|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 357 – The legend of Lord Krishna -  205

The Dhwadhasha Skandha of Srimad Bhagavath Mahapuran describes the concept of ‘complete surrender’/Ashraya.  The human intellect always seeks for welfare, happiness, and protection, and often gets disappointed in missing any of these comforts, ignorant seek protection and comfort in the members of the family or material things, eventually get over-dependent on it, and lower themselves to the status of a beggar.  The study of spirituality teaches whom to depend? Who’s the provider of comfort and protection of the Jeeva until death?  it educates to lean on the supreme soul who is the cause for the functioning of mind and intellect, protector of the soul while the three states such as sleep, awaken and dream.  The illustrious Yogis and Rishis attained union with the supreme soul and lived in a state of Bhramam/supreme bliss. 

The highest of the revelation was made by the ancient Rishis were all those imaginary relationships in the human lives are formed by the ‘thoughts’/ intellect and mind, due to the existence of the supreme soul, if the mind and intellect did not function properly; none of the relationships would have been formed or exists.  Therefore the intellectuals found that the ‘thoughts’ are the primary cause for the interest in material matters and bondage.  The thoughts that are constructed  about the material well-being, people and comforts bring disappointments in the long run due to its destructive nature as Prakrithi, hence they vested thoughts on the indestructible supreme soul which beyond birth or death, eternal, and changeless.  The thoughts have subtle and fleeting nature as the Prakrithi, therefore it cannot get attached to people or wealth, or fame, or richness for a long time, soon it will find boredom, like the sun rays falling on the Earth does return to its origin.  Spirituality is the practice of all that have learned from scriptures about the subtle nature of the supreme soul reside as the soul in all the living beings, its indestructible nature and the thorough knowledge of material matters and bondage, that have destructible nature of Prakrithi, hence the  practice of  not getting attached to the material well-being and elevate the soul with the constant practice of meditation and Pranayama, eventually attain the union of the soul with the supreme soul, to lead a contented life.