Understanding the Law to Liberate from Law🔗

See, if you take the responsibility for law, you are liberated from law and you will not feel that it is enforced on you. Whatever you may think or do, life has to run based on certain principles. As long as you don't understand those principles and accept them, they will be bondage for you. The moment you understand and accept them, you are liberated from them. They are no more enforced on you.

That's all is the secret that Mahāvīra is delivering here. Understand, the whole Truth is this only. There is a dharma, a law of life. Somebody asked me, 'Swamiji, do enlightened people also die? Then why should we become enlightened?' I told him, enlightened people don't die like you. What happens to you when you die will not happen to them when they die. You die in a normal way, like your soul leaves the body and the body goes through suffering, and your mind feels miserable because you did not fulfill something. You did not do what you want to do and you did something which you didn't want to do. The fear and greed and everything comes up. You go through suffering and leave the body. But with enlightened beings, there is nothing called fear or greed or suffering. So you can't call their death as death.

There is a law of life. Anybody who has taken the body has to leave the body. In your case, because you did not understand the dharma, the law of life, and accept it, you feel it is enforced on you.

With enlightened Masters, they understand it is dharma and they accept it. Because of that, they don't feel it is enforced on them. They are liberated from the dharma. You are liberated from the law when you take the responsibility of the law. Any law is created for all of us. See, if you look as a whole, you will not criticize any law. Only if you look at it as a part, if you look from your view, you will criticize all laws. If you look as a whole, you won't criticize any law.

Now, all you need to do is the same thing. The cosmic law is dharma. If you look from your angle, you will always feel it is enforced on you. If you look from the angle of cosmic energy, you will feel it is you who created.

All you need to do is to liberate yourself just by expanding. Look from a different angle. You will liberate yourself. Take the responsibility. Understand and accept, you will suddenly feel no law is binding you, nothing is enforced on you. You are not bound by any regulations. You will see you are expressing your being. You are expressing your reality. You are expressing the Truth in your life.

As long as you think you are a body, you can't escape from the pleasures of the physical world. See, when you think you are mature, naturally the small attachments like toys, doll, all these things disappear. Till you are mature, even if you try to renounce the toys, you may renounce physically but you will be thinking about them.

In the same way, till you experience you are consciousness, you can't renounce the physical pleasures. Even if you renounce, you will be mentally thinking about them. The one who does not know the difference between matter and consciousness won't be able to practice restraint. Only when you experience that you are a conscious being can you practice restraint.