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When I enter the human body in becoming the human incarnation, the
human beings who are egoistic and jealous do not recognize Me, the Lord of this
world. They treat Me as a human being and repel against Me due to their inherent
repulsion towards any greatness seen in their co-human beings. Instead of
accepting Me as the greatest, they hate and even insult Me.
—Bhagavad Gita
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as Lord Dattatreya, who has come down in human form for preaching
the spiritual knowledge. Swami’s words exactly coincided with the
words of the Nadi astrologer. Please do not tell this information to
anybody”.
Actually on that day when Swami (Datta Swami) was talking to
this devotee, who is my friend, on the phone, Swami was in my house
and I was just before him hearing the same. I felt that this information is
thrilling and will make the devotees happy. Therefore, I told Swami
Vishnu Dattananda about this information with a lot of happiness.
Swami Vishnu Dattananda also felt very happy and directly phoned to
Swami about this information. Swami laughed and told him, “The
devotee wanted to keep this information secret because if I come to
know of this, I may ask him about the necessity of approaching an
astrologer when I Myself had told him the same. He felt that I may
question his confidence and devotion in Me. But he has full faith in Me
and all this happened only by My will. This becomes a supporting
evidence for My statement. When that devotee told to keep this
information as a secret, it means it has to spread fast according to the
present terminology of human beings”. Swami laughed loud while
stating this.
One day I heard Shri Ganapathi Sachidanada Swamiji also telling
in His divine discourse that one Nadi Shastra speaks that a scholar from
South India will come and spread divine knowledge which will capture
the entire world. Swamiji stated that from that time onwards Lord
Dattatreya will lead this world and Thursday will be declared as a
Universal holiday.
We are also told that the famous book on future written by
Nostradamus mentions about the appearance of a scholar from India
who will establish the Universal Religion in the world so that the
differentiating boundaries of all the religions will disappear.
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CONTENTS
1. KNOWLEDGE, DEVOTION AND MAYA ...................................................1
Importance of God in Human Form ............................................................1
Path of Knowledge Vs Path of Devotion ....................................................3
Maya – Maha Maya – Mula Maya ..............................................................5
Advaitins And Devotees..............................................................................8
Devotees Must Accept Knowledge of Maya.............................................10
Analysis of Maya.......................................................................................10
2. HINDUISM REVEALED ..............................................................................13
Vedas And Shlokas....................................................................................13
Know Datta................................................................................................14
Who is Datta? ............................................................................................14
Essence of the Vedas .................................................................................16
Shortcut of Bhagavad Gita ........................................................................18
Real Path....................................................................................................20
3. WHEN DOES SADHANA BEGIN? .............................................................21
Removal of Ignorance ...............................................................................23
Levels of Human Beings ...........................................................................25
Doing Rituals and Avoiding Garlic...........................................................26
4. GOD’S GUIDANCE ......................................................................................28
How to Approach Unimaginable God? .....................................................28
Distinguishing God in Human Form .........................................................30
The Four Great Sentences .........................................................................31
5. ESSENCE OF THE GITA AND VEDAS .....................................................33
Where is God? ...........................................................................................33
Who are you?.............................................................................................40
How to Please God? ..................................................................................47
Karma Yoga...............................................................................................47
Prostitute Devotion ....................................................................................49
Using your energy .....................................................................................50
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Rituals ......................................................................................................174
Kingdom of God......................................................................................175
Conversion...............................................................................................176
16. GOD’S MEDIUM AND WORSHIP............................................................180
Partial Benefit of Model Worship ...........................................................180
Service to God is Your Test ....................................................................182
Mini-World in the World.........................................................................184
Silence About God...................................................................................186
Creator, Controller and Destroyer ...........................................................188
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Chapter - 1
KNOWLEDGE, DEVOTION AND MAYA
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purpose even satisfying the ego of atheist and drag him to the spiritual
field through the initial attraction.
The very concept of human incarnation is not a total new concept
introduced by Me. It already exists and is the most stressed concept
through Ramayanam, Bharatam and Bhagavatham, which are the three
greatest sacred spiritual epics. But, these three epics today are the
concepts of the past human incarnations only. The next alternative is
only to worship the statues and photos of energetic forms of upper
worlds and the other epics like Shiva Puranam, Vishnu Puranam etc.
relate to such alternative state. The statues and photos of the upper
energetic forms or past incarnations are presented in human form only.
These statues in temples are always established with the initiation of life
(Prana Pratishtha). The idea behind this is not to introduce life in to the
statues because the life cannot be and is not introduced in the statues. In
such case, what is the use of this important ritual? The significance is
only that the inert statue associated with life must be worshipped, which
is nothing but the alive human form. The inert statue represents the inert
human body and the initiation of life represents the life in the human
body. People are unable to understand this message and are fooled by
the priests, who say that the life is introduced in to that statue through
the initiation. The priest has his own plan of financial management in
such interpretation. If the priest conveys the real meaning of the
message, you will leave the temple and search for the human incarnation
to do the service. The revenue to the temple is lost and his maintenance
is also lost. The priest is also not interested in deleting this ritual
because the extra revenue related to this ritual should not also be lost.
Everybody interprets the spiritual knowledge in view of his own
selfishness and nobody is interested in the absolute truth, which alone
can uplift the humanity. If you stick to the absolute truth in the spiritual
knowledge, God will be extensively pleased and will give you million
times of that revenue. You will not believe this also because you do not
have full faith in God.
The real Nivrutti (complete detachment from the entire world)
comes only when you are attached to the creator existing in the human
form in your generation. The attachment to the soul is not at all Nivrutti
because the self is a created item within the world only and not the
creator and not even charged by the creator as in the human incarnation.
Thus the Advaitins are in Pravrutti only by the self-attainment and
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devotion to self and hence, can be called as path of devotion. In the path
of devotion, there is both devotion and knowledge of God. All this is
very nice to hear but on analysis the practical problems are realized. If
this were true, why Lord Krishna started the Gita with the path of
knowledge only in the second chapter itself, which is the beginning? If
this were true, all the stress given by Shankara on the path of knowledge
should have been foolish. Therefore, the path of direct devotion has
certain loopholes in practice. The first problem is that in the direct
devotion, the devotee cannot be continuously in the devotion for all the
time. The soul always needs some gap or some diversion in a
continuous phase. When such diversion to world or gap comes in,
immediately Maya (Illusion of feelings and forms) will catch the soul.
The devotion is like the state of drinking divine wine by which one is
certainly detached from the worldly problems. But one cannot be
continuously drinking the wine. Whenever, a gap comes in, the
forgotten problems attack him immediately. In order to protect the self
from such attack, one cannot resort to the same devotion because
continuity of anything bores, be it the divine nectar (Amrutam). This is
the psychology of human beings. Therefore, something different from
the devotion is needed to resist the Maya. On such occasion, the
spiritual knowledge is useful. The analysis of Maya is a part of the path
of the self-attainment. Therefore, the devotion integrated with the divine
knowledge is the best path to resist Maya continuously. By the divine
knowledge, the Maya is resisted and the strength in resistance is by
God’s grace, which is attained only by devotion. Therefore, knowledge
without devotion fails in practice though theoretically it is sufficient.
You can know the truth by the knowledge. But to implement the truth in
practice, the grace of God is required. Without practice there is no fruit
for mere theoretical devotion. Infact, knowledge leads to theoretical
devotion and strengthens it further. The theoretical devotion should lead
to service to God or practical devotion, which alone brings the eternal
grace of Lord.
You may argue that exceptional devotees are always in continuous
devotion and do not require the knowledge. But without knowledge,
where is the devotion? Rukmini developed devotion to Krishna only
after attaining the details about Krishna from Narada, which constitute
the knowledge. If you find some devotee entering in to devotion directly
like Gopikas, the devotee must have had knowledge in the previous
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birth. Gopikas were great scholars in the previous births who were
sages. Even Prahlada heard knowledge from Narada while he existed in
the womb of his mother. Hanuman acquired knowledge from Sun before
becoming devotee to Rama. The hunter Kannappa was Arjuna in the
previous birth and heard the Gita. Shabari had the knowledge from the
sage Matanga. All these exceptional devotees had the devotion from
knowledge only. Due to this reason only, Shankara representing
knowledge came first. Next came Ramanuja, who represented the
devotion. Atlast Madhva came, who represented the service to Lord,
which is the practical devotion. Therefore, knowledge of God is a pre-
requisite for devotion like the water and fertilizer for the seed to
generate the plant. Simply by hearing the word God, you cannot develop
devotion on God without knowing the details of God. The details of
knowledge constitute the knowledge of goal, which is the first
component of Triputi, which means the triad (goal, path and yourself).
You may argue that the knowledge of God is a part of the devotion
only and the knowledge of the world as unreal is not required in the path
of devotion. The Advaitins have limited the word knowledge to the
unreality of the world, because the knowledge of God is only the
knowledge of self. The devotees are quite against the Advaitins and
hence do not like the knowledge of world to be unreal. Infact, the
devotees accept that the world is real. The concepts are overlapped here,
which cause the confusion leading to fight. The world is to be defined
first before examining its reality. The reference to which the world is
real or unreal should be also mentioned. Without these two
clarifications, the confusion cannot be clarified.
Maya – Maha Maya – Mula Maya
The world is a composite of 1) Primary energy (Mula Maya), 2)
Matter, awareness and different work forms of energy like light, heat
etc. (Maha Maya) and 3) The forms of matter and feelings of awareness
(Maya). For the soul, only Maya is unreal because soul being awareness
is in the higher plane. The soul is a part of Maha Maya. Maya is like the
drama, which is restricted to the unreal roles and unreal dialogues
including unreal actions (feelings). The actors, dresses, lights and stage
constitute Maha Maya, which remains even after the drama. Even if
these items of Maha Maya are removed, the ground remains eternal,
which is like the Mula Maya. Therefore, with reference to the soul, only
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the drama is unreal. The unreal world for the soul is restricted to the
Maya only. If you define the world as Maha Maya and Mula Maya, it is
real for the soul. If you define the world as Maya, Maha Maya and Mula
Maya put together, it is mixture of unreality (Maya) and reality (Maha
Maya and Mula Maya) and hence, can neither be stated as real nor
unreal (Mithya of Shankara). If you restrict the world to Maya only, it is
nothing (Shunyam of Buddhists and Asat of Gaudapada) since we can
neglect the forms of matter and awareness. If you restrict the world to
Maha Maya and Mula Maya, it is real (Sat of Ramanuja and Madhva).
Therefore, with reference to the soul the world can be real or unreal or a
mixture of both according to the limitations of the restricted part of the
creation. If the reference is changed from soul to God, the entire
creation is unreal because there is nothing other than God. But to prove
the reality of the entertainment of God, the world has to be real for God
also and this requires the separate existence of the world. A negligible
part of God or power of God (strictly speaking) might have been
modified into the world so that both the concepts can be simultaneously
maintained. A negligible quantity can be treated almost nil. Such
modification can be treated as real (Parinama) or apparent (Vivarta). It
is immaterial because the modified part is very much negligible. But in
any case, the knowledge of the nature of God becomes essential. All this
can be accepted if you place the primary energy in the place of God. But
the primary energy is only the first creation of God. Therefore, all this
analysis ends with only the first item of the creation (Primary energy).
The link between God and Primary energy is unimaginable since God
Himself is unimaginable. This is the analysis that can be done with the
help of scriptures, science and logic and experience of liberated souls.
We can combine these two concepts and arrive at Primary energy
charged by unimaginable God (Ishwara) as the starting point to avoid
defects from both sides. Now the problem is solved.
We can explain the process of creation from God. But this God is
not the absolute unimaginable God (Nirgunam). This God is the primary
energy charged by God like the wire charged by current (Sagunam). The
current-charged wire (alive) can be treated as current itself. The external
copper wire is red in color and we can say that the current is dangerous
as indicated by the red color. Here we are attributing the color of wire to
the current. Similarly, we say that God is modified into the world
through the primary energy, which is charged by Himself. His Mula
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Maya is actually modified. God is the cause of this world through the
Mula Maya but not the direct cause. Here Advaitins say that Mula Maya
is inert and God can only wish to create. Therefore, they say that God is
awareness (Nimittam like pot maker) and Mula Maya is the inert
material (Upadanam like clay). Since Mula Maya charged by God is
treated as God (like treating the alive wire as current), you can say that
the same God is Upadanam (through Mula Maya) also. The point here is
that even awareness is the part of Mula Maya called as Para Shakti
(Paraasya shaktih… Veda). Therefore, Mula Maya itself also can wish.
Then how can we say that Mula Maya is inert? The word inert means
lack of independence. There is no difference between an inert object and
a slave. Both are bound fully by the order of the owner. The Mula Maya
wishes to create the world through its Para nature and is modified into
the world through its Apara nature.
A dancer has inert body and awareness. The dancer wishes
through her awareness to dance and entertain the king. She dances
through her inert body. In this case the wish need not be attributed to the
king. But you may say that even the entertainment indicates that the
king must be awareness. The question on this point is “Do you mean
that the king is simply isolated awareness without the body?” The
isolated awareness does not exist without the inert energy generated by
oxidation of food and nervous system. Then God becomes dependent. If
you say that this awareness alone is special and unimaginable (because
not existing in the world), then why do you qualify the unimaginable by
the imaginable awareness? You can isolate the unimaginable God form
the imaginable awareness so that you can boldly say that such special
unimaginable God is beyond the world. Whenever we say statements
like ‘God wished’, ‘God is seeing the creation’, ‘God is entertained’
indicate the relative God (Saguna Brahman) only, who is the absolute
God covered by the primary energy. We cannot speak anything about
the absolute God because all words return back without touching Him
(Yato Vachah… Veda).
Assuming that Para Shakti (dancer) has awareness without
nervous system by the wish of God due to His omnipotency, still the
dancer depends on king only and cannot be totally independent. The
dancer has freedom to design the various styles of dance but the very
basic program of performing the dance depends on the wish of king
only. Hence, you cannot do away with God and start everything with
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divine Maya simply because she is awareness, matter and work (Jnana
bala kriyacha… Veda). She is only instrumental for the play of God
(Indromayabhih… Veda), if you realize in the root level.
Advaitins And Devotees
The knowledge consists of three components (Triputi) 1) The goal;
2) The soul and 3) The path of the soul to please the goal (God). The
knowledge of the world is not dealt separately because the knowledge of
the soul itself is the knowledge of the world since the soul is a part of
the world. Soul happens to be God according to misconceived Advaita
and in such case the triad (triputi) is disturbed because 1) and 2) become
the single item. When the devotees criticize the knowledge, they should
specify the component of the knowledge. The devotee cannot criticize
the goal because the goal is God. The knowledge of God generates the
attraction (devotion) to God. This component is spoiled by Advaitins,
who say that the soul in every human being is God. In this component,
the devotees are almost correct; who selected a particular energetic form
like Narayana is only God. In the same way, if Advaitins say that a
particular human being like Krishna is only God, the Advaitins are equal
and infact even better than the devotees because the human form of God
is more relevant to human beings than the energetic form of God. In
such case, Advaitins can be even treated as greater devotees because
they have selected the relevant human form rather than the irrelevant [to
the earth] energetic form. The devotees might have become Advaitins,
had they told that every energetic form (Every angel) is God. Therefore,
the devotees have surpassed the Advaitins in this component. But still in
this component, the devotees are not perfect. They have neglected the
contemporary human form of God and are after the irrelevant (to the
earth) energetic form like Narayana or the past incarnation like
Narayana or Krishna. They are fixed to a particular energetic form only
(like Narayana) and reject or speak less about the other energetic forms
like Shiva and Brahma. This violates the fundamental omnipotence of
God to be in various forms simultaneously.
The second component is the soul or the world. For Advaitins the
goal and soul are one and the same. For them, only world without the
soul is left over. The world is unreal for them. It is correct if the world is
limited to Maya only. For the devotees, the soul is a part of the world
only. In this point also the devotees have surpassed Advaitins. The
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devotees say that the world is real and therefore, the soul is also real. If
everything is real, where is the liberation? You should be liberated from
unreal to attain the real. When the soul is real like God, there is no need
of liberation of the soul from the real world. A reality (soul) need not be
liberated from another reality (world) to attain some other reality (God).
If the world is confined only to Maha Maya and Mula Maya, the world
is real. When the body disintegrates, only the form of the body
disappears. The awareness (soul), the forms of the energy like light, heat
etc., and the matter remain real. In this case even the feelings or
thoughts (qualities) remain real accompanying the soul as Vasanas. The
soul qualified by these feelings is Jeeva. Jeeva remains real after death,
who travels to the upper world in the energetic body. This does not
mean that feelings are real and can be treated as Maha Maya. The
feelings can be destroyed by the real knowledge and therefore, the
feelings are also Maya only like the form of the body. The devotee
should cross this Maya with the help of knowledge given by God
(Second chapter of the Gita) so that the devotee is no more attracted by
the world even if he comes out of the devotion for sometime to take rest.
In this aspect the Advaitins surpass the devotees who have analyzed the
world correctly. But the Advaitins should remember that Maya is only
unreal where as the other two (Maha Maya and Mula Maya) are real.
Jeeva is unreal because before atman (soul), since jeeva is a bundle of
vibrations of soul or qualities only. Hence, liberation of the soul from its
worldly qualities (Jeeva) is the liberation.
Shankara says that the soul should get liberation from Maya only
(Maya mayamidam akhinam Hittva…). He gave the definition of the
world as Nama and Rupa only. Nama is the name. Rupa is the form. The
form of matter is pot. The form (rupa) of awareness is feeling like love,
cruelty etc. The pot, love, cruelty etc., are the names (nama). Only Maya
is to be discarded (Hittva). If you take the world as Maya, Maha Maya
and Mula Maya, then the whole world is a mixture of reality (Maha
Maya and Mula Maya) and unreality (Maya) as per Shankara
(Satyanrute Mithuni Krutya…). A mixture of reality and unreality can
be neither stated as full real or as full unreal and is called as Mithya by
Shankara (Sadasat Vilakshana…). All this is from the angle of the soul.
From the angle of God, the world is real but unreal is negligible. A very
little part of the primary energy is modified into the world and thus, it is
very much negligible before the infinite ocean of primary energy
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charged by God. Therefore, for God also, the world is Mithya since it is
real but negligible and can be treated as almost unreal. Reality of the
world gives basis for the entertainment of God almost unreality keeps
God unaffected by His own projection.
Devotees Must Accept Knowledge of Maya
Therefore, the devotees must accept the knowledge of Maya in
order to protect their bond with God. Such knowledge of Maya acts like
pesticide whenever Maya attacks the soul. The knowledge of God acts
like water and fertilizer for the generation and growth of devotion-plant.
The knowledge of Maya protects this plant from infection so that the
plant becomes a strong huge tree. Thus, knowledge is generator like
water, developer like fertilizer and protector like pesticide for the
devotion-plant. It is only out of innocence the devotees criticize the
knowledge without having any knowledge of knowledge! They can
eliminate the impurity induced by Advaitins from the knowledge and
use it properly for the overall development of devotion. The devotee is
just like a seed without water, fertilizer and pesticide. If the knowledge
is rejected, he cannot attain any fruit for his devotion-seed. Similarly,
mere knowledge without devotion is the impossibility to get any fruit
from water, fertilizer and pesticide.
Analysis of Maya
The analysis of Maya reveals that the unreal factors cause the real
disturbance. All the worldly bonds are just feelings on certain forms.
The bond (feeling) and the bonded (form) are found unreal on analysis.
The form of a beautiful girl is unreal because the reality is only Matter
existing in the shape and some work form of energy existing in the
shining of the face. The glamour of shining is only a color generated
based on certain frequency of the light energy. Thus, color is an unreal
form of light. The sweet love (quality) expressed by her is also unreal
form of awareness. Therefore, the beautiful form of matter, the
glamorous color of light and the sweet love of the awareness are totally
unreal if isolated from their corresponding real matter, real light and real
awareness. If this Maya is not analyzed, even a great sage like
Vishwamitra sitting in constant devotion to God was dragged out by the
dancer from the heaven. Similarly, all the worldly bonds are only
feelings established by some rigid social conventions. The bonds in this
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life did not exist in the previous birth and will not exist in the future
birth. They are only temporary and hence, unreal (Tat krutakamhi...
Shankara). Reality is eternal. Once, King Janaka asked the sages to tell
about the previous birth of his queen. The sages kept silent for a long
time. But the sages revealed the truth due to continuous pressure from
Janaka. They told that the wife was his mother in the previous birth!
Since the bond is unreal, neither she was mother nor is she the wife of
Janaka. Mother and wife and son and husband are unreal bonds, which
are the unreal roles in the drama. Both are simply actors taking different
unreal roles in different dramas to entertain the Lord. The relationship
between the souls is only a colleague type only, which is eternal in all
the dramas (lives). Therefore, there is no meaning of kith and kin and
the outsiders. All the souls are equally related to each other, if the reality
is realized. Hence, the entire world is a single family of God as its head
(Vasudhaika Kutumbakam).
All the fights between the human beings in the name of family-
outsider, caste, sex, nationality, religion, language etc., are only due to
the illusion of Maya that is prevailing over the soul. Arjuna killed
several kings in the battles previously when his brother performed
Rajasuya sacrifice. But in the Kurukshetra war, Arjuna could not kill the
opponents since they were his relatives. You are taking bribe from an
outsider for the sake of over-enjoyment of your family and you are
going to hell for that. Your family members who enjoyed the extra
wealth do not share your sin. On this point Valmiki, a robber was
transformed into sage. Boys are dejected and sometimes commit suicide
since the unreal love and the unreal beauty of a girl is not attained. This
is the climax of the illusion (Maya)! With reference to Maha Maya, this
Maya (beauty and love) are unreal. If you cannot come out of the
illusion in the lowest level, how can you cross the other levels of
illusion like Maha Maya and Mula Maya to attain God? Arjuna was also
overcome by this basic illusion and treated the unreal relatives as the
real kith and kin. He was unable to identify the Lord acting as his driver
as his real kith and kin. He was worried about the incidental death of
those unreal kith and kin but not the same possibility of death of
Krishna acting as driver. If He left the war based on this single point
alone regarding Krishna atleast he should be appreciated as a devotee
even though the logical analysis is absent in him. Arjuna showed neither
the spiritual knowledge nor devotion to Krishna. Therefore, the Lord
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HINDUISM REVEALED
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says Kapila, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The food, properly cooked,
must be offered to the guest, who shine like fire and must be deserving
also.
1) The first preference is to offer the food to the Sadguru, who is the
human incarnation of God that comes in every human generation.
2) The second preference must be a poor devotee; God dwells in the
heart of a devotee, as per Narada’s Bhakti Sutra.
3) The third preference must be a beggar who is incapable of earning
food on his own.
In the third case, the beggar is a sinner punished by God. So you
must turn him into a devotee by preaching knowledge and devotion.
Food, clothing and shelter that you may provide to him are only
secondary. They are like providing hostel accommodation to a student,
who has no place to stay. If you do not turn the beggar to God, he may
sin after eating your food. Then, you will also get the result of that sin
since a person who helps a criminal also gets punished.
Dakshina
‘Dakshina’ (donation of money) necessary for the other needs,
must follow the donation of food (Yajna). “Adakshina Hato Yajnah”
means that the Yajna goes waste without Dakshina. This Dakshina is
‘Karmaphala Tyaga’ (Sacrifice of the fruit of your work) and is very
much stressed in the Gita.
The Vedas and the Gita together teach sacrifice of food and
money. God is pleased only by such practical sacrifice. Sacrifice of
words (prayers) and sacrifice of mental feelings (Meditation and
devotion) are useless without practical sacrifice.
A Sadguru like Shirdi Sai Baba is the most deserving person to
donate food and money, because, he will use the energy of your offered
food only in preaching divine knowledge. Due to His divine nature, He
also knows other deserving devotees or beggars and He will help them
in a proper way. Thus the money that you offer Him is fully utilized and
you get the full fruit of your charity. For Him, the entire world is His
family. A devotee confines to his own family and even if he donates to
others, he may err, since both God and soul co-exist in His body. In the
case of the Sadguru, only God exists in His body. Such a Sadguru
comes in every human generation. Recognize Him with the proper
identity marks (His inherent characteristics).
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Yoga and Karma Yoga, if any one Yoga is achieved, the other two are
automatically attained. Therefore in the Bhagavad Gita these three get
mixed everywhere.
Lord Krishna says “Ekamapyasthitah”, which means that both
Jnana Yoga and Karma Yoga are the same. The Karma Sanyasa Yoga
means leaving the works that are done with selfishness. When the bread
is poisoned, it has to be rejected, when you cannot separate the poison
from it. Similarly, when you cannot separate selfishness from your work
that work must be rejected. However, if you can separate the poison
from the bread, then you can eat the bread after removing the poison.
Similarly if you can remove selfishness from your work, and also
sacrifice the fruit of that work to God, then that work need not be
rejected. For example, you are doing a job with some selfish outlook.
