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I am a spiritual person living in this material universe on planet earth. Everything that I touch, see, hear, smell, think, and otherwise experience here is made of material energy. The Vedic yoga literature describes this material energy as consisting of five basic gross elements: earth, water, fire, air, and ether, or space, and three subtle elements: mind, intelligence, and false ego. I am not made of material energy, but my body is. It is a combination of the gross and subtle elements.

Scientists have identified many different atomic elements and particles in their attempts to explain the universe, but they are still scratching the surface in developing a full understanding of material energy. The general view of the scientific community is that matter is the only energy that exists. However, the Vedic understanding is that there is another energy, the energy of life, and that is the life-force in all bodies that animates and brings life to matter. Beyond the universe of matter is the universe made of spiritual energy. I am a spiritual being who belongs in that spiritual universe.

What do I experience here in the material world? I am an eternal spiritual being, but I experience death. I am full of knowledge, but I experience ignorance. I am joyful by nature, but I suffer misery. I crave loving relationships and friendship, but they always end in sadness. I am frustrated in so many ways.

One major example of this frustration is time, which measures out my life in this body, and ultimately destroys it, along with everything in the material world. Even the most apparently strong constructions are broken down by time. An enormous ocean-going liner or a powerful locomotive last only thirty something years before they must be scrapped. Time is a mysterious thing. When I need more time, it seems to speed up, when I am bored or waiting in anticipation it seems to slow down. Time frustrates and then ends all my experiences.

I remember sitting in a classroom when I was 10, just looking at my classmates and wondering what we all were. I was looking at their bodies but feeling that there was more to the person than that. Earlier in my life, my stepsister had drowned in the community pool, and we went to the funeral home to see her body in the casket. When I touched her body, it was cold. I knew she was gone, and that the body lying there was not her. When she was present in her body it was attractive, but her dead body was not. What had made it attractive in the past was her presence as a living being, animating her body. It is the presence of a living being that animates the bodies of all creatures in this world.

According to the Vedas this animating force, the living being, is eternal, never dying.

Only the material body of the indestructible, immeasurable, and eternal living entity is subject to destruction; therefore, fight, O descendant of Bharata.
Bhagavad-Gita 2:18 

For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying, and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
Bhagavad-Gita 2:20

Know that which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul.
Bhagavad-Gita 2:17

Although I am eternal, I am covered by illusion that blocks any recollection of my eternal existence. This illusion also makes me believe I am this body, and that I can find happiness by making my body happy. This illusion masks the suffering of life in a temporary body; it cheats me into imagining the material world exists for my pleasure. Like a master magician, an illusionist, it hides the truth from me. I have amnesia and do not even know who I am or why I am here.

But I can come out from under the darkness of illusion. Enlightenment is attainable. I can come to know and experience my true, eternal nature, even while living within a material body in the material world. I can come to realize that the temporary pleasures of the body are not truly fulfilling. And I can begin to inquire about the higher purpose of my existence.

If I understand that I am only temporarily in this body, then I will see that attaining wealth, fame, high position, friendships, and wonderful family do not give me any lasting happiness or fulfillment. When my time runs out, I must leave everything material behind. But there is a world beyond the decaying world of time, birth, disease, old age, and death. My essence is spiritual, and my ultimate eternal home is in the world of spiritual energy.

How do I travel there? There is a process described in the Vedas as being both the easiest and the most sublime method to transcend this world of matter. It is the process of meditation on transcendental sound, mantra, and this allows me to enter that spiritual world even while still in a physical body.

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Sahadeva das is an initiated disciple of Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa who comes in a long line of bona fide yoga spiritual masters. Sahadeva das considers it his great fortune in life to have heard and learned from a self-realized soul and is humbly attempting to pass on what he has received.

Where have I come from? If I trace my time in this world back through the years, it might seem that I came from a cramped womb, via the process of birth. I was squeezed out into blinding light and cold, into an abrupt change in environment. But was this really the beginning of my existence in this world?

Vedic literature tells me that I am an eternal living being and that I have repeatedly undergone the experience of birth.

As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.
Bhagavad-Gita 2:13

This may be the only body I recall having but previously I was in another body. When that body died, I left it and passed into this new body which grew in my mother’s womb.

Above, a man is changing garments, and below the soul is changing bodies.
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I can remember the different stages of my body as it grew, my small child’s body, my boyhood body, my teenager body, and so on. And now I am in an old man’s body! I, the soul, have passed through these different bodies. My body has changed, but I still feel that I am the same person I have always been.

This is because I am the eternal person within the body, not the ever changing and temporary body itself. I have been here all along, watching the changing of the body. Death is just another change of body.

For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying, and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
Bhagavad-Gita 2:20 

I am an eternal spiritual being, and I do not need a material body. In fact, I do not belong in the material world at all. I came from an eternal spiritual world, the real home of the eternal living beings, where there is no birth and death.

Please watch this 10+ min video discourse from Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa about the evidence of the unchanging self to know more.

I have been here in the material universe so long that it is impossible to trace out the exact history of my entry. But I don’t have to stay here. I may have amnesia and no longer know my eternal home. I may have forgotten who I really am. But these memories are not lost, they are just buried, covered by the illusion that I am this material body.

Above, a devotee is engaged in various devotional activities for the Deities (authorized incarnations of the Lord, who comes in this form to accept our service). Below, a sankhya-yogi engages in the analytical study of matter and spirit. After some time, he realizes the Lord (the forms of Radha and Krsna include all other forms of the Lord) within his heart, and then he engages in devotional service.
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I am an eternal spiritual being, and I will never be happy within the temporary material world of birth and death. My amnesia can be cured by the process of Bhakti Yoga. This is the easiest and most powerful of all yoga practices. By Bhakti Yoga alone, I can return to my original position in the spiritual world.

That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. Being so situated, even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God.
Bhagavad-Gita 2:72 

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