The scriptures explain there are three realizations of God. One is the unmanifest impersonal light of God, the other is the localized presence of God who is personally seated within everyone’s heart and the third is the Lord who is the supreme source of everything that exists, who is personally residing in the spiritual realm engaging in eternal pastime with His eternal associates. That is called Bhagavan.
Merging into the Brahman is the goal taught by Shankaracharya, the incarnation of Lord Shiva. He is teaching how to liberate oneself from all material bondage, from all suffering, from all ignorance, and enter into the eternal light of transcendental consciousness. Or the light of eternity. According to the Bhagavatam and the Vaishnav philosophers it is explained that this is the partial realization of the absolute truth beyond freedom, which means to completely forget one’s individuality and to simply merge into an existence. A deeper and higher realization of God than this is to realize our eternal loving relationship with the Lord. Which is higher? Freedom or love. Within love is freedom. Within bhakti or prema automatically liberation is included. But it is not a dull relationship. It is an eternally dynamic relationship in which a spirit soul eternally reciprocates in pure love in a totally liberated position with God.
By Radhanath Swami
What an explanation of Bhakti by Radhanath Swami. He has made the things so clear and simple.
Kudos to HH Radhanath Swami.
As Swamiji points out Real Love for a person can be shown by taking care of not his physical and mental well being but most importantly of spiritual well being.
nice article
The concepts of impersonal liberation & bhakti are very nicely explained herein by Radhanath Swami Maharaj
Everyone is hankering for love… and only GOD can satisfy that.
Follow Radhanath Swami on your journey toward GOD and an eternal existence of loving reciprocations.
Three stages of realisation are really very important.Thanks
Thankyou Radhanath Swami for taking us to the next and final step in spritual platform.
Radhanath Swami has so simply and lucidly explained such a deep and complex subject matter. Our true happiness is in serving the Bhagavan feature of the Lord.
Radhanath Swami is expert on this subject he is able to give so much clarity.
Its so nice to get a complete understanding of vedic wisdom. With above understanding we can see how various people worship the Supreme Lord at their level of realization – there is no conflict every one is in different standards but in the same school of God!
Within love is freedom! WoW!
Thank you Radhanath Swami for clarifyig the importance of Bhagwan realisation, which is a loving exchange between the devotees and the Lord
great article Radhanath Swami explains in detail about self realization.
Nice.
The code is “within love is freedom”.
Radhanath Maharaj once told me that “Mukti is servant at the door of Bhakti”
Thank you very much Maharaj
Maharaj has so wonderfully explained how merging into Brahman should not be our goal, goal should be to develop LOVE with GOD.
Maharaj has so wonderfully explained how merging into Brahman should not be our goal, goal should be to develop with GOD.
Radhanath Swami Maharaj always stresses on love in all of his lectures.
This is a beautiful explanation of the 3 phases of the absolute truth, thank you Radhanath Swami!
Beautifully explained by Radhanath swami. Thanks for sharing this nectar by Radhanath swami 🙂
Short but complete
Hari Bol.
We are all looking for love then why not to love the Supreme person “Lord Krishna” who can perfectly reciprocate our love. Love is indeed higher than freedom. Thank you Maharajah.
Thank you Radhanath Swami Maharaj.
Thank you very much Maharaj.
Thanks for wonderful explanation,it nicely explains how God is personal
Very nice article
Wow! Hear Radhanath Swami has shared the stages of God realization from its basics to the top-most, so simply.
Wow! What a statement – within love is freedom. No one likes to be dull even for a moment, it is our nature to be active. The perfection of this activity is service to God in love.
Realisation of the absolute is extremely important to gain faith and attachment.
On the path of spirituality we must not be satisfied with partial realisation but yearn to achieve complete realisation of God
Thank you for sharing this article by Radhanath Swami on the three stages of God realization.
thank you verymuch maharaj
thank u maharaj
Radhanath Swami has given such a clear and precise explanation on what is often considered to be a very complex phinomena.
Nicely explained by Radhanath Swami. Freedom is subset of Love. As Radhanath Swami says, God is hungry for our love with free will.
In material world people hanker for the best some for BMW when it comes to cars some for Mansion when it comes to house similarly its so important to make a right choice in the path of Spiritituality as well and hanker for the highest truth. You need to meet Radhanath Swami to understand this subject.
Fantastic Point!Love or Prema Bhakti is highest . Higher than even freedom, which so many of us trying to follow in ignorance. Thank you for enlightening us on this Radhanath Swami
To be able to rediscover our dormant love for the Lord would be incredible!
this is the real understanding of the absolute truth. thank u swamiji
All Glories To.H.H. Radhanath Swami Maharaj
What an wonderful explanation of what real path of realisation is.
Hare Krishna
Such a wonderful path of realisation is Bhakti and such a wonderful and simple way has it been explained by Radhanath Swami
This is a very convincing explanation by Radhanath Swami about the superiority of the Personal form of God over the Brahman manifestation.
Thank you for fantastic description
A very description of God Realizations. Radhanath Swami has brilliantly explained why realization achieved through bhakti or love is superior to all the others.
Radhanath Swami has so nicely explained the three levels of God Realizations
Radhanath Swami has so nicely explained the three levels of God Realizations. On reading this, one’s mind becomes very clear about of what must one aspire for. Thank you.
reciprocations of love are indeed most satisfying to the heart.
Maharaj here gives us the difference between thought processes and realizations and what we must really aim for – LOVE of GOD, PREMA. Thanks for sharing such insights.. JAI !!!
Loving relationship with GOD is reciprocal in nature and is never dull for a single moment.
thank you Radhanath Swami for explaining higher realization of god- Lord the supreme personality of godhead.