Man is in search of happiness, but has no peace of mind. Even if he succeeds in achieving his objectives, he remains dissatisfied. His search for peace and happiness, therefore, never ends. God gave us the senses for using them properly, but we misuse them by indulging in sensual pleasures; whereas the bliss for which we should have striven remains enshrined in scriptures only. Man is an ensouled entity gifted with body, mind, and intellect. He takes good care of his body for the sake of his domestic, social, and political well-being. Intellectually, he has made strident advances. He has successfully explored the earth, oceans, and space and has made atomic bombs. A single atom bomb can destroy millions. Strangely enough, with all his achievements he remains ignorant about the prime source of energy from which his body and mind derive their strength - soul - his true self. He has so much identified himself with the body that he is unable to distinguish his soul from the body. In fact, he does not know that his real self is something separate from the body. Have we ever thought about the propelling force in us? Have we recognized the indweller of the house? Soul is a conscious entity. Just as any essence has its basic source, soul too has an ultimate source — the Oversoul — a vast Ocean of All-Consciousness. The entire universe is His manifestation. The soul is identified with the material body by constant association with the senses. Man does not know that he can have true happiness only when he is able to disfranchise the self in him from the outer vestures. He is so much entangled with the mind and body that he ever remains unhappy and restless. Soul being conscious and body being material, these cannot coexist amiably.

 Man get unconscious (selfish) and break God’s rules, invent the followings;{substances abuse smoking products, making indecent dresses (clothes) wearing, body tattooing, black and white magic makers, vaudoo worshipers, homosexuals and lesbians activities, discriminations, Idleness, jealousies and hypocrisies, complaining} and such are tools Devil use to suck blood ,and kill the man. 1Corinthians 3 -18 says that: Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s Temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s Temple. God will destroy him; for God’s Temple is sacred, and you are that temple.1 Peter 5:8 describes him accurately, “Be sober-minded; be watchful.  Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” Romans 6:20 says, “For when you were slaves to sin, you were free in regards to righteousness.  But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed?  For the end of those things is death.” You see, anyone who is a slave to sin doesn’t understand their predicament.  That is why they boast in themselves and are not ashamed.  Their end is in death, eternal death. Psalms 55 :12- 16 mentioned that : If an an enemy were insulting me,I could endure it; if a foe were raising himself against me,I could hide from him.But it is you,a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship as we walked with the throng at the house of God.Let death take my enemy by surprise,let them go down alive to the grave for evil finds lodging among them .But I call to God and the Lord saves me

We pretend to be religious by reading the scriptures without knowing their true importance and by offering ceremonial prayers at the places of worship. All that we worship is physical health and worldly riches. We aspire for material well-being and not for God-realization. Most of us offer our prayers to God only because we want to fulfill our worldly ambitions. We seek God's blessings to become physical and intellectual giants. Thus, to us God is only a means to worldly ends. Consequently, we get only that we crave for; i.e., the material world and not God. To know God we must first know ourselves. From time immemorial many have tried to define God philosophically. But He remains undefined as ever. God cannot be realized by the body or intellect or senses. He can only be experienced by the soul. Unless we know ourselves, the question of knowing God does not arise. Thus, the first step in this direction is self-knowledge which precedes God-knowledge. I ask  to myself to which religion that I belong to? The answer is, while writing this article I feel that God update my unconscious spirit and eliminate the inner vices, defects and wickedness which every human being carries within .All religions are man-made. God has not put a stamp of religion on anyone. To know the Controlling Power of the universe, it is inevitable and essential to "know thyself," as Christ has put it.

It implies that our attention is presently linked with something other than the Word. What is meant by attention? It is consciousness, a state of awakening or awareness. We may call it attention, spirit, or soul. It is this life current emanating from our self (soul) which acts as a driving force within us., where is the source of these currents? It is at the seat of the soul between the two eyebrows. What happens at the time of death? Life withdraws from the feet and rises to the back of the eyes. The power which is concentrated behind the eyes is our real self. After that power is withdrawn, the body is of no significance. This is the most important and mostly ignored subject.In order to probe further into this subject, one has to realize that soul is an entity distinct from the body. We have to learn and practice to withdraw the soul currents from lower centers of the body to the eye focus. This process is similar to the one undergone by the soul at the time of one's physical death. We have to rise above body-consciousness. The theoretical knowledge of this process is not enough. Practice is far more important. An ounce of practice is more than tons of theory. The soul is a drop of the Ocean of All-Consciousness, but is covered by numerous sheaths of body, mind, and senses. So long as a man is engrossed in the material world, he remains unaware of the Devine spirit within him. People generally get lost in various Names of God. The whole world talks of God, but there are only a few who know the real significance of God. It is a practical subject. Unless we realize ourselves by rising above body-consciousness, soul cannot establish a contact with the Oversoul. We have, therefore, to link our soul with God’s Principle. To get in contact with the Divine Light, one has to rise above body-consciousness by self-analysis