Now if you leave the job for the sake of God’s work it is called Karma
Sanyasa, i.e., leaving your work to do God’s work. But suppose you
continue the job and submit the fruit (money) of that job for the work of
God, then your doing the same job becomes ‘Karma Yoga’. Thus by
karma phala tyaga (sacrifice of the fruit of the work), the Karma
becomes Karma Yoga.
The Lord says that this Karma Yoga is better than Karma Sanyasa
(Tayostu…) i.e., instead of leaving your job for the sake of God’s work
it is better to do the job and sacrifice the fruit of the job for the work of
God. Doing the job with selfishness is the first step (Karma) and doing
the job for the sake of God’s work is the fourth step (Karma Yoga). The
Gita gives this shortcut, which is the high-jump from the first step
directly to the fourth step. This is the essence of the entire Gita and the
greatest shortcut given to humanity by Lord Krishna, who was the
human incarnation of Lord Datta.
Lord Krishna asked Arjuna to fight (Karma) not for attaining the
kingdom with selfishness but to destroy injustice. The destruction of
injustice is the work of God and so if Arjuna fought with that aim he
would be sacrificing the fruit of his fighting to God only. In such a case
the fighting of Arjuna would become Karma Yoga and not Karma. So
when the fruit of the work is sacrificed to God, one can directly jump
from the 1st step to the 4th step. This is the real heart of the Gita. The
Gita preaches that you should not leave working in the world, but that
you should leave selfishness and sacrifice the fruit of your work to God.
When you do such sacrifice, your knowledge of God and your devotion
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to God are complete; your Jnana and Bhakti are perfect. Therefore, if
you follow Karma Yoga, your knowledge and devotion are at the
highest level, which is proved through Karma Yoga. The Gita
emphasizes the sacrifice of ‘Kama’ (the desire to do the work for selfish
purposes) and not ‘Karma’ (work). The sacrifice of Kama is proved only
when you sacrifice the fruit of that work to God i.e., Karma Phala
Tyaga.
Real Path
The Lord gives the results of your services. He is just like a
principal presenting the certificate and gold medal to the top student.
The student studied two years post graduation course, wrote
examinations and topped the class. There is no need of begging or
weeping or praising the principal for the gold medal.
Similarly Hanuman got the gold medal i.e., the position of Creator
(Brahma) by his selfless service rendered in the mission of the then
human incarnation. He never praised or begged or wept for that fruit
before Rama. The fruit was not in his mind at all. His mind was full of
the work of Lord only. Be a hero like Hanuman and get the highest fruit
by participating in the service of Lord in human form, present in your
generation. This is the only royal path. Without the sacrifice of work
and money in His service, trying to get the fruit by praying by words
and loving by mind is only trying to fool God, which is impossible. In
whatever way you approach Him, He gives the result in the same way.
He will praise you for your prayers and love you for your love. He will
act for your practical sacrifice.
When the incarnation leaves the body Narayana goes to the upper
most world (Satyaloka) and his body with pure consciousness merges in
this world. When a servant to God leaves his body, the body dissolves
here. But the soul (Consciousness with Divine thoughts) accompanies
Narayana. Servant follows Narayana again, when He comes to earth.
Both take human bodies. But the births and deaths of these two do not
have any agony. During lifetime also, the servant enjoys with the Lord
here. The servant will never leave the Lord either here or there
(Sayujyam or Kaivalym). Whatever the facilities are for God, the same
will be for the servant.
So service is the real path.
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WHEN DOES SADHANA BEGIN?
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is Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma came in the form of the three Acharyas
respectively.
Removal of Ignorance
The saint said that the path of self-attainment is the removal of
Mala, Avarana and Vikshepa of ignorance. Certainly the removal of
these forms of ignorance step by step, removes self-ignorance and you
can attain your self. Up to this point, there is no dispute. The dispute
arises only when you say that the self is God. Suppose an ordinary
person became mad and forgot himself. When he is cured of his
madness he only becomes himself and not the king. If the king became
mad, then by removing his self-ignorance the king will become king.
But the king (Lord) imposes ignorance and acts mad but does not really
become mad [madness represents ignorance in this analogy]. You are
taking common item between yourself and the Lord as the awareness.
Infact, the awareness is only the cover of the Lord and is not really the
Lord.
Suppose you are a thread. You are comparing yourself with the
shirt of the king. There is no point of comparison between you and the
king because there is not a single similarity. Similarly you are an
imaginable item of creation. This creation is the shirt of the Lord. You
are part and parcel of the shirt. You can say that the shirt is cotton
material and your self, the thread, is also cotton. You can say that you
are qualitatively equal to the shirt though not quantitatively. Now you
are assuming that the shirt is the king himself. Now you are removing
the quantitative aspect and saying that the thread is the shirt, the shirt is
the king and therefore the thread is the king. Neither is a thread the shirt
(due to the quantitative difference) nor is the thread or shirt the king
(due to qualitative and quantitative difference because the thread or the
shirt are imaginable and the king is unimaginable). The quantitative
difference between the thread and the shirt never disappears even after
Pralaya [dissolution of the universe] because the thread remains in the
shirt as usual even in the Avyakta or invisible state.
Before creation, neither you nor the universe existed and so there
was no context of comparison. During the existence of the universe the
present quantitative difference exists. Even after the dissolution of this
universe (Pralaya), the shirt is condensed to an invisible micro-state and
you are also correspondingly condensed to the most micro-state. The
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reduction or expansion of the both the universe and the soul take place
correspondingly. The same quantitative difference always exists.
You are dreaming of a state where the shirt is reduced to a thread
and then you can be equal to such a reduced shirt. This is impossible.
When the universe is condensed into Avyaktam, the entire universe does
not disappear except one soul. The universe is also not condensed into
one soul. Your assumption of the removal of the upadhi in both Ishwara
and Jeeva is only a dream of your jealousy. You are assuming that a
peon after retirement and the collector after retirement become one and
the same and exist as a human being. This similie is not correct here
because Ishwara will never leave His post. Even in the Pralaya the
universe is in the form of a microfilm and even then Ishwara is the
owner of the film. The ownership of Ishwara is never lost and is eternal.
Therefore, where is the practical chance of Jeeva becoming the Ishwara
by removing the Upadhis of both? Therefore, the concept of equality of
Ishwara and Jeeva in Advaita is meaningless because it never
materializes at any time. Simple theoretical assumption is of no use.
You may say that the king and beggar will become a handful ash after
death and therefore there is a possibility of equality atleast in that time.
But this king (Ishwara) is eternal since this creation remains eternal and
always exists either in expressed state or condensed state. The Jeeva
may loose the Upadhi in salvation but Ishwara need not have salvation
and does not leave the upadhi of the universe, which is either in micro
or macro form. When such a problem comes, the Advaitin turns the
tables by saying that the world is unreal and therefore since the Upadhi
is unreal, the common awareness remains as one and the same at all
times. Such argument is the climax of foolishness. Shankara never said
that the world is unreal. He only said that the world is real and
negligible (Mithya). Such state of Mithya of the world is only in the
view of God and not in the view of the Jeeva. Even in the view of God
the world is not unreal because God created the world for entertainment.
If the world becomes completely unreal, the entertainment becomes
unreal. The Jeeva infact is negligible with respect to the universe and is
Mithya as compared to it. Even in the view of God when the world is
real, how can the Jeeva say that the world is unreal? This sort of foolish
attempt shows his madness to become God. Let him take the path of
devotion and service. He will not only become God even God will
become his servant.
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Hanuman remained in this stage forever. But the human being, who is
like a small monkey does not like this! Jesus gave the corresponding
statements in all the states. He said that He and His Father are one and
the same. He said that He is the beloved son of God and He also said
that He is a messenger of God. Mohammad mentioned only to the third
level that He is messenger of the God. If the devotee feels that he has no
chance of divinity even in the future, he will leave the human form of
the Lord from all these levels. Therefore, the Lord encourages the
devotees by showing the attainment of the divinity. If the jealousy and
egoism are highest, the Lord comes to the fourth level by saying that
every soul is God or God lives in every human. Otherwise the devotee
will join the Union of Advaitists. He wants to become God atleast along
with others. Ofcourse, he will be very happy if he alone becomes God in
future like Krishna. Below this the fifth level is the state of atheism
where the concept of God itself is rejected. The fourth level is better
than the fifth level because atleast the word ‘God’ is uttered by the
person by his mouth.
Doing Rituals and Avoiding Garlic
The saint criticized My devotee for not doing the rituals prescribed
by tradition and also for eating garlic. Neither in the Veda nor in the
Gita is garlic forbidden. The Gita says that food which has been kept for
a long time and which is contaminated with impurity should not be
eaten since it is tamasa (Yata yamam...). Garlic is not mentioned in this
verse. The food, which is stored for a long time is spoilt by bacteria
according to science and is not good for health. But today a refrigerator
removes this defect. According to medical science, garlic is good for
controlling cholesterol. Food should be taken according to individual
health problems of a person, and cannot be generalized.
I never opposed the rituals. I have revised and re-oriented them to
bring out the real sense. For example Gayatri does not mean the hymn,
which is recited without singing. Gayatri means singing bhajans. Bhajan
gives a temporary solution for forgetting one’s tensions. It does not give
a permanent solution. I have given the detailed method of performing a
Yajna and also performing the Sraddha. Let all the rituals be done but in
the right spirit and in the right direction of Jnana Yoga (jnatva kurvita—
Gita). Then the right results will come. The sage Yaska, who wrote the
grammar of the Vedas says that Veda means knowledge and Vedic
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rituals mean the action based on knowledge. He says that if one does
these rituals blindly without Jnana Yoga they go waste and no fruit can
be obtained. For this he gives a similie that a blind fellow doing Vedic
rituals is like a fool cooking food without a fire (Anagnauviva…). He
also says that such a blind fellow is like a porter carrying the bag of gold
for a small wage without knowing what is present in the bag. Shankara
was also criticized and called an atheist by traditional people since He
rejected rituals.
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GOD’S GUIDANCE
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suicide when Sita was not found in Lanka. But He analysed and dropped
the idea. Therefore, logical and analytical knowledge and discussion can
alone give the correct direction. In the beginning of the Gita, Krishna
told Arjuna “Dadami Buddhiyogam Te…” which means that only by
logical analysis of the brain, can God be achieved. After achieving God,
logic must be closed and the heart must be opened. Shankara also said
“Jnanaadeva Tu Kaivalyam….”, which means that only through divine
knowledge can one achieve God. After achieving God, devotion and
service will come. One cannot achieve God through devotion, because
unless you recognize the correct form of God, how can you devote
yourself to that form? You must select one girl through analysis and fix
her as your wife and then only love and serve her. How can you fix the
best girl without analysis?
At the time of Jesus, there were priests who always thought that
old is gold and past is the last word. They hated the present. They had
no logic. When they arrested Jesus, there were no proper discussions
and logical analysis about His case. When there were no logical
discussions, He was crucified based on simple emotional slogans. His
death was not justified and therefore He rose and walked out. When the
soldier was leaving finally, he pierced the stomach of Jesus with his
weapon. Then blood came out. Blood will not come out from dead
body. Jesus was alive and He was brought down by His disciples. Then
He was kept in the cave. He knew the protection of His life. He walked
into India and met the king Salivahana and talked with him. His
conversation was recorded in ‘Bhavishaya Purana’ of Vyasa. This
scripture speaks about the future. Vyasa wrote this long back. The verse
in scripture is “Eesha Putram Cha Mam Viddhi, Kumari Garbha
Sambhavam, Mlecha Dharmasya Vaktaram…”, which means “I am the
son of the Father of heaven. I was born to an unmarried girl. I preached
spirituality to the Mlechas” [Mlecha is a general term for the common
ancestors of today’s Christians, Muslims and Jews]. Thus spoke Jesus to
Salivahana. He stayed in India till He attained the age of eighty-five
years and died in Kashmir. You can find the buried tomb of Jesus there
even today. On the tomb it is written “Jesus” in the Hebrew language.
Jesus disappeared from His home at the age of 16 years. He returned
only at the age of 30 years. He was crucified in His 32nd year. From the
16th year He was in the Himalayas in the association of several sages.
He was a good Sanskrit scholar. He studied all the Hindu philosophy
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and this is the reason why the Christian and Hindu philosophies are
almost similar in concepts. Krishna declared that He was God. Jesus
declared that He and His Father were one and the same. Krishna said
that He would come whenever there is a necessity. Jesus said that He
would come again. Krishna said that He is the only ultimate goal. Jesus
said that one could attain God through Him alone. All these are the same
concepts.
Distinguishing God in Human Form
There is a difference between God in human form and a human
being posing as God. To differentiate between both, analysis is essential
like in the separation of the original diamond from an artificial diamond.
Once you select the original diamond, there is no need of further
analysis and you can kiss and love the diamond. Krishna was God in
human form and Paundraka Vasudeva was a human being posing as
God. Krishna told the Bhagavad Gita and the latter could not preach any
knowledge. Except for this difference, the external dress and performing
miracles were common in both. The priests of Jerusalem believed in the
dead messengers of the past and did not believe the living messenger
(Jesus). Jesus said, “Let the dead bury dead”. This means the priests
were dead because they always lived in the past and never in the
present. Those who live in past are dead and those who live in the
present are alive. This means that the dead priests will attend to the dead
messengers and the living disciples will attend to the present living
messenger. When Jesus told His disciples that He would come again, it
means that the human incarnation will come again for every future
generation. Therefore, Christianity believes in the human incarnation
that comes every time as in Hinduism. There is no difference between
the two philosophies. The human incarnations of all the religions always
tell the same point. The followers do not take the right interpretation and
mock at the other religion. Christians criticize Krishna and Mohammed
for killing the evil people. They say that Jesus changed all the evil
people only through love. Then why did people crucify Him? Why did
they not change by His love? Why does Christianity suggest permanent
hell for sinners after the enquiry? If love can change everybody, there
should not be a hell at all! Jesus said that it is better to punish yourself
instead of falling into hell permanently. Therefore, he was indicating the
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other words, a human incarnation like Lord Krishna, looks like you
externally. Similarly, the third sentence is ‘Ayam Atma Brahma’. Ayam
Atma = He, (Iva = like; omitted), Brahma = God (Asti = looks; omitted).
It means “He looks like God externally”. The essence of these three
sentences is that a human incarnation such as Lord Krishna looks like
me, you and him (respectively), when He is viewed externally, because
His human body is the same as any other human body.
The fourth great sentence is ‘Prajnanam Brahma’. Brahma = God,
Prajnanam = a scholar with special divine knowledge. The fourth
sentence differentiates a human incarnation like Lord Krishna from
other human beings because He possesses a special divine knowledge,
which nobody can possess in this world. This sentence relates to the
internal form of the human incarnation of God.
All these four sentences conclude that God comes only in the
human form in every human generation to avoid partiality to a particular
human generation. The fourth sentence indicates that you should
recognize such God in human form by His special divine knowledge
and not by miracles because miracles are done by demons also. The
Lord is said to be the true and infinite knowledge by the Veda. The
Bhagavad Gita says that the Lord comes to this world only through a
human body (Manusheem Tanumasritam). The Gita did not mention
that God comes in any other form. People have taken the direct (literal)
meaning of these sentences and misinterpreted them as “I am God, You
are God and He is God”. [They did not realize that the sentences were
metaphors.] If you take the meaning like that, do you mean to say that
everybody in this world is Lord Krishna? If so, Lord Krishna preached
the Bhagavad Gita to Lord Krishna (Himself) since Arjuna is also Lord
Krishna!
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Chapter – 5
ESSENCE OF THE GITA AND VEDAS
Where is God?
God: reachable or unreachable?
O Learned And Devoted Servants of God,
[Delhi] The Bhagavad Gita says that nobody knows God (Maamtu
Veda Na kaschana). The Veda says that words, mind, intelligence, logic
and even imagination cannot touch God (Yato Vachah…Manasa saha;
Na Medhaya; Naisha Tarkena). The Veda also says that if one knows
that God is unknown, he knows atleast something about God (Yasyaa
matam Tasya Matam). These three statements declare that God is
unknowable and unreachable. Yet the same Veda says that God is
present on this earth itself (Yat Saakshat Aparokshat). Similarly the Gita
also says that God reveals Himself on the earth in every human
generation as per the necessity (Tadaatmaanam Srijaamyaham). These
two statements say that God can be seen by humans. How can one
correlate these two contradicting sets of statements?
The first set of statements implies that you cannot catch God by
your effort. The second statement indicates that whenever the kindest
God wants to reveal Himself, He comes to the earth. You can see God
on earth but He cannot be understood. Therefore the first statement is
not contradicted. Fine, you have seen Lord Krishna. However as a boy
He lifted a mountain on His little finger. Did you understand this?
Definitely not! The Gita says that God comes down in a human body to
preach to human beings (Manusheem Tanum Ashritam). Then you can
see and touch Him. You can talk and live with Him. But He is not
understood. He is seen only to prove that He cannot be understood.
The Veda has four great sentences (four dicta) called as the Maha
Vakyas about the human incarnation:
1) Aham Brahmaasmi
2) Tatvamasi
3) Ayam Atmaa and
4) Prajnanam Brahma.
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The first three sentences say that externally, He is like me, you,
and him respectively. The fourth great sentence says that He preaches a
special divine knowledge, which is not possible for anyone else, and this
knowledge is His internal form by which He is differentiated from
others.
Many electrons are flowing in the atmosphere. Flow of electrons is
called as electricity. But you cannot experience electricity in the
atmosphere. By this electricity in the atmosphere you cannot move the
fan or the lamp. This electricity cannot be experienced and you cannot
get any benefit from it. But the same electrons, when made to flow in a
metallic wire, you are able to get the experience of the electricity by
touching the wire. By this electricity you can move the fan and light the
lamp. Similarly you cannot directly experience God who is pervading
all over the world and you cannot get any fruit from Him. But when the
same God enters the human body, you can experience Him through
vision, touch, conversation and live in His association. But even by this
experience you cannot get any fruit. When you meet somebody, touch
him, talk with him and even live with him, you can experience him, but
you cannot necessarily get any help from him. Even if you serve God in
His human form personally, He may preach to you several times but
only when you participate in His mission as a servant, will He be
completely pleased and give you the fruit. Therefore you can experience
and please God, only through the human form. God creates this method
of approaching Him, for the sake of human beings. This method is
called the human incarnation. If you try to reach the Absolute God
directly, He is like a roaring mighty ocean. You are just a water drop.
Your prayer is an iota in that ocean of sound. You may even merge in
the sea and disappear completely loosing your name and form.
Worship through form
The Gita says that if one tries to worship the formless all
pervading God, he will end up in misery (Avyaktahi Gatih). When God
has arranged a very convenient way for approaching Him why should
you deny that and try for a direct method? Are you mad? The reason for
your madness is your repulsion to another human form (other than
yourself). This repulsion is produced by your egoism and jealousy.
Likes repel each other. Egoism and jealousy cover the two eyes of any
human being. These two layers are responsible for the human being not
using the method given by God Himself. When you cannot even
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imagine God, how can you serve Him? This is like a drought, which is
one extreme end. The other extreme end is a flood in which every
human being thinks that he is God and this is the result of a
misunderstanding of the Veda. If every human being is already God,
then the spiritual effort is left only for stones! Therefore, to solve this
problem an intermediate technique is adopted. The human form is
introduced in the form of an inert statue or a picture. Since the statue or
the picture is not the actual human being, the repulsion is reduced. Since
the human form in a statue or a picture belongs to some deity of the
upper world or a past human incarnation, the problem of repulsion is
removed. If this repulsion is of a higher order, the face of that human
form in the statue or picture is replaced by the face of a monkey
(Hanuman), the face of an elephant (Ganapati) etc., because the jealousy
towards the human form is mainly concentrated on the face. If the
repulsion is of the highest order, instead of the human form the form of
a fish, tortoise (Matsya, Kurma) etc., is introduced in the form of an idol
or picture. Therefore the statues and pictures are worshipped as a
training to remove the repulsion caused by egoism and jealousy towards
the human form. But the statues are meant only for meditation and not
for worship or service. The Veda says that the Lord is not in the statues
or photos (Natasya Pratima). The Veda also says that no inert object is
God (Nedam tat).
The Gita also says that God is not the world and God is not in the
world (Nachaham teshu; Maamebhya param). When it is said that God
is in the world in the Gita, it means that God exists as the base of the
world (Matsthani…). This interpretation is derived from Sanskrit
grammar (Aupasleshika Saptami Vibhakthih). Here the base is not
touched by the world and so God is untouched; He remains without any
change in spite of the changes in the world. When a daydreamer dreams
of a city and when the city catches fire, the fire does not touch the
dreamer. This entire world is only the will of God (Icchamaatram
Prabhoh Sristih). The imagined city is based on the dreamer. Even
when a person in that dream-city is burnt, the dreamer is not burnt.
Similarly even if a soul in the world is pained, God is not pained. The
dreamer can enter his own dream through a form of his own imagination
and can express himself through that form anywhere in that dream-
world. Similarly God expressed Himself in the form of Lord Narasimha
(form of a fierce lion-headed man). He can enter the dream world
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through a human form, which is also made of His will and such a human
form is called the human incarnation. The dream-world and the dream-
men are also made of His will.
The Veda mentions the entrance of God into this world through a
human incarnation (Tadevaanu Praavisat). When He enters the human
body, He pervades that body from top to bottom, internally and
externally, just like the electricity that has entered a metallic wire.
Wherever you touch the wire the electricity is experienced
(Antarbhahischa). This is Advaita (non-duality), which means that you
cannot separate God and that human body as long as He is present in the
body. God is that human body just as the electricity is that wire.
Therefore you should worship such a human form as the actual God
with the Advaita angle. Why are you worshipping past human
incarnations? The electricity has gone from those wires and even those
wires are not seen now. Only imaginary pictures or photographs of those
wires are present before you. What is the use of worshipping them? God
left those human bodies and you cannot experience that God directly.
Those human bodies are also gone now. Then what is it that you are
worshipping? When the Lord left the body of Krishna, Arjuna cremated
that body with the help of a few dry sticks, because the body was only
an inert material. The same body, when Lord was present in it, had
swallowed a wild fire, which was burning the whole forest. Therefore
the inert statue is only for vision and meditation.
If you worship and serve such inert objects you will be born as
inert object as said by the Lord in the Gita (Bhutejya yaanti). The Lord
said that He should be worshipped and by that He means that the living
human incarnation should be worshipped. In the Veda it is said that the
sun should be worshipped as God (Adityam Brahmeti). Immediately the
Veda also says that the Sun is not God (Nedam tat). The Lord, as said in
the Veda, controls the Sun (Bhishodeti Suryah). If the Sun is God or if
God is in the Sun, the Sun cannot be controlled by God. The Lord said
in the Gita that He is not in the world (Natva hamteshu). The Veda says
that no item of the world including the soul is God (Neti Neti). Thus
God is the base of the Sun since He is the base of the entire world. So
here you must meditate upon the sun as the representative of God and
such a representative is called as ‘Prateeka’. The national flag of India
represents India. The flag is not India and India is not in the flag.
However the base of that flag is the earth of India. When a
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representative of the king comes, the representative is not the king nor is
the king present in the representative. The representative is an
employee, controlled by the king. You can respect the representative
and even worship him because he is also a living being like the king.
Therefore you can worship the devotees of the Lord by the sixteen
modes of worship (Shodasa Upacharas). But you should not do these
sixteen modes of worship to a statue of the king, even though it is the
direct form of the king. A statue is only for vision (seeing and
meditating upon the form). When the sixteen modes of worship are to be
performed on a statue in a temple, we perform the life initiation (Prana
Pratishta) in that statue. By this initiation the statue does not come
alive. If you can make the statue alive by such rituals, why don’t you
make a dead body alive by the same? Therefore the inert statue along
with life initiation means the living human form. This means that you
should worship the living human body of God, which is called the
human incarnation. Even a devotee of God is a human form with life
and therefore he can also be worshipped by the same sixteen modes.
The Gita says that the soul is a part of the nature and is called as
‘Para Prakriti’ (Jiva Bhutaam). The inert part of the creation is called
‘Apara Prakriti’ (Apareyam). Since the world is a creation and not the
creator, the soul is not the Lord. The soul is a part of creation and the
Lord is the Creator. Krishna created duplicate cows and cowboys, when
the original souls of the cows and cow cowboys were taken away by the
divine officer called ‘Prajapati’. This proves that the soul is creation. In
the Gita it is said that God throws some souls into the ever-lasting fire
called hell (Samsaareshu Naraadhaman). If every soul is God how
could any soul be thrown into hell? It would mean that God has thrown
God into hell! This proves that the soul is not the Lord.
