings in the mind makes the effort fruitful.

From the ancient times, it was realized the need for the development of the intellect. Definitely it is not possible without the blessings from the Supreme Soul. It is necessary to have the divine blessings for the transdental knowledge.

Who are those to get the divine blessings for transcendental knowledge?

Those individual intellects who wish to develop could get the divine blessings. Nobody can motivate others to develop unless the individual intellect inspires itself to develop.

Though from the early times of the creation of the universe, it was realized for the need for the development of the intellect, then why till today it is not reflected in the mankind?

During the designing of the whole universe, the Supreme Soul might have given importance to the freewill of the human intellect. The freewill of the human intellect is an important parameter of the designing of the universe. It is part of the designing. It is law of the nature. It is the freedom of choice of each individual.

If a human intellect is directed to do some work in a particular direction, do you think how far that intellect would develop? If we force an intellect to do something that would be against the nature.

When the intellect is free, either it may choose to develop or may not. When the intellect chooses to develop and start working, it finds many endless branches of a road in front of him. For the developing intellect there is no end for the development. There is no limit for this process of development of intellect. The limit may be decided by the Supreme Soul. When the supreme Soul is satisfied with the effort of the individual intellect, it gives permission to the individual intellect to merge within itself.

The development of the intellect is a continuous process. Life after life, it takes many lives for an intellect to develop. In the transition from one life to other, memory of the human mind is vanished but the understanding, the transcendental knowledge doesn't. Only the subjects of the events those happened in one life are vanished. As per the verses-5, chapter-4 of Bhagavad Gita, Bhagaban Shri Krishna described about re-birth to Arjuna as follows.

bahuni me vyatitani janmani tava carjuna

tany aham veda sarvani na tvam vettha parantapa.

Lord Krishna told "O Arjuna, many births have been passed for both of you and me. I can remember all of them but you can't. I am not attached to my work but you are attached to the work, you are covered by Maya but I am not. That's why I remember all of the births I have".

It is not necessary to remember the whole events those happened in one's life but it is important to have the understanding what he could learn from each and every event. The subject of the event is temporary but the understanding; the knowledge stays permanently with the intellect for life after life.

What is necessary for the development of the intellect?

The human intellect is free. According to its freewill when the human intellect experiences the highest feelings, the probability for development increases.

The material world and the wish to enjoy the material world are tools for development of the individual intellect. There is freedom with each individual to enjoy the material world. Due to industrialization and technology development now a days there are many advanced tools available to be used in our day to day life. By using the advanced tools in day today life, the man could save time and energy.

Then in which way the man should use this time and energy?

It is important to think about the saved time and energy. What shorts of impact creates the advanced tools in human intellect? It is interesting to observe. It is up to each individual to decide how far the technology helps in his own life.

Now the science and technology reached at a stage where the man could be able to make the things whatever he dreams. Whatever comes to human mind today, he could be able to make it in its physical form by tomorrow. Definitely the human being is happy with the revolution of the technology but it is difficult to decide how far this happiness stays in human mind. If you agree with me than the happiness from the technology is temporary. The pleasure due to technology is enjoyment of the five senses. This affects the five senses and gives pleasure to the mind. Pleasure of five senses is temporary.

Is not it true?

Temporary pleasure of the intellect is not helpful for the development of the intellect.

The development of the intellect is only possible with heavenly peace. The heavenly peace is not dependent on the pleasure of the technological tools. By experiencing the highest feelings of the human intellect creates heavenly peace. The highest feelings like love, affection, kindness, cooperation, non-violence etc. gives heavenly peace. When the intellect gets heavenly peace it forgets the sadness, so it works towards development. Establishing a relationship between heavenly peace and development of the intellect Bhagaban Shri Krishna described it through the verse-65, chapter-2 of Bhagavad Gita as follows.

prasade sarva-duhkhanam hanir asyopajayate

prasanna-cetaso hy asu buddhih paryavatisthate.

"By getting the blessings from the Supreme Soul, miseries of the material world destroys, due to happiness of the mind the intellect gets developed".

So for the development of the intellect it is necessary for the mind to be happy, happy like heavenly peace. The mind should be away from the miseries of the material world.

For the development of the intellect it is required to be independent and to feel the highest feelings. The feeling of love couldn't be established conditionally. One can't force other human intellect to love. If one does so, no doubt the result would be furious. One can create a beautiful environment around him to experience the highest feelings, to be loved. To attract other human intellect one could create conducive environment but he can't force other individual intellect to love him.

Unconditional love gives pleasure to the intellect. When the human being gains transcendental knowledge and recognizes the presence of the Supreme consciousness in the whole universe and experiences the highest feelings unconditionally, he could get the heavenly peace of mind. This makes the way stronger for Samarpan.

During developing stage of the intellect, it faces lots of hurdles and feels low feelings like miseries, pain, sadness, frustration etc. It is a law of the nature. Without going through the miseries, hurdles, it is difficult for the intellect to gain the knowledge by itself.

If any event is very miserable, it is easy for an intellect to avoid it and find some other way around, but it is difficult to work along with the miserable event up to the end. The end result may be positive or negative. But the intellect that chooses to go along the miserable event could be able to gain experience for life time. The knowledge it gains from the experience stays with the intellect.

While living in the society an intellect gets pain, miseries from different sources. The intellect can get miseries from sources like nature, people or processes.

To avoid the miseries, if the human being avoids the nature, people or process then it couldn't be able to gain knowledge any more. The aim or result of any process may be of two types. One is short term and other is long term. The short term result comes first and also goes first. The long term result may come late but stays forever. So, it is up to the human intellect to choose either short term result or long term result of any event.

The human intellect that tries to be developed, wish to experience the highest feelings with other human intellect and able to know the purpose of the creation of this universe by the Supreme Soul, definitely that intellect is ready to be merged with the Supreme Soul.

In this regard Bhagaban Shri Krishna put his opinion in verse-15, chapter-8 of Bhagavad Gita as follows.

mamupetya punarjanma duhkhalayam asasvatam

napnuvanti mahatmanah samsiddhim paramam gatah.

"After merging with the Supreme Soul, the great souls, the developed intellect never return to this temporary world which is full of miseries and sorrow. They have attained the highest possible stages of development".

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### Chapter-4

### Insecurity

The main reason behind any type of disputes or quarrels among human beings is insecurity. One of the main properties of the human mind is that it accepts the wrong matter easily rather than the good matter. If you tell any human being a wrong subject and a right subject there is probability of acceptance for the wrong subject is high. While thinking negative about own job, the human being becomes patience less doubting about the other person's fruitful work. In many times this disturbed him and also affect other human beings those are around him.

Whatever good work a man does, the little bit of progress by the front person creates insecurity in his mind. As a result of the insecurity the human being is disturbed and waste his valuable time, go along with a negative thought in his mind. If this type of negative thoughts nested in human mind for a long time, this leads to a mental disorder.

The mountain looks beautiful from distance. Whatever goodness is there with his own work, the human being always gets attracted towards other's works, other's success and other's properties. Instead of looking into the positivity of his own work always the human being is involved in discussion about other's work, progress, properties etc. In relation to the professional job of human beings Bhagaban Shri Krishna discussed in verses-35, chapter-3 of Bhagavad Gita as follows.

sreyan sva-dharmo vigunah para-dharmat svanusthitat

sva-dharme nidhanam sreyah para-dharmo bhayavahah.

"It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties even it is faulty than other's duties perfectly. It is better if destructed during discharge of own duty than engaging in other's duty, other's duty is dangerous."

The prescribed duties of the ancient times and the present times are not different. Only the definition of the prescribed duty has been changed. Whatever work is prescribed for the human being, he should perform it whole heatedly. Always the human being is attracted towards other's profession, but he may not be able to imagine how difficult it to do other's work in other's situation is.

The snake is an innocent animal. Though it has poison in it, still it doesn't attack unnecessarily. Unless it finds any attack from others, it never attacks first. According to scientific research there are many poisonous snakes those don't attack. Only when they find any dangerous situations they start to attack. Human being behaves like snakes. When the human being feels disturbed in the society, feels insecure then gets involved in unnecessary quarrels, creates disputes and wastes his valuable time. This act of any human being also creates imbalanced state of mind of the front person, waste their time.

The surprising thing is that even after creating such type of quarrels, the man doesn't accept his mistake.

This type of human beings is there in huge numbers in the society those who put their mistake on others. This type of mentality is known as victim mentality. It becomes sad when a person doesn't accept his mistake even he knows it.

