"Whithout ' I ', Perfection or Realization is not possible."----Sri Sri Babathakur

Submitted by santanu.das on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 23:18

Swasamvedya Swanubhavadeva Sri Sri Babathakur's august proclamation is that "If there is any God at all then It verily is your Self(Atman/Brahman)." He also says Self(Atman/Brahman) symptomataizes as I in every jiva or monad or creature in the universe and beyond, beyond.
Neither there was, nor there is any man in this universe who could wrote or can write even a single sentence about himself without using I. Even the Godmen, those who come to this world from time to time to enlighten mankind, have used or are using I to refer to themselves.
Practically it is impossible to abstain from using I in the universe (jagat) when it becomes necessary to refer to self(which is nothing but finite expressions of the Absolute-Self, the ' I ' which symptomatizes the Absolute Self the Atman/the Brahman.
Sri Sri Babathakur says that even Perfection or Realization is not possible without ' I '. Because according to His realization, tattvata (according to Absolute Reality) the phenomenal universe is nothing but projection of the ' I ' on the ' I ' only. For example He refers to the bubbles, foams, surf, waves of the sea which are in reality nothing but the projection, formation, variation of the water of the sea only and are nothing else other than the water of the sea.
This ' I ' He says is the substratum of all individual knowledge and so He refers to ' I ' as "Self-Knowledge, Knowledge of Knowledge, the Absolute-Being, the Godhead-Absolute."