The Lord says in the Gita that He comes in human form in every
human generation (Sambhavami Yuge Yuge). The word Yuga means
human generation. If God comes in a particular human generation only,
then He becomes partial. Any human being can see the human
incarnation present in his generation provided the two layers covering
the eyes (egoism and jealousy) are removed. The human body is made
of five elements and you can see, touch, talk and live with the Lord
through that human body. The Lord comes to you without any trace of
your effort since you have prayed to Him through surrender and
devotion. Even if you do a lot of penance, the Lord only appears before
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you through a body made of light for a few minutes as Lord Vishnu. He
will talk a few words with you and will disappear. You cannot touch and
live with Him for a long time. How foolish you are to lose this golden
opportunity of the human incarnation called as Krishna? Both Vishnu
and Krishna are incarnations. Same Lord entered both the bodies
(energetic body and the human body respectively). The same Lord
pervaded both the bodies from top to bottom, internally and externally.
The reason for your bad luck is only the layers (of egoism and jealousy)
on your two eyes.
One God many incarnations
The Lord also comes in different human forms at the same time
for the convenience of people living in different places. Convenience
(Sowlabhya) is one of His divine qualities. Everything is possible by His
superpower called Maya. Parashurama and Rama were present in the
same time. Vyasa and Krishna were present in the same time. Akkalkota
Maharaj and Shirdi Sai Baba were present in the same time. In the same
time He comes in different forms to preach at different levels, since the
devotees in the same time are at different levels. Even His servants and
disciples come down in various human bodies. He comes down fully
along with His whole department. Many school teachers, lecturers, and
readers are present in His department. He comes down as one professor
because there will be very few devotees, who have reached the top level.
In some human bodies, only a ray of His energy enters and this is called
a ‘Kalavatara’ (e.g Sage Vyasa). In other cases, a part of His energy
enters a human body and this is called as an ‘Amshavatara’ (e.g Kapila).
When He enters a human body only for sometime, it is called an
‘Aveshavatara’ (e.g Parashurama). When He enters a human body and
lives from birth to death but reveals Himself partially, then He is called
as a ‘Purnavatara’ (e.g. Lord Rama). When the ‘Purnavatara’ reveals
Himself completely, He is called a ‘Paripurnavatara’ (e.g. Lord
Krishna). He is the professor and His preaching at the topmost level is
the Bhagavad Gita, which is the essence of all the Vedas.
We must remember that the human body of the Lord is not a
modification of the Lord (the Lord does not get transformed into the
body) and therefore the Lord can leave the body at the end (Avyaktam
Vyakti Maapannam). Due to this reason, the body retains its natural
properties like birth, death, hunger etc., and these properties do not
touch the internal Lord. The internal Lord is the True Infinite
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indicate the ruling, creation and destruction respectively. The six hands
of the form indicate the six modifications of the body, which are
existence, birth, growth, modification, reduction and destruction. All the
three qualities always co-exist and any quality may become the main
quality of a certain incarnation in a particular time. Even Rama, who is
considered as the embodiment of Satvam, showed Rajas when He was
angry with Sage Jabali and showed Tamas while He was running after
the golden deer to satisfy His wife’s fancy. The Lord inside the body is
beyond all these three qualities, which represent Vishnu, Brahma and
Shiva respectively (Gunaateetah Sa). The same cement used to build
any other house is also used to build the palace of the king. Similarly the
body contains the same qualities, whether the Lord lives in it or an
ordinary soul. The Lord is beyond these three qualities but the soul is
only a composite of these three qualities as said in the Gita (Nanyam
Gunebhyah). The properties of the wire do not disappear when the
electricity enters it and therefore the electric wire also looks like other
wires. But the electric wire gives the experience of the electricity
through touch. Similarly the human incarnation gives divine
experiences. He does not like to be recognized by all the human beings
since He came only for His devotees who prayed for Him.
Another important reason for the natural state of His human body
is that He donates Himself to His real devotees and undergoes the
suffering of their sins. The body, in which he suffers, should not be
made divine by His super power. If it were divine, the suffering would
not touch Him and then it amounts to deceiving the law of justice
(dharma). Therefore if you can remove the egoism and jealousy towards
the human form and purify your mind completely, you will become
eligible to receive the divine knowledge (Jnana Yoga) which is revealed
by the four great sentences of the Vedas and recognize the human
incarnation present in your generation.
Who are you?
The Gita says that the soul is a bundle of good and bad qualities
(Sanghatah Chetanaa Dhrutih). The soul is made of awareness, which is
nothing but a special form of work (energy). This special work is
produced by the interaction of inert matter and inert energy. Therefore
the awareness or quality must be inert because it is a product of two
inert items. ‘Inert’ means that which is not independent. Therefore the
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soul is not independent and is controlled by the Lord. The brain and the
nervous system are inert matter. The energy produced by the digestion
of food is again inert. When these inert matter and inert energy combine,
a special work called awareness is produced. Work is a form of energy.
Matter is also a form of energy. Therefore, the whole creation is energy.
Since the Lord created this world it is called creation. The Veda and the
Gita say that a very minute particle of the Lord is modified into the
world (Paadosya Visva, Ekaamsena). Just one ray of the multi-million
rays of the sun-like Lord is modified into this world. So this creation is
very very negligible compared to the Lord. Hence Shankara called this
creation as Mithya, which means non-existent (since it is negligible).
But Ramanuja and Madhva recognized the existence of this world even
if it is negligible. Therefore, all the theories of the three preachers are
one and the same. The soul is a part of the creation as said in the Gita
(Prakrutim Viddhi me Paraam).
Shankara took the liberated soul as an example. The soul is like
water drop and the Lord is like the ocean. The water drop is
qualitatively similar with the ocean since both are water. But the drop
and the ocean differ quantitatively. This ocean (the Lord) exists in a
particular water drop due to the inexplicable power of the Lord called
Maya. Such a special drop is the Human Incarnation. In other water
drops the Lord does not exist. Shankara was such a special drop since
He was an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Hence Shankara swallowed
molten lead and proved that He is different from other souls. Therefore
the Lord is different from the soul. Ramanuja says that a tiny drop of the
ocean is modified into water vapor, which surrounds the ocean like a
body surrounding the soul. This vapor is the world and each individual
soul is like a water drop existing in this world (each soul is a drop
within a drop). The water drop is qualitatively similar to the ocean. But
the water vapor, which is the inert part of the world, is quite different
from the ocean. The similarity of the water drop with the ocean is only
qualitative. Therefore the soul is a part of the Lord. Several water drops
combine to form the ocean. But one must remember that the water drop
(soul) is present only in the vapor (inert creation) that surrounds the
ocean. If the water drop is present in the ocean, it looses its identity and
merges with the ocean. Therefore the water drop never merges with the
ocean. Madhva says that the vapor is not the body of the Lord. It is like
the shirt of the Lord. Therefore the soul is a thread in the cloth. Hence
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the soul is a particle of the water vapor and not a water drop. Therefore
the soul is different from the Lord qualitatively and quantitatively. The
particle of vapor is different from the ocean qualitatively and
quantitatively. The soul in the theory of Madhva is not a part of the
body of the Lord. The soul is completely different in all aspects and is
only a servant of the Lord. The soul (Jiva) is created by the Lord
because as we see in Bhagavatam, Lord Krishna created the cows and
cowboys. Therefore, the soul is not the Creator. The Gita also says that
the soul is a part of creation and is called ‘Para Prakriti’. The Veda says
that the soul is called as ‘Sukshma Sharira (Manomayah Prana Sareera
Neta).
The soul consists of very fine matter and energy. It contains the
micro design of the entire body. It is a bundle of several good and bad
qualities. It is just like a computer chip as said in the Gita (Kootasthah
Akshara Ucchyate). The Gita says that no scientist can see this soul
through any sophisticated equipment (Vimudaah Naanu Pasyanti). In
this soul there is another internal micro-design called ‘Kaarana
Shareera’ which is nothing but the order of the Lord. As long as the soul
exists, all the systems in the body work due to the presence of soul but
the root reason is the order of the Lord present in the soul. It appears as
if the soul is controlling all the systems and as if the body is alive due to
the presence of the soul. But the truth is that the body is alive and all the
systems in the body work due to the order of the Lord, which is
internally present in the soul. When a lens is shining, it is due to the
light of the Sun. The lens shines and also lights some other inert object,
which is near to it. Similarly, the soul seems to be the cause of the
functioning of all the systems in the body to make it alive. But the
capacity of the soul to do so is only due to the internal order of the Lord.
The lens does not shine by itself and it shines only by the rays of the
Sun. The capacity of the lens to light up the nearby inert object is only
due to Sun.
Thus the soul resembles the Lord but also differs from the Lord. In
describing the soul, the Lord is partly described due to the similarity.
But the description of the soul does not give the complete description of
the Lord. The lens shines and lights the other object. This is its
similarity with the sun. By this we can understand that the Sun also
shines like the lens and that the Sun also lights up other objects like the
lens. This is the common aspect between the Lord and the soul. This is
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called ‘Atma Jnana’ which means the knowledge of the common aspect.
The word Atma is common in both Paramatma (Lord) and Jivatma
(soul). However by this description, the Lord is not completely
described. The soul stands as a representative of the Lord to give a part
of the knowledge of the Lord. This is the reason why the Lord describes
the soul in the second chapter of the Gita. The other part of the
knowledge of the Lord cannot be given by the description of the soul
(Uttamah Purushah). The lens does not shine by itself, whereas, the Sun
shines by itself. The knowledge of difference cannot be given to you
through the description of the lens. This part of the knowledge is given
in the latter chapters of the Gita.
When the soul comes out of the body, the body cannot be alive
because the systems do not function. The credit of keeping the person
alive goes to the order of the Lord, which is internally present in the
soul. The body cannot remain alive even if you supply any type of
power to the body. This shows that both the inert body and the soul are
under the control of the Lord alone. The soul cannot stay in the body
forever even if it desires because the soul has to leave the body
according to the internal order of the Lord. Even when a system in the
body is troubled, the soul cannot rectify it. Only a doctor can rectify it
provided the order of the Lord permits it. This is the reason why every
treatment of the doctor is not successful. Sometimes even without the
treatment of doctor the troubled system is rectified by the will of the
Lord.
In deep sleep, the work used for thinking is not done by a person.
When one awakes from the deep sleep he feels happy due to this part of
stored energy, which was not spent in thinking. Advaita philosophers
think that the Lord present in the body achieved happiness in deep sleep.
By this they think that the soul is the Lord. Scientifically such a theory
is completely wrong. The Gita also clearly says that the soul is different
from the Lord (Yasmaat Kshara mateetoham). Even the Brahma Sutras
establish this difference (Anupapattheh Na Saareerah). Therefore, the
scriptures are scientific.
The Advaita philosopher neither understands these scriptures nor
science. He does not even understand Shankara, who alone swallowed
the molten lead and not His disciples. Let him (the modern Advaita
philosopher) swallow molten lead like Shankara and prove that he is a
human incarnation. In the case of the human incarnation, the soul in the
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Bhuloka. Bhuloka consists of four sub divisions i.e., Martya Loka (the
world in which we live), Pretaloka (world of the dead), Narakaloka
(hell) and Pitruloka (a world where people who have committed mixed
actions are sent). Above the Bhuloka, there is the Bhuvarloka (also
called Dyuloka or Jyotirloka). Above it is Suvarloka which is heaven.
After the enquiry a soul that has committed bad results, goes to
Narakaloka (hell). For mixed results one goes to Pitruloka. For good
results one goes to Bhuvarloka. For even better results one goes to
Suvarloka. As soon as the soul comes out of the body (after death in the
Martya loka) it attains an energetic body called ‘Bhoga Sareera’ (body
of enjoyment) or ‘Yatana Sareera’ (body of pain), with which the soul
has to enjoy or suffer the results of its deeds. This energetic body is
similar to the present gross body and results due to the internal design of
the soul. If the soul is not able to leave the bond with its physical earthly
body, the soul is covered by ‘Dhuma Sareera’ or ‘body of smoke’. Such
a state is called the state of a ghost (pisacha). For sometime the ghost
will wander in this world (Martya Loka) itself.
Food for the dead or Karmaphala Tyaga?
When the soul goes to hell, food is prohibited. When the soul goes
to Pitruloka Somarasa (juice of moon) is the food. When the soul goes
to Dyuloka, food is not required. When the soul goes to Suvarloka the
divine nectar (amrutam) is the food. Thus Lord arranges for food for all
the souls and there is no need of supply of food from this place. Even if
a person is jailed, the government supplies him with food. Therefore
realized souls never desire for the ceremonies performed after their
death. They do not require their issues (sons) to perform such
ceremonies because they have realized the truth. The hymns read in
these ceremonies are only prayers to the Lord, to protect the soul in the
upper worlds. The upper worlds are called Bhoga lokas, which mean
that one can only enjoy the results but one cannot do any new work
(Karma). The donation of food and money performed in the ceremonies
is only Karma Phala Tyaga (Sacrifice of the fruit of the work) as
preached in the Gita. But such sacrifice should be done only to a
deserving person. If one donates to an undeserving person the donation
will bring additional sin to the soul departed as well as to the person
who performed that ceremony here. Not donating to the deserving
person and donating to the undeserving person, both are sins as said in
the Mahabharata by Vidura. Therefore the Gita says that one should get
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the Grace of the Lord here itself while one is alive (Uddhareth
Aatmana). In the spiritual field, one should not depend on anyone else.
After death the sons are in the mood of grief and cannot search for a
deserving person to donate. During these ceremonies the priests are
chanting Vedic hymns without knowing the meaning. When the
meaning is not known how can the feeling of prayer come? Reciting like
a tape recorder does not serve the purpose. The Veda itself means
Knowledge and Shastras say that mere recitation is the worst
(Anardhajnah… Paatakaadhamah).
The best and most deserving person is the Lord in human form.
The next most deserving person is a perfect devotee. The next deserving
person is a poor man. But in case of a poor man, after donation you
must preach to him the divine knowledge and turn him into a devotee.
Without doing this, if you simply donate to him as social service you are
interfering with the punishment given by God to him, for his internal
change. The poor man has been given the punishment of poverty as a
result of his past bad deeds; with the expectation that he will change and
turn to God. The Gita calls all this as Pitruyaanam, which is the path of
all the ordinary human beings. This is the normal cycle of the world.
The Gita talks about the second divine cycle, which is called
Devayaanam. In this divine path, one becomes the servant of the Lord
who has come down in human form and he participates in the divine
mission of the Lord as a servant. Such a person becomes a divine soul
and travels in the path of Devayaanam. In this path, the soul after
leaving this world (Martya loka) will not go to Pretaloka. A highly
energetic body called ‘Divya Sareera’ will surround the soul. As a
servant of the Lord he is not enquired in Preta Loka and his file is
closed. He directly goes to the world of the Lord called Brahma Loka.
He will be taking divine births along with the Lord as a servant on this
earth from time to time. He has no agony of birth and death just like the
Lord, and his life is full of bliss as in the case of the human incarnation.
He gets all the super powers of the Lord (Astha Siddhis) except the one
topmost super power—the power of creation, ruling and destruction of
this world. This is said at the end of the Brahma Sutras. The Gita
explains both these ways namely the Pitruyaanam and the Devayaanam
(Sukla Krishna Gatee).
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Prostitute Devotion
A prostitute sacrifices sweet words and feelings of the mind for
getting money. But she does it for meeting her minimum requirements,
so it is justified. But today people who already have enough money to
satisfy their minimum needs are trying to please the Lord through sweet
words and sweet feelings of mind (devotion) to get extra from the Lord.
These devotees are called as divine prostitutes and can never be excused
by the Lord. One can please a person, who is either ignorant or has less
knowledge, by such false behavior. But no one can please the Lord who
has the full knowledge (Sarvajna) in this way. If any one tries to please
the Lord by the sacrifice of words and mind only, such a person is blind.
These people are made blind by fraud preachers who exploit their
ignorance and natural ambition. The people, who follow such fraud
preachers, lose time here (in this world) and the fraud preachers will be
punished later. These fraud teachers encourage these innocent people
and even make them do Karma Phala Tyaga. These innocent people are
advised to spend a hundred rupees in order to get one lakh (hundred
thousand) rupees from God. Unfortunately a part of the hundred rupees
that they spend in the name of God, is wasted in purchasing some
unnecessary materials and the fraud preachers steal the other part. [The
false preachers advise the ignorant devotees to worship idols and
statues with rituals involving purchasing costly but useless materials].
Such a sacrifice of the fruit of the work cannot be a real Karma Phala
Tyaga. It is just like a patient going to a fraud doctor and loosing money
and time without any reduction in his illness. Sometimes the illness may
even increase.
When you worship God in this way, the Lord only gives you the
fruits of your own good actions, which you were supposed to receive in
future life cycle arrangements. The fruit of good work from your future
birth is drawn to this birth like a pre-matured deposit. You think that
you have attained a large fruit of the good work, which you have not
done, just by spending a hundred rupees. Infact you are getting rid of the
present trouble only because the Lord is pushing this trouble to the
future birth with added interest. By this, your future life cycles become
miserable and full of troubles from birth to death. Do you not see such
people in the world? They blame the Lord for giving them such a
miserable life but they do not know that they had pressed the Lord for
this in their previous births.
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Just see this wonderful world and imagine the intelligence of the
Lord. Nobody including your fraud teacher can fool God. Therefore the
present tradition of blind preachers and blind followers is finally leading
only to the ever-lasting fire. Therefore, it is better to know the true path,
which is established by the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita. It is better to
take atleast one step on the true path because the distance from the goal
is reduced by atleast one step. What is the use of taking a hundred steps
on the false path by which you move away from the goal by a hundred
steps? The true path is only the one shown by Hanuman and the
Gopikas i.e., Karma Yoga (Karma Sanyasa and Karma Phala Tyaga put
together) which is emphasized everywhere in the Gita.
The value of the words and mind is only two paise (100 paise = 1
rupee). The value of practical action is hundred paise. If you do the
sacrifice of any of these three (words, mind and action) without aspiring
for anything in return, you will get the fruit from God according to the
corresponding values. If you praise the Lord without aspiring for
anything, the Lord will praise you by His sweet voice. If you meditate
upon the Lord without aspiring for anything the Lord will love you with
His sweet heart. If you serve the Lord practically without aspiring for
anything in return, the Lord also gives the fruit in the same practical
way. Hanuman simply participated in the work of the Lord. He was
given the highest post, which is a practically real fruit. The Gita says
that He will approach you in the same way as you approach Him (Ye
Yatha Maam).
The Gopikas sacrificed the fruit of their work and they were given
the highest Goloka (highest heaven). In these examples, sacrifice is
without aspiring for anything in return from the Lord. Such sacrifice is
called ‘Nishkama Karma Yoga’. If you do the same sacrifice, aspiring
for some fruit in return, you will get proportionate results here also. But
the results will be the fruits of your own works, which you were
supposed to enjoy in the future life cycles.
Using your energy
You are like an inverter (an emergency backup power supply) with
limited energy and limited working time. You can use the current to run
the essential fan and light bulb in your house. The remaining current can
be used for the temple (mission of God). This is the stage of saints
(monks). The next stage is that apart from the essential fan and light
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bulb, you use some current for watching the television for a little time
only. The remaining current is then given to the temple. This is the stage
of a householder. If one does not give any current to the temple and uses
the inverter entirely for his house and spends all the current for not just
the essential fan and light bulb but also for watching the television
throughout the night, then it is the state of the demon. Thus a saint needs
minimum for his own sake and uses all the rest of his energy for God’s
work. A householder uses the minimum and also little more for his own
enjoyment in the world, but spends the remaining energy for God. A
demon spends all his energy only for enjoyment in the world and never
thinks about the Lord. The Gita explains these three types as angels,
human beings and devils.
Now even when you spend part of the current for the temple, you
must spend it only for the necessary work in the temple. Suppose the
temple needs the current for a bulb to be lit throughout the night. You
should not divert the current for moving a fan near the statue, which is
unnecessary (since a statue is inert and does not need a fan). Similarly
when you approach God in human form, you must participate in His
work, which is essential at that time. When Rama was busy searching
for Sita, Hanuman left Rama in search of Sita. He did not sit near Rama
doing prayers, singing songs, meditating etc.; He did not do any
personal service to Lord Rama. Infact Sugriva was near Rama and was
doing His personal service. Yet Lord Rama gave the post of the future
creator to Hanuman and not to Sugriva. The work on which Rama was
concentrating was more important than His personal service. Getting
Sita back was not Lord Rama’s personal work because through that He
killed Ravana and gave peace to the world. Therefore, it looks like
personal work but it is actually the work for the benefit of the world.
Hanuman never misunderstood this as Lord Rama’s personal work. If an
ordinary monkey were in the place of Hanuman (who was a monkey) it
would think like this ‘I have remained without marriage, as a celibate.
Instead of looking for a wife form myself, why should I spend my
energy in searching for His wife?’ Hanuman never thought like this
because He was a scholar. But an ordinary monkey cannot think like
that. Therefore Rama left Sita after killing Ravana so that such a
misunderstanding would not arise. [He did this to demonstrate that He
was not attached to Sita and that rescuing her was not His personal work
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but was a means to destroy the evil Ravana and bring peace to
humanity]
Yoga means catching the Lord in human form, who comes to the
earth in every human generation. Karma Yoga means the service done
to the Lord in such a human form. Hanuman and the Gopikas did
service only to the Lord in human form, who came in their respective
generations. The Gopikas did not worship the statue of Lord Rama who
was the previous human incarnation. Hanuman did not worship the
statue of Parusurama or Vamana who was the previous incarnation.
Hanuman and the Gopikas also did not worship the statues of Vishnu,
Shiva etc., who are the energetic forms of the Lord in the upper-worlds.
Therefore you must study Hanuman and the Gopikas from all angles so
that you get benefited in your spiritual effort. You must observe whom
they worshipped and how they worshipped. Hanuman and the Gopikas
never worshipped the formless God. They never went to any temple.
You are giving real love to your family, which is like the sacred
milk of a cow. This real love includes practical sacrifice of your work
and the fruit of your work. But you are showing artificial love to God by
sacrificing mere words and mind to the Lord in order to get some
practical benefit from Him. Such artificial love is like the impure milk
of a donkey. You are insulting the Lord by giving a pot of donkey-milk.
Instead of this, you try to give atleast a spoonful of pure cow-milk out of
the potful that you give to your family. If you cannot give even a
spoonful of pure love to God, atleast don’t give the impure love. Even if
you cannot respect the Lord, atleast don’t insult Him. You never
sacrifice mere words and mind in the case of your children. You
sacrifice only the work and fruit of the work in their case. Similarly you
never sacrifice work or the fruit of work to God. You sacrifice only
words and mind to God. In the case of your children you are doing
Karma Sanyasa (dressing them up, taking them to school etc.,) and
Karma Phala Tyaga (giving food, medicines and money and property).
Therefore you are doing real Karma Yoga only to your family and not to
the Lord.
Serve the world or serve God?
Some people think ‘Since the mission of the Lord is only to serve
this world, why should I not do the same in my name?’ This question
comes to the mind of any human being. Why should God get fame from
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my work and my money? King Satrajith thought like this when Lord
Krishna asked for a divine gem, which Satrajith had got from the Sun-
god. The divine gem yielded a lot of gold everyday. Satrajith was doing
charity with that gold. So he did not give the gem to Lord Krishna.
However later he lost the gem and his brother was killed due to that
gem. Finally he gave the gem to Lord Krishna. What is the inner
meaning of story? The gem actually belongs to Lord Krishna. The Veda
says that the entire world is the wealth of the Lord. So the gem is a part
of the wealth of Lord Krishna. Actually Satrajith was getting fame by
doing charity with the wealth of the Lord. Thus when one understands
the truth, the case is quite the reverse. Here your sacrifice and the
service to the world are not important at all. Even without your sacrifice,
the Lord can uplift the world just by His will. The important point here
is your complete surrender and your complete sacrifice to the Lord.
The financial help, done as charity to poor people, is only a
secondary aspect. The propagation of divine knowledge and devotion is
the primary aspect. In a college, both the day scholars and hostellers
(residential students) are taught in the classes equally. For the students
who come from out-of-town are provided with the facility of boarding
and lodging in the hostels. This hostel facility is only a secondary point.
Teaching in the classes is the primary aspect. Similarly the divine
knowledge and devotion must be propagated to all people rich and poor
alike. Apart from that work, the poor people may be financially helped.
The hostel facility is only for an out-of-town student and not for every
student. Similarly the financial help to the poor people must be done
only in association with the propagation of knowledge and devotion.
Attachment and service
You cannot say that it is impossible to do practical service, which
is the sacrifice of work and the fruit of work without aspiring for
anything in return. You are doing the same in the case of your children.
You are doing service to them without aspiring for anything in return
from them. When they grow up they even insult you, but you still give
all your property to them only. But in the case of God you are not
showing even a drop of such true love to God through practical service.
The Lord is not even a fraction of your child! There are three strong
bonds for humans:-
1) Bond between wife and husband
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grace of God. The salary is given for the work done on the job.
Therefore the direct cause of the salary is only the service done by you.