The man is worried about his future, how to live a better life; perform better in professional job, a peaceful family life, better education for children etc. It is not bad to dream about future but not good to adopt the insecurity by thinking a lot about future. If the human being thinks about the future in every moment it will be sorrowful.

By implementing the past experience in present life the human being could be able to make his future bright. How a human being could be able in present life to rectify the mistakes done in past, that would decide the course of his life in future.

The past experience is strength for human being. If it is not applied in present life then that strength goes waste.

The human being who wastes his valuable present time by thinking only about the past mistakes and future life may not be able to get success in life. The past work doesn't come back. The past time doesn't come back. What has happened is happened.

The result out of the past work may not be good to our expectations but the knowledge gained from the mistakes is our strength. The human being has to march forward. To make the future bright the human being has to utilize the present time in proper way.

Each human being is an individual. Each human being is different than others. The thought of each human being is different. All are going forward with a particular aim, a particular purpose. Some individual learn many things from their past mistakes but unfortunately there are many individuals they couldn't learn from their past mistakes.

Most of the human beings want to show their credentials to others. Embarrassing situations are created when a person try to prove himself better than others by not showing his credentials but showing the other person's demerits.

The intellect of each human being has a limit. By limited intellect each human being observes any events or subjects in life. Due to limitation of the intellect same event or subject looks differently for different human beings. So they give different opinion about the same event. Some opinions are of low quality and some are of high quality.

The higher intellect person could be able to see the limit of the lower intellect person. In the same condition the mediocre intellect starts criticizing the lower intellect person.

Recognizing the limit of the intellect and thought of a person is an act of the higher intellect human being. It would be a divine act when a higher intellect human being could know the limit of the human being with lower intellect and guide him in proper direction. The human being who does this work is known as great intellect, great soul and great man. A great intellect should always try to keep balance during a quarrel or dispute among other individual without hurting anybody. The verses-15, chapter-12 of Bhagavad Gita in which Bhagaban Shri Krishna described about a favourable person is given below.

yasman nodvijate loko lokan nodvijate cha yah

harsamarsa-bhayodvegair mukto yah sa cha me priyah.

"The person who doesn't put the other person into any difficulty and he is not disturbed due to act of others, who is equipoise in happiness, distress, fear, anxiety is dear to the Supreme Soul".

That intellect is developed. Only the developed intellect could do this. The intellect which is not touched by Maya and act as like the water droplets over a lotus leaf, could achieve this credibility. The intellect that holds this moral character is a candidate for Samarpan. That intellect is ready to be merged with the Supreme Soul.

Any shorts of situations couldn't disturb a stable intellect. The stable intellect couldn't be victimized with insecurity. When the intellect doesn't feel insecure, it is able to keep balance in different situations like happiness, distress, defamation, repute etc.

The person who knows the ability of his own intellect definitely he could be able to lead a successful life.

Each individual is potentially divine with unlimited potential. Criticizing the ability of a person could be the cause of sorrow of his own in future. Criticizing other's ability is an act of ignorance.

In any type of situations and environment the stable mind and undisturbed intellect are required for development of the intellect. Bhagaban Shri Krishna through his advice written in verses-18 & 19, chapter-12 of Bhagavad Gita states about this facts as follows.

samah satrau ca mitre ca tatha manapamanayoh

sitosna-sukha-duhkhesu samah sanga-vivarjitah.

tulya-ninda-stutir mauni santusto yena kenacit

aniketah sthira-matir bhaktiman me priyo narah.

"One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoise in repute and defamation, cold and heat, happiness and distress, free from wrong associations, honour and dishonour, always silent and satisfied with anything, do not care for residence, who has stable intellect and is engaged with devotional service, such a person is very dear to the Supreme Soul".

All these characters of an individual intellect are reflected only when he acquired the transcendental knowledge and could be able to recognize the presence of the Supreme Soul everywhere.

So, for Samarpan, the stability of the intellect is a necessity. The human being with stable intellect is dearer to the Supreme Soul. Marching forward in life by applying the proper knowledge, recognition of own ability and being happy with what one has with him makes life successful, makes future bright.

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### Chapter-5

### Devotion

Devotion is a feeling of the mind that is expressed in various ways. The feelings of the mind those are expressed through faith on the Supreme Soul, love and affection for the Supreme Soul, expression of gratitude etc. is known as devotion. There is not a particular way to express devotion but from the ancient times the human being has adopted many ways to express devotion and those ways are known as religion. The human being those adopt a particular way of their expression of devotion belongs to a particular sect in the society. The essence of each religion is to get the transdental love from the Supreme Soul. The human being from each sect always tends to work to get transdental love from the Supreme Soul.

Each religion teaches for the betterment of the humanity. The religion of humanity is above all religions. It is an important and great work of human being to utilize their intellect to recognize the purpose of the Supreme Soul and inspire own intellect to work for the purpose of the Supreme Soul.

It is worthless to say that only through worship the devotion can be expressed. The human being who is devoted to the Supreme Soul, he must be able to know the purpose of the Supreme Soul.

The purpose is to express the highest feelings of love, affection, kindness etc. with other human being.

The human being who is not attached to anything, who doesn't have jealousness for others, doesn't hurt anybody for his benefit and always feel the presence of the consciousness of the Supreme Soul is a great devotee. The expression of kindness for every creature of the universe also defines the expression of devotion.

According to Hindu mythology, the Supreme Soul took different incarnations in different times and leaded a life of a common man. The reason behind the process of incarnation was to establish examples for the other human beings so that they could notice it and tune their intellect to lead a life of that kind. It is difficult to recognize a human being with highly divine presence but it is easy for the man who feels the presence of the Supreme Soul everywhere. Through verses-24, chapter-3 of Bhagavad Gita Bhagaban Shri Krishna stated this fact as follows.

utsideyur ime loka na kuryam karma ced aham

sankarasya cha karta syam upahanyam imah prajah.

"If the Supreme Soul doesn't perform prescribed duties of a human being the whole universe would be put into destruction through creation of unwanted population. The Supreme Soul would be the cause of creating unwanted population there by destroying the peace of all living beings".

During the designing of the universe the Supreme Soul had thought of how to educate human being through practical examples and implemented those aspects through his own incarnations. In the society if there are examples of great souls through practical living, other individual intellect could be inspired themselves and be able to lead better life. Definitely this process of education is magnificent. Now a day the human being could take examples of other great human beings who are leading successful, peaceful and healthy life through their action in the society.

The nature has deposits of each and every elements and facts those are necessary for human habitation and also the Supreme Soul has taken care of how the human being will be educated to utilize the physical elements as well as consciousness.

What is the main purpose behind these arrangements by the Supreme Soul?

Only to feel the appraisal, love, affection, kindness like highest feelings with the human beings as much as possible, is the main purpose of the Supreme Soul.

While living a healthy and happy life in the society, the human being is able to express his devotion through steady mind upon the Supreme Soul, that life would be successful. It is required to practice continuously to express the feelings of devotion steadily. A day, a month, a year may not be sufficient to achieve steady mind for expression of devotion. It may take several lives. Bhagaban Shri Krishna expressed his thought through verses-9, chapter-12 of Bhagavad Gita as follows.

atha cittam samadhatum na saknosi mayi sthiram

abhyasa-yogena tato mam icchaptum dhananjaya.

"O Arjuna, the winner of wealth, if you can't fix your mind upon me (The Supreme Soul) without deviation, than develop a desire to attain me and practice the devotional service in regulative principles".

In Bhagavad Gita the dearest friend Arjuna of Lord Shri Krishna is a symbolic representation of all the human beings. Whatever advices were given to Arjuna was directed towards all the human beings.

It is sure that when a person does any work regularly with utmost dedication, one day he could be able to taste the fruit of success.

Bhagaban Shri Krishna also had given concession to those devotees who couldn't be able to fix their mind steadily upon the Supreme Soul and that is described in verses-10, chapter-12 of Bhagavad Gita as follows.

abhyase 'py asamartho 'si mat-karma-paramo bhava

mad-artham api karmani kurvan siddhim avapsyasi.

"If you are unable to practice devotional service by putting your mind steadily up on me, you could achieve perfection through performing other work for sake of the Supreme Soul. Even if one couldn't be able to perform devotional services with steady mind one could elevate himself to a stage of attaining transdental love by doing other satisfying acts".

If one could not be able for devotional service with steady mind there is no need to worry, as there is other way around.

