Attaining the Maximum Attainable God created this world with happiness and misery, which are alternate

cyclically like the spokes in a rotating wheel. God arranged the fruits of good and bad deeds in an alternating manner even though the good or bad deeds may be done repeatedly in sequence. This reshuffled arrangement of happiness and misery resembles sweet and hot dishes in a meal or a movie containing scenes of both happiness and tragedy in an alternating manner. This system of alternating arrangement of happiness and sorrow gives continuous entertainment not only to God but also to the individual soul. Thus, the basic intention of God is only to entertain Himself and also all the individual souls. Any one thing, either happiness or misery, gets boring, if it is continuous. Boredom itself is misery. If you compel God to give happiness continuously through your prayers and worship, God will drag the happiness from your future life cycle like the premature enashment of a fixed deposit with reduced value, and hand it over to you. However, He will not give any happiness to you if there is no balance of good deeds [in your file of karma]. As an impartial judge, He will not give happiness to you if there is no good deed in your list. Therefore, asking God for continuous happiness is the most foolish solution because it bores you, giving misery to you at the expense of good deeds. You are purchasing misery with your hard earned cash! Moreover, when all the good deeds are exhausted, you will have continuous misery alone in all your future births. Therefore, praying to God to solve a problem is the most foolish path of ignorance. Happiness attained in this way is temporary. Hence, the permanent solution is only to learn to enjoy both good and bad results and attain continuous happiness without getting bored. This is real bliss. Bliss is the state of God, who is entertained by this world having alternating scenes of happiness and misery. You have already learnt to be happy while enjoying the happiness. Now through spiritual knowledge and continuous practice, learn to equally enjoy the misery also. Then, your enjoyment becomes continuous and without boredom, due to the absence of any single continuous phase (happiness or misery). You have attained the state of God, which is possible through effort. Now you can say that you are God because the maximum possible state of God that one can achieve, has been achieved (MadbhavamagatahGita). Creation, Ruling and Destruction of this world are impossible to attain for any individual soul in spite of any amount of effort. Hence these three capabilities are irrelevant to the spiritual effort. If you attain that goal which is attainable, it is certainly complete success. Then you can claim that you are God to the maximum extent that this is possible. If you are irritated with misery, you are indirectly criticizing God for His creation of misery in this world. A poet becomes fully happy, if you are entertained by each poem written by him. If you are irritated with some poems, the poet will be unhappy with you. The poet himself is happy with each poem written by him. Therefore, if you dislike anybody or anything in this world, it amounts to disliking a particular poem of the Poet. If you love even the greatest sinner, who is your bitterest enemy and if you like every situation in this world, then it means that you like every poem of the Poet in his epic (world). This is the best way of pleasing God. The producer and director created a movie and if you are his beloved servant,

you should like every scene and every role in the movie created by him, while you are giving company to him in watching the movie. Anything created in this world exists because God liked it. Hence, if you dislike anything or anybody, it means that you dislike a part of His creation, which exists because He has already liked it. If you are a true devotee and a loyal servant of God, His liking must be your liking. Everything and everybody exists in this creation only because God likes everything and everybody in this creation. If He does not like anything or anybody, such a thing or such a living being would not be created at all. Whatever is exists, is created by God and it was created because God liked it. You must also like everything and everybody in His system since it was created by Him. Even the atheist, who scolds God, is liked by God like a hot dish of chillies in the meals. In fact, God requested His loyal servant, Jaya, who stands before His gate, to take the role of Shishupala and scold Him continuously a hundred times! God wanted to eat a hundred hot dishes one after the other, since He was bored with the continuous sweet praises of devotees. You must know that the producer and director of the movie pays the actor of the villain-role also, because without the villain the hero cannot shine at all. If you want to attain the attainable state of God, you must also like the atheist like hot chillies in your meals. When the hatred, rejection or repulsion to anything and anybody completely disappears from your heart, I assuredly tell all of you that such a person has attained the possible state of God completely and you can call Him as God. When there is no break in the continuous love of everything and everybody and when there is continuous bliss, I assuredly tell all of you that such a person has really become God. Bajji is a special snack, which is prepared by frying chillies[1] that are dipped in a batter of gram flour. It is the hottest dish. There are three types of chillies. The chillies from the Ballari region are mild. The chillies from other regions are medium hot. The chillies from the Guntur region are the hottest. The bajjies prepared from these three types of chillies represent misery of mild, medium and high intensities. Some people weep even for mild difficulties. Some people weep for difficulties of medium intensity. All people weep for the topmost difficulty, which comes at the time of death, while leaving this gross body, when one has to cut bonds with everything and everybody. Thus, death can be compared to the bajji made from Guntur chillies. The Gita says that if one can remain in bliss even in the state of death, such a person is in the permanent state of God (Esha Brahmi SthitihGita). In the last stage of Lord Krishnas life, while His foot was bleeding, Lord Krishna was smiling as He narrated the future of this world in the coming Kali age to Sage Narada. Jesus did not fear or weep even on the cross and He was preaching about God even in that last state by assuring salvation to the person next to him, who was also crucified but had surrendered to Jesus. Rama jumped into River Sarayu with a smiling face. Hanuman tore open His own chest with His nails without any trace of sorrow on the face. Therefore, if you can also enjoy the bajji of Guntur chillies (death), you are sure to have continuous enjoyment. I belong to the region of Guntur ! While eating a hot dish, you will be breathing hard, tears will be flowing from your eyes and your tongue will be throbbing. All these are external symptoms of misery

and your internal enjoyment in eating the hot dish is not indicated by these external symptoms[2]. Such equal enjoyment of good and bad results is called as Yoga (Samatvam YogaGita), which means the possible attainment of the state of God. Without attaining this yoga, there is no meaning if an Advaita philosopher says that he is God since his soul and God are the same pure awareness. All other meanings attributed to Yoga like physical and mental exercises are misinterpretations of the word Yoga.

Written by His Holiness Shri Datta Swami website address: http://www.universal-spirituality.org e-mail address: swami@universal-spirituality.org Jai Guru Datta