Knowledge and devotion can be viewed as the year-wise academic
course studied by a student. Service is the annual examination. The
study in the whole year indicates the quantity of knowledge studied by
you. But the examination will reveal the quantity of knowledge digested
by you.
When you sacrifice the fruit of your work to a committee of
devotees (such as a temple trust or church) it will not be properly
utilized. The devotees, who manage the collected funds, are not
Sarvajna (all-knowing), like the Lord. A group of ten lecturers cannot be
treated as one professor. Therefore any number of devotees cannot
become equal to the Lord. Karma Phala Tyaga is easier than Karma
Sanyasa and Karma Sanyasa is easier than meditation. This does not
mean that meditation is the greatest and Karma Phala Tyaga is the least.
The Lord has one divine quality called ‘Sowlabhya’ (easy to approach).
This divine quality is very much in the Lord. This means that the Lord is
available very easily in human form. Does that mean that the Lord is the
least? In the twelfth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, Karma Phala tyaga is
mentioned as the easiest thing to do. This does not mean that the Karma
Phala tyaga has least importance.
Therefore immediately in the next verse the Lord said that Karma
Phala Tyaga is the highest (Atha Chittam, Sreyohi). The word Karma in
case of a man means earning money for one’s livelihood as said in the
Gita (Sareera Yaatrapicha). The Gita says that Yajna (sacrifice), which
is preparing food and feeding the guest, is the result of Karma because
the food that is earned by Karma is offered to the guest (Yajnah Karma
Samudbhavah). The same word Karma is used in the case of the Lord in
a different sense. In His case Karma means the creation of the world
(Visargah Karma).
Therefore, Karma Phala Tyaga means the sacrifice of the fruit of
the work, and the fruit of the work is money in the case of human
beings. The Veda says that the human being should sacrifice money,
which is earned above his minimum requirements (Kasyasvit Dhanam).
The Veda also says clearly that the sacrifice of money alone can bring
the grace of the Lord (Dhanena Tyagenaike). Even when Lord Rama
approached His Guru Vasistha, the Guru told Rama to sacrifice money
because money is the root of the whole world (Dhana Marjaya
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the Lord is not present in any object or in any living being in this world
(Neti Neti). If there is no second substance (duality), how will the Lord
have the entertainment? The Veda says that the Lord created the second
substance (duality) for His entertainment (Ekaki na ramate
Sadviteeyam). But how did the second substance come from the Lord,
who is the One and only One Entity or Substance? This is beyond your
understanding. However things exist even if you do not understand.
That is the secret of the creation.
Brahma Jnana is the knowledge of the Lord, i.e. to understand that
you cannot understand the Lord and His actions (Yasyamatam
tasyamatam). The Gita says the same (Mamtu Veda Na Kaschana). If
you say that you cannot accept that which you cannot understand, you
can never understand the Lord and His actions. The Lord lifted a
mountain on His finger. You have seen this. But you could not
understand this. The miracles prove that there is something, which you
cannot understand. The Veda mentions this point
(Asteetyevopalabdhavyah). Therefore the Lord created a second
substance, which gives Him entertainment. This second substance is
creation, which is a modification of His power called ‘Maya’. Maya
means that, which cannot be understood and is wonderful.
Ishwara Enters Creation
The Lord who is the base of this world is called Ishwara. This
Ishwara entered the body of Krishna as the current enters a wire. This
Lord can be seen, and touched, and He talks and lives with His
devotees. You can never touch Ishwara by your egoistic efforts. The
reason for your not accepting the human incarnation and your efforts to
reach Him directly, is only your jealousy. This universe is like a shirt for
the Lord. If you touch the shirt you are not touching the body. Similarly
by worshipping any object or any man in the universe you are not
worshipping Ishwara directly. But the same Lord comes down due to
His kindness. He pervades all over the human body of an incarnation
like Krishna as the current pervades all over the wire. Any limb of such
a special human body will give you the direct experience of the Lord.
When you say that the Lord is in the universe, you must take the
example of the man in the shirt. When you say that the Lord is in the
human body of an incarnation like Krishna, you should take the example
of the current in the wire. As the soul is pervading the human body of a
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human being, the Lord is pervading the human body of the human
incarnation. Therefore the soul and the Lord can be compared. The soul
in the body of Krishna is the Lord.
A peon is residing in his house. The collector (a powerful
government official) is residing in another house. Both are
householders. But the peon is different from the collector. The soul in
human body and the soul in the body of a human incarnation are both
called Atma because they both pervade the corresponding human
bodies. But the Lord and the individual soul are different. The body of
the human incarnation also gets the nature of the Lord. The wire gets the
nature of the electric current, which is to give an electric shock.
Therefore the body of Krishna, like the Lord present inside, is also
beyond our understanding.
Universe Within the Incarnation
The infinite universe is adjusted within the limited human body of
the incarnation. The Lord created the space. Volume is the property of
the space. The Lord is above the concepts of space and volume. This
means that there is no big Lord and small Lord. The body of Krishna
attains the nature of the Lord and so it is also beyond space and volume.
Therefore the limited body is the infinite universe.
Another wonderful point is that there are changes in the universe.
But there is no change in the body of Krishna. The Lord is the base of
the universe, but the same Lord is pervading all over the body of
Krishna. The Lord is not touched by the changes in the universe.
Therefore, neither the Lord nor the body of Krishna is touched by the
universal changes. Krishna gave the vision of ‘Vishwaroopam’ (Cosmic
form of God or the Lord in the form of the entire creation) to understand
this wonderful secret. He, who understands that the limited Krishna is
the infinite Lord, is a great devotee and this is the essence. The Gita says
the same (Vasudevaha sarvam, Adhyatma jnana nityatvam). When you
know that Krishna is the Lord, it is called as “Tatva jnanartha
darsanam” by the Gita. This concept is called as jnana or knowledge.
When you search the Lord in the world without seeing the Lord in
Krishna due to your egoism and jealousy, it is called ajnanam or
ignorance by the Gita (Ajnanam yadatonyatha, Nahamprakasah).
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Birth of Incarnation
[September 12, 2006. Shri Ramanath asked Swami whether
Akkalkot Maharaj whose birth is not known is the fullest human
incarnation as His devotees say. Following is Swami’s reply:]
For any concept, the scripture is valued. Otherwise everybody
speaks whatever he likes and gives his own logic. The advocate has to
quote the constitution and apply the logic in that line. Otherwise the
argument has no base. The scriptures say that Shri Krishna is the fullest
human incarnation (Shri Krishno Nanya Evahi). This is agreed by all
since it has scriptural basis. But Krishna was born to Devaki. Therefore,
the concept of fullest human incarnation is not related to the birth of the
human body from the womb of the mother. Gita says that birth must
have death and death must have birth (Dhruvam Janma Mrutasyacha).
Shri Akkalkot Maharaj died by leaving His divine body as everybody
knows it. According to Gita, the human body of Maharaj must have
taken birth. If you argue that His divine body was not from the womb of
the mother but it was created by the will of God, how does it matter?
Even the human body in the womb of mother is created by the will of
the God only as per Gita (Aham Bija Pradhah Pita, Sambhavah Sarva
Bhutanam…). Thus, this point is common to both. Both the human
bodies (created by God or created in the womb) are made of the very
same five elements. In this aspect also there is no difference. Therefore,
the divinity of Maharaj is not in the external human body but it is in the
God present in that human body. The human body is like a paper cover.
Inside the cover a Gold foil is present. When water falls, the cover is
spoiled but the gold foil is not at all affected. Similarly, birth and death
are only for the external human body and not for the internal eternal
God.
Even if you take Lord Datta with three faces and six hands, these
are only in the energetic body which has the facility of taking any
desired form. No human incarnation of Lord Datta has three faces and
six hands. There is no difference between the human body and the
energetic body. The former is made of five elements and the latter is
made of one element called as fire that represents energy. For a scientist
there is no difference between matter and energy. God is present in
hidden state even in the energetic form. The value of that human body
or that energetic body is only due to the presence of God in it. The value
of a wooden box carrying diamonds is due to diamonds only. The
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human body is the most convenient for the human beings through which
God is given (Datta) to the humanity. The six hands represent the six
changes (Shat Vikaras) of the external gross body. The three faces
represent the three qualities by which the subtle body (Jeeva) is made
of. The awareness or self (Atman) is always the content of the subtle
body and therefore, we need not speak about the Atman separately. The
causal body (Atman) and the subtle body (Jeeva) put together are called
as the internal body (Jeevaatman). Brahma stands for Rajas, Vishnu
stands for Satvam and Shiva stands for Tamas. The Lord plays with the
help of this external gross body and the internal body. The anger and
vulgar language used by many human incarnations of Datta indicates
Rajas. The smoking leading to Trans state, represents the Tamas which
is also present in many human incarnations of Datta. Even Datta is very
harsh to the devotees by beating with stick (Rajas) and drinks wine with
prostitutes (Tamas). The amazing knowledge coming from the human
incarnations of Datta or Datta is Sattvam. The whole divine play takes
place with the help of these three qualities. The knowledge is for the
guidance of devotees. The Rajas and Tamas are for testing the faith of
devotees or to throw away the undeserving devotees.
Janana Mulam Guruh Brahma, Gana Mulam Guruh Vishnuh,
Dhyana Mulam Guruh Sambhuh, Dana Mulam Guruh Dattah. The
knowledge indicates Brahma, the devotional songs (Bhajans) denote
Vishnu and the meditation which means the concentration of love on
God represents Shiva. When all these three are full, then Datta, the
sacrifice in practice appears.
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HANUMAN, THE GREATEST DEVOTEE
Mode of Worship
[Hanumat Jayanti May 19, 2006. Swami gave a Divine Message
on the festival of Hanumat Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Hanuman.]
O Learned And Devoted Servants of God,
The festival of Hanumat Jayanti comes in 2-3 days and happens to
fall on this Monday. How to celebrate this festival? The low level of
celebration is done when devotees worship Hanuman by offering leaves,
fruits, special food items and prayers and then finally ask for worldly
boons. The second middle level of worship is doing Bhajans on
Hanuman with emotion, which represents the love for Hanuman. Since
in the middle level there is no desire for boons, certainly the middle
level is higher than the low level. But the best and highest level of
worshipping Hanuman is to analyze what Hanuman practiced and bring
it into our practice to attain the permanent grace of Lord like he did.
This highest level of worship is called as Jnana Yajna. The middle level
of worship is called as Swadhyaya Yajna and Tapo Yajna. Swadhyaya
means reciting prayers and singing songs. Tapo Yajna means having
emotion through devotion, which is the penance and which develops
Tapana or Vedana which is nothing but the climax urge of devotion.
The low level worship is called as Dravya Yajna. The Gita says that
God is pleased with Jnana Yajna (Jnana yajnena) because with this you
are analyzing the concepts, which guide your practice in the right
direction leading to pleasing the Lord. Therefore, the best way of
celebrating Hanumat Jayanti is to analyze the practice of Hanuman as
presented in the Ramayana written by Valmiki, which is the best
authority to tell us on His practice.
Hanuman studied all the Vedas and Shastras. He studied nine
grammars from the Sun-god. Nobody in this creation can be equal to
Hanuman in this scholastic ability of scriptures. Even though, Hanuman
became the future Brahma, He never stated that He is God (Aham
Brahmasmi). I am astonished to see these petty Advaita scholars who do
not have one millionth of the knowledge of Hanuman say “Aham
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forms of God like Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva but He did not worship
them as per Valmiki Ramayana. The reason is that the energetic form is
not convenient for worship. Hanuman was in a body made of five
elements [material body]. The energetic form is made of only one
element i.e., Agni (energy). It is not suitable for the human bodies of the
earth [We cannot perceive it easily and for an extended durations].
Therefore in Valmiki Ramayana there is no reference to Hanuman
worshipping any energetic form like Vishnu, Shiva etc. It is impossible
to worship the energetic form directly. You can only worship a statue as
a representative of such an energetic form. Instead of worshipping a
statue or a photograph representing an energetic form in which neither
the original energetic form nor God exists, it is better to worship God in
the human form, which is also very convenient, being a common
medium [material body as ourselves] in the case of human beings. Is it
not better to worship a person in a cotton shirt instead of worshipping
the photograph of that person in a silk shirt? Therefore, Hanuman
recognized the human incarnation of His time and worshipped Him
directly instead of worshipping energetic forms of God directly, which
are inconvenient and instead of worshipping their representative statues
indirectly which is useless. Therefore we should learn the main aspect of
this spiritual life of Hanuman and then only shall we get the real benefit
in our spiritual path.
Spiritual Life
There are three items in spiritual life:
1) Yourself;
2) The path
3) The Goal.
Regarding yourself, you should realize that you are not God and
that you are only a humble servant of God. Regarding the goal, you
should realize that the goal is the human incarnation present in your
generation. Neither the formless aspect nor energetic forms nor statues
and pictures is the convenient form for worship. These two aspects of
yourself and the goal are very clearly understood from the spiritual life
of Hanuman. The third item is the path to the goal. This is also very
clear from the life of Hanuman. He was anxiously searching and waiting
for the human incarnation of his time. Thus meeting the human
incarnation physically is the first step. Only then, direct conversation
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and direct vision of God are possible. But today, due to the development
of electronic technology, we can see the person situated far from us and
talk with him directly. This is exactly equal to direct meeting and direct
conversation. Such technology did not exist then and therefore, meeting
the human incarnation personally was very very essential. Meeting does
not mean the simple physical sense. Meeting means understanding Him
with full faith. Ravana and several demons also met Rama. Several evil
persons like the Kauravas also met Krishna. What is the use of this
meeting only in a physical sense?
Meeting means understanding Him with full faith and receiving
the true knowledge from Him by clarifying all the doubts. The path in
the darkness is shown by the torch light in the hand. The Sun situated
far in the sky also shows you the path by the same light. Therefore,
receiving proper guidance from the Lord is more important than mere
meeting in the physical sense. After meeting Lord Rama, Hanuman
entered into the service of the Lord by participating in His mission. He
did not receive the Gita [Divine Teaching of the Lord] like Arjuna did
before the participation in the work. Hanuman had already received the
Gita with full clarification from the Sun-God and Sun had been
preached the Gita, very well by the Lord. The Lord even mentioned in
the Gita that He preached this spiritual knowledge first to Sun.
Therefore, knowledge was not necessary for Hanuman from the Lord.
He saw Rama and directly entered into His service.
Sometimes a person becomes a wonderful devotee in practice
without receiving any knowledge from the Guru. The reason for this is
that he has already received the knowledge in his previous birth and that
samskara [impression] follows him in this birth. The hunter Kannappa
did not receive any spiritual knowledge from the Lord and entered
directly in to the service of the Lord because in his previous birth, he
was Arjuna and had received the Gita from Him already. Knowledge
leads to devotion and devotion leads to practice. The knowledge
continues even in devotion and leads to practice. The knowledge
continues even in the practice. Thus the knowledge is underlying in both
devotion and practice. If the knowledge disappears, doubts will arise.
Then practice will be stopped. Devotion decreases. Therefore,
knowledge is like a torch light which is put on continuously till the goal
is reached. Therefore, the guidance of the spiritual Guru is necessary till
the goal is reached. After preaching the Gita, Krishna did not leave
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Arjuna while Arjuna was practicing His message. Krishna was with
Arjuna throughout the war and was clearing several problems in the
war. The 18 chapters of the Gita were the Jnana Yoga, which were
completely transformed into the 18 days of war which is the Karma
Yoga. In between the Jnana Yoga and Karma yoga, Bhakti Yoga was
developed in the mind of Arjuna which was in a hidden state. Krishna
represents the buddhi or the driver, which is the Jnana Yoga—the
guiding force as the Guru. The Veda says that buddhi is the driver.
Arjuna represents both Bhakti Yoga and Karma Yoga. The Bhakti Yoga
is hidden in the mind of Arjuna. The Karma Yoga is expressed in the
form of participation of Arjuna in the war. The Gita is a mixture of the
intelligence of the Lord (Guru Buddhi) and the intelligence of Arjuna
(Atma Buddhi). Thus Jnana Yoga is the interaction of the self with the
Super-Self. The Gita is not simply the preaching of Krishna like a non-
stop express train. It is the series of answers given to the enquiries of
Arjuna. Thus the Jnana Yoga becomes the knowledge with relevance to
the soul.
Hanuman stands as an example of a mountain of knowledge,
devotion and service. The knowledge of Hanuman was over, even
before meeting Rama. Devotion arose in him like a tsunami when he
met Rama. Thus both knowledge and devotion were in a hidden state in
Hanuman. The entire Ramayana of Valmiki, especially the Sundara
Kanda, relating to the Hanuman, simply concentrates on the service of
Hanuman to the human incarnation of his time. Service (Karma Yoga)
cannot result without devotion (Bhakti Yoga). Devotion cannot be
generated without knowledge (Jnana Yoga). Rukmini heard about all the
details about Krishna (Jnana Yoga) and developed a tremendous
attraction (Bhakti Yoga) to attain Krishna as a result of the knowledge.
Her devotion was selfless and her attraction to Krishna was not to
become the queen of Dwaraka. She wanted to be present at the feet of
Krishna and press His feet continuously and her aim was only such
service (Karma Yoga). Karma Yoga implies means the automatic
existence of Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga.
You serve your son. What is the reason for your service? The
reason is your love for your son, which is Bhakti Yoga. What is the
reason for your love for that child? The reason is that you are well aware
that he is your child born from your blood. Such knowledge and
identification (Jnana Yoga) is responsible for your love. Therefore,
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this world. God Himself came down in that form to show the part of
Nivritti for a spiritual aspirant. Rama can be a practical guide in
Pravritti. Krishna is a theoretical guide in Nivritti but Hanuman is a
practical guide in Nivritti or the spiritual path. Therefore, for all spiritual
aspirants, only Hanuman can be the real and complete guide.
Stages In The Spiritual Journey
There are two stages in the spiritual journey. The first stage is the
realization and attainment of the self [Atman], which is the undisturbed
pure awareness like standstill water. This pure awareness is vibrated in
association with the worldly bonds. These vibrations are called by many
names such as Gunas, Samskaras, Vasanas, feelings and thoughts. When
you detach yourself from all the external worldly bonds and also
withdraw yourself from the gross body, you are confined to the vibrated
soul. Due to the detachment, the vibrations also disappear and the
undisturbed soul remains. If you confine yourself to this undisturbed
soul by fixing your ‘I’ to it [identifying yourself with it], this stage is
called as self-realisation or self-attainment. This is the first stage.
However this stage is only the fifth stage of Asthanga Yoga of Patanjali.
According to Patanjali’s system, it is called as Pratyahara and it means
the complete withdrawal of yourself. Self-attainment is possible by
identifying the original nature of the self and by removing its
superimpositions. The soul superimposes itself on the gross body and
also on its vibrations called as subtle body. When the superimpositions
are removed, the worldly bonds which are nothing but strong feelings
also disappear. All worries and stress also disappear. Perfect mental
peace remains. The body and the mind are interlinked. A peaceful mind
leads to perfect health of the body too. Hanuman achieved all this and
attained a sound mind in a sound body. By this, the capacity of logical
analysis (buddhi) also improves.
The attainment of this self is a pre-requisite or qualification for the
second part of the journey. Shankara stressed this first stage for atheists
who are the beginners on the spiritual path. The second part of the
journey is the attainment of the Super-Self (God) in human form and to
please Him with selfless service. Hanuman is the best example in both
the parts of the journey. For a beginner, the first half of the journey is
stressed and an encouragement is given to him by stating that the
intermediate station, which is goal of the first half of the journey itself,
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is the final goal. The second half of the journey is not mentioned for an
atheist who is a beginner. Thus for encouragement, the self itself is told
as the super-self. This will also coincide with [be suitable to] the nature
of the atheists who do not believe in God separately [other than
themselves]. All the atheists are encouraged to take up the first half of
the journey because even an atheist likes to be peaceful and without
stress in his life here. The attainment of the self is a qualification to
serve the Super-Self. It is only a rank in the entrance examination,
which gives you the eligibility to study the professional course. A rank
in the entrance examination is not a rank in the professional degree.
Normally, we encourage the students by saying that if he gets a good
rank in the entrance examination, he has become an engineer. The study
of the engineering course after getting rank in the entrance examination
is hidden for the sake of encouragement. By getting a rank in the
entrance examination, one should not feel that he has attained the post
of an engineer without studying the engineering course.
The fruit of self-achievement is salvation. Salvation means the
relief from all the worries and is not at all related to God. Even an
atheist wants salvation but not kaivalyam. Kaivalyam means the
attainment of God. God is pleased with selfless service. Selfless service
is possible only if you have attained the self by self-realization. The
atheist who has completed the first half of the journey obtained
salvation and thought that he has attained God because he thinks that the
Self is God. This misinterpretation can be clarified by studying
Hanuman because, He is the first rank holder of the first half of the
journey and still He never said that Self is God. He showed the second
part of the journey by catching the living human incarnation and by
pleasing Him through selfless service. Therefore, atheists should realize
that just for encouragement, the intermediate station is mentioned as the
final station. They should understand this and should start the second
half of the journey. Take Hanuman as an example: The atheist should
catch the second train from the intermediate station. Sometimes you
may have a direct train from the first station to the third station i.e., you
can realize God in the beginning itself and complete the total journey by
the direct train. You will achieve the self too, with self-realization, as an
intermediate station. You cut all the bonds in the first half of the journey
so that you will have a strong bond with the Lord in the second half of
the journey. You acquire full independence by relieving yourself from
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all this slavery of materialism only to become the best slave to God
latter on. The complete independence of the soul (Aapnoti
swaraajyam—Veda) as aspired by Shri Ziddu Krishna Murthy, pertains
only to the first half of the journey.
Almost all the spiritual preachers are concentrating on the first half
of the journey and they are getting excellent response from the public
because everybody wants relief from the stress. But they should know
that the Gopikas were facing maximum stress in remembering Krishna
and Radha even became mad. The madness of the worldly bonds should
disappear so that you can become perfectly mad about God! Even in the
time of Rama and Hanuman, the present society existed with the same
psychology pnly with a different external culture. People never
recognized Rama as God other than a very few topmost devotees. Even
in the case of Krishna, who performed so many miracles and preached
the excellent Gita, only very few devotees like the Gopikas could
believe in Him as God. Even Dasaratha, Kausalya and Kaikeyi etc.
loved Rama only as a good person. People used to worship
representative statues of energetic forms of God like Vishnu, Shiva etc.
or the past human incarnations like Vamana, Narasimha etc. But there is
not even a single reference in the Valmiki Ramayanam for idol worship
done by Hanuman in any way. Hanuman worshipped only the human
incarnation of His time.
Therefore in every generation, the same majority exists which
does not recognize the then existing human incarnation due to their
jealousy and egoism. The worship of statues is thus inevitable. Ofcourse
just for vision of the past human form, the statues or photographs serve
a very good purpose and develop inspiration towards the concept of the
human form of God. But the extension of service to the statues
imagining them to be living human forms is only imagination and
madness. It does not contain even the basic logical analysis. When the
human being has his eyes covered by egoism and jealousy, idol worship
is inevitable like a medicine is for a patient. Subjective satisfaction is
the only merit in idol worship. But unfortunately such satisfaction is
only imaginary or an illusion. However ignorance is inevitable in the
beginning of the treatment as said in the Gita (Sarvarambhahi doshena).
Idol worship is only a representative worship and not direct
worship. For representative worship, even a statue or photograph in your
house is sufficient. You need not make a tedious journey and spend a lot
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of money to see the statues in temples that are in far away places in the
name of pilgrimage. The statue in your house and in the temple is one
and the same, and God is not present in either of them. They only
represent God to satisfy your madness of the past human incarnation or
the ignorance of an ordinary human being affected by egoism and
jealousy. The priests of the far places created stories of the greatness of
those temples (Sthala puranam) just like commercial advertisements
because they are benefited by the offerings of the large public.
However, our ancestors used to go on a pilgrimage. Their aim was
different. They wanted to go to a place like a hill or forest where they
could peacefully concentrate on the statue, leaving the disturbance in the
house. But today these famous temples present on hills and forests are
heavily crowded due to the commercial advertisements made by the
priests. Your house has a better peaceful atmosphere than these present
temples.
The case of the human incarnation is different. Worship to Him is
is direct worship (Saakshat Upasanam) unlike the worship of statues
(Prateekopasanam). God exists only in that particular human form and
therefore you have to run to Him and hear His wonderful knowledge
wherever He is; even if He is present on the battlefield like Kurukshetra.
God does not exist in any other human being including yourself except
that particular human being and therefore there is meaning if you leave
your house and undertake a tedious journey to reach Him in the present
time. Even that strain is not necessary because you can see a human
incarnation and hear Him through the present electronic technology.
What do you mean by ‘Love on the Lord’?
