What must we do to free ourselves from the shackles that bind us? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today so that we do not miss this opportunity.

The river is a part, a portion of the sea; it earns fulfilment when it returns to the sea and merges in its source. Fishes are of water. They live in water and die when deprived of water. The baby is a part of the mother. It cannot survive apart from the mother. The branch is a part of the tree. Cut it off, the tree gets dry and dies. Man is an amsha (a part) of God. He too cannot survive without God. He lives because of the urge to know God, his source. In the Bhagavad Gita the Lord declares (15-7): "All living beings are My amsha (part). I am in them as the Eternal Atma" He indicates. Man lives for a high purpose, not for submitting as the beast does to every demand of instinct and impulse. He has to install himself as the master, not crawl as a slave. He has the right to proclaim Shivoham (I am Shiva), "I am Achyuta" (I am the undiminishable fullness), "I am Ananda" (I am bliss). As soon as one becomes aware of his reality, the chains that bind him, iron as well as gold, fall off and he attains moksha (liberation).