Then what are these other satisfying acts for the Supreme Soul?

Definitely feeling the highest feelings with the Supreme Soul and also with the human beings present around is a favourable act for the Supreme Soul. The admiration of the Supreme Soul is one of the favourable works.

When the Supreme Soul creates all the physical elements and the consciousness necessary for human habitation then what is wrong in admiration?

The prayers, chanting names of Supreme Soul, kirtan etc are easiest ways to express devotion. These ways are most effective when performed with utmost feelings. The feelings are the way through which individual consciousness could connect to the Supreme Soul. Admiring the Supreme Soul for this magnificent creation of the universe, commendation of the intellect, the transcendental knowledge, kindness, forgiveness, conscious energy of the Supreme Soul are among the favourable acts for the Supreme Soul.

To express the devotion, chanting and reciting the bhajan, kirtan (songs written for the praise of the Supreme Soul) are fruitful ways. One of the ways to express the feelings of the heart and mind is words those come out of the human body and creates the vibration in the universe. If a devotional song is made out of appropriate words and recited in a soothing voice and tuned perfectly that touches to the heart of others and also affect the mind.

The thought and consciousness if expressed with particular feelings could touch the heart of others, so also of the Supreme Soul.

Definitely the feelings of devotion are dear to the Supreme Soul. According to Bhagaban Shri Krishna, the definition of dearest devotee is described in the verses-55, chapter-11 of Bhagavad Gita.

mat-karma-krn mat-paramo mad-bhaktah sanga-varjitah

nirvairah sarva-bhutesu yah sa mameti pandava.

"My dear Arjuna, he who considers me as the Supreme Soul, engages in doing my favourable work, my devotional service, free from contaminated association, friendly with all living being comes to me. He is ready to merge with the Supreme Soul".

He is a suitable candidate for Samarpan.

Knowledge is superior to work, but devotion is superior to knowledge. If one could achieve the perfect transcendental knowledge and work accordingly in right direction and could be able to do the work with devotion, he would be able to lead a life of a great soul. Definitely Samarpan is possible for him.

Though a common man may not be able to meditate on the Supreme Soul but bhajan, kirtan, mantras, listening about the Supreme Soul are easy acts for him. So following the easy path regularly for the expression of devotion, the human intellect would be elevated to a stage to feel the transcendental love with the Supreme Soul. Regularly engaged in the act of bhajan, kirtan, chanting mantras etc, a day would come when the devotee would be able to recognize the greatness of the Supreme Soul. This moment comes suddenly. Many people just do the bhajan, kirtan without knowing the meaning of it, but it would be more beneficial and the feeling of devotion would be more intense while doing the bhajan, kirtan by knowing the meaning of it.

Another important way is chanting the mantras. There are many Vedic mantras with the agglomeration of appropriate words which expresses the greatness of the Supreme Soul for his intellect, knowledge, idea behind the designing of the magnificent creation of the universe and also fulfils the needs for the human being. Suitably chosen mantras according to one's requirement when chanted regularly with great feelings works wonder and also helps the person to get involve in transdental love with the Supreme Soul.

There are many works those are known as favourable work for the Supreme Soul. For example, work without the expectation of the end result, kindness, forgiveness, non-violence, gaining transcendental knowledge, bhajan, kirtan, mantras, worship, love and affection like all the highest feelings.

But in reality it is very difficult for a common man to acquire all these good qualities at once. It is worthless for us to expect all these qualities in a common man who is staying in a society full of responsibilities for his life, family members, for society etc. who is covered with the darkness of ignorance and the circle of birth and death.

The person who always focuses his thought, consciousness, works for perfection and tends to gain the transdental knowledge is worth praising.

For development of the intellect it is first job to express one's willingness to develop. If the human being doesn't tend to develop by himself no one can do it for him.

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### Chapter-6

### Worship (Pooja)

What is the need of pooja in human life?

Why human beings wish to do pooja?

What should be the proper way of pooja?

These are few questions which strike to human mind. In this chapter the effort has been given to describe the need of pooja, the procedure of pooja, various types of pooja etc.

The love and affection of human beings for the Supreme Soul is expressed through pooja. One way of expression of devotion is pooja. If we observe closely we come to know that a human being who cares for other persons tend to give all possible good things to him. The good things may be sweet, colourful stylish dresses, aromatic elements etc. The caring may be in between parents-children, relatives, friends, etc. So, when the human being tends to show his caring for the Supreme Soul it is expressed through performing pooja. The procedure of pooja is carried out from the Vedic times. So the things which are used for pooja may seem to have old values but the fact is that these were the highest valued things in their category during Vedic times. Things which are used in pooja are not a matter of concern.

Through pooja human beings express their love, affection, caring for the Supreme Soul. Feelings are important. How does a man feel while performing pooja? Just doing the pooja in a mechanical manner doesn't satisfy the purpose of pooja.

Human being creates a chance to express the gratitude to the Supreme Soul through pooja. As the Supreme Soul created this magnificent universe with deposits of each and every element in the nature for the human habitation, then why not the human being should express his gratitude to the Supreme Soul?

What is the form of the Supreme Soul in which the human being should perform pooja?

Human being worships the God, The Supreme Soul for different purposes. May be to get success in professional carrier, to have a better health, better future, abundance in wealth and peace in family life etc? When prayed with utmost feelings in the heart for anything, the human being could get it. It is true.

It is the wish of the Supreme Soul that each and every human being should get everything desired for his life. It is part of the designing of the universe.

But it is up to the freewill of the human intellect to decide what he wants. What type of life he wants to lead, only sensual enjoyment of the material world or along with the enjoyment of the material world a feeling of transdental love for the Supreme Soul?

According to Hindu religion there are thirty three crore of God and Goddess present in the universe. Then how the human being could perform pooja for all these God & Goddess? Who are these huge numbers of God and Goddess and why are they in this universe?

The whole universe is created from the consciousness of the Supreme Soul. Whatever we see in this universe those are nothing but consciousness. So the thirty three crore of the God and Goddess are thirty three crore of consciousness those are necessary for the human habitation, for purification of human soul, for development of the human intellect.

Performing pooja on any God or Goddess directly linked to the Supreme Soul. Each God and Goddess represents each consciousness of human mind. It is difficult to state all the examples here but I would like to state few of them.

For intelligence we worship Ganesh, for knowledge Saraswati, for wealth Laxmi, for reputation Indra, for meditation Sidheswar (Shiva), for energy Hanuman, for affection Bal Gopal (childhood of Lord Krishna), for lust Kamdev, for anger Sanidev and more. You can also append to this list.

In due course of time from the creation of the universe the Supreme Soul has taken different incarnations and lead life of human being. Even in one incarnation the Supreme Soul had expressed many type of consciousness. If we discuss about Shri Krishna incarnation of the Supreme Soul, we would find many examples. When we think about the childhood of Shri Krishna i.e. Bal Gopal affectionate feelings impulse to our heart, the adolescence or young stage of Shri Krishna reminds us the feelings of unconditional love, the matured stage of Shri Krishna called as Basudev leaves a consciousness of the highest personality of the Godhood that is unmatched till date in this universe. The form of Basudev represents all thirty three crore consciousness, as a guru (teacher), as a dearest friend, as a warrior and what not.

Thousand names of Lord Vishnu represent thousand different consciousnesses. Thousand names of Lord Shiva represent thousand different consciousnesses. Different consciousness is expressed through each name. It is not only literature but it is the truth.

Different names of God and Goddess do not limit only to the literature, these reflects the thought and consciousness of human being.

The human being wish to perform pooja on those God or Goddess which represents the particular consciousness, which the human being gives importance and desire to have in his life. For wealth human being worship Laxmi, for knowledge Saraswati etc.

The human being may perform pooja for success of any particular consciousness but it is necessary to keep the consciousness which fulfil the purpose of the Supreme Soul. About the pooja and success Bhagaban Shri Krishna stated in Bhagavad Gita in verses-12, chapter-4 as follows.

kanksantah karmanam siddhim yajanta iha devatah

ksipram hi manuse loke siddhir bhavati karma-ja.

"Desiring for success of his work, the human being worship God and Goddess, by devoted worship the human being could get success of his work very quickly".

The charm of the quick result of his work may stay forever or may not, that depends up on the thought of the human being. After getting the quick result of his desire work how the human being is expressing his gratitude to the Supreme Soul that decides the longevity of the charm of the result.