What do you mean by the ‘Love on the Lord?’ It is the real
attraction towards the Lord, which is generated and developed by
knowledge. It is the mental feeling. It is expressed by words. It is proved
by action. Some people think to prove it by mind and words only. They
are unable to prove in action and they are covering their inability. They
say that meditation meaning, an act of mind and chanting or singing
meaning, an act which is connected with words are the proof of their
devotion. But the real love is proved only by action called ‘Karma
yoga’, which consists of two parts viz., ‘Karma sanyasa’ and ‘Karma
Phala Tyaga’. Karma sanyasa means sacrificing your work for the sake
of the Lord. It is pressing the feet of your Guru as an example. This path
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has the possibility of some tricks. You may press the feet to give
exercise to your fingers. You may also do the work of the Lord for your
food. But if such tricks are not present, it is definitely better than
meditation and singing because it is related to action.
The second part called ‘Karma Phala Tyaga’ [sacrifice of self-
earned money] is the real and best proof, which is offering Guru
Dakshina. This part applies only to the people who have earned the
unnecessary extra money and store with their selfishness. All the money
in this world is the wealth of God only. To the extent required by you, is
permitted by the Lord. But you are taking extra which is not expected of
you. You are given a cup of milk in a house. You can drink the milk
when given which is permitted but not to take away the cup. The milk is
yours for which the house owner has no objection. You have taken the
cup and claim it as yours, then, you are a thief. The first mantra of the
first Upanishad (Isha vaasyam) says the same. The Lord is preaching
you to return back his extra wealth which was taken by you and which
was not granted by him. The Lord is not asking to return back the milk
given to you for drinking. He never asks for the sacrifice of your
minimum, partly or fully. For example: A person is having ten rupees
that is his minimum. Another person has one hundred rupees. The first
person gave one rupee to the Lord. The second person gave ninety
rupees to the Lord. The first person is greater than the second person
because the first person has sacrificed even from the minimum. The
second person should subscribe atleast ninety plus one rupee so as to
become equal to the first person. In the case of first person, Sakthi
(Power) is less but Bhakti (Devotion) is more. But in the case of the
second person Sakthi (Power) is more and Bhakti (Devotion) is less.
But the devotees sacrifice even their minimum. Shabari collected
some fruits that are required minimally for her daily food. But she
offered the entire food to the Lord. Such sacrifice is not expected from
the side of the Lord. But it is done from the side of the devotee. The
devotees sacrifice their minimum partly or fully based on the intensity
of their devotion. Kannappa sacrificed even his eyes, which is the bare
minimum of his body. Even the body is the fruit of ‘Prarabdha karma’.
The most essential part of the body is eyes. Prahlada was prepared to
sacrifice even his life for the sake of the Lord. For some, character and
prestige are much higher than the life. Gopikas sacrificed even these for
the sake of the Lord. The Veda says ‘nothing and none should be equal
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not developed, the human being is going to fall in the cycle of births and
deaths of animals and birds forever. The knowledge transforms a bad
person into a good person but the food strengthens a bad person even to
a bad person. Even in the donation of food, people are not using their
knowledge. They donate food to all pilgrims at Varanasi on Shiva Ratri
day. This entire donation becomes useless because no pilgrim needs the
food. Here also, the deserving is neglected. Instead of feeding hundred
pilgrims on Shiva Ratri day at Varanasi, you feed one poor deserving
devotee for hundred days whatever may be the place. Then that
particular place will become Varanasi and everyday becomes Shivaratri.
When Rama approached his Guru ‘Vasishta’ for the spiritual path,
Vasistha told Rama ‘First you go and earn some money and then come’.
The Guru always asks for Guru Dakshina to teach this Karma phala
tyaga. Guru is the human being and uses that money for himself and for
his family. A ‘Sadguru’ is the Lord in human form and he uses that
money for propagating knowledge and devotion in the world to uplift all
people. People sacrifice their money to feed the beggars? But remember
if the beggar does a sin with the energy given by your food, you have to
share that sin. You must spend lot of time to detect the deserving
person. People are hasty in giving donations at a temple and distribute
ten coins to ten beggars in five minutes and came back thinking that
they have earned ‘Punyam’ [Good Karma]. You were very particular of
the place and time (Desa and Kala) of your donation. You think that if
you donate at Varanasi on the day of ‘Shiva ratri’ you can get the
punyam. You don’t care to search for the deserving person (Patra). Store
all the coins that you want to donate and go on searching for a deserving
person. Whatever may be the place and whatever may be the time, when
you get a deserving person give all the coins to him. That place becomes
Varanasi and that time becomes Shivaratri.
The Veda says that donations should be done with knowledge and
patience (Samvida…, Sraddhaya…). Use the knowledge to identify the
deserving person and have patience to wait till you get that deserving
person. Who is the utmost deserving person? The Lord himself is the
utmost deserving person. His first address is the human incarnation and
the second address is his devotees. Between these two, the first address
is better. The reason is, in the case of human incarnation, the Lord lives
in the inert human body. In the second address, the Lord and Devotee
live in the inert body. So the amount donated will be used by the Lord
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only with utmost utility. Blind and hasty donation without knowledge
and patience may bring sometimes even the sin. The Lord in human
form is the proper channel for your donation because there will be no
error when He utilizes the funds. Devotees may waste due to improper
knowledge.
Interpretation of ‘Service to man is Service to God’
People often say that Service to man is Service to God. This is a
very dangerous statement if it is not properly understood. Service does
not mean simply giving food, clothes, medicines etc., to suffering poor
and needy people. The poor person is suffering due to the punishment
given by God due to his bad deeds. You have not seen his past deeds but
you show sympathy on him at present. Your help is only temporary.
Make him a devotee by imparting knowledge. Then the Lord will help
him and that help is permanent. So the word ‘service’ should not be
limited to donating food etc., In such case after receiving your help, he
may do sins which you have to share. So convert him into a devotee by
donating knowledge so that he becomes a devotee, to get personal help
from the Lord and also helps others. Since this is the work of the God,
such service of yours’ becomes God’s service. Donate knowledge and
devotion, even for the wealthy people. Poor did not mean lack of money
only. It also means lack of knowledge and devotion also. Actually the
original sense of this statement is different. When the Lord comes in the
human form, he appears as a man. You have to detect Him by His
inherent quality that is blissful knowledge. When you serve such a man
your service becomes God’s service because that man is God. When the
God is born as a man called as Krishna, some people think that Krishna
is a man and some others think that Krishna is a God. So, there is a
controversy. God pervaded that man as the current pervades the metallic
wire. So both God and man co-exist. Shankaracharya discussed that
particular context only and concluded that though two are present, both
become one and the same only. Though wire and current are present, the
wire is the current because the wire gives a shock wherever it is
touched. Similarly, when God pervades the human body, that human
body is the God. So, touching Krishna is touching God. But people
extrapolated this concept to every man and said, ‘Every man is God’.
The disciples of Shankaracharya also thought like this. When Shankara
swallowed the molten lead and asked his disciples to swallow the same
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disciples realized Shankara proved that he alone is God and not his
disciples. If every man is already God what is the use of all this
‘Sadhana’? Who is to get salvation? If you are already God, do you
mean that God gets salvation? If there is no salvation, why all this
Sadhana (effort) is required? Why Prahlada did not accept his father as
God? Narasimha killed Hiranya Kashipu. If both of them are Gods, then
God killed God, which means God committed suicide!
Lord is Above Qualities
The ultimate God, Datta appears as the pious scholar with all good
qualities. Sometimes, He appears as a person drinking the wine and at
times with a prostitute. The reason for such different and opposite
qualities is that He is indicating that any person with good or bad
qualities can reach him. The three faces of ‘Brahma’ ‘Vishnu’ and
‘Shiva’ indicate ‘Sattva’ ‘Rajas’ and ‘Tamas’ qualities. This means that
God is associated with all the qualities, and He is called as ‘Saguna
Brahma’. The word ‘Saguna’ means all the qualities. Since Rajas and
Tamas represent bad qualities, two-thirds are only bad qualities. It
means that people with bad qualities are more in number. The fans of
Vishnu think that Vishnu is good because He is associated with
Sattvam, Rajas is worse and Tamas is the worst. So, they say that
Vishnu is the best and highest. They think that Brahma is lower and
Shiva is worst. These three forms are only the three dresses of the same
‘Lord Datta’. The [internal] God is the same and is untouched by these
three qualities. The Gita says the same. The Veda says that Vishnu is
Brahma and also Shiva. These three qualities are the three colored
clothes of the same Lord. The colour of the cloth is not the colour of the
person. A person is not touched by the colour of the cloth and the colour
of the person is not affected. Sattvam is white Rajas is red and Tamas is
black. So the colour of Vishnu should be white and colour of Shiva must
be black. But the colors are interchanged. Vishnu is black and Shiva is
white. This means Vishnu and Shiva have exchanged their qualities.
Shiva is sitting in meditation with a good quality. Vishnu is dancing
with the Gopikas and it is a bad quality. Now tell me who is greater? So,
Datta is the single God present in all these three divine forms. He is not
touched by any quality. Therefore, He is called as ‘Nirguna Brahma’.
The colorless person is looking red, white and black due to those colors
of his clothes. This form of Datta indicates that Bhakthi is untouched by
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good or bad qualities. Pure water is present in three glass cups with
three different colors. The water is not coloured but appears to have a
colour. Similarly the Bhakthi i.e., love on God appears to have the
colour of the quality. But it is always pure and colourless.
So the person whether good or bad can reach the God through any
path. When Bhakthi is present in the person and also present in the path,
it is the driving force beyond good and bad qualities. Shiva with Tamas
as a bad God invites the bad people in a bad path. Vishnu with Satva as
good God invites all good people through good path. But remember
onething, Vishnu and Shiva are one and the same. A good person and a
bad person reach the same God because their Bhakti is one and the
same. The three faces denote creation, administration and destruction of
this universe by one and the same God. The Veda says that these are the
three activities done by one and the same God called ‘Parabrahman’. So
Datta is Parabrahman as per the Vedas. We have three Gurus Shankara,
Ramanuja and Madhva. They are the incarnations of Shiva, Vishnu and
Brahma [respectively]. That means Datta came down as these three
Gurus. So Datta indicates that He is the single Parabrahman present in
the three divine forms called Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Datta further
indicates that He is the Sadguru present in all the three Gurus. The voice
of Datta is the single theory present in the commentaries of the three
Gurus. Datta indicates that any living being is eligible to reach Him and
get the salvation irrespective of his/its good and bad qualities. Datta also
indicates that whether the path is good or bad, only the Bhakti is given
value by Him. The Bhakthi should be real and pure without aspiring
anything in return from Datta. A beggar comes to you and praises you a
lot. You are asking him to move away. But a guest is given all the
comforts with special love. What is the difference between these two?
The intention of the beggar is to get food from you but the intention of
the guest is to see and talk with you. Since the intention differs the
treatment differs. So come to Datta as a guest and not as a beggar. If
your intention is only to love Datta without aspiring anything in return,
Datta will give everything to you, as you are His guest.
So any human/living being in this world is eligible to have the
admission into our Datta Religion irrespective of his good or bad
qualities. Whatever qualities may be present in him or his path, he need
not feel embarrassed when the quality is bad and need not feel proud if
quality is good, provided he does not disturb the peace of the World.
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After entering into our Datta religion, you will be imparted knowledge
(Jnana) by Lord Datta directly. This generates and also develops the
devotion. This devotion real, selfless, proved love on Lord Datta will
make you attain Datta.
The unique speciality here is Datta donates Himself to you and
merges in you while you are alive. Datta means He who donates
Himself to you. In other religions, you are merging with God after
death. But here God merges with you when you are alive. ‘Datta
religion’ is the actual material present in all the religions in the universe.
It is the water present in all the rivers and also exists separately as the
ocean. All the rivers have to merge in the ocean. All the religions merge
in this universal religion. Datta is the universal God and the Universal
Guru. Datta is the universal love present in all the living beings and in
all the spiritual paths. Datta is called the ‘Digambara’ which means the
actor himself, who removed all the dresses of his roles and is present in
his original and natural dress. Datta is also called as ‘Avadhoota’, which
means if you taste Datta, all your bonds in this world with all the people
and all the things will be thrown away.
Shirdi Sai Baba used to ask everybody for Guru Dakshina, which
is only teaching ‘Karma Phala Tyaga’. Patil is the highest devotee, who
used to give all the crop of the year, which is his required minimum.
Baba used to give him some part back. This means, he left to the Lord to
decide the quantity of minimum also! Baba told a rich person, who
came in quest of Parabrahman ‘you could not give Rs.5/- to your Guru
from your pocket. How can you know the Parabrahman? That rich man
could not recognize the Lord before him present in human form. He was
prepared to give one crore of rupees to his children, but not Rs.5/- to the
Lord. The value of the Lord in his eyes is almost nothing. In his heart,
there is no trace of love for Parabrahman. This is proved clearly by his
karma phala (money). The family bonds of Indians are very strong and
they store money even for their grand grand children. They can donate
only their mind (meditation), intelligence (logical discussion) and words
(chanting and singing etc.,). Their love stored in their hearts like water
in tanks flows into their bonds that are like side tubes. Not even a drop
is left over in the heart for the Lord. Only Karma Phala Tyaga proves
your love on the Lord. Atleast, luxuries can be cut and that can be
subscribed as Guru Dakshina.
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that further damages the body. You are associated with a few Karma
Phalas only. But He is associated with several Karma Phalas of His
devotees continuing from several births. You can weep while suffering
but He should smile. If He leaves the suffering even for a minute He is
not Datta in that minute. But Datta remains Datta always. He sits on the
thorny throne. You see only the throne but not the thorns.
Datta is the practical aspect of God. ‘God is infinite bliss’ is the
theoretical aspect of Brahman. The philosophers of Advaita attracted by
the theoretical aspect, but once they come to know this practical aspect,
they will like to remain in Dvaita only as servants of Datta.
Why is India suffering with poverty always?
The Indian Scholars have developed several ways to do ‘Karma
Phala Tyaga’ by tricks and keep the fruit with them only. For ‘Karma
Phala Tyaga’ – test both the human form of Lord and the money (Karma
Phala) are required like a paper and pen for a test. One intellectual way
is to offer the food (Karma Phala) to a statue and then eat it as remains
but the God has not eaten even a grain. Another intellectual way is to
say that every man is God and the eating of food by a man is considered
as eating by God. So you eat the food and say that God has eaten the
food. Now you say that you have done ‘Karma Phala Tyaga’ to the God.
Such intellectual tricks result in storing all your ‘Karma Phalas’ with
yourself only. Like this Indian Scholars have covered their greediness
by intellectual interpretations. The heart is full of love and the brain is
full of intelligence. Indians have connected brain to God and the heart to
their family. It is reversed in the case of foreigners. Love result in karma
phala tyaga. Only intelligence results in knowledge, praying etc.,
without practical sacrifice. This brought poverty to India. When the
wheat flour has gone from the hand by wind, an Indian Scholar says ‘I
sacrifice this flour to the God’. You take a foreigner. He earns, enjoys
and donates for good cause. He will ask his child to earn and live after
certain age. The family bonds of the foreigners are very weak compared
to the Indians. Hence, huge love is stored in them without much
diversion to the family bonds. Hence, once they come to know about the
Lord fully, they will jump with full intensity of Love and Devotion.
They reach God quickly by their strong ‘Karma Phala Tyaga’. He does
not store even for his children due to such frankness and simplicity in
his thoughts. God blessed almost all the foreign countries with lot of
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IDENTIFICATION OF INCARNATION OF GOD
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that only a particular human being is the Lord, it can never be tolerated.
They will be satisfied if you atleast say that no human being is the Lord.
Now the address of the Lord shall be a formless and all pervading power
or a statue or a photo.
This intolerance towards the human being acting as the Lord leads
to the criticism and even sometimes insulting the human incarnation.
Krishna said in the Gita that people unaware of His divinity, insult Him
since He is in the human form (Avajaananti maam…). In the case of
Jesus, the egoism and jealousy went to a climax and they killed Him
brutally. Buddha was tolerated by His fellow human beings because He
neither spoke about God nor claimed that He was a human incarnation.
Therefore, as long as the two eyes are covered by the layers of egoism
and jealousy, no human being can tolerate the greatness of even the
fellow human being. How can such a human being tolerate another
fellow human being to be the incarnation of Lord Himself? Therefore,
the human incarnation never gives a universal declaration that He is the
Lord. Such declaration should be specific to certain devotees only. Lord
Krishna declared Himself to be the God only to Arjuna. He never made
this declaration at any time during His life to anybody else. He did not
declare to Gopikas that He was the Lord because there was no need of
such a declaration to them. Gopikas were sages who were the realised
souls in their past birth. Even the great devotee, Dharmaraja did not
believe Krishna completely. When Krishna asked him to tell a lie,
Dharmaraja refused and gave more importance to Dharma (worldly
justice) above the Lord. The Veda says that nothing and none should be
above the Lord (Natatsamah). The Gita says that the Lord is even above
the justice (Sarvadharmaan). The Lord in human form competes with
everybody and everything to test whether you have the highest love for
Him or not? He preaches karmaphala tyaga (sacrifice of fruit of your
work i.e., wealth) and karma sanyasa (sacrifice of work), which are the
real essence of love. You are doing both these towards your family
members. When He competes with your family members in both these
ways the real colour of your love or devotion comes out immediately.
Gopikas sacrificed butter, which is their fruit of their day-long hard
work to Krishna even neglecting all their family members including
children. Gopikas were householders and earned the fruit of work.
Therefore they were generally tested in karmaphala tyaga. Hanuman
sacrificed all his energy and work for the sake of the personal work of
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Human body
The human body is made up of three components namely the
external or gross body, the subtle body and the causal body. [In case of
the human incarnation, a fourth item, God enters this human body.]
Gross body
The external gross body has birth and death, hunger, thirst, disease
etc. By seeing these characteristics even in the external human body of a
human incarnation of the Lord, one mistakes that human form of the
Lord is an ordinary human being. The human body of the incarnation is
not divine because God has only entered the human body and has not
got modified into the human body. The shirt of a king and that of a
beggar can both be cut by a blade [both are made of cloth and have
similar characteristics]. This does not mean that the king is the beggar.
The inherent characteristics of human body are not affected, when the
Lord enters a certain gross body. The divinity of Lord is only added and
it can be withdrawn at any time. When electric current pervades a metal
wire, the properties of the wire like leanness, curling etc. are not
affected. The shock, which is the property of current, is added to the
wire. When the current is withdrawn, the shock also disappears. The
Lord left the body of Jesus before crucifixion and therefore Jesus cried.
‘Oh Lord! Why have you left Me?’ As long as the Lord exists in His
body, it cannot be insulted by anybody. Even during the time of flow of
current in the wire, the shock-property of the electricity is not visible
externally and only the properties of the wire are seen. The shock is
known only by experience. Similarly the divinity of Lord in a human
body can be known only by experience, which can be obtained only
through patient following and service of the incarnation. For everyone
else, only the properties of human body appear so that they mistake Him
as an ordinary human being. This is the gross external test and most of
human beings fail here itself and drop away. They should realise that the
Lord is in the human body and therefore He is separate from the human
body. Thus the properties of the human body cannot be imposed on the
Lord. This external gross body (Sthula Sharira), made of five elements
is like an external coat worn by a person.
Subtle body
The second inner subtle body is made of three qualities, which are
Sattvam (purity/goodness), Rajas (activity) and Tamas (ignorance). This
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is like the inner shirt. Sattvam represents all the good qualities. Rajas
and Tamas together represent all the bad qualities. The Lord is said to be
Viswaroopa. It means this entire world is His body. We see both the
good and bad qualities in the world. If you say that only good qualities
are in His human body, how can you represent this entire world by His
human body? Sattvam is Lord Vishnu. Rajas is Lord Brahma. Tamas is
Lord Shiva. [These three divine forms are forms of the same God]. You
may get a doubt of how divinity can be present in bad qualities? The
answer is that you do not know the definition of good quality and bad
quality. A good quality is defined as any quality, which is diverted
towards God. The bad quality is defined as any quality, which is
diverted towards the world. Kannappa hunted and killed a rabbit.
Hunting innocent creatures is the greatest sin. However he offered the
flesh of that rabbit to the Lord alone. Then such hunting is not a sin and
so Kannappa did not go to hell for that hunting. He went to the abode of
Lord Shiva.
He did not eat that flesh nor did he give it to his family. If he had
done so, it would have been a sin. Gopikas got salvation by dancing
with Lord Krishna. You should know that the Lord is beyond this subtle
body (Sukshma Sharira). Therefore, He is beyond and untouched by
these qualities. He is beyond Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Datta is called
as Triguna Atmaka or Trimurtyatmaka, which means that He is beyond
the three qualities and beyond the three divine forms. If you are firm in
this knowledge, you will not be perturbed when He exhibits all these
three qualities, which are called as Maya. Especially you will not run
away when He exhibits Rajas and Tamas. He is beyond the shirt and is
not the shirt. The shirt has three colours, which are the three qualities.
The followers of Vishnu say that Vishnu is the only Lord because of His
Sattvam or good qualities. They criticize Brahma and Shiva because
both represent Rajas and Tamas indicating the so-called bad qualities.
The bad qualities are only from the point of the world and constitute
2/3rd of the world. If Sattvam alone is considered, only 1/3rd of the world
is represented. One who knows that He is beyond the three qualities will
not run away when the Lord in human form exhibits the remaining 2/3rd
of Maya, which constitutes Rajas and Tamas. The subtle body is called
as Jeeva. The three qualities are the three fundamental vibrations of pure
soul.
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Causal body
The inner most final component of the human body is the casual
body (Karana Sharira), which is made of pure awareness only and is
called as soul (Atman). This is called as Nirgunam because it is devoid
of all the three qualities and it is like the inner banian (inner shirt). In the
realised souls, the ‘I’ is fixed to the soul after crossing the above two
bodies. This is called self-analysis, which leads to self-attainment. In
ordinary human beings the self is always associated with the subtle
body. The waves (subtle body) cannot exist independently without the
water (Atman). Therefore, in the case of ordinary human beings the
subtle body is always integrated with Atman and thus both together are
called as Jeevatman. The mis-interpreted Advaita philosophers say
Atman is the Lord.
However, Atman cannot be called as the Lord or Parabrahman.
Atman cannot even be called as Brahman because Brahman actually
means the Parabrahman (Absolute God) associated with Mula Maya.
But the word Brahman can be used in the sense ‘Greatest’ because the
word Brahman literally means the greatest. The pure awareness or the
soul is the most subtle and finest item of the creation and is really
greatest of all the items of the creation. In this sense Atman can be
called as Brahman. In the Gita, the Veda is called as Brahman in the
same sense because the Veda is greatest of all the scriptures. Therefore,
the word Brahman is used in several ways of meaning. One should be
careful and discriminate the sense by the context.
Parabrahman
Parabrahman or Lord or God is beyond the three components of
human body and exists as the fourth component in the human body of
human incarnation alone. Thus God remains the same and the human
body changed from one incarnation to the other. To attain the God is not
important but to please the God is important. Service is the only way to
please the Lord. Service means either or both of karma sanyasa and
karmaphala tyaga. The God gets infinite pleasure or bliss through your
service, which is called as bliss. Bliss constitutes ninety nine units of
pleasure. Sacrifice of words, mind and intelligence through prayers,
songs, meditation and discussion gives Him only one unit of pleasure.
By this one unit, we can say that God is pleased but He did not become
blissful. Any human being will enter into practical service only if full
determination is achieved. Such determination comes only when there is
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Swami: You say that the head master in a white shirt alone is the
head master. You say that the syllabus taught in Hebrew
language alone is correct. You want all the Hindu section to
sit in your classroom. Is it justified? What is the reason of
your above statement?
Christian: No reason and no argument. My Bible says that Jesus
alone is the saviour. Based on this authority I uttered the
above statement. God is above arguments and reasons.
Hindu: My Gita says that Krishna alone is the saviour. Based on
this authority I utter this statement. God is above arguments
and reasons and there is no need of arguments and reasons.
Swami: Both of you are only human beings. Both of you have
two printed books in your hands. Both of you have no
arguments. Neither Jesus nor Krishna is visible. Both of you
are equal in every angle. How should I favour anybody and
show the merit on one side only when both of you are equal in
all aspects? Moreover you are not putting forward your
interpretations and arguments so that I can hear both, analyse
and favour one side since I can justify Myself in pointing out
the merit of one of your arguments. No one has any extra
item. The first item is that both of you are human beings
without any argument. The second item is a printed book in
the hand of each one of you. The statements you quote carry
the similar meaning. Thus when the number of items and the
quality of items are also exactly similar, how can I favour
anyone of you? Atleast if you put forward your arguments,
they may differ from each other and both the arguments will
not be exactly similar. Now based on the difference of your
arguments, I can favour one of you because the difference in
the arguments can help Me to find out the merit in one of your
arguments. If the arguments are also exactly similar like the
above statements, then also I cannot favour any argument.
