Doing something wrong from a moral or material standpoint is not the only meaning of temptation. Forgetting your soul by becoming too engrossed in the body and its comforts is temptation too.
– Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
A beautiful reminder – something I have said all along. You are the soul. Forgetting that is the biggest error
People go about taking about samadhi – the highest. But it is not that easy. It is difficult to break the knowledge / awareness of the body.
You cannot go to the soul that easily. It is covered by three other bodies. We know the gross physics body.
We dream. That body is a subtle body. Allowed have dove is shifted awareness away from physical body to subtle body. Lastly we sleep and go to a dreamless state. We are aware it was dreamless. That body oh so something similar to karana body.
NONE oF THOSE BODIES OR STATES IS AWARE OF THE SOUL. SAMADHI IS RARE !
Generally it takes many births to get there. When your there you simply know it. It is peace. Not a thought. Not a single emotion. In that state there is tremendous power. It ok so aware of the multiple dream body it has effected enacted over many births
Now a Yogi is still not satisfied. He goes further. He figures out where the soul came from and in the course he realizes that even the soul was an illusion. It was God all along. The dream was god. The dreamer / soul was god.
These things appear slowly. If we rush it , we go sideways and our goal is lost. This is the nature of progress. We cannot rush a mango tree to give us mangoes. It takes 20 years. We cannot get fine wine overnight We cannot become a doctor as soon as we enter kindergarten.
Once the error of identifying with body is made it is not easily undone. That error is Maya. Or Satan. Someday all will reach there. Even a stone.
The Atman or self is subtle. Present everywhere. We only know of it in the body but that is not true
How do I become aware.
PURITY IS THE KEY. without purity one cannot know self. It instantly gets enmeshed in delusion.
Someday I will write more about purity. Going to church, reading scriptures, or charity work – maybe be good. But they are tools to become pure.
Bhavin