The human beings need many things, elements, instruments, consciousness, intelligence etc. for his living. The human being could achieve many things in his life through dedicated hard work but sometimes even after hard work and repeated trial he fails to achieve his requirements. In such cases the human being wishes to take help of the divinity, wish to pray for God for favourable result, for fulfilling his requirements.

It is a fact that when the human being prays God for his requirement with utmost heartfelt devotion, he gets the positive result.

Performing pooja in a mechanical way with a disturbed mind is not fruitful. It is worthless to do pooja in a disturbed state of mind and just doing kind. A simple way to perform prayer for the better result of our desire is discussed below.

Sit straight in a soothing environment with free flow of fresh air, take deep breath, inhale and exhale for few minutes, meditate on the Supreme Soul, or favourable God or Goddess. Express your gratitude for achieving the end result of the desired work.

Imagine that you are enjoying with the positive result of the desire work. Continue this practice regularly until the result is not reached.

Try to create a picture of your success in your mind. A moving picture is better. Try to imagine the situation when you get success, imagine the happiness, imagine the sharing moments with your friends and relatives.

A moving picture says thousand words.

It is not required to think how the work would be done but it is required to think about the end result. Thinking about the process of the work is wastage of time. Just do the work, try your best to do it and don't worry about the end result. The above process is practised by many successful human beings worldwide.

### Animal Sacrifice:

From the ancient time the human being does the animal sacrifice in pooja. While performing pooja what should the human being sacrifice?

Is it that sacrifice which helps the human intellect to develop or is it the sacrifice which never helps the human intellect to develop?

From the ancient times the rituals of animal sacrifice is continued to this modern age. What the human being might have decided to sacrifice in pooja?

What is the purpose of human life?

Is not it the development of the intellect?

For development of intellect, it is required to leave the bad intellect, bad thoughts, bad feelings, bad practices etc. The human being doesn't take birth for one life rather he has to go through many cycles of birth and death. At first birth of human life, it is not possible for the intellect to be developed. Each human life goes through different stages in different lives. The consciousness first develops from a single cell, then to an animal then to a human intellect.

So during the transition of the consciousness from an animal to human life, it is difficult to accept that the consciousness would develop at once. It is obvious that each human being living in this universe has some kind of animal instincts, some have little animal instincts and some have high or very high of it. The primitive souls and mediocre intellect may have high animal instincts with them.

For the development of the human intellect it is required to give up the animal instincts. It is rare to find animal instincts in a great man or a developed intellect.

Then how the human being would be able to give up the animal instincts?

So for the purpose of giving up the animal instincts from the consciousness, the saints in Vedic times started the rituals of Yaghna in which repeatedly they could give up the animal instincts from their mind through affirmation. By performing Yaghna repeatedly day by day, month by month, year by year and life by life with affirmations for giving up all the animal instincts could lead the human intellect for purity, could elevate the human consciousness for transcendental love. Bhagaban Shri Krishna stated about the things which is required to give up in Yaghna in verses-27, chapter-4 of Bhagavad Gita as follows.

sarvanindriya-karmani prana-karmani capare

atma-samyama-yogagnau juhvati jnana-dipite.

"Who are interested for achieving transcendental knowledge offers the functions of all the senses of physical body and of the life breathe as oblation into the fire of the Yaghna of the controlled mind".

The functions of all the senses of the physical body are related to animal instincts.

Naturally human being is accepted as the highest intellectual animal in the universe. In due course of time instead of giving up the animal instincts of its own mind as oblation in Yaghna the human being started sacrificing the low intellect and innocent animals.

Does ever the human things that by sacrificing innocent animals as oblation how his intellect would develop?

How the human being could get success to his desire work by sacrificing innocent animals?

The Supreme Soul only wishes to exchange the feelings of unconditional love, affection, admiration from the human being. Any shorts of material may not be desirable by the Supreme Soul.

This is a violation of the purpose of the universe. Bhagaban Shri Krishna stated this fact by comparing with different ways of sacrifice in verse-33, chapter-4 of Bhagavad Gita as follows.

sreyan dravya-mayad yajnaj jnana-yajnah parantapa

sarvam karmakhilam partha jnane parisamapyate.

"The sacrifice performed in achieving transcendental knowledge is better than mere sacrifice of the material possessions. All sacrifices of work culminate in transdental knowledge. The human being who is able to sacrifice his animal instincts originated from function of senses through transcendental knowledge has a fruitful life".

The Yaghna of transcendental knowledge is a great element for Samarpan.

Each and every animal is created from the consciousness of the Supreme Soul. The consciousness of the Supreme Soul is instilled into each animal. In many times in the history of the universe, the Supreme Soul has taken incarnations of many animals. There are examples of the incarnation of Bhagaban Vishnu as fish, as tortoise as lion face with human body etc. According to Hindu mythology each God and Goddess is associated with an animal as follower. It is part of the designing of the universe for creating examples for the human being to educate themselves to love and care the animals.

So for the sake of worship any shorts of animal sacrifice fail to comply with the purpose of creation of the universe by the Supreme soul. As much as possible the human being should try to stop animal sacrifice.

If the human being does not stop animal sacrifice for the sake of worship, he wouldn't enjoy the benefits of the developed intellect.

He wouldn't be a candidate for Samarpan.

Is not it true?

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### Chapter-7

### Subconscious Mind

The human being is said to be part of the Supreme Soul. It is created from the consciousness of the Supreme Soul. Definitely the human being is always connected to the Supreme Soul. In which way the human being can be connected to the Supreme Soul? Which organ of the human body is doing this work?

Do you think it logical?

Do you imagine the part of the human body that keeps connection with the higher consciousness of the universe?

What is your opinion about the subconscious mind of the human being? Where you could find it in human body? What is its work?

Is it wrong to think about the subconscious mind that keeps connection with higher consciousness of the Supreme Soul? Definitely this work couldn't be done by any physical part of the human body.

Why the conscious mind doesn't establish this type of connection? The conscious mind is guided by the human intellect. The conscious mind is capable of doing arguments; may be logical or illogical. Due to limited intelligence of the human mind, he does a particular work by his own logic and thoughts which may or may not comply with the purpose of the universe.

But the subconscious mind doesn't have its own logic and thoughts. Whatever thoughts comes to the conscious mind regularly in a disciplined manner or disturbed manner and the human being does the work according to the logic and thoughts of the conscious mind, these thoughts get printed permanently in the subconscious mind. The positive thoughts of the conscious mind create positive feelings in subconscious mind and negative thoughts of conscious mind create negative feelings in the subconscious mind. In the society the way in which the personality of a human being is reflected that shows the type of the subconscious mind.

The thoughts of the subconscious mind are reflected through work and word.

According to swami Vivekananda, each human being is potentially divine at birth. Each human being has unlimited potential. This unlimited potential is in the form of the subconscious mind. The human being those who learns to use it, could win the whole world, acquire the wealth as much as he wants, do new inventions or he could do all negative activities successfully. By the application of the subconscious mind the human being can save himself from the death due to dangerous disease.

While designing the universe the Supreme Soul had thought of the free will of the human mind. To execute the freewill the Supreme Soul created the subconscious mind for the human being. Whatever the human being wants to do, he gets the energy to do it from the subconscious mind.

The way in which a saint energies his subconscious mind a devil exactly does the opposite. The saint energies the subconscious mind with positive thoughts for transcendental knowledge, transcendental love, for highest feelings where as devil energies his subconscious mind for destruction, negative thoughts, negative feelings. There is not any particular shape or size of the subconscious mind. It is shapeless.

The subconscious mind of the Supreme devotee Mirabai of Bhagaban Shri Krishna is a live example of devotion and faith. By virtue of positive thinking and strong faith she could be able to realize the presence of Bhagaban Shri Krishna. There are many such examples for positive acts as well as negative acts.

From the ancient time, the human being could be able to discover the power of the subconscious mind. Why the human being wouldn't be able to recognize it? As it is created by the Supreme Soul for the benefit of the human being to execute his freewill, the Supreme Soul might have intimated about its use to the human being in a conducive environment. The Supreme Soul might have created awareness in the human mind to know about the subconscious mind.

One way to energies the subconscious mind is repeated affirmations about any event or subject.

These affirmations were created in the form of mantras from the ancient times. A particular mantra is an agglomeration of appropriate words for particular purpose. Regularly chanting mantra as per our requirement in disciplined manner helps the human being to achieve the desire result of difficult jobs. How is it possible?