Therefore, both of you should present your arguments and one
of you should show the extra point, which cannot be answered
by the other side effectively. Then only the judgement is
possible as in the case of court. The judge in the court favours
one of the two arguments showing the extra merit in a
particular argument and favours it. If you quote the statements
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decide about the issue of one head master or several head masters then
only the unity of classmates will come in to picture. If you accept the
single head master as God, then Hindus and Christians belong to the
same school and therefore can be called as classmates. If there are two
schools with two head masters, they belong to different schools and
cannot be called as classmates.
Vada Maryada—Decorum in debate
When two advocates argue in the court, they can go to any depth
and in any angle in their arguments. But one advocate should not say
that the argument of the opponent is vain. Whether the argument is vain
or not, it should be decided by the judge. Only the judge is authorised to
say that and he alone controls such vain argument by shouting “Order
Order!” Such comments come only by the predomination of Rajas. In
such case the personal clash starts and the debate looses its sanctity. If
you see Jesus, He never passed any single negative remark against the
opponents even during His insult and crucifixion. How patient and good
is He even towards His enemies? You should not pass such emotional
negative remarks, especially being the follower of Jesus. Krishna was
friendly to devotees but became cruel to His enemies. I can understand
if a Hindu, the follower of Krishna, passes such a remark towards his
opponent. But Jesus loves even His enemies. Your comments did not
pain Me at all because I am beyond all these things. What pained Me is
that you being the follower of Jesus has passed on such negative
comment even if you assume that I am your enemy. Therefore, you be
active in your arguments. The scholastic elite audience who are
observing our arguments from a long time will decide which argument
is a waste. Don’t influence their mind by such comments. Let them
freely decide which argument is useless. I feel that My best beloved
friend [converted Christian devotee] did not pass this comment. I find
that some person of Saturn is speaking through him like this. I know the
pure and innocent heart of the converted Christian devotee. I know his
sincerity and quest for the truth through his practical approach. I am
sure that he should not have spoken like this. The personified Rajas
hiding behind him must have used such word. I find two types of emails
from him. In one type of emails he requests Me for the correct
interpretation of some statement in the Holy Bible. Such emails indicate
a predominance of Sattvam (goodness and purity, which are conducive
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versions are clearly discussed and analysed, how the true version can be
found out? The constitution contains very brief statements. Why does
the judge not give the judgement by simply referring to the brief
constitution? Why are advocates employed who argue for years together
in the court? The judge as well as the elite audience hear patiently all the
arguments. Why does the judge take such a long time to deliver the
judgement after hearing the arguments of the advocates for hours
together? Sometimes the case may run for several years.
Let the judge say that the constitution is brief and valuable. Thus
the judge can give the judgement based on the constitution on the same
day the case is filed. Why are people employing advocates and why are
arguments running for such a long time in the court? The constitution
contains all the points relevant to the case. However it is only when the
constitution is practically applied to the case that all the problems arise.
One advocate applies the same constitution in one way and supports one
side. The other advocate applies the same constitution to the other side
and supports the other side. Both the versions seem to justify their
respecive sides. Which version is to be taken? Why does the teacher
explain the subject for so many hours to the class? A brief presentation
of the subject is present in the textbook. Let the students read the
textbook and write the examinations. What is the necessity of such a
year long teaching? Why are there so many seminars, debates and
conferences in each branch of knowledge conducted by universities?
You are not prepared to enter the debate and want that your
interpretation should be simply accepted without any discussion!
Scholars will never accept such a suggestion. If you see the Bible,
whenever Jesus modified the Old Testament He gave the reason behind
it by argument. He supported when somebody saved an animal on the
rest day of Sabbath. The Old Testament says that no work should be
done on the rest day. The priests asked Jesus that He should follow that
statement and therefore, saving of the animal is not correct. If you see
only the literal meaning of a statement of the scripture without any
discussion, the priests would be correct. But Jesus argued with them
regarding the interpretation of that statement. He said that one should
not do any bad work on the rest day and doing good work does not
require any place or time. He argued that if you postpone a good work
like saving an animal fallen in a dangerous pit, to next day, the animal
would certainly. Therefore, in view of the urgency of saving the life, the
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Old Testament must be interpreted in the correct angle. Jesus gave all
these arguments to the priests. The priests had taken just the direct brief
meaning of the statement. But Jesus gave several sentences of argument
to give its correct interpretation. Now according to you the priests
should be correct because they took the brief statement of the scripture
and the brief direct meaning of the statement. The reasoning of Jesus is
in several statements as an argument. Now according to you Jesus and
His words should all be a waste and you should pray for Him also.
I will ask you one more point. Why do Christian preachers speak
so many sentences in giving the interpretation of a single statement from
the Bible? They give very long lectures based on the statements of the
Bible. Do you mean to say that their explanations containing a large
number of sentences are all a waste? According to you they should
simply read the Bible to the public and they should be brief. They
should not explain the meaning of a statement of the Bible.
Will of God
All My devotees were very much pained at the emails of the
converted Christian devotee and some of them even became furious. But
I told all of them that he is My dearest friend and all the devotees along
with Me should be very grateful to him because all this ocean of
knowledge came out like a tsunami only due to him who is the cyclone
and earthquake. He has acted on the will of God only. Not a single
devotee of My circle could bring out such tidal waves of knowledge
from Me. The name of the converted Christian devotee shall be written
in golden letters in the history of our Universal Spirituality. I request all
My devotees to preserve all the emails sent by him and My response.
After receiving the experiences and logical analyses of the devotees
regarding Me, we shall publish everything truly as a book called
“Identification Of The Human Incarnation”.
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these are used by human beings. Demons used Rajas and Tamas in
wrong direction due to egoism, ambition and jealousy. But Narasimha
and Krishna used the same Rajas and Tamas to uplift the devotees
without any selfish motive. Krishna used Sattvam to uplift Arjuna by
preaching Gita. Shakuni used the same Sattvam (Knowledge) in the
form of preaching to ruin the Kauravas. A sage throws seeds on the
ground to feed the birds. A hunter also throws seeds on the ground to
trap and kill the birds. The direction of the quality decides whether the
quality is good or bad. Otherwise all the three qualities are equally good
since these are created by God only. Everything in the creation is good
only because everything is created by God only (Mattaeveti—Gita).
These three qualities represent the three sacred energetic forms of God
(Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva).
God Cause of All Causes
In the world every item is a cause for something and is effect of
some other thing. For example energy is the cause of matter and matter
is the cause of an object with a form. Matter is effect of energy and is
the cause of the object. For energy God is the cause and for God is there
is no cause. God always remains in the causal state only and is the cause
of all the causes indirectly also. For energy God is the direct cause. For
matter God is hidden indirect cause through the energy. Energy cannot
modify into matter by itself without God. Thus, directly or indirectly
God is the cause of every causal item (Akhilahetuhetum—Vyasa). The
energy has no will but has the capacity to create by modification. The
awareness has will but has no capacity to create any worldly item like
energy or matter. Every item in the world has some defect by which it
cannot prove itself to be the cause for other causal items. If energy has
the capacity to wish, one can spontaneously conclude that energy is
God. If awareness has the capacity of worldly creation, one can easily
conclude that awareness is God. God has no defects (Nirdoshamhi—
Gita). If you neglect the defect of the item, you can call any item as God
through metaphor. But you should remember that God is not actually
any item in the creation. Any item in the creation can stand for God as
representative model if its merit is only considered. With this angle
only, all words can be used to represent God by all their merits (Sahasra
Nama stotram). Even then God is only possessor of those merits, which
are not the real inherent characteristics of God since God is
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unimaginable. Thus, God is not a group of all these items in which case
God should have all the merits and all the defects of all these items as
His inherent characteristics. If you imagine a group of items having only
the merits, then also such proposal faces two objections: 1) The God is
single but not the multiple of items 2) Such group of items having only
merits is imaginary (since each item is imaginable) without any practical
evidence and this again contradicts the total unimaginable nature of
God. Thus, Infinite Ocean of energy having the quality of will
(awareness) is only imaginary. You have the infinite ocean of inert
energy as creator of this world but it is not the designer. You have the
awareness as the designer but it is discontinuous in the form of living
beings. A combination of these two is imaginary and is called as
Brahman by the spiritual preachers because the unimaginable God has
to be introduced through some different medium other than the existing
media in the world.
The Veda has negated all the existing items as God and there is no
other alternative than to bring some imaginable item which does not
exist in the world. The existence of such imaginary ocean of awareness
is again contradicting the unimaginable nature of Brahman (God) as
stated in the Veda. Such imaginary infinite ocean can be imagined by
the intelligence and cannot be the unimaginable God in real sense. Such
imaginary ocean can be the medium (creation) only but not the creator.
Such medium charged by God can be taken as Brahman (God) as the
live wire is considered as current. But remember that such medium is
again imaginable and invisible. You are representing the unimaginable
God through invisible medium but such medium is not unimaginable.
The concept is that such an ocean represents God but not actually the
God. Instead of this, it is better to represent God through visible and
imaginable medium. Even the energetic body like Narayana is invisible
and imaginable. The invisible medium can only represent God but
cannot be the God. In such case why not we represent God by visible
medium? For representation, the visible and invisible media can have
the same chance since both the media are imaginable and cannot be God
actually.
The best convenient imaginable and visible medium is the human
body. The other inert items are also imaginable and visible but do not
serve the purpose of preaching knowledge and receiving your service.
The medium should be visible (and imaginable) and also should serve
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the main purpose of visit of God to the earth. If you take such imaginary
ocean of awareness, the process of creation also cannot be explained
properly. If the world is projection of such awareness, the entire world
should be alive without any inert item. You may say that the awareness
is basically inert energy and therefore both life and inert objects are
projected in the world. This point is ruled out because the imaginary
ocean is homogeneously awareness every where even though it is
basically inert energy. In such case the whole world also should be
homogeneously living beings only which may be basically inert energy.
But the world shows living beings and inert objects separately. In such
case the ocean must be a heterogeneous mixture of both awareness and
inert energy. Even if you take Lord Narayana in the place of ocean, the
entire world must have all pervading awareness resembling the body of
Lord Narayana in which the awareness pervaded all over. You cannot
say that logic should not be applied to the process of creation by God.
When you have defined God in terms of medium, such God is within the
boundaries of the creation and cannot be the creator. Logic must exist in
all the definable items of the creation. While explaining the process of
the creation, the subject – object concept should be protected. If you say
that the entire object (World) is subject (God), then there is no
entertainment to God because there is no difference between subject
(Drashta) and object (Drusya). In order to protect this, you have to say
that a part of the ocean of inert energy is modified into inert world in the
beginning. Such modification was done by the will of God who did not
charge the ocean and then God is expected to exist outside the ocean.
After the creation, the remaining ocean is charged by God (Subject) so
that the dualism exists for the sake of entertainment. Similarly, the inert
energy of the Lord Narayana and His awareness can be explained in the
same above sequence. The energy of the body cannot modify into the
world because the body gets deformed. The awareness in the body
should have been modified into the world, in which case, the above
objection facing the ocean of awareness repeats here also. The
awareness in the world is seen as the dependent on nervous system and
inert energy of the body. In the ocean of awareness, the generation of
awareness without nervous system can be objected. In such case you
have to say that the awareness of the ocean is due to the super power of
God. This independent divine awareness differs from the natural
awareness which depends on the nervous system. In such case you
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When Lord Shiva fought with Lord Krishna, Lord Shiva was defeated
(Bhagavatam). What is the meaning of this? It only means that the
concerned authority of the earth in that time was only Lord Krishna, the
then human incarnation. Except this point, there is nothing else because
the same God exists in both Lord Shiva and Lord Krishna. It is
important to note the authority of the presently existing alive Chief
Minister of your state. If you approach the statue or the photo of the past
Chief Minister of your state, who is not alive, there is no practical use.
The present Chief Minister is homogeneous with all the past Chief
Ministers of your state and Chief Ministers of other states also and is in
no way different from them. If you neglect the alive Chief Minister and
cry before the photos of the past Chief Ministers or Chief Ministers of
other states, what is the use? You can respect the photos and statues of
those Chief Ministers and draw the inspiration for which the existing
Chief Minister also is a supporter. He also respects the photos of the
past Chief Ministers and also the Chief Ministers of other states.
Similarly, you can have all the theoretical devotion like discussions,
songs etc., as far as the statues or photos are concerned. But the practical
devotion like serving through sacrifice of work and fruit of work should
be done only to the present human incarnation and His team as you pay
tax and serve your state chief minister only. Your preacher is more
important for your practical devotion than the photo or statue of the past
incarnation. It is better to serve the alive peon of the department than
serving the photo of a past Chief Minister. It is better to approach even
an alive devotee for consultation and guidance than to approach a photo
of past incarnation. Even Meera approached Tulasi Das for clarification
in leaving the house even though she was worshipping the statue of
Krishna constantly. The life is the basic essential requirement for the
practical devotion. It is better to serve even a beggar in the name of God
than serving the photo or statue of the past incarnations and the
energetic forms of God, which are meant for the development of the
theoretical devotion only. The undeserving people are receiving your
practical service hiding behind the photos and statues. They are like the
present politicians who are exploiting the public to receive the revenue
paid by the public by hiding behind the photos of the previous great
leaders. You must see the deserving candidate asking for your vote who
enjoys the tax paid by you. You should not vote the undeserving
candidate by seeing the photos of the past great leaders. Your revenue
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which can be arranged only with the help of your hard earned money.
The theoretical devotion involving sacrifice of words through prayers
and songs, sacrifice of mind through meditation and devotional feelings
and sacrifice of intelligence through discussions of knowledge is like
drinking water that is freely obtained from a municipal tap. God
supplies the words, mind and intelligence freely to you. By the sacrifice
of such theoretical devotion of words, mind and intelligence, one should
not aspire any fruit. The drinking water is not charged even in a
commercial hotel. Today, we charge God for fruits for such theoretical
devotion also. Knowledge and devotion are like water and fertilizer. The
service is like the plant, which alone can yield the fruit. Water and
fertilizer should be applied to the plant (service) and service alone can
yield the fruit because service is action. The practical service is the real
proof of the theoretical devotion. The real love is proved by practical
service only, which is sacrifice of work and fruit of work. Such practical
service is not impossible because we are doing the same to our children.
We are not doing the theoretical devotion like chanting the name,
singing songs etc. in the case of our children. The theoretical devotion
without practical service (practical devotion) is false love and is shown
only in the case of God. If the practical service is impossible, it should
be impossible everywhere. It is quite possible in the case of our
children.
Thus the nature of the path to please God should be understood
from Hanuman and Gopikas, which is the practical experience of the
greatest devotees. Arjuna was born as a hunter in the next birth and such
lower birth shows inadequate faith in the contemporary human
incarnation. Arjuna did not believe Krishna completely. He believed in
Shiva, who is God in human energetic form in the upper world and did
penance for Shiva to get the powerful weapon (Pashupatam) to win the
war. Therefore, Krishna told that He would not use any weapon and
fight in the war because Arjuna did not have full faith in Him. Arjuna is
called as ‘Nara’, which means the human being. This indicates that the
human beings will never have full faith in the contemporary human
incarnation due to ego and jealousy towards the co-human forms.
Arjuna was treating Krishna as an ordinary human being only with
certain extraordinary powers (Aparam bhavato janma… Gita).
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is useless. At the same time, the service without faith is also equally
useless. Both the plant (service) and fertilizer (faith) are essential for the
production of the healthy fruit.
Rama acted as an example for ordinary human beings where as
Hanuman acted as an example for devotees. In the case of Hanuman, the
God’s work and social work competed with each other and Hanuman
voted for God’s work only. Rama stood for human form of God and
Hanuman stood for God’s devotee. Hanuman is incarnation of Lord
Shiva and is God Himself but acted in the role of a devotee along with
contemporary human incarnation. Adi Shankara is also an incarnation of
God Shiva but He was in the role of human incarnation of God, which
came for social service through propagation of knowledge. There is no
other human incarnation in His case and there is no competition of
personal service of human incarnation and social service. However, if
you take Adi Shankara in the role of a devotee also, He also left His
mother like Hanuman for the sake of God. The essence of both the cases
is that God’s work is greater than family and society.
If you trace the future birth of Arjuna, it is a demotion from
second place to sixth place according to Guru Charitra of Shri
Narasimha Saraswati in which the descending seven births are
Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vyshya, Shudra, Gangaputra (fisherman), Vyadha
(Shabara) and finally Chandala were mentioned in order. Ofcourse,
these births are not based on the present caste system of birth but the
caste is based on qualities and actions (Guna karma
vibhagashah…Gita). When Arjuna was born as Kannappa (Vyadha), he
got back the samskara (the strong mental bent or attitude) of his
previous birth, which was devotion to Shiva, the energetic form of the
upper world. Kannappa could not recognize the contemporary human
incarnation as usual like Arjuna. Kannappa after death went to Shiva
Loka in the energetic body (Divya shareera) to worship Shiva. But, the
soul in energetic body will neglect the divine energetic form due to the
same disease of repulsion between likes. Veda says that this disease
effects even the angels, who are the souls in energetic bodies (Paroksha
priyaa ivahi devaah pratyaksha dvishah…). Even Indra, the Lord of
angels was about to hit Lord Shiva with his thunderbolt weapon due to
this disease (Vajram mumukshanniva vajrapanih… Raghuvamsha).
Hence, the soul of Kannappa in energetic body neglected Lord Shiva
because Shiva was also in the meditation state appearing as if He also
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worships the higher form of God. This is the divine Maya of the Lord,
which is the test for devotees. The soul of Kannappa or Arjuna in the
Shiva Loka also entered in to meditation of formless Brahman because
Shiva appears as if He meditates upon formless Brahman. Hence, the
soul of Kannappa was born as Swami Vivekananda, who was a devotee
of formless Brahman through out his life. The soul in the human body of
Arjuna or Kannappa worshipped Shiva because there is no repulsion
between human body and energetic body. Due to this repulsion of
common media only (Pratyaksha dvishah… Veda), Arjuna considered
Krishna as his preacher (Shishyasteham… Gita) and Vivekananda also
considered Ramakrishna as his preacher only. In the last days of
Ramakrishna, one day Vivekananda thought whether Ramakrishna was
God really. Then Ramakrishna told Vivekananda that He was Rama and
Krishna together. Then only, the layer of common repulsion was
destroyed and Vivekananda fell on His feet and got the final salvation.
Therefore, unless the repulsion between common media (Pratyaksha
dvishah…) is removed for the soul in this world or in the upper world,
the salvation is impossible. Now the departed soul of Vivekananda
existing in energetic body can recognize Shiva also as the Lord in
similar energetic body in the upper world. The Veda says that unless the
soul in this human body in this world recognizes the contemporary
human incarnation, it cannot recognize the Lord in the upper world also
(Ihachet…). The Gita also says the same that only the liberated soul in
human body in its existing time recognizes the son of Vasudeva on this
earth as God (Vaasudevah sarvamiti…). This again means that the
contemporary human incarnation in every human generation should be
recognized to get the salvation.
Scriptural Evidence for Incarnation & Path
The Veda emphasizes on the sacrifice of work (Kurvanneveha…)
and on the sacrifice of fruit of work (Dhanena tyagenaikena…). The
Gita also gives lot of stress on sacrifice of work (Matkarma
paramobhava…) and on sacrifice of fruit of work (Karmajam buddhi
yuktahi phalam tyaktva…) everywhere. The Veda gives focus on the
contemporary human incarnation (Ihachet…, Aparokshaat Brahma…).
The four great statements (Maha Vakyas) speak about the contemporary
human incarnation. The first three statements say that the external
human form of God is like Myself, yourself and himself. The last
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knowledge of the Lord touches your heart and gives you immense
pleasure as said by the Veda, ‘Anando Brahma’. So, by His blissful
knowledge, you can recognize the Lord like the fire is recognized by
heat. Miracles are not His identity marks. Miracles are performed even
by demons like Ravana etc. They are the jewels of the Lord, which are
taken by the demons through rigid penance. Demons are also the foolish
children of the Lord. So He gives those jewels to the demons as they do
penance for them. But by these jewels, demons could not become God,
as they could not get His inherent quality i.e., blissful, true and infinite
knowledge. Demons claimed that they are God. But sages did not agree
for the same reason.
Scriptural References & Devotee’s Life Incidents
The entire ‘Bhagavad Gita’ stresses on this ‘Karma phala tyaga’.
The first hymn of the first Upanishad (Ishavasyam) says that you should
return the extra money you have earned to the lord, which is not
permitted by Him. It says that this entire world is His wealth only.
Gopikas donated the fruit of their whole work viz., butter to the Lord in
human form (Krishna), avoiding even their children and reached the 15th
uppermost world called ‘Goloka’. They also surrendered their bodies to
the Lord. This body is also the fruit of your previous action called
‘Prarabdha’. By this, they sacrificed even justice and did not even fear
for Hell. Their love to the Lord was the highest and so the Lord granted
the highest world to them. Their Gurudakshina was everything i.e., their
money (butter), their bodies, their minds, their words etc. and what not?
Lord was misunderstood that He was always after Gopikas and not
males. He was abused as a fan of women. What is the secret in this? A
man is surrounded by several egoistic (Rajas) qualities. But a woman
has several submissive qualities (Satvam) like fear, obedience etc.,
which are required for salvation. This is the reason why the male sages
were born as Gopikas to attain the salvation. According to Lord Datta,
any soul has to take the last birth as a woman. But, this does not mean
that every woman is in the last birth.
A hunter called Kannappa sacrificed his eyes to the Lord, which
are the best parts of the body and is the best ‘Gurudakshina’. The Veda
says that you can earn the minimum which is required by yourself and
your family which is permitted by the Lord and not extra. If you have
taken extra, return it to the Lord. For example, when you have gone to
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your friend’s house, you are offered a cup of milk. You can drink the
milk but not take away the cup. The Veda says that if you have taken
extra, you are a thief and it is a sin. If you return the extra, you will be
excused by the Lord. Otherwise, that sinful extra money will lead you to
all problems. Some devotees offer even from their minimum or
sometimes even their entire minimum. Patil, a devotee of Shiridi
Saibaba used to offer his entire annual crop to Baba and took back
whatever was given by Baba. When a rich man came for the spiritual
knowledge, Baba said, “You could not give Rs 5/- required by Me, how
can you know God?’’ Baba used to ask Gurudakshina from everybody
only to teach this most essential aspect of ‘karma phala tyaga’.
The Lord does not need your money because the entire money is
left here only in this world and you go alone with your sin. So, all His
money is in His bank only i.e., this world. You are in His bank. You
took extra from His bank and while dying, left those extras in His bank
only. You have not taken the extra with you except the sin committed by
you by taking that extra and atleast by not returning it to Him with your
own hands.
Shabari offered even her meal i.e., fruits to Lord Rama. This
represents good money. The hunter (Kannappa) offered raw flesh to
Lord Shiva, which represents sinful money as it was earned by hunting.
Both reached the same Lord because Rama (Vishnu) is Shiva. The Veda
says, “Shiva is Vishnu (Shivascha...)”. The intensity of love is same in
both the devotees. So, if you offer Gurudakshina with full love to the
lord, he will not find fault with your sins. Kannappa was given salvation
irrespective of his sinful hunting since he did not enjoy that flesh but
offered it to the Lord. But if one enjoys, he gets the sin.
Practical Implementation of Karma phala tyaga
You offer Gurudakshina to the Lord in Tirupathi after getting
some help from Him in your problems. The money offered by you was
His money only, which you have stolen as extra. You give that extra
money to the Lord to get some work from Him instead of returning that
extra money with humble apology. Here also, first you get the work
done and then only pay. That is your faith! An atheist gives money to
another man and gets his work done in the same way. In what way, you
are greater than him? Shri Venkateshwara in Tirupathi is only the
external dress of Guru Datta. So today, Guru Datta gives the true
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knowledge to you to rectify this. Guru Datta says, “Today, you should
leave all this chain of sins and offer Gurudakshina to the Lord without
expecting anything in return, because whatever you possess belongs to
the Lord only. You give the money in the same shop from which you
have stolen. So, you should not take any article from the shop in return.
You should give the stolen money to the shop with all apologies and go
back. Datta is so kind that by the time you reach your house, hundred
articles will be present in your house.
You must return the stolen cup to its owner, in which he has given
milk required by you. Similarly, you must return the extra money stolen
by you to the Lord. This is Gurudakshina. So the attitude here must be
apology and fear, but not pride. The Veda says, “Bhiya deyam” which
means, give to the Lord with fear. The Veda says, “Samvida deyam”
which means that you should recognize the Lord by His knowledge. The
Veda also says, “Sraddhaya deyam” which means that you should have
patience to search the deserving person i.e., the Lord, for your
Gurudakshina. The point here is that you should return the cup to the
actual owner and not to some other person. Similarly, you should give
Gurudakshina to the Sadguru only because He is the Lord and the actual
owner of this entire wealth.
People are hasty in doing charity. Store the money with patience
day by day and once you recognize the Sadguru, offer the entire stored
money to Him as Gurudakshina. That day is real Guru Purnima.
