Self-realization does not mean something humbug | Srila Prabhupada

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Prabhupada, Hawaii, January 31, 1975: […] Self-realization does not mean something humbug. Self-realization means to understand his real constitutional position, what I am. Just like Sanatana Gosvami approached Srila Gaurasundara, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He asked, ke ami: “Who I am?” Ke ami… Ke ami, kene amaya jare tapa-traya: “What is my constitutional position? Why I am suffering the three-fold miseries of this material existence?”

This is the enquiry. Everyone is suffering. Somebody is in ignorance. Although he is suffering, he is thinking that he is very well. This is called maya. Maya means you are accepting something which is not. This is called maya. Ma ya: “What you are accepting, that is false.” This is called maya. So we are accepting, “I am this body,” “I am American,” “I am Indian,” “I am Christian,” “I am Hindu,” “I am black,” “I am white,” “I am thin,” “I am fat.” So this is maya. So when we give up this maya conception of life, that is mukti. You may remain in the same body, but if you are not under maya, bodily concept of life, that is called mukti, liberation.

So therefore it is said, daivi sampad vimoksaya. Moksa, moksa means liberation. If you develop this daivi sampat, then you become fit for becoming liberated because our… What is the position? Why we are suffering? Why we are dying? Why we are taking birth? Why we are becoming old? On account of this material body. This is knowledge. Jnana-vairagya. Jnana-vairagya-yuktaya. Jnana and vairagya, these things are required.

That is daivi sampat. All the daivi sampat means, jnana-yoga. It is immediately analyzed. Abhayam sattva-samsuddhir jnana-yoga-vyavasthitih. This is possible when you are situated on the platform of knowledge. This is knowledge, that “I am spirit soul. I am falsely identifying myself with this body. The body is the source of my all suffering and entanglement.” This is knowledge. Then, when we try to give up the ignorance of bodily concept of life, then we become gradually liberated. Full Lecture