Chanting mantras regularly in disciplined manner energises the subconscious mind according to the meaning of the mantras. The human subconscious mind is directly connected to the higher consciousness of the universe. So the subconscious mind creates the suitable environment in the universe for the human being to achieve the desire result.

After all the Supreme soul wish the human being to execute his freewill to fulfil his expectations.

One of the mantras is discussed below.

Through the discussion of the meaning of the above mantras we could know that for the human being a true way of life, a bright future and freedom from the fear of death are quite essential elements.

Is not it true?

For living a true way of life, the human being has to leave the wrong way of doing things, for a bright life the human being should be away from the darkness of ignorance and to free from the fear of death the human being should energies the subconscious mind with the strength to win the death. Winning the death doesn't mean that the human being will live with his physical body forever but it mean free from the fear of death.

When the human being is free from the fear of death he could lead an amazing life.

In a holy environment when this mantra is chanted regularly in a disciplined manner the subconscious mind could be energised to guide the human being in true way of life, free from the darkness of ignorance and free from fear of death. Once the human being is free from the darkness of ignorance he could be able to achieve the transdental knowledge. The time when the human being is glorified with transcendental knowledge he could be able to spray the springs of transcendental love to one and all. That is the moment required for the success of the human life, to satisfy the purpose of the Supreme Soul for making the mankind.

It is necessary for the human being to execute the freewill for want of peace. The feeling of the peace could be achieved through regular practice of the mind. Always realizing the truth, dedication, beauties of everything around us, imagining a peaceful life, happy and healthy life inspire the subconscious mind to work in this direction.

The peace is one of the highest feelings of the human mind. In society the persons those who have abundance in wealth they all may not feel peace of mind. The persons those have the wealth according to their requirement they all may not feel the peace of mind. The persons those have the wealth less than their requirement they all may not feel peace of mind, some of them may feel or may not.

To be in peace is a state of mind that doesn't depend upon the external world. The peace is a feeling of the mind which is regularly felt and desired to felt regularly by practice.

The person who always keeps on inspiring his conscious mind could lead a peaceful life irrespective of the different situations that comes in his way. Because by regular practice when one person inspire his conscious mind that regular practice process energises the subconscious mind to achieve the peace. When energised for peace, the subconscious mind by virtue of its nature tries to create positive environment for that person.

The peaceful person always tries to feel the highest feelings within him. What else would be supreme to the subjects related to the Supreme Soul, the transdental knowledge, transdental love, devotion etc?

The whole material world is created for the human being. There is the freedom with the human being to enjoy the material world. It depends upon the person how he executes this freewill to enjoy the material world by choosing the way of activities.

Whatever way of activity is chosen by the human being to enjoy the material world, in all cases if he could be able to choose a peaceful life and desire to feel the peace, he could lead a successful life.

The success of a human life is not dependent on how much wealth he acquires but the success is judged on the basis of how much happy he is, how much highest feelings he could feel with one and all and how much transdental knowledge he could gain.

It is good practice to energise the subconscious mind with gratitude. The human being should express their gratitude to the person or institutions from which he gets direct or indirect benefits. The regular practice of showing the gratitude to the giver always keep on energising the subconscious mind with the flow of peace.

It is better for human being to keep distance from the person, event, subject, place etc. which disturb the stability of his peaceful mind. Even it is required not to think about those who are the cause of worry.

For a peaceful mind it is easy to exchange highest feelings with other persons. The peaceful mind also helps the human being for finding out solutions for any problem easily. By energising the subconscious mind for peaceful life, the human being could feel the highest feelings as well should be able to find out solutions for any problems.

One of the main aim of the human life should be to recognize the capability of own subconscious mind and how to apply it in day to day life for success, health, wealth etc.

By correct estimation, regular inspiration and application of the subconscious mind for own requirements, for transcendental knowledge and transcendental love, the human being could lead towards Samarpan.

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### Chapter-8

### Guru (Guide)

The human being has limited intelligence. Limited intelligence means the limit may be different for all but limited somewhere. Due to limited intellect the human being is not able to find out solutions to many of the problems he faces in life. In such situations the human being can take help of higher intellect persons to find out solutions to his problems. There is nothing wrong in it. While facing the problem, lot of worry and fear may damage the health and also affect the other activities in human life.

In any problem most of the human being become worry and fear due to thinking the negative results. But it is better to think step by step to proceed to solve the problem. Thinking about the end result may put the person in worry and fearful state of mind but thinking about subsequent steps from the beginning calm down the mind and also inspire to start working in that direction.

While working step by step it is recommended to have a positive thought in the mind. The positive thought inspires the subconscious mind to get positive result.

In many cases it is difficult to follow the right path without a guru. Then who can be a guru? To whom we recognize as guru?

According to my opinion, the person who is able to remove the darkness of ignorance from other's mind is a perfect guru. Who is able to guide the disciple to know his ability is a perfect guru.

The guru helps the disciple to develop his intellect. The guru makes the disciple capable to know his ability. No guru makes a disciple intelligent, but the intelligence comes from within. The teachings from the guru help the disciple to be intelligent.

Anybody can be guru for others. It is not always true that only the human being can be guru for others. Any elements presents in our surrounding like book, tree, flower, animals, birds and processes in nature can inspire us by their acts or way of life. One can learn many things even from the smallest process happening in the nature.

Let us discuss an example of a tree. From the morning to evening and evening to morning always the tree keeps swinging its branches and leafs. The breeze of the tree gives pleasant feeling to our body and removes tiredness from the body and the mind. The flower of the tree with its aromatic smell and attractive colour touches to our mind. The tasty fruit fills our stomach. Not only fills the stomach but also it gives good taste to the tongue. The shade of the tree gives amazing shelter to a tired passenger. There are many things a tree provides for the human habitation. And also a latent product as oxygen, though we couldn't see it directly but it is the most essential element for life.

After giving so much do you think what a tree could do when it feels tired? Does a tree complain about its contribution?

Unfortunately, the human being complains a lot for small contribution.

A tree doesn't expect any gratitude for its contribution. Do you agree? Just keep on doing its prescribed duty.

Bamboo is a class of grass. It is the biggest grass. But how is the bamboo so strong? Human beings use the bamboo in huge amount for their requirements. The bamboo fills many requirements for the human habitation; for shelter, furniture, packaging, toys, fencing, logistic, weapons etc.

Bamboo being a grass but so strong, is not it surprising?

What do you think about the knots there in the bamboo in regular gap? Without the knots the bamboo might not be used as it is. This is the knot which built the bamboo strong. During the growth of the bamboo while the knots grow in a regular interval, it must be a painful process for it. It stops the smooth growth but makes the bamboo strong. With this painful growth when the bamboo reached its matured stage that becomes biggest and strongest grass. That differs in size, properties, shape from other of its class. It becomes most useful element for human habitation.

What we would learn from the life of the bamboo? In human life, in every sphere of life, family, friends, profession, spiritual journey we face lot of difficulties, lots of hurdles come in our way.

How a person faces these difficulties and come out successfully from the hurdles that decide the strength of that person, the strength of his intellect.

During life time while facing the difficulties and successfully coming out from it, a person gains experience and this experience make the human life successful. As much as harsh is the hurdles, the successful man would become that much experienced and gain that much ability. The hurdle makes the man able, experienced and intelligent.

Do you imagine not to face the hurdles?

That is your freewill. You may not face it or do nothing for it. The persons those do not wish their intellect to develop; they only keep themselves away from the difficulties. They always find short cut route.

While facing the problem either the human being could find the solution by himself or can take help of any higher intelligent person. It is required to recognize the limit of own intellect and ignorance. This can be done either by the human being himself or by a guide. After knowing the limit of the intellect it is the freewill of the human being to start working for development of the intellect. For this only the human being inspires himself. To know the limit of the intellect and ignorance it may be required to take help of a guru but it is his own freewill, his own choice to start the effort to remove his ignorance and develop the intellect. No other person can do it for him.

It is required to have a guide but it is not necessary that only a human to be a guide. A human being could be his own guide, by learning from the awareness those are being generated in own mind by the nature. Many human beings are capable to utilize these opportunities. The person who is in need for guidance can choose from which source he could get the correct guidance. The human being has to decide whether he needs guru or not.

How a guru could be able to take his disciple out from the ignorance? May be due to his experience, knowledge and higher intelligence a guru could be able to guide his disciple. The disciple when keeps his faith on a person, it is the duty of the person either guide the disciple in the correct way or restrain himself from giving advice if he is not sure about the matter. If the intelligence, knowledge and experience are not enough to solve the problem of the disciple it is required for the guide not to give false guidance or false advice.