 The keynote to success is one's own thoughts." To make a mark in any walk of life, you have to concentrate your attention on that particular aspect. This body and wealth will not be of any help when confronted with the negative power."The human body is the soul's first companion. It comes first with the soul when the child is born. But even this companion leaves us at the time of death, not to mention other worldly associations acquired by us. Our own being, having constant attachment with the physical world, has fallen to the latter's level. As a result, we have to come to this mortal world again and again. If we are able to analyze the self in our lifetime and learn to rise above body consciousness by getting a higher contact with God, we experience such a bliss as to forget all worldly pleasures and attachments: When one gets a taste of the real bliss, the pleasures become insipid. The real bliss is either within our inner being—God-into-action Power— since soul is its essence.Soul is a spark of the Divine Essence. It is bliss in itself, and it is a conscious entity. It is the soul which is the source of all bliss and not the body and worldly things. God has warned us that worldly objects, in which our attention is engrossed, are not going to be of real help to us. Not only that all these worldly objects will stay back at the time of death, but their constant attachment will bring the soul back again and again to this world. "What does it profit a man to gain the possession of the whole world and to lose one's own soul." The soul resides in this house (body). it has to go out of this mortal frame leaving everything behind. When the time comes to vacate this body, one is greatly distressed because of man's attachment with the body. Repenting then is of no avail. If during one's lifetime the soul establishes a contact with the Beyond, it attains perfect peace. But, we never think of the world beyond. We generally follow the maxim: "Eat, drink, and be merry." If someone reminds us of death, we just ignore it by saying that we will face it when it comes. This is not a wise approach. If a pigeon closes its eyes at the sight of a cat, the cat is not going to spare it. Everyone has to leave the body. There is no exception to the rule. "Emperors or kings, rich or poor, All have but to go in their turn. We all have to go, but we do not know when. We should be prepared for the change. Are we?" Everyone is scared of death and wishes to live till eternity; if one learns to die while alive, one can become a conscious worker of the Lord. Whosoever so dies, gets salvation?

If you learn to die by rising above body consciousness, you will attain everlasting life. God has bestowed us with three forms: physical, astral, and supramental or causal. We are already active at the physical plane through the senses. After leaving the physical body, the soul acquires the astral form. With the astral senses it can traverse the astral plane. Similarly, after attaining suprarnental form the soul can enter into the causal plane. It is beyond these three planes that the soul gets self-knowledge. It is only at that stage that you will be able to know who you really are. The world is being consumed by invisible flames of fire.This is the fire of desires that has spread all over." Although we are its victims, we are unable to perceive it. Only God know the real magnitude of this fire. Yet only human life is capable of getting away from this blazing furnace. That is why human life is considered to be the crown of creation. But without sincere effort in the right direction, there can be no salvation. For instance, if we have to avoid scorching heat, we have to find shelter in an air-conditioned room. In our context, the air-conditioned room is within us. We shall have to withdraw from outside and enter into it to find blissful solace from all the miseries of the world. This is best time that we introvert ourselves. If we miss this God-given opportunity, we are no better than beasts. The human body has a worth so long as the soul dwells in it. We should make the most of it while it lasts.

Man is enveloped by flames of passionate desires, anger, greed, attachment, and vanity. One can escape himself from delusion only by contacting the Word within. The most important task before us, therefore, is to withdraw our attention from outside and get attuned with the Divine Melody within. Then comes eternal peace in the form of the Word. Whosoever has accomplished this essential task is really successful in life. Otherwise, any amount of learning, name and fame have no real meaning. It is time that we learn to rise above body-consciousness and know the real self in us. Those who have disciplined their senses can free themselves from the influence of enemies like lust, anger, greed, attachment, and vanity. These five deadly enemies attack us through the five senses. You can escape their fatal attacks if you rise above body-consciousness. John 1:1-51  ; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 1 John 1:5-7 ; This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.  John 1:5 ; The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 3:19-21 ; And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Having said that, it's safe to say that "living in darkness" general means "living in sin". And while "sin" can be described in terms of actions, like murder or fornication, it ultimately means rebellion against or rejection of God. Christians are those people who no longer walk in darkness because they live with God as their king. Non-Christian people, even if they "live a good life", continue to reject God and therefore remain in darkness. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  The outer darkness of judgment is accompanied by “weeping and gnashing of teeth.” The “weeping” describes an inner pain of the heart, mind, and soul. The word in the original denotes a bewailing or lamentation by beating the breast in an expression of immense sorrow. The “gnashing of teeth” describes an outward pain of the body. Taken together, the weeping and gnashing of teeth says hell is a place of indescribable spiritual agony and unending physical pain (see Luke 16:23-28). The outer darkness is a place of anguish, heartache, grief, and unspeakable suffering. Such will be the lot of all who reject Christ (John3:18, 36). Christ is the Light of the World (John 8:12). When one rejects the Light, he will be cast into eternal darkness. Just like the man in the parable, the one who rejects Christ will lose his chance for joy, blessing and fellowship and will be left with nothing but darkness and eternal regret.

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