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When you reach to the platform of Brahman realization... Brahman realization means transcending. We are talking on the transcendental meditation. So transcending the bodily concept of life, transcending the mental concept of life, transcending the intellectual concept of life, when you come to the real spiritual platform, that is called brahma-bhūtaḥ stage.    (More...)

Therefore in the Bhagavad-gita it is said that brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannatma [Bg 18.54]. As soon as one realizes that "I am not this body, so why I should be interested in so-called social life or political life or this life, that life, because they are all due to this bodily conception of life?" So when one understands that "I am not this body, so what business I have got, this bodily conception of activities?" Prasannatma, "I have no responsibility. I have no more responsibility with this bodily platform," prasannatma, he gets relieved of so many engagements on account of this body: "I am Indian. I am a Hindu. I am brahmana. I am chief of this family. I have to take care of the so many persons," and so on, so many responsibilities. And so he feels relieved: "No, I have no responsibility." Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannatma na socati na kahksati [Bg 18.54]. If he does not identify himself with this matter, then if the matter is lost or gained, what he has got to do with it? Na socati na kahksati. Because you have got material attachment, therefore something material lost we lament, and something material we do not possess, we hanker. The two kinds of diseases. So brahma-bhūtaḥ means these things are the symptom: he is joyful, prasannatma, na socati na kahksati, and samaḥ sarvesu bhūtesu. Then he can see, vidya-vinaya-sampanne brahmani gavi hastini, suni caiva sva-pake..., panḍita... [Bg 5.18]. He has become panḍita. Samaḥ sarvesu bhūtesu. When these conditions are fulfilled, mad-bhaktim labhate param [Bg 18.54]-then he enters into devotional service.    (More...)