The person who guides other human beings in wrong path is to suffer the pain of hell. But the disciple who chooses such person as guide is like a human without intellect and it is obvious to get disastrous results out of his work.

So it is not easy to be a guide or guru. If the knowledge and intelligence is not enough to find a solution to the problem of other person, it is better to restrain from that job. The person as a guru if gives wrong advice to his disciples knowingly that activity is known as sinful activity. When a person gives regularly wrong advice to others knowingly, definitely he has to suffer in his life. In other way a disciple if does the work according to the wrong advices, he is like a fool, an ignorant man. So the disciple has to suffer with the negative output.

So it is required to choose a guru for a disciple. The guru should be able to know the limit of the intellect and limit of the ignorance of his disciple.

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### Chapter-9

### Family

According to genetics science each human being is created from 48 chromosomes out of which 24 come from the father and 24 come from the mother. The type of properties of the human being is decided by these 48 chromosomes those are from his father or mother. Each chromosome consists of thousand of genes. To specify the character of the human being even one gene is enough. You may be surprised to know that the human gene is not created in regular manner but it is created in random manner. The gene is defined by the chemical reactions those are going on continuously in the human body.

The physical value, moral value, intellectual value with which a person get birth, to find out another person exactly with the same value, we have to search among 300000 billion numbers of persons. In other way if a person have 300000 billion brothers and sisters from the same parents it is difficult to find two brother and sisters exactly the same with physical, moral, intellectual values. This is not only one estimated number but this is based on scientific facts.

In short we can say that each and every human being is special. As many as human beings are there in this universe, those many individual personalities exist.

Each and every necessity for the human life like the growth of physical body, history of its generation, the resistive power to diseases, resistive power to face the adverse conditions, memory, freewill, own personalities etc are instilled in the gene. If the gene of a human being is decoded and written on papers it would be a book of 15 lacs of pages. All these facts are instilled in to a cell of micrometer size.

Which property of the gene will work in particular situations that are decided by the nature and nurture of that person. Here the nature means the natural properties which are instilled into the gene during birth and the nurture is the way in which the person is grown up during his infant, childhood and adolescence stages.

The nature again can be compared either to natural environment and family environment. The family environment is very important for nurturing of a human being. The gene which would be activated in a human being is decided by the way in which he is grown in his family.

In conducive environment good quality chemicals are created in the gene whereas in adverse environment bad quality chemicals are created. For a long time if a human being has to fight with the adverse environment and couldn't succeed, the resistive power decreases slowly, then the effect of bad quality chemicals increases in the gene. When process of creating bad quality chemicals continues for a long period of time that could change the good value of the gene in virtue of which the human being could suffer from physical or mental disorder.

So the impact of the family value is very important to create a good human being. A conducive environment is helpful to keep the human physical body healthy and keep the mind in peace. This is the responsibility of each and every member of the family to create such environment. One has to elevate his moral value to the extent at which that could be helpful to create a very good environment for him and for others.

During the birth of the human being, he gets many gifts from the Supreme Soul. His family is one of them. The result of past life activities and the freedom of choice, the family of a person are decided in random manner.

What is the need of a family for a human being?

When we observe closely to all the mammals in this universe, we could observe that except the human child, the child of any other mammals could be able to take milk from its mother and also could stand and start walking in the same day of its birth.

Then why the human child takes a year to stand on its own feet and start walking?

Why the human child takes so much time?

Do you think about this anytime?

The human being is the great animal in the universe. The human being has the freewill to feel the highest feelings like love, affection, caring etc. But do you think a human being could feel this alone? Except another human being who would be able to fulfil this purpose? The feelings of affection, caring etc. may not be felt with a matured man. For this purpose a human child is the right candidate. To take care of the child the family is necessary. The main purpose of human life is the development of consciousness. By exchanging the highest feelings with other human being the development of the consciousness is possible.

According to the verses-4 & 5, chapter-10 of Bhagavad Gita, Bhagaban Shri Krishna told about the creation of all the good and bad qualities of the living being as follows.

buddhir jnanam asammohah ksama satyam damah samah

sukham duhkham bhavo 'bhavo bhayam cabhayam eva ca

ahimsa samata tustis tapo danam yaso 'yasah

bhavanti bhava bhutanam matta eva prthag-vidhah.

"Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of senses, control of mind, happiness, distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, non violence, equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, fame and defame all these various qualities are created by the Supreme Soul alone and variously arranged in living entities".

All the good and bad qualities those we find in human beings are created by the Supreme Soul. All these qualities are divided into three categories and are known as quality of goodness, quality of passion and quality of ignorance.

While the Supreme Soul created the whole universe for exchange of highest feelings with the human being then Why the Supreme Soul don't create only good qualities rather than creating all the three types of qualities?

If all the three qualities doesn't exist together then how the examination of the consciousness would be possible?

Due to the law of contrast, we could compare between two different qualities, size, colour, high, low etc.

For example, if only the consciousness of nonviolence exists rather than violence and nonviolence together, we may not be able to utilize this concept of nonviolence. As both the violence and nonviolence exists together, we could compare both and come to a conclusion that nonviolence is better feelings than violence. Likewise if we compare between love and hatred, we feel love is better.

As all these three qualities are there naturally in the gene of the human being, when one person wish to feel the bad qualities, the qualities of passion, qualities of ignorance and also executes it then what is his fault?

Which qualities of feelings a human being wish to feel that depends up on his freedom of choice. The person, who wishes to give importance to the good qualities and try to execute it in his day to day life, could achieve transcendental love and also could lead a successful life.

In a family the father and the mother are more experienced than children. In due course of time in a life the human being gain experience how to lead his life in the society. During his life while facing conducive and difficult situations and coming out of it successfully, the human being gains experience. He gains knowledge out of the situation. That makes the human being stronger for the next event. The human being who could be able to utilize this experience and knowledge in later part of his life becomes successful.

As the father and mother are supposed to be more experienced, it is their duty to nurture the child with good qualities. The father and the mother should be able to understand the society. If they couldn't be able to develop the understanding then it would be difficult for them to transfer proper knowledge to their child.

While inspiring the child for subjective studies, the father and mother should also focus for the moral growth of the child. The strength to face any situations in life comes from the father and mother up to some extent. For the father and mother, it is not sufficient to provide only the material needs like food, shelter, cloth etc., but also it is required to develop the feelings of love, affection, caring, kindness etc. in the child.

With lots of mangos in its branches, the mango tree bows down its branches so that the taste of the mango could reach to the human being. This is true for all the fruitful trees. Any fruitful tree bows down its branches. The human being may justify this fact by other scientific logics, but from philosophical point of view it is true that all fruitful trees bow down their branches.

It is to state that a successful, experienced, and highly intellect human being should be soft in heart, soft in character, flexible to situations.

As the father and mother have already spent more time in their life, are more experienced, they should show the softness through their work, through their character. The father and mother should show the way how to be grateful. If the father and mother express their ego in wrong way with their child, that becomes destructive for the child.

Violent behaviour to any animal is reverse to the spirituality. The father and mother those who express their violent character with the children they could not be able to get the transcendental love from the Supreme Soul. They are unable to attain Samarpan. In Shrimad Bhagavad Mahapuran it is stated that

"Those who show violent character to other animal they can't attain transdental love even by worshiping God".

Showing violent character, jealousness, hatred to any human being is demonic acts. That destroys one's self instead of developing.

Worshiping God becomes value less for those who show violent behaviour to other human beings. It is better to have good feelings for other human being.

The person who shows jealousness, violence to his children, could not get the result for worshiping God. How intense your worship is that becomes worthless when you regularly show your violent character to your children.

As there are good and bad qualities exist together, it is the required duty of the father and the mother to show right direction to the child, to instil good qualities in them. Nurturing a child with good qualities is as good as worshiping God. The person who intensely worships God but neglect the child is like ignorant man. Only acquiring property for the child does not fulfil the responsibility of the father and mother. If the father and mother couldn't be able to instil good qualities and vanish the bad qualities then the property whatever is acquired become worthless.

To live his life the human being gets each and every thing from the nature. The nature provides such elements which neither the human being can make nor purchase. While the nature is taking care of the human being in many ways, in exchange it is required for the human being to sacrifice some thing for the nature.

What you are thinking about nurturing a girl child?