Everyday the moon is growing indicating your money, which is being
stored with patience. Place, time and deserving person are the three
main parts of charity. The last part is the most important. You are giving
Gurudakshina to some person at a particular place like Varanasi and on
a particular day like full moon day. You are giving unnecessary
importance to place and time. But, you are not analyzing that person
with your knowledge to know whether he is the Lord or not. Whatever
maybe the place and whatever maybe the day, if you are giving all your
stored money as Gurudakshina to the actual Guru Datta, that place is
Varanasi and that day is Guru Purnima.
But, if Datta is not available as an incarnation (Sadguru), the next
best alternative is a poor devotee of Datta, because the Lord dwells not
only in the incarnation but also in devotees. Sage Narada said this in his
‘Bhakti sutra’ (The principles of devotion) “Tanmayahite...’’ But in the
body of a devotee, both Lord and the soul of the devotee co-exist. Lord
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advises the soul and that soul has to preach or do the service. In such
cases, errors occur. For example, you have donated money to a spiritual
trust containing devotees. They simply provide food to 100 pilgrims on
a Shivaratri day at Varanasi, which is a total waste. All the pilgrims are
capable of earning their food and are not in need of food. In this context,
Sadguru feeds one deserving poor devotee for 100 days with your
donation. Your money is fully utilized and you get its full fruit. In the
case of Sadguru i.e., the incarnation, only Lord lives in the body. So He
directly preaches and He does the service without any error. Shiridi
Saibaba used to give the Guru Dakshina given to Him to several poor
devotees and He knew what, when and to whom it should be given. He
knew all the past deeds of each soul. He can never be deceived. But,
beggars deceive you by many tricks.
After giving Gurudakshina to the Sadguru, you should not verify
Him about the use of it. You should have complete faith in Him. If He is
Sadguru, naturally He knows its full utility. If you believe the fire is
really fire, you need not test it by putting your finger. If your faith is
partial, it is like the child of a monkey, which catches the stomach of its
mother. Transferring from one place to another is the duty of the
mother. But catching firmly is the duty of the baby monkey. In such a
case, the baby may fall. But when you have full faith, the Lord catches
you and take you up, just like a cat catches its child by her mouth and
carries it along. Saibaba after receiving Gurudakshina was not advised
or observed by any devotee regarding its expenditure. An income tax
officer tried, but failed. He was not giving anything to the poorest
devotee called Mahalsa. All the devotees were worried. But, Saibaba
was testing Mahalsa for his firm devotion. If he is helped, the test is
disturbed. Tests by Datta are only for your use. He knows your levels
even without a test. He also teaches you the same. But you do not take it
seriously. When you are tested practically and the reality comes out,
then only you realize your levels. For this purpose only, Datta conducts
tests, but not to know the level of a devotee. He is ‘Sarvajna’
(omniscient) and knows your level even without the test. The full moon
represents not only the stored money for Gurudakshina but also
represents the full mind or faith. As per the Veda, “Moon stands for
money and mind. Moon is Goddess Lakshmi which is the money
(Chandram...) and the moon is born from the mind [Chandramah...]”.
Saibaba could have asked the people who gave Gurudakshina straightly
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CHARACTERISTIC SIGNS OF LORD
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fox in the next minute. The proportion of the nature of fox and tiger
varies from time to time. Therefore, the animals can be believed but not
man. A demon remains as a demon throughout his life. An angel always
remains as an angel. But a man is a mixture of good and bad qualities.
The Gita says the same (Anishtamistam misramcha). Arjuna fell at the
feet of Lord Krishna and begged Him to preach the truth. Lord Krishna
preached that He was the Lord. The Lord was very kind and revealed
the truth. He did not want to give any further trouble to Arjuna by
making him search and identify the human incarnation by following the
Vedic identifying signs. If He had let Arjuna search on His own, Arjuna
might have been misled. Therefore, the Lord avoided putting Arjuna
through this trouble and told him that He (Krishna) Himself was the
Lord. But Arjuna doubted His words and asked Lord Krishna to show
Him the Vishwarupam to prove that He was indeed the Lord. The Lord
showed the Vishwarupam but Arjuna did not believe completely
because he knew that even devils could show miracles.
Possible Pitfalls in Sadhana
Arjuna participated as a servant of the Lord in the war to destroy
evil people. But when Abhimanyu died, he withdrew himself from the
war. This shows that Arjuna was fighting (selfishly) to get back his own
kingdom so that he could pass it on to his son. On the eighteenth day of
the war, Krishna asked him to get down from the chariot. But Arjuna
asked Krishna to get down first because Krishna was the driver of the
chariot and the driver of the chariot should get down before the master
of the chariot. This shows that Arjuna did not completely realize
Krishna as the Lord. Neither Arjuna nor the Pandavas sacrificed their
kingdom (fruit of the war) to the Lord. Therefore, their sons were killed
and only then did they realize the truth.
Lord Krishna preached the Gita to Arjuna and finally told Arjuna
“You analyze what I have told you and do whatever you like”. He gave
the freedom to Arjuna. Still Arjuna did not realize because Krishna told
him again and again that He was the Lord. Krishna should have told the
Vedic statements, which are useful to identify the Lord. Thus the Gita
shows the possibility of such a misunderstanding, if the Lord in the
human form says that He is the Lord. Recognizing the Lord in human
form is Jnana Yoga (knowledge). Sacrifice of the fruit of your work to
the Lord is Bhakti Yoga. Sacrifice of work to the Lord is Karma Yoga.
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The Gopikas, who sacrificed butter to the Lord, without even giving it to
their children, are the best examples of Bhakti Yoga. Hanuman is the
best example of Karma Yoga, who avoided family life and getting
children by remaining a celibate monk, for the sake of the Lord.
Recognition of the Lord in human form was done by both Hanuman and
the Gopikas and that is Jnana Yoga. They never worshipped any statue
instead of the Lord in human form; this is clearly seen from the Valmiki
Ramayana and Vyasa’s Bhagavatam.
Arjuna only acted as if he was doing Karma Sanyasa. Arjuna was
also called ‘Nara’ meaning the human being. The present people are
also doing the same thing. They hide their blind love for their families in
their heart and act as if they love God. They take the help of the Lord as
Arjuna took the help of the Lord in the war. As Arjuna got the kingdom,
people get benefits in this world. As Arjuna wanted to give the kingdom
only to his children and not to the Lord, present day people also try to
give all those benefits to their children only and not to the Lord. The
Lord is Omniscient and knows what is behind every outward action of
the devotee. There is no use of making a show of applying sacred ash on
the forehead. Instead, the white light of knowledge from the ‘third eye’
(eye of knowledge) should spread on the forehead. The third eye of the
knowledge-fire should glow instead of the red mark of kumkum applied
by devotees on the forehead. One should leave ignorance and should be
surrounded by divine knowledge. There is no use of leaving ordinary
clothes and wearing saffron silk clothes. You can please the Lord only
by the sacrifice of work and by the sacrifice of the fruit of work. The
Lord is recognized by His special knowledge, which creates love and
bliss in our hearts. He will not show miracles for cheap exhibition. This
is the Jnana Yoga explained in the Vedas.
Unmanifest Becomes Manifest
The Lord is not modified into the human body like milk changing
into curd. The Lord only enters the human body like the electric current
entering a wire. The Lord is beyond even your imagination and is called
‘avyakta’ (unmanifest). He cannot be achieved by any human effort. But
the kind Lord enters the human body and comes down as a human
incarnation. The Gita says the same (Manusheem tanumasritam,
Avyaktam vyaktim apannam). This incarnate Lord can be seen and
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touched. You can talk with Him and live with Him. The Lord is only in
two states:
1) Avyakta (unmanifest): He cannot be touched even by imagination.
2) Vyakti (manifest): He enters a human body and pervades all over
the human body.
In between these two states there is no state in which the Lord is
available. All this creation is only a modification of His power called
‘Maya’. By touching the Maya you cannot touch Him. The base of
Maya is the Lord; like the person in the shirt. By touching the shirt you
cannot touch Him. The sacred thread worn by priests consists of three
strings, which means that you must catch the human form of the Lord,
which is made of the three qualities. Maya is His mind and the world is
the modification of His mind. Neither the world nor Maya, which is the
power pervading all over the universe, can give you the touch of the
Lord. The threads of the shirt are like the Maya. The wrinkles of the
shirt are the various items of this world.
You cannot say that the Lord as avyakta (unmanifest) is formless.
He is beyond your imagination and you cannot say whether He has form
or not. The formless power is Maya, which is modified into various
forms of the world. People who meditate upon the all-pervading power
are only touching the Maya and not the Lord who is the base of Maya.
Secret of Miracles
The whole universe itself is a miracle, which is the modification of
His mind called Maya. The mind is His energy or power. This power is
the substance that pervades all over the world. This Maya (mind) is the
water and all the objects of the world are only waves in this Maya. Since
the Maya is inseparable from the Lord, you can say that the Lord
(Brahman) is modified into the world. When you are day-dreaming and
you imagine a dream-city, you are not modified into the city. Only your
mind is modified. As your mind changes, so does the dream-city.
Therefore according to Maya, anything can take place in this world. The
Maya is under the full control of the Lord. The wish of the Lord itself is
Maya. All the miracles are only the wishes of the Lord. The Lord may
wish to follow certain rules, in such case, there is no miracle. But when
the Lord wishes to break some rules, a miracle happens. Therefore,
miracles are not the real characteristic signs of the Lord and the power
to do them is transferable from the Lord to anybody. The miracles are
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and is really involved in the divine mission of the Lord. This is the
context of the miracle from the side of the devotee. The miracle can also
take place from the side of God whenever a need arises in the divine
work. If God feels that an atheist can be converted through a miracle, it
takes place. If God feels that a miracle can improve the faith or devotion
of a devotee, then also a miracle can happen. These two cases are from
the side of God and not from the side of devotee. This means that if the
devotee says that he will be converted or he will develop the faith and
devotion by a miracle, God will not do the miracle unless in His view
there is a real hope for it. Even without the request from devotee or
atheist, God will exhibit the miracle if God has hope. In any case the
devotee should not aspire for the miracle even in the mind. The miracle
will happen spontaneously if God is convinced. There is no need of any
initiation or interaction from the side of the soul. Even a deserving
devotee sometimes reduces the speed of the miracle by aspiring for it.
The whole problem lies with miracles is that the attention of the soul to
God is completely diverted to His power only. The Vedantin
(Philosopher) becomes Shakteya (Applied scientist using the power). I
advise you to keep silent about you problem and to withdraw your mind
from the problem. For this, you can take the help of Atma Yoga, which
says that you are pure awareness without thoughts. The Atma Yoga will
give you immediate relief like a pain killer, which is not the real
medicine to solve your problem-illness. Now you attach yourself to God
through prayers, songs, service etc. In this attachment to God, your
detachment from the problem becomes natural and in this stage Atma
Yoga is not required. When the medicine starts working to remove your
illness, pain killer is not necessary. When the illness is reduced, the pain
also gets reduced. The attachment to God gives you spontaneous and
simultaneous detachment from the world. In this stage only, the super
power of God will solve your problem in no time.
The reason for misery or happiness is only your action that was
already done. The Gita says that the actions are very very subtle
(Gahana Karmano Gatih…). I will give you a small example. While
eating food, suppose a piece of chilly is left over in your plate. When it
is thrown outside, it decays and lot of virus and bacteria are generated.
Suppose, such virus affects the health of a good devotee who is involved
in the mission of Lord; this has become the greatest sin based on the
smallest piece of chilly. Your health will be affected severely.
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HUMAN INCARNATION AND RATIONALITY
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(Nastika Matam). All the sects of Hinduism are like the religions in the
world. Whatever is in the world is present in Hinduism. Universal
Spirituality brings the unity of all religions in the world and thus it
brings unity in all the sects in Hinduism too.
Necessity of Reason
Rationality is the essence of science. The scientist will laugh if
you speak anything irrational (reasonless). Even in the small matters of
this world, we analyze with reason and logic before we follow it and we
say that we should not be emotional in taking any decision. Then think
how logical we should be in such a great spiritual effort, if you want to
attain real success? In Christianity, Jesus is called as Emmanuel, which
means the God who has come down from heaven to live with us. Only a
human form can live with us and guide us by His knowledge. The
Jewish priests at that time also did not believe in Jesus as God or the
Son of God or even as a messenger of God. They did not like God to be
introduced in a human being as you say now. They believed only in the
dead messengers of the past and not in Jesus, who was the living
messenger. The same logic applies today also. You believe in the
messenger who does not exist now. You do not believe in the messenger
who exists before your eyes, now. Jesus said that He will come again. It
means that the human incarnation will come again and the same story
repeats. The same Jesus is present today and the same people who were
blind with egoism and jealousy are present again today. Therefore, I say,
history repeats itself. As Jesus was insulted then, egoistic and jealous
people will insult Jesus today as well. Jesus will come in every human
generation to give His direct contact to the devotees. Otherwise, Lord
Jesus becomes partial, because He gave direct contact to only one
generation and not to the other generations. He clarified the doubts of
only one generation through His direct voice and in the other human
generations, He allows the immature human devotees to answer the
doubts of other devotees directly. He provided the fortune of touching
His feet to only one generation and other generations are deprived of
that fortune. This makes Jesus totally partial and you say that God is
impartial. All the religions also say the same. How can you justify this
important statement that God is impartial?
Therefore, we have accepted that God comes in human form like
Jesus in every human generation. In order to avoid answering this
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student to grasp it and pass or twist it and fail, following the sweet
emotional advice of bad blind friends. The Lord is not worried about the
percentage of students passing because there is no fault in His teaching.
He should not be blamed for the passing or failure of the students. The
student himself is to be blamed. When the messenger comes to the earth,
he delivers his duty so that God is pleased with him in the upper world.
He is not bothered about getting fame in this world or the number of
followers. God will not find fault with the messenger if the human
beings did not pass. He finds fault with the messenger if the message is
not properly delivered. Jesus never bothered about the propagation of
His knowledge. His aim was only to sit on the right side of His pleased
Father after doing the duty assigned by Him. He never cared even if
people rejected, insulted and even crucified Him. His aim was God and
not the world.
How to Worship Jesus?
For ignorant people, the personality of Jesus is a human being
crying on the cross and shedding blood. This personality will kindle the
heart of any human being. Initially this will be the attraction for the
beginners. But if you stick to this personality only, that body has gone
once for all. Now you can only worship an imaginary statute of His
form on the cross. That same human body will never appear again in the
physical level. For such ignorant people, Jesus will never come again
because the same physical body will never appear again. Only an
energetic form can appear to the eyes for a few moments. Even if you
say that you have seen the same physical body now, you still cannot
show it to others. When Jesus was alive, if someone said, “He is the
Jesus”, every visitor could see Him with his eyes. Now that same
situation is not there. The real inner personality of Jesus is His divine
knowledge, which is the Holy Bible. That divine knowledge is the
inseparable characteristic of the inner unimaginable God. Then that
inner God comes in another human body. This divine knowledge
appears again, as it is the inseparable sign of the God. Jesus is the inner
personality for the realized scholars.
Similarly the beautiful Krishna with a flute attracts the beginners
but His inner personality is His divine knowledge, which is the
Bhagavad Gita. When Jesus said that He will come again and Krishna
said that He will come again and again whenever there is a necessity, it
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refers to the inner personality. The unimaginable God along with His
inseparable sign, which is the divine knowledge, is coming again and
again. This interpretation is reasonable. The inner God by Himself is
unimaginable and beyond reason. When this inner God wants to give
His experience to human beings, He cannot follow the irrational or
unimaginable ways, in which case, He can not be experienced. The
purpose fails. Therefore, the unimaginable God adopts rational
procedures and enters a rational medium to give His experience to
human beings. God is unimaginable but His experience should be
imaginable. For this purpose He enters the reasonable medium i.e.,
human body that can be seen and touched.
Only the human body can live with us (Emmanuel) and we can
clarify our doubts only with the human body. You blame Me that I am
introducing God in to human body, but what have you done? You have
blended God with the human body of Jesus and say that only Jesus is
God. You say that Jesus became alive again since the dead body
disappeared. I agree. He might have controlled His life for some more
time. But it is against the rules of nature and science, if you say that the
same physical body is alive even today. It is completely irrational unless
you can show the physical body of Jesus even to a non-believer. Now to
avoid My argument you say that rationality must be rejected. I apply the
same argument even to the body of Krishna. It was cremated by Arjuna
and the body cannot return back. Ofcourse the Lord can use His special
power to make it permanently alive. But that will violate the rules of His
own administration. All the rules in the creation are His rules alone. No
sensible administrator will violate his own rules, when an alternative is
possible. The alternative is to come again in another human body. The
body is like a shirt as told in the Gita. The person is not the shirt and the
shirt is not the person. The Gita says that God is not modified into the
human body (Avyaktam Vyakti Mapannam…). The person did not
become the shirt but He wears the shirt as said in the Gita (Manusheem
Tanum …). The Lord wears the human body and does not become the
human body. If you touch the shirt present on His body you are getting
the experience of the inner body. Similarly the inner God gives His
experience through the external body. You blame Me for introducing
God into human body but you have made God turn into the human body
itself. You have made another mistake by saying that God is only that
particular human body, called as Jesus. It is a mistake because in such a
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case when the human body is destroyed, God is not destroyed. When the
shirt is torn into pieces the person is not cut. Recognition of this inner
personality in all the shirts of various religions, which are various
human incarnations, is Universal Spirituality.
Was Jesus God?
[Mr Antony said that one of his friends argued that since Jesus
submitted His soul to God He cannot be God.]
You give value to one statement of Jesus and you do not give
value to another statement of the same Jesus. Jesus also said that He and
His Father are one and the same. This statement of Jesus is also equally
valid. Every human incarnation is a two-in-one system. When you say
God-in-flesh, the word flesh means a living human being and not the
mere inert human body. Krishna said in the Gita that He enters the
human body (Manusheem Tanum…). Here too the word human body
means the living human being and not the mere inert human body. The
word human body means the composite of the three human bodies and
such a composite is called as a living human being. This means that the
Lord enters the human being. The three bodies in the composite of the
human being are:
1. The outermost gross body, which is alive due to the awareness
that pervades all over it.
2. The inner subtle body which is a bundle of qualities or feelings,
which are alive because these qualities are the vibrations in the
pure awareness.
3. The innermost causal body which is the pure awareness itself.
The gross body is crucified. All the statements (speech) of Jesus
were given by the subtle body only through the mouth of the gross body.
This subtle body of Jesus stated that His ‘body’ was not prepared for
crucifixion. Here the ‘body’ refers to the gross body which is different
from the subtle body. In the end the subtle body stated that it was
submitting its soul to God. The word soul refers to the causal body. This
composite of three bodies stands as the meaning of the word Jesus. This
composite is the meaning of the word ‘flesh’. This composite is called
as the human being or jiva.
Strictly speaking, the word jiva means the subtle body only. The
soul is called as Atman. God entered Jesus and therefore God is in flesh.
God is the fourth item and is called as the Supersoul. It is this Supersoul
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or God, who said the statements such as “I and My Father are one and
the same” or “I am the truth”. Therefore you should not confuse
between the statements of subtle body and those of the Supersoul. An
ordinary human being is just a composite of these three bodies without
the Supersoul.
If this is not understood correctly, there will be a glaring
contradiction between such statements. The purpose of the aspect of the
human being in Jesus was to stand as a practical example for all human
beings. The purpose of the aspect of God in Jesus was to practically
explain the divine nature of God. Any human incarnation consists of
these two aspects; a mixture of a human being (Nara) and God
(Narayana). If you take any sweet, it is prepared by mixing sugar and
flour. But the item is called as ‘sweet’ referring to the property of sugar
only, since it is more important. Similarly any human incarnation is
divine referring to the nature of God only, since He is more important.
An electric wire consists of electricity and non-electric wire. But it is
called as electric current referring only to the more important electricity.
You call a lamp (oil-lamp) as light since it consists of a flame and other
materials like iron, sand, glass, a cotton wick and oil. It is called as light
referring to the more important flame, neglecting the other non-
luminous materials. Therefore, when you call Jesus as God, it really
means that God is in Jesus. Similarly, Hanuman was the incarnation of
Lord Shiva. As a human being he acted as a servant of Lord Rama. As
Lord Shiva, He jumped over the sea and killed several demons.
Similarly, Lord Rama learnt spiritual knowledge from Sage Vashishta.
This is the aspect of His human body. But as Lord Narayana a stone was
converted into the lady, Ahalya by the touch of His divine foot.
Similarly Krishna was a driver of the chariot of Arjuna from the point of
His human body. As Lord Narayana He preached the Gita to Arjuna and
gave a divine vision to him. The purpose of the aspect of God is to teach
human beings about God. The purpose of the aspect of the human being
is to freely mix with human beings and stand as an example for them.
Even the Prophet Mohammed was a human incarnation of the
Lord. He did not reveal His divine aspect because it was not required in
those circumstances. Thus you have to realize the program of the human
incarnation according to the requirement suitability to the surroundings.
If Lord Krishna had been born in the West instead of Jesus, people
might have got more spoiled. The people there were very cruel because
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using the super power of God. But God never deceives justice.
Therefore Jesus really suffered all the punishments of deserving
devotees as any other human body suffers and fulfilled the justice in the
transfer of sins. This is the real reason why God selects a human body
and gets identified with it. If it is an inert statue, such transfer of
suffering cannot take place. Although the Son is suffering on the Holy
Cross, actually it is the Father who pervaded all over the Son that
suffered. This is the essence of saying that Father and Son are one and
the same.
The Father does not suffer the sins of wicked people who will not
change at all. Those who are the real devotees and those who have
served the Lord without aspiring for anything in return are only
liberated from their sins. Such devotees never pray to the Lord for
liberation from their sins because they never desire that the Lord should
suffer for their sins. Therefore, they never agree to the liberation from
their sins. If they come to know, they will object to such a transfer of
sins because they are the real devotees of God. Hence the Lord suffers
for their sins without revealing it to them. If you do not turn to the Lord,
you have to carry all your sins with you and go to hell. If you turn
towards the Lord, He will liberate you from all your sins provided you
change and continue the rest of your life in His divine service. His work
is to bring peace in this world and see that every human being gets
salvation. He wants hell to be permanently closed. But you should turn
towards God without aspiring for liberation from your sins. You must
participate in His service and yet you should be ready to undergo the
punishments of your sins as per the rule. You should not ask Him or
even desire for such liberation from your sins. Once you desire for such
liberation, you are indirectly asking the Lord to suffer for your sins. In
such a case, you are not His real devotee. He takes your sins and
liberates you only when you serve Him without any aspiration for such
liberation.
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THE ONLY TECHNIQUE
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But if you can get rid of your egoism and jealousy and if you can
accept the human incarnation, atleast you can experience the qualities of
God; even if you cannot experience fire directly, atleast you can
experience heat. When one end of a wire is put in fire, the fire as if
enters the wire. When you touch the other end of the wire you
experience the heat safely, without getting burnt. What is fire after all?
Fire is nothing but infinitely intensified heat. When fire enters the wire
the fire is hidden in the wire but it radiates just enough heat through the
wire so that you may experience heat without being burnt to ashes. By
experiencing the little heat that you get from the wire, you can imagine
the infinite intensity of that heat and thus you can imagine fire. The wire
controls the intensity of heat so that you can ‘experience’ fire.
All you have to do is that once you experience heat, you have to
multiply it infinitely in your mind and that brings the experience of fire
to your brain. If you try to experience fire directly, then even before you
experience its heat you will just be vaporized, in which situation there
cannot be any experience or knowledge. Thus the fire has arranged this
‘wire technique’ so that you can experience its quality of heat, within
your limits and thereby imagine even the infiniteness of that heat, which
is fire.
The first wire (human incarnation) into which the fire (God)
entered, was called Datta. Thereafter the second third and all subsequent
human incarnations of God were also called by the same name, Datta.
Every human incarnation is Datta. Datta means the wire (human body of
the incarnation) that is given to the devotees in order to experience the
hidden fire (God) in it. The three heads of Datta, represent the three
qualities namely, satvam (knowledge, purity), rajas (activity, passion)
and tamas (ignorance, inertia). The inner meaning of this representation
is that the human body of the incarnation is prakriti (product of nature)
or Maya, which consists of all the three fundamental qualities.
[Everything in creation is a product of Maya and therefore consists of all
three qualities]. There is no need for Lord Datta to actually wear three
heads; they are only a pictorial representation of the concept for the sake
of the understanding of ignorant people.
Even Lord Rama, who was an incarnation of God and is regarded
as the embodiment of satvam (purity) became angry with Sage Jabali
and thereby displayed rajas (passion). On another occasion, Rama went
after the golden deer to satisfy the craving of his wife and that is tamas
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(inert attachment). This shows that He had all three qualities and thus
the three heads indicate that any human incarnation invariably contains
all the three qualities.
