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We are essentially divine. Divine spark is always present in our heart, but our long association with this world and attachment to the material makes us deluded. We forget our real nature and behave like an ordinary creature.
A certain King lost his mental balance and was roaming in the streets of his own town like a beggar. He was asking everyone whom he came across, "Where is the King? I want to meet the King", though he himself was the King. The Ministers went out to search their beloved king and found him sitting on the roadside with a begging bowl. They could recognise him, and after treating him, restored him to the throne. Teaching of great personalities like Sri Ramakrishna. Swami Vivekananda, holy scriputres such as the Gita and the Upanishads work like a medicine to remove the veil of ignorance and make us realise our own kingdom.
A fish once heard from a Sadhu that ocean is very vast and it is a great joy to swim in the ocean. It went to its mother to enquire about the ocean. When the mother expressed her ignorance they both went to their relatives and friends asking about the ocean. When they did not get the right answer all of them started their search to discover the ocean, while all the time they were in the ocean. And that is ignorance. All the time we are in the ocean of consciousness, but we are unaware of it.
"But mark you, if you give up that spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round."--- Swami Vivekananda
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