By nurturing a girl child in a heartfelt environment and presenting to the society, to the nature, satisfies the purpose of the divine consciousness and the purpose of the Supreme Soul for creating the universe. It is required for the father and the mother to exchange highest feelings like love, affection, caring with the girl child.

For a girl child the property of her father may not be that much important as the love, affection and caring do. If a father restrains his daughter from the benefits of his properties that doesn't harm much but when she is restrained from the love, affection, caring from her father that does lot of damage to her life.

For a daughter her father should be an ideal man. When the father becomes violent and jealous for his daughter, then the whole world seems full of darkness and the society becomes a curse for her.

The bad qualities become superior within her. Even in her gene these bad qualities like revenge, ignorance, jealousness and selfishness are activated. By having all these wrong qualities definitely no woman could lead a better life. Neither they could give better life to others nor do they nurture their children in proper way.

Having the characters of violent, jealousness, selfishness a father can't be praise worthy, he is an ignorant man. However worship he does that does not have any meaning. He never be a candidate for Samarpan.

Those parents who expect greatness from their children they first have to learn how to teach the children for greatness by their own work and word.

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### Chapter-10

### Ego

Do you imagine the necessity of the human ego?

In reality how much necessity is of human ego?

What happens instead of ego?

These are few questions come to human mind about human ego. While living in the society the human being has to face either self ego or that of others. Sometimes the human being could see the dangerous kind of the ego.

Each human being wants his work and personality to be praised by others. This is a principle of the human nature that the human mind is craving to be praised.

When the human being faces any criticism for his personality or self-esteem, his mind becomes disturbed, he tends to prove his work and character to be right. Sometimes this trial of the human being to prove himself right forces towards an imbalance situations in life. When the human being fails to prove right, unhappiness covers his mind. The unhappiness state of mind affects the professional work as well as family life. Due to unhappiness state of mind the human being suffer from sorrow and distress.

The distress and sorrowful state of mind is not required for a successful life. To avoid such type of situations in life it is required for the human being to learn about ego.

Why ego is there in life? Why is it created? How it would be applied properly? Let us discuss about all these facts of ego in following paragraphs.

From the earlier chapters it is clear that the whole universe is created from the Supreme Soul. Before the creation of the universe there was nothing except the consciousness of the Supreme Soul. Realizing the necessity of the universe in his consciousness, the Supreme Soul started designing of it. During the designing of the universe what were those steps he followed is important to know for the human being.

At first the Supreme Soul created feelings in his consciousness. Secondly he created ego. The creation of ego was necessary for the acquiring knowledge and its application for the creation of the material world.

After creating the ego, the Supreme Soul created the basic elements those are necessary to built the mater in the third stage of designing. In these elements the Supreme Soul instilled the divine consciousness. In this regard it is discussed in chapter-2 of this book about the verses-20, chapter-10 of Bhagavad Gita. According to this verse, the consciousness of the Supreme Soul is instilled in all the elements of the material world. The Supreme Soul is initial, middle and the end of all the mater.

After creating the basic elements for the material world, the Supreme Soul created senses in the fourth stage. It is a challenge to the human mind to realize the amazing facts of the designing of the universe. After creating the elements for the material world, the Supreme Soul created the senses to feel the matter and enjoy it in the fourth stage of designing.

Except the senses is it possible for the human being to enjoy the material world?

Do you admire the Supreme Soul for the sequence in which he was creating the universe? The designing steps are really marvellous.

Then who would control and enjoy the senses? So in the fifth stage of designing the Supreme Soul created the mind. The mind is the ruler of the sense. The mind can ask the sense to work and enjoy the effect.

In the sixth stage the quality of the ignorance was created. This quality has great energy. This quality is used for destruction of the universe rather than for the creation of it. It is applied for the criticism of any creation. Definitely unless any creation is criticized its virtue wouldn't come out. As the part of the sixth stage the quality of passion was created. The whole universe was created from the quality of passion, which try to state the ownership. Without possessiveness creation is not possible.

So from the above discussion, we can't say the existences of ego, quality of passion, quality of ignorance are worthless. These are necessary for creation. Quality of goodness, quality of passion, quality of ignorance if not present together it would be difficult to prove the quality of goodness as superior. In which direction, the human being wants to use his ego that depends upon his freewill. Out of these three qualities, to which the human being gives priority that decides the kind of his ego.

Ego is necessary for life. So it is required for the human being to acquire proper knowledge to use his ego in correct direction. Life without ego would be like non living entity. The human being has to live with ego. If the human being is able to direct the ego towards positive feelings, towards creativity, then he would lead a successful as well as peaceful life. In other way directing the ego towards negative thoughts creates destructive situation in life and so human being waste the time of that life.

Quality of goodness, quality of passion, quality of ignorance all these good, middle and low qualities exist together always. Love-hatred, violence-nonviolence, fame-defame, happiness-distress like qualities instilled in human mind. Along with these good, middle and low qualities, the Supreme Soul gifted the human being with the freewill. The quality which is given priority by the human being depends upon his freedom of choice.

When the human being directs his ego to acquire transcendental knowledge definitely he would feel the transcendental love with the Supreme Soul and create the highest feeling within him for the mankind. He would get the benefit of the Samarpan.

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### Chapter-11

### Professional Life

After reading all the above chapters, a question may come to your mind. Completing this book and reading about Samarpan how worthy is it directly or indirectly for your day to day life?

For our living, we need money. No one can disregard this fact. It is first duty of each human being to make him capable for earning money. Professional job fulfils this requirement of life. Whatever may be the professional job like government service, private service, business, agriculture, artisan jobs, handicraft etc. all are important. Each and every job has its importance in human life. In each case the human being wishes to grow and to do better. Due to growth in respective field the human being can earn more money and establish himself. In each case the human being wishes to be capable to perform well in his job, success in his job and to be experienced in his job. If we closely observe the subjects discussed in this book, we could conclude that the subject matter of each chapter is related to success of professional job up to some extent.

When we think about the universe, we could see that the universe is still changing. Though it was created millions of years ago, still changes are going on for a better universe. Day by day we come to know about either creation of new things or new facts. The scientists and engineers world over are continuously doing new discoveries and inventions of natural laws and making instruments, tools, appliance for the luxury and necessity of the human life. There are no such discoveries and inventions those don't comply with the natural laws. The material world in the whole universe is made for the human being, so that, it could be able to inspire the freewill of human mind to get transcendental love of the Supreme Soul.

Those who are able to create new things, new facts, new employment, new laws etc. their jobs directly satisfy the purpose of the creation of the universe. It is the desire of the Supreme Soul to create many number of human beings, too many. So, when the human being is able to fulfil the requirements of the mankind, his job directly helps the Supreme Soul. There may not be any great work than this.

To fulfil these requirements, it is the responsibility of each and every human being to make him able to perform his prescribed job dedicatedly. Dedicated job is one of those favourable activities for Supreme Soul.

If any human being wish to follow the spiritual path in his life than his dedication for his professional job is one of the great elements for the spirituality.

By performing the professional job with dedication helps the human being to earn money for his living and also that fulfils the great purpose of the universe. That is the main aim of human life.

To do any work, the intelligence is required. But from the previous chapters we came to know that the human intellect is limited. Every human being has limited intellect. Each human being is able to utilize less than 10% of their whole intellect. In other words whatever power we have, we are not able to utilize the whole power of the intellect.

The effect of insecurity could be seen in professional life largely. Others activity and success is able to disturb the human mind. To keep away from insecurity it is necessary to recognize own ability. It is required to enjoy the success of your own work according to your ability. When the human being is satisfied with whoever he is and whatever he has than the insecure mind couldn't affect the human life. And for that act of human being he could able to keep his mind in peace.

When the mind is in peace, one could perform better in his job.

The human being feels distress, sorrow when he starts comparing his own job, success, properties etc, with others. Definitely human being could feel peace and satisfaction when he compares only with himself i.e. his present with his past. Human civilization is growing; no doubt many of us have a better present life.

In any situations it is not required to give importance to failure. Failure comes in every bodies live. But it is important for a human being how he is able to raise himself after his failure. It is not required to compare one's failure with other's success. If it is not done than it is easy to keep the mind in peace and continue the stable state of the mind.

The intellects of those human beings are able to feel the presence of the Supreme Soul in their surrounding, they wish to feel the highest feelings with the Supreme Soul. Definitely they express devotion and do worship in their life. If only devotion and worship is performed for the sake of the Supreme Soul, that doesn't satisfy the purpose.