Parabrahman has arranged this ‘wire technique’ to experience Him,
using His highest intelligence. If anybody can suggest a better way
than this, Parabrahman will acknowledge with thanks and will
adopt that technique in future.
Why Human Incarnation?
As per the Vedas, knowledge bliss and love are the characteristic
properties or qualities of God (Parabrahman). Any property must be
possessed by a base-material or entity called the substratum (dravya).
Light and heat are the characteristic properties of the sun. The sun is
their substratum and possesses the properties. The substratum may be
regarded as the concentrated form of the properties. So, God is the
substratum and hence the concentrated form of knowledge, bliss and
love, as said by the Veda (Prajnana ghanah, Brahma puccham
pratishtha). This God, who is the substratum of the qualities mentioned
above, is beyond imagination. Imagination too is a form of knowledge.
We have seen earlier that knowledge must be born from experience
(perception by senses) and that the Vedas, Shastras and logic should
support it. Then only can it be real knowledge. Mere experience cannot
give real knowledge because the experience of a mad person cannot be
regarded as true. Yet direct experience is a must for any knowledge. If
somebody says that honey is sweet, such knowledge cannot be real
unless you taste honey and experience it.
Consciousness is also a quality. A quality cannot exist
independently. Consciousness can be found only in a living being and
that living being is the substratum of consciousness. Similarly, power is
another quality. Power is also a quality. The Sun is the condensed form
of light and when the Sun is absent, light too is absent. God is the
condensed form of knowledge, bliss and love and God created this
world through His creative power called Maya.
When you say that someone has knowledge, it automatically
means that that someone also has consciousness. Knowledge assumes
consciousness. However, every conscious being need not have
knowledge. Knowledge normally means the knowledge of a certain
concept (Shastra). Prajnanam means the true and infinite knowledge of
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so that you can safely receive it. If the dosage is more, you will vanish.
Now you get the special knowledge directly from God and the human
body is only a medium. God pervades that human body from top to
bottom; internally and externally as said by the Veda (Antar
bahishca…).
Now by this experience you have attained the complete Brahma
Jnanam. There is no other way than this. If you want to see God by your
two eyes, it is impossible because if God appears you will disappear
along with this world. God can be seen only by the third eye, which is
the eye of knowledge, and that too with God’s grace. You cannot see
God. You cannot touch God. You cannot talk with God. You cannot live
with God. So what is the use of such visions? Visions are useless unless
you attain God’s grace. Grace is more important than visions. God gave
His vision to Arjuna as well as to the blind king Dhritarashtra. Yet
Dhritarashtra was not blessed like Arjuna. Radha and Hanuman were
never given any such visions. But both attained the highest fruit. When
Arjuna saw that vision, he shivered with fear and prayed to the Lord to
come back to the form of a human body. Arjuna was the bravest man in
the world. He was Nara, who had worshipped Lord Narayana (God)
continuously for the past thousand births. He also saw God through the
third eye (of knowledge) alone and with the grace of God. If such an
Arjuna shivered with fright looking at God, what will be case of
ordinary human beings? They will simply vaporize before the power of
God. If you receive knowledge, bliss and love of God and if you love
God through your service, you are really blessed. You can experience
these three qualities only through the human incarnation.
Some people claim to be human incarnations by saying that they
have infinite bliss and love. Yet they do not possess the knowledge
supported by the Veda, Shastras and logic. Even if they speak the
knowledge, they cannot quote the scriptures and cannot give correct
logic. Such people are fraud incarnations because knowledge cannot be
separated from bliss and love. The light of the sun cannot be separated
from its heat. Both light and heat always co-exist. If you neglect
Krishna, how can you get the special knowledge in the form of the
Bhagavad Gita? If you neglect the divine form of Lord Brahma,
(Brahma Deva) how can you get the knowledge of the Vedas? Sages
have heard the Vedas from the four faces of Lord Brahma. Sages sitting
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near Lord Brahma are attaining the special knowledge, called Vedanta
and are immersed in infinite bliss and love.
Lord Buddha, who is one of the ten incarnations of Lord
Narayana, said that the Vedas are Paurusheyas, which means that the
Vedas are spoken by a form i.e., Lord Brahma and hence, cannot be the
Word of God. But some have condemned Buddha and have insisted that
Vedas came directly from God. Yes, it is true that the Vedas were told
by God. But He told them through the medium of a form; not directly.
God pervades the entire divine body of Lord Brahma and through that
body, the Vedas were told to the sages.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says that foolish people insult
the medium of the human body because of their jealousy and egoism
(Avajananti…). The Veda says “Vedahametam…”, which means “I have
recognized the human incarnation, who removes the darkness of
ignorance and radiates the light of the special knowledge like a sun”.
The Veda further says “Tamevam Vidvan…’, which means “He who
recognizes such a human incarnation becomes liberated in this world
itself (jivanmukta)”. The Veda further says “Nanyah panthah…” which
means “There is no other way to experience God other than through the
human incarnation”.
Significance of the Present human incarnation
[Mr Antony asked about the significance of the present
(contemporary) human incarnation (Swami).]
When you read the scriptures, which are the discourses of past
human incarnations, you will get so many doubts demanding
clarification. If the original Lord is not available, we have to depend on
other fellow human beings for clarifications. Suppose you are studying a
correspondence course. When you get a doubt, you have to depend on
your classmate, who is studying the course similarly. He is not
competent to clarify your doubts and you will be poisoned by his wrong
interpretations. Suppose you study the same course in a college and the
lecturer is explaining in the class. Whenever you get a doubt, you can
ask him then and there and you will surely get the correct interpretation
at the correct moment. The clarification is important at the correct
moment because without clarification the latter part of the lecture may
not be understood or may be misunderstood. Such a facility does not
exist with past human incarnations and past scriptures. In this light
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alone, Jesus modified all the Old Testament and gave the correct
interpretation as and when people asked Him questions and doubts. If
Jesus is not in the present generation, He must be blamed for being
partial towards that generation alone. However God is impartial and
therefore comes in every generation.
The present generation is very much blessed because of the facility
of computer technology. You can clarify your doubts through this
computer system without any strain of traveling to the human
incarnation in person. All the divine preachers in this world are in
contact with God and are doing the divine preaching to various levels of
devotees. Their preachings may be mixed with some ignorance and it is
not their fault because such mixing with ignorance in various
proportions is required for various lower levels of human beings. The
complete and pure knowledge without any trace of ignorance can be
grasped only by a very few highest devotees. The number of advanced
research students studying under a professor is always very small.
Therefore the direct human incarnation is recognized by a very few top
level devotees only.
The number of elementary school students are always many and
the number of elementary school teachers are also many. As you rise in
the level, the number of students and the number of professors become
lesser and lesser. Therefore you should not aspire for a large number of
followers. For the direct human incarnation, there will be only a very
few deserving devotees of such a top level. But such top devotees are
spread here and there all over the world. Therefore, there is a necessity
for propagating the top most divine knowledge of the top most human
incarnation, all over the world. But the number of followers will not be
high but will be the very least. Jesus said that His path is very narrow
and that only very few people travel on it. Lord Krishna has told in the
Gita that only one in millions can perfectly understand Him (Kashchit
Maam Vetti…). Therefore, the aim of the topmost human incarnation is
not to have a large number of followers, since it is impossible. The aim
is only to see that the topmost knowledge reaches the few deserving
devotees, who are spread all over the world here and there. If you wish
to have a large number of followers, then divine knowledge has to be
adulterated with ignorance. The naked truth should not be exposed in
such a case. Diamonds are always in few in number whereas gravel
stones are many.
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The lower level devotees and the lower level school teachers
should not be criticized. The levels of school, college and university are
obviously required due to the existence of human beings in the
corresponding levels. Therefore you should not criticize the students in
schools and colleges. Today you are a student of a university. But one
day you were in the school and in the college. Without the guidance of
the school teacher and the college lecturer you could not have entered
the university. The direct human incarnation of the Lord is the topmost
professor, who has a few post graduate and research level students. God,
being the head of the university level in spirituality, the schools and
colleges are affiliated to the university and work under His leadership. It
is the huge system of divine preachers. The school teachers and the
college lecturers are working under the guidance and will of that
Professor alone. The system is split to suit the various levels but there is
no split in the preachers. The whole system of divine preachers is
perfectly working due to the grace of that Supreme Preacher. There is
no split in the preachers. Mixing up ignorance with knowledge is
inevitable and is done according to the level of the students.
There is only one Supreme Preacher in a generation and He will be
covering all the preachers and religions under the concept of Universal
Spirituality. Some lower preachers may oppose this concept and it is not
the fault of those preachers. Since the students of some lower levels do
not agree to this concept, those preachers have to proceed according to
their psychology. The supreme preacher knows this fact and only
smiles, if any preacher of a lower level opposes this concept. It is by the
internal wish of Supreme Preacher only, that preacher opposes Him so
that he can have a grip on his students who are of a lower level and do
not like this concept. It is a very long journey to transform the entire
Universe and make it realize this concept of Universal Spirituality. But
one day or other this divine goal will be achieved and the entire world
will be like one family with one Divine Father. The various cultures and
religions need not disappear. But the innermost single continuous thread
of the garland of gems with various colors will be realized by every
human being of this universe. Such a state is called as World Peace.
Please remember that the divine preachers in this entire Universe
are not at all split. They appear as if they are split in order to have a grip
on their corresponding students, who are really split. All these divine
preachers are connected by their innermost souls and are working by the
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grace of that Supreme preacher, who is the Lord in human form. The
difference in the preachers is only apparent to satisfy the different
psychologies of the followers. One preacher may criticize another
preacher in order to satisfy his followers but all these divine preachers
are internally united and are working on the single program of
transforming this entire world to realize the Universal Spirituality,
which is the Absolute Truth like the one Absolute God.
All the original preachers like Krishna, Jesus, Buddha,
Mohammad etc. are brilliant diamonds and all their followers are like
black pieces of charcoal. The diamond and charcoal are made of the
same carbon atoms. Similarly the preacher and the follower are human
beings. In the diamond there is a regular crystal structure. The charcoal
is amorphous, without any crystal structure. Thus the correct logical
interpretation makes the scripture shine like a brilliant diamond. The
same scripture without regular logical interpretation becomes a black
charcoal.
Revelation of the human incarnation
[Just before departing for Mumbai, Mr. Antony asked Swami
“Why don’t You declare Yourself clearly as the present human
incarnation?”]
Swami replied: “Buddha did not even speak about God and
hence, there is no question of the topic of the human incarnation in His
regard. Therefore, Buddha was safe. Mohammed denied the concept of
human incarnation and declared Himself as only the Messenger of God.
Anybody can be become a Messenger and therefore, Mohammed was
also safe. Lord Krishna emphasized on the concept of human
incarnation throughout the Gita, but Krishna told that He was the human
incarnation only to Arjuna and not to any other person. Therefore,
Krishna was also safe. Jesus told that He was the human incarnation by
telling that He and His Father were one and the same. He told this to
many people and the news spread everywhere. This statement is in Bible
and the Bible is His message given to the public. He was brutally killed
for this statement.
Now, if I state the same in the present time, crucifixion may not
happen due to the improved legal system, but people will laugh at Me
and say that I am mad and that I should be admitted into a mental
hospital. Ofcourse this does not mean that I have accepted and stated
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that I am the human incarnation. However for now, let us assume that I
am the human incarnation. Let this not be taken as My declaration. This
only means that no human incarnation will declare Himself as God after
the crucifixion of Jesus. Since that incident, God is terribly afraid of
making such a declaration. Therefore, even if I am the real human
incarnation I will not declare it. If I am not the human incarnation, I
should not declare it in any case. Therefore, in any case I cannot declare
this.
The identification of human incarnation is the most complicated
subject because of several hurdles in it. The first hurdle is that people
are generally affected by egoism and jealousy. A human being never
likes to accept another human form as God. Even if some human being
conquers his egoism and jealousy and accepts it, it is only temporary. It
is impossible to completely smash one’s egoism and jealousy. You can
only reduce them temporarily. When Krishna taught the Gita, Arjuna
accepted Lord Krishna as the Lord, but just after eighteen days, Krishna
asked Arjuna to get down from the chariot. Arjuna was reluctant
because he expected Krishna, the driver, to first get down and then only
would Arjuna the owner of the chariot get down. It was the question of
the prestige of the owner of a chariot in the presence of his soldiers. Just
within eighteen days, egoism and jealousy grew in Arjuna and he forgot
that Krishna was the Lord. By the eighteenth day he treated Krishna as a
mere chariot driver. Therefore, only one in thousands will even accept
the concept of human incarnation. Even if one accepts this concept, he
likes to limit it to the past dead human incarnations only. Unless one
conquers his egoism and jealousy completely, one cannot accept the
present human incarnation standing before his naked eyes. Therefore,
only one in thousands accepts this concept of present human incarnation
and starts to search for the address of the present human incarnation.
This is told in the Gita as “Manushyanaam Sahasreshu….” Thus this
verse refers to the devotees who are searching for the human incarnation
in their time. This verse does not refer to all devotees who search for
God because there are many people who are theists and seek God. This
verse says further “Kaschit Maam Vetti….” This means that only one in
such devotees can identify the present human incarnation. This means
that although you have conquered your jealousy and egoism and
although you are searching for the living human incarnation, there are
several hurdles before you can identify Him. What are these hurdles?
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As I told you the first hurdle is your own egoism and jealousy.
You may say that you have conquered them and therefore you are
searching for the present human form of Lord. Although you have
conquered your ego and jealousy, your victory is only temporary. Ego
and jealousy are the two sleeping snakes in your heart. They will
rise at any time and bite you. Therefore, you must try for a permanent
conquest and destroy them forever. Then only is the first hurdle
removed. Assuming that you have destroyed them, before you reach
Him, there are still several hurdles to be crossed. These hurdles are the
priests of the temples, the preachers of ethics and puranas and scholars,
who preach the philosophy. They will not allow you to proceed on your
path and brainwash you on your way. These people are against the
present human incarnation. If you reach the present human incarnation,
they will loose their income and fame from the devotees. They are
earning money and fame by singing the glory of the past human
incarnations. Infact, while Jesus was alive, these people were His main
enemies and the reason is very very clear. People started following
Jesus, who opposed the collection of money in the church. These people
killed Jesus, who was obstructing their income and fame. Even after the
death of Jesus these people misinterpreted the statement of Jesus that He
will come again. Jesus meant that He would come again and again in
every human generation to give the same divine opportunity to every
generation because He was the impartial God.
If this meaning is accepted the income and fame of the priests,
preachers and scholars will be obstructed in every generation.
Therefore, these people misinterpreted the meaning of this statement by
saying that Jesus will come only at the end of the world. When the
world is destroyed even if Jesus comes, there will no problem. By this
interpretation they have cleared their way of business till the end of the
world. This interpretation is convenient even for the followers of these
priests and scholars because of their inherent egoism and jealousy which
prevents them from accepting the living human incarnation. Therefore,
there was cooperation from both sides.
Assume that you have passed this hurdle also. The next hurdle is
false human incarnations that will trap you for the same reason of their
own income and fame. Ofcourse these false incarnations are based on
the will of God only. He tests your scriptural knowledge by which alone
you have to identify the real human incarnation. They are just like the
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scripture, I can answer that. If you are convinced by all means, I cannot
help it”.
If the scripture and the logical analysis had led to identifying that
person himself as the human incarnation, he would have jumped with
joy. If some other human being had turned out to be the human
incarnation, atleast he would have been silent. But, since the result
happens to be Me, whom he is seeing everyday, the problem came.
Therefore, the repulsion caused by jealousy and egoism will always
follow you in your spiritual journey and you can be trapped by it at any
time.
Assume that you have crossed this hurdle also and caught the
original human incarnation. Up to this point only the first half of the
cinema is over. From this point onwards the second half of the cinema
starts, which is more complicated. The real human incarnation will not
encourage and accept your identification easily. He will try to mislead
you from the truth. When you observe His external physical body, it
exhibits the same properties of any human body like hunger, thirst,
disease, birth, death etc. This itself is sufficient to throw you off. Here
you must analyze that God is in that human body and God is not that
human body. You must understand the line in the Gita “Manusheem
Tanumasritam”, which means that God has entered the human body.
God-in-flesh also means the same. God is not the flesh. This analysis is
given by the Gita itself clearly in the verse “Avyaktam Vyaktim
apannam”. This verse means that the unimaginable (Avyaktam) did not
become imaginable (Vyaktam). This means that the unimaginable God
entered the imaginable body. Therefore, the unimaginable God did not
become imaginable, which means that God did not become the human
body. By this analysis you can cross this hurdle. The external gross
body (Sthula Sareera) shows these properties and is like the shirt. The
shirt of a king is as good as the shirt of a beggar in its properties. Just
because the shirt is the same the king is not the beggar. Similarly, since
the gross body of the human incarnation is similar to the gross body of
an ordinary human being, the Lord is not the human being. If you cross
this hurdle, there is the next hurdle, which is the inner subtle body
consisting of the three qualities. The subtle body of the human
incarnation also exhibits the same three qualities as any other human
being. The subtle body (Sukshma Sareera) is common to both the
human incarnation and the human being. Again with the help of the
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same analysis given above, you should cross this hurdle too. As you
should not mistake the Lord to the gross body, so also should you not
mistake Him to be the subtle body. Therefore, you should not mistake
the Lord by His exhibited three qualities (Triguna Maya).
Sometimes, the Lord tries to mislead you by exhibiting bad
qualities (Rajas and Tamas). Generally, there is an impression that the
Lord has only good qualities (Sattvam). Here you must analyze that He
is beyond the three qualities and that He is neither good nor bad. The
Gita says that the Lord is beyond these three qualities (Nachaham
teshu). Assume that you have crossed this second hurdle also. The next
hurdle is the final. This third item in any human being is the causal body
(Karana Sareera) or called as soul, which is pure awareness. This soul in
any human being is also beyond the three qualities or subtle body as
said in the Gita (Gunebhyascha Param). The Advaita Scholars are
trapped at this point. In the above verse the Lord is said to be above the
three qualities (of Maya) and in the present verse the soul in the human
being is also said to be above the three qualities (of Avidya). Though
both Maya and Avidya are made of three qualities, Maya and Avidya
are qualitatively similar but differ quantitatively. Both Maya and Avidya
arise due to the self-ignorance. When God forgets Himself, Maya arises,
which is the creation. When the individual soul forgets itself, Avidya
arises as in a dream. Both the creation and the dream are made of the
three qualities and arise due to self-ignorance. But there is a vast
quantitative difference between the Creation and the dream of an
individual. You can pass through the imaginary wall in your daydream.
But you cannot pass through the real wall in the world. If you cross
Avidya you can attain yourself. If you crossed Maya you could attain
God. But you can never cross Maya as told in the Gita (Mama Maaya
Duratyaya). Ofcourse the liberated soul, who is fully blessed by God
can cross Maya (Maaya metam tarantite). But by crossing Maya the
liberated soul cannot become God because God is the Creator, Ruler and
Destroyer of Maya. By crossing a river or the sea, you cannot create,
control or destroy the river or sea. Therefore, even the liberated soul,
who has crossed the Maya cannot not become God. How can this
ordinary soul who can only cross Avidya become God? Therefore, even
Hanuman, who jumped over the sea, did not claim Himself as God. Can
this Advaita scholar, who can barely jump over a tiny sewage canal,
become God? Ofcourse the soul, which is beyond Avidya, can be called
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entire earth was in the mouth of the Lord and this scene was also present
on the earth present in His mouth. By this itself, you can understand that
God is unimaginable. Thus in the case of the human incarnation only is
Avidya the same as Maya, the limited human body the same as the
world and the soul the same as Mula Maya.
In the case of an ordinary human being such a wonderful concept
does not exist. In the case of the human being, the soul is a tiny particle
of Mula Maya, Avidya is a small part of Maya and the gross body is a
small part of the world. The ordinary human being is just a composite of
the outermost coat (gross body), the shirt (subtle body) and the inner
most in-shirt (causal body). There is no fourth person inside this
composite. This composite of the three is dancing by the power of God,
which is called as the Mula Maya or the pure awareness, which
appeared in the beginning of Creation. Therefore, the soul or human
being is controlled by Maya (Maya Vashikrutah). This Mula Maya
along with its will (Maya) and its modification (Creation) is under the
control of God (Vashikruta Mayah). This is the difference between the
human being (Jeeva) and God (Ishwara). In the human incarnation the
fourth item, God exists who is wearing the in-shirt, shirt and coat. The
human being is a composite of three items whereas the human
incarnation is a composite of four items. The Veda says that God is the
fourth item (Turiya) and the three covering bodies are Vishwa (gross
body), Taijasa (subtle body) and Prajna (causal body). Therefore, the
identification of real human incarnation called as Brahma Jnana or
Brahma Vidya is the most subtle and complicated subject, which you
can understand only by careful analysis and a lot of patience. The Gita
says that one can identify this son of Vasudeva (Lord Krishna) as the
Lord only after continuous efforts through several births (Bahunaam
Janmanamante). Identification of God as a statue is very very easy.
Identification of God as the Formless One is also easy to understand
based on a simile like space or air, which are formless and all-
pervading. The energetic forms of God like Vishnu, Shiva, etc., are also
easy to digest because no human being develops repulsion towards such
energetic form since no egoism or jealousy arise in that case. The
problem of egoism and jealousy along with all the above hurdles arise
only for human beings when they try to recognize the human
incarnation. If the human being does not identify the human form of
God here, such a human being also cannot identify the energetic form of
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God in the upper world because of the same repulsion of likes. As the
human body repels the human form here, the soul covered by an
energetic body in the upper world rejects the energetic form of God also
for the same reason. Therefore, such a human being is lost forever as
said in the Veda (Ihachet Avedeet…).
No human incarnations in Other Religions?
[Mr. Anil Antony asked that Swami came as a human incarnation
in Hinduism. Why have human incarnations not similarly appeared in
other religions?]
The answer for this question is very crucial and has to be digested
by different people in different angles. First of all you have to find out
whether I am the human incarnation or not? I cannot say so because I
should not say it. Whether I actually am the human incarnation or not,
let us assume that I am a human incarnation from the angle of My
sincere devotee. Whether My sincere devotee is right or wrong cannot
be decided by any other person, who is also a human being like My
devotee. I cannot be a standard to My devotee, which others cannot
accept. Therefore, My answer to this question is completely limited to
My sincere devotee only, because others cannot accept Me as the human
incarnation. Therefore, My answer given to My sincere devotee only
shall be the following:
The fundamental point in your question is that Buddhism is silent
about God Himself and so the topic of human incarnation cannot arise.
Islam also does not believe in the human incarnation and treats even
Mohammad as only a messenger of God. Islam says that since He is the
last messenger, there is no place for another messenger. Holy
Christianity accepts the concept of human incarnation as God-in-flesh
but limits it only to Jesus and leaves no place for another human
incarnation. Ofcourse they accept the second coming of Jesus. But they
say that the second coming is only in the stage of the final destruction of
world. Since the world exists now and is not facing the final destruction,
I cannot fit Myself in the place of second Jesus.
But in Hinduism the Gita says “Yada Yada Hi…”, which means
that God will come in human form whenever it is necessary. Therefore,
I can have a place only in Hinduism. Ofcourse, this provision in
Hinduism can be exploited by human beings who are not real
incarnations. But for the fear of exploitation, the entire system cannot be
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rejected. For the fear of cheating, the entire examination system cannot
be abolished from the school. For the fear of accident, train journey
cannot be avoided. Therefore every system contains the possibility of
both genuine and fraud cases. We have to carefully analyze and
eliminate the fraud cases. Because of the fear of rats the house cannot be
burnt.
Even if I want to come in other religions their doors are closed.
Therefore the only possibility is to come in Hinduism and establish the
Universality of God. When the Universality of God in all the human
incarnations of all religions is established, then it means that I have
come in human form in all the religions simultaneously. Except this one
way there is no other way. I have no objection in coming in human form
in other religions also separately, provided you get the doors of the other
religions opened for My entry.
[Mr Anil Antony told Swami that this answer was the cream of the
light of the day. Everybody in the satsang (discussion, discourse),
including Mr Antony said, “No one other than the Lord can answer this
question in such a wonderful way!” Mr Antony said that his trip to meet
Swami had become very fruitful. Swami told him that even a trip to
Kashmir cannot give such eternal bliss.]
Does God Need Material Possessions?
[Mr Antony said that some of his friends asked “Why does God
need a website? Why does God need money? Can He not do without
these things?”]
When the work is possible through a process that follows the laws
of nature, the supernatural power of God is not used. Only demons
exhibit supernatural powers, even if there is no necessity. They want to
draw the attention of people and attract them in order to get name and
fame. Their aim is not uplifting humanity. Display of supernatural
powers creates attention in the people. But it simultaneously creates
tension. The realization of knowledge and natural love (devotion)
cannot be created in the excited state of tension. Devotion should be
spontaