Holy and Pure Spirit

 

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Holy and Pure Spirit

We have been given a soul mantra by our revered Master, His Holiness Shivkrupanand Swami – ‘I am a holy soul, I am a pure soul’. Anyone can chant this mantra and internalise it to actually then get the feeling of being a holy and pure spirit!

Everybody has a clean and pure Self, the image of God – the soul! Each soul is an expression of the same God. In Sanatan dharma – we say ‘Atma se Paramatma tak’ – meaning, ‘the journey from soul to Supreme Soul’ or ‘Nar se Narayan tak’, meaning ‘the journey from man to God’. You can choose to perceive that divine element in each and every living being in nature, functioning through every mind and body. When you learn to do that, you will see the divine element in each and every being and you will realise that the Self is common to everything and everybody.

Once you learn to recognise the Self in everybody – like Swamiji says, 'I see my Guru in every person', similarly we learn to see Swamiji in every soul. By doing this we are actually internalising the concept that we see the God within in each and every being. When this happens, we always feel love and compassion, there is no room for any negative emotion. That means we transcend the concept of so-called sinner and saint. We see each and every being as part of Supreme Consciousness.

We can explain this by a small example – take for instance a clear bulb or a coloured bulb. The coloured bulb gives coloured light, but you cannot say that the electricity that lights the bulb is coloured, can you? The energy that lights up the bulbs is the same; external variations are caused by the bodies through which the energy passes. Same is the case with all of us. The energy, the vibes that emanate from within us, define what kind of person we are.

The same Self functioning through a clean and pure mind shows saintly characteristics in a person. If the mind tends to have all the lower tendencies, you end up calling the person a sinner or person without any values. 

The one who stands supreme is the one who looks beyond the mind-body element and sees the genuine or real spirit beyond it all – even if the person is a so-called sinner. A person who has reached the state of a holy and pure spirit will still love such a person by recognising the true spirit within him.