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   all these bondages. When one attains liberation of a permanent   
   nature it is called salvation (vimukti or moks'a).   
      
   In a long life a person both acquires virtue and commits sin. One   
   who acquires virtue enjoys the fruits thereof in the supra mental   
   level. That is what is called `heaven' or `svarga'. There is no   
   separate world named heaven. When one's virtue is exhausted, when   
   the requital of one's acquired reactive momenta due to past actions   
   is over, one is born on earth to serve the unrequited reactive   
   momenta due to past actions (sam'ska'ras). And according to the   
   nature of these reactive momenta imbibed, one may be reborn as a   
   dog, or one may also get a human life. Heaven is the stage between   
   the two lives lived as human beings. No-one acquires heaven   
   permanently because no one acquires infinite virtue - that is a mere   
   figment of the imagination.   
      
   A person who does virtuous deeds in order to reach heaven never   
   becomes immortal, can never attain salvation. One who performs good   
   deeds, one who is charitable, acquires virtue and enjoys the bliss   
   of virtue in the life after death. Thereafter, in order to requite   
   the unserved or base reactive momenta as a result of past actions   
   one is reborn as a human being or even as an animal. What is gained   
   by all that? Where there is no desire for the attainment of heavenly   
   pleasure, where there is no other consideration except elevation to   
   the level of the Supreme Consciousness, human beings attain   
   liberation. That is, people become one with the Supreme by the grace   
   of the Supreme.   
      
   One who realizes God becomes God. This self knowledge, this   
   attainment of God within one's own self, this unification of the two   
   entities, is the path of attaining salvation. Now the question   
   arises, who is entitled to salvation?   
      
   Human beings are creatures dominated by intellect. Those guided by   
   mere inborn instincts are called animals. So those who have certain   
   inborn instincts, but who are basically guided by intellect or mind,   
   are known as `human beings'. That's why I say repeatedly that I   
   strongly object to human beings defined as `rational animals'. How   
   can human beings be rational animals? They are certainly not   
   animals. When one acquires a human body what should one do? One   
   should guide one's inborn instincts along the proper path. This only   
   can be done after acquiring a human body." (THE MINIMUM   
   QUALIFICATIONS FOR A SA'DHAKA, A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 4, 9   
   November 1978 evening, Kalika'ta')   
      
   So all human beings with a human body are entitled to spiritual   
   salvation.  How is it attained?   
      
   "To attain Him, the unit mind, the base of all such discriminatory   
   feelings, has got to be immersed in the cosmic flow. There is no   
   other way."  (THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION, Subha's'ita Sam'graha Part   
   5, Ka'rttiik Pu'rn'ima 1956, Supaul)   
      
   Spiritual salvation cannot be attained through religious rituals. It   
   requires spiritual practices and devotion.   
      
   "If someone argues that an arum dish rather than a potato dish   
   should be offered in the temple of Jagannath because potato is non-   
   indigenous it is the height of absurdity. Does Jagannath make any   
   discrimination between different countries? Is there any difference   
   for God between the river Ganges and the Jordan? All lands are His   
   own land; everything is within His mind, created with His own atoms   
   and molecules, and resonated with His sacred ideation.   
      
   Those whose preachings encourage such discriminatory feelings are   
   the worst enemies of humanity. These are the people who in every age   
   in the name of religion have caused blood to flow, and have injected   
   the fear of heaven and hell, of ghosts and demons into the human   
   mind. These are the people who made human beings lifeless puppets.   
   And even today these vested interests are still trying to perpetrate   
   discrimination in a thousand and one ways. In this way they have   
   cheated the simple, mute and gullible masses for centuries together.   
   They do not have the key to salvation; no, they hold only one thing   
   in their hands: the binding rope. They don't possess the spirit or   
   the valour to sing the songs of human emancipation. Their eyes do   
   not shine with the radiance of universalism, but squint with the   
   greed and cruelty of vultures." (THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION,   
   Subha's'ita Sam'graha Part 5, Ka'rttiik Pu'rn'ima 1956, Supaul)   
      
   For spiritual salvation, it is necessary to understand the infinite   
   nature of God.   
      
   "O Lord, if the goddess of knowledge wrote for all eternity with an   
   ink tablet the size of the Himalayas, an ink-well the size of the   
   ocean, a branch of the tree of heaven as a pen, and the vast   
   lithosphere for paper, still she could never finish writing your   
   qualities."  (SHABDA CAYANIKA' PART 3, DISCOURSE 15, AOKTHA /   
   AOKTHAKA / AOKTHIKA TO AOKS'A, 22 December 1985, Calcutta)   
      
   "The Supreme Consciousness, the father of all fathers, the multiple   
   of all multiplicities, the nucleus of all nuclei, knows everything.   
   He is omniscient. He knows everything. The Cosmic Father knows   
   everything. He is omniscient, pre-scient and post-scient. The earth   
   is established in Him. What has happened in the past is within the   
   vibrational principle. What is going to happen in future is also   
   within the vibrational principle. Present has got no independent   
   existence. It is nothing but an adjustment between the past and the   
   future. That is why the present varies in accordance with personal   
   differences. The omniscient Consciousness is the Lord of both heaven   
   and hell. There is no place outside Him." (SPIRITUAL CULT: PROGRESS   
   FROM CRUDEST MATTER TO SUBTLEST ENTITY, Subha's'ita Sam'graha Part   
   19, 1 January 1971)   
      
   So, remember that God is One and the real spiritual practice is the   
   union of unit consciousness with Supreme Consciousness (God).  All   
   the rest is a bogus ism.   
      
   ---   
      
   All above extracts from the works of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti   
      
      
      
      
      
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