If your children only worship you and your portraits but don't do any work, do you think this activity of your children will satisfy you?

Definitely this type of activity of your children wouldn't satisfy you. Rather you would like your children to do some work according to their ability and fulfil their responsibility for your family. Even you would wish your children to grow with their ability, to try to grow with their ability. You must be satisfied when they try hard to achieve what they want.

So, to satisfy the purpose of the Supreme Soul, along with devotion and worship one has to perform his prescribed duty dedicatedly. Those human beings who wish to express their devotion to the Supreme Soul, it is required for them to perform their prescribed job dedicatedly. Those human being are devoted to the Supreme Soul, they must try to perform to their best effort to fulfil the purpose of the Supreme Soul i.e. the basic requirements of the human beings. Fulfilling the requirements of the human beings through dedicated work, that helps to feel the transcendental love with the Supreme Soul.

Human being can utilize the power of subconscious mind for a successful professional carrier. It is required to inspire and energies the subconscious mind according to the desire positive results of the professional job. From the previous chapter, we came to know that whatever we think in conscious mind that get printed in the subconscious mind. Then what should we think in the conscious mind? For success in professional job, by thinking the positive thoughts in the conscious mind without deviation, energies the subconscious mind for the positive outcomes.

You may ask a question, if during positive thinking for outcomes of the professional job what happens when negative thoughts also strike to the conscious mind?

Human mind is unpredictable. It is true that when thinking positive aspects of anything, it is possible for negative thoughts to enter into the thinking process. This happens with all most all the human beings.

So nature has a solution to this. There is a secret function of the subconscious mind. To energies the subconscious mind for a negative result requires efforts of hundred times more than that for positive results. To take the benefit of the subconscious mind for positive results requires less effort. Whereas it requires more and more efforts to energies the subconscious mind for negative results.

You can emphasise that the subconscious mind is made for positive results. But you can't ignore the negative functioning of the subconscious mind.

So, human being has to be careful. When negative thoughts come to mind, you can replace it with positive thoughts immediately. Don't give any chance to negative thoughts to continue for long period of time.

Continuous thinking of negative thoughts creates a false ego in human mind, which is not possible in reality. The demonic energy is activated in human mind, which is destructive in nature. That wastes the time of the life of human being and also of others around him.

The way of energising the subconscious mind for positive thoughts is described in the last section of sixth chapter of this book.

Due to the limited intellect, human being faces hurdles and difficulties in any sphere of life. To overcome any difficulty one can take help of higher intellect and more experienced colleague. There is nothing wrong in it. But your colleague is also a human being. He might be having insecurity in his mind and limited intellect. That may leads him to hesitate to help you completely. But all human beings are not like this. There are many people around us those wish to help others generously. So, one has to choose from whom he would take help for a fruitful result.

To satisfy the conditions of the responsibility towards family, one needs money. The employment is required to earn money. Whatever may be the professional job, one has to involve dedicatedly in it.

Professional job is a way to earn money which is desperately needed to fulfil the requirements of the family. That helps you to see the happiness, satisfaction in your family members. The members of your family are the closest human being in the world. Your family is a gift from the higher self for you. It may not be possible to keep happiness in your family and also there may not be sadness, distress always.

Mountaineering through the tracks of Himalaya for a lonely man, becomes tiring after going through less distance, but for many people together this job may be of great pleasure to achieve great heights of mountain peaks. Likewise in a family keeping every body's personalities and ego in backdrop, satisfying the responsibility of each member whole family may be in peace and will be able to keep away distress and sadness.

A dedicated professional life brings money for you. With that money you are able to fulfil the requirements of your family. All the members of your family doing their respective duties perfectly create a happy and healthy environment. By understanding each other, with love and affection towards each member of your family satisfies the purpose of creation of the universe and human being by the Supreme Soul.

From the previous chapter we came to know that for the creation of the material world, the ego is created by the Supreme Soul. It is sure that without ego no one could be motivated to do any work. Because of the ego in human being, a scientist is able to do new discoveries and inventions, an engineer is able to create new instruments, a doctor is able to heal a patient from deadly diseases, an advocate is able for correct judgment, an accountant is able to perform well by solving difficult equations, a manager is able to guide his co-workers for better production, a farmer is able to do cultivation and produce food for human being etc. You can also append to this list.

It is true that without ego one wouldn't wish to do anything. We can't keep the ego away from mankind. But it can be utilized for dedicated work.

There is nothing wrong when a successful person expresses his ego for his achievements. But it is not acceptable when a person does any harm to other human being because of his ego.

The human beings spend their professional life with many colleagues. The environment of a work place to be conducive, it is required for all the human beings not to hurt any other person's ego, self esteem by his work or word. When all the co-workers implement this fact in their life, the work place becomes comfortable.

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###  Glossary

Bhajan: Hindu devotional song

Guru: Guide

Kaurava: Hundred sons of Dhritarastra

Kirtan: Call and response chanting of the devotional song

Mantra: Hindu or Buddhist devotional incantation

Maya: Indian metaphysical doctrine of the empirical world as a product of illusion

Panch Mahabhuta: Five basic elements (earth, water, air, fire, sky)

Pandava: Five sons of Pandu

Pooja: Worship

Samarpan: Giving up all the activities unto the Supreme Soul.

Yaghna: Organized way of pooja with fire for oblation

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### About the Author

The author was born on 22nd May 1975, in the village Binayakpur, District Bhadrak in the State of Odisha, INDIA. The author is a PhD in Nuclear Physics and currently working as a Scientist. The author is a practitioner of martial art and spiritual healing. Along with study for various degrees from his child hood through the stage of youth, an interest for the philosophy of life, value of life and understanding the meaning of success guided him for understanding the life in better way. Importance has been given for health and happiness. The author has grown up with the philosophy of Monism. These aspects lead him to write three books as Samarpan, Spiritual Youth and We are made by Choice not by Chance.

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### Book from Same Author

1. Spiritual Youth

2. We are made by choice not by chance

### Spiritual Youth

###  Preface

Spiritual Youth is philosophical thoughts to empower the modern man. In the age of modernization of the material world, the modern men become restless and ignore to realize the real world. Through this book I have tried to discuss a philosophy that would help the modern men to enjoy the material world with real sense.

Spiritual Youth does not preach the men to go away from the material world rather it emphasizes the growth of the men in the material world. The material world is made for the human beings. The philosophy discussed in this book may help the human beings to create opportunity for their growth, to realize their existence and to realize the divinity within them while enjoying the material world.

The philosophy discussed in this book may help the human beings to recognize the power of his freewill and how to execute it. This book covers most of the elements of human life like health, wealth, success and happiness. Those who pick up this book are requested to read completely and if necessary read it many times. I hope this book will be helpful to know yourself, to know your responsibilities and to know how to achieve the goals in your life.

The emphasis is given for self realization through self analysis. The person himself is the best critics for his work and words. You are made to win; you are made to enjoy this magnificent creation of the Supreme Soul.

The human beings are here in this universe to flourish not to perish.

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### We are made by choice not by chance

###  Preface

We are living in a mysterious universe. The whole universe is mysterious, startling; still beautiful. Philosophy and science both are used to unravel many mysteries in the universe. One question always strike to the mind of philosophers and scientists whether the universe is made by chance or it is a choice of the Supreme Soul! Why does the incorpeal Supreme Soul make this universe and how is it made?

Science is working to discover many natural laws and also become successful to unravel many mysteries. Physics was existed before physicist got birth, chemistry was existed before chemists got birth and also biology was existed before biologists got birth; because the great scientist was there before the creation of this universe.

The whole universe is made in scientific and logical manner. The things we see around us are not made by chance rather it is made for a purpose. It is a choice to make the things to fulfil a purpose. The modern scientific research works to find out that purpose and become successful in many cases. When the science is successful to unravel any mystery the universe seems more mysterious.

In this book I tried to put up my own opinion to proof the act of the Supreme Soul for creation of this magnificent universe. The readers are requested not to use this book for scientific reference. The scientific facts are used for the general purpose to give a flavour for their understanding.

There are many such examples present around us those are startling for the human mind. I have discussed few examples from the nature to establish the logic for the act of the Supreme Soul.

Science needs evidence where as philosophy prove the subject through logical thoughts. Science fills the stomach, keeps the physical body fit and provides comfort and luxury to human life whereas the philosophy helps the human consciousness to develop. For the human beings it is equally important to develop their consciousness as like to live a luxurious life.

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