The Path to Attaining Our Ultimate Aim

The only aim of all the scriptures such as the Vedas and the Puranas is to reveal the path of God realization to all the souls. But even after reading and listening to the differences in spiritual philosophy of the present age, the question still remains of what is the easiest and indisputable path of God realization. The unique feature of the discourses of the supreme Spiritual Master of this age, Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj, is that he reconciles all of these controversies and explains the true philosophy of the scriptures in the most simple language. He expounds the secrets of karm yog, gyan yog and bhakti yog and tells the path of God realization.

There are just two questions facing all the souls of the entire universe: What is our aim? How will that be attained? In uncountable years, we haven't been able to solve these two questions. We acquired vast knowledge in uncountable lifetimes but couldn’t correctly understand the answer to these two questions.

We have listened and intellectually understood the answers, but we didn’t practically experience them. Therefore we are experiencing mental, interpersonal and physical suffering. We are wandering in the 8.4 million species of life in the cycle of birth and death. We are suffering unlimitedly in various ways due to the three qualities of maya, the three kinds of miseries, the five kinds of afflictions, and the five mayic sheaths. This is because the answer to these questions hasn’t been given a practical form. The first question is: What is our aim? What do we want?

You might say that these questions are such that they could have millions of answers. Someone wants something and another person wants something else. There can’t be one answer. Ask a young child, “Son, what do you want?” “I want to pass my exams.” "Why?" “So that I could go to the next grade.” Then? Why do you want this? “So one day I’ll get an MA degree.” "Oh! Why do you want an MA or any other degree?” “So that I can get a good job.” A job? No one wants a job. And you are working so hard for 20-25 years just for a job? Children even dislike the instructions of their own mother and father. No one likes servitude, and you are working so hard to get a job? “Oh no! I am not doing all this for a job. I’ll get money from the job. That is why I am working." So your aim is money. Why do you want this money? “I’ll be able to get everything with money.” What things? “The things that are enjoyed by the five senses – nice things to see, nice things to hear, nice things to smell, nice things to eat, nice things to touch. I will get the best class of objects related to the five desires of the senses.”

So why do you have the desire to get the objects related to the five senses? What is the reason? The reason is: “I will receive happiness and contentment.” Why do you want happiness? Now you are silent. There is no answer. No one has an answer – no matter if he is a human being, a celestial god or a demon. No one has an answer as to why we want happiness.

There is diversity and differentiation in the world. You don’t find two people with the same fingerprints or facial features. Then how could intellects be identical? But, everyone’s intellect demands only one thing: happiness. There is just no answer as to why they desire happiness. They just desire.

Kripaluji Maharaj says the answer to this is only in the Vedas and scriptures. It isn't found in the intellect. The Ved says there is a supreme power, God. You are His child and He is your protector. Both always reside together in the heart of every living being, no matter if it’s a human body, a donkey’s body or a dog’s body. Wherever you may go, your Friend, your Protector, your Father, God, will be with you.

He doesn’t leave you even for a fraction of a second. So that Bhagwan or brahm or paramatma, call Him by any name, is perfect happiness (anand). He is Divine love. He is Bliss. Attain Him and you will attain perfect happiness.

Because the soul is a fraction of God, you desire Him. This is your nature. This could be known through the Ved, not through common sense. Why do we want happiness? Because we are a fraction of perfect happiness.