How can we attain Liberation? | Sri Sathya Sai Answers

What distinguishes one's inner self from the universal essence of all beings? Why is one entangled in the cycle of birth and death? How can one transform one's narrow sense of love into something boundless and eternal? What is ego? What is the relation between body, mind and liberation?

In this video, Sri Sathya Sai Answers these questions...

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Video Transcription:
Embodiments of Divinity!
There is only one God who resides in all hearts.
His name is ‘Dweller of the human heart’.
We must understand the difference between mind and heart.
Heart refers to the physical heart associated with the human body.
This physical heart helps in the purification and circulation of blood all over the body.
However, the mind is not associated with the physical body.
The mind is not in the body.
It transcends the physical body.
That is why it is said that “The world originates from the mind”. The mind pervades the entire world.
Therefore, it is not associated with the body.
But this physical heart is only associated with the body.
There are two other names, ‘Buddhi’ and ‘Medha’.
This ‘Medha’ means the power that controls all sensory organs.
This may be called a control room.
But this ‘Buddhi or intellect’ is not associated with the body.
This ‘Medha’ is associated with the senses.
That is why ‘Buddhi’ has been described as transgressing all the senses.
People show their bodies and think that ‘Buddhi’ is in their body.
Buddhi always transcends the body.
Therefore, both the mind and the intellect are illuminations of the Atman, but they do not belong to the body.
What humans call as mind is only a bundle of thoughts. It is not the real mind.
This mind is associated with the thought processes (both firm resolve and wavering).
But the mind, which transcends the physical body, is associated with Divinity.
Hence, only by destroying the mind can one attain Divinity.
The mind, which transcends the thought processes, is the reflection of Atman (Soul).
A combination of all these three is only one.
What is this?
This is a piece of cloth.
This is not cloth, a bundle of threads.
Not a bundle of threads but cotton.
Cotton, a bundle of threads, and cloth are the same.
Similarly, the words Atman (Soul), Buddhi (Intellect), and Manas (Mind) represent only one thing.
These transcend the ego, sense of attachment, and other human weaknesses.
This may also be called ‘Aham’.
‘Aham’ stands for consciousness.
In the Atman, Aham lives as awareness.
When this Aham is associated with Aakaram (form), it becomes Ahamkaram (ego).
There is a need to find out and understand the difference between ‘Aham’ and ‘Ahankaram’.
Considering the form as consciousness is the ego.
Consciousness transcends the form.
Consciousness is that which gives up the form; it is that which renounces the form.
Aham Brahmasmi. That ‘Aham’ is Brahman itself.
Brahman and Atman convey only one thing.
What do you mean by Brahman?
The consciousness that exists in every human being is Brahman.
That is called consciousness.
What is inside the body is Atman.
That is called conscience.
There is a need for recognising the difference between conscience and consciousness.
Conscience is only a reflection of consciousness.
When you give up the body, these two together become one.
One small example.
There is air everywhere.
You fill a balloon with air.
You have tied its mouth.
The air, which is all-pervasive, is freely circulating everywhere.
But the air that is confined in the balloon is restricted within that balloon alone.
This is the type of Atmic principle associated with oneness.
The other one is associated with the diversity of all the people.
That is the omniscient principle of Atman.
The one associated with the body is called ‘Bhuta Atma’.
The other one is Paramatma (the Divine Self).
There is a need to understand the difference between the individual Self and the universal Self.
In the individual Self, there is only a small portion of the air present.
If you want to merge this individual Self with the Paramatma, then what do you do?
If you keep pumping air into the balloon more and more, the balloon bursts and the air in it merges with the vast air outside.
Our body may be compared to a balloon.
We are filling this with the love of myself and my people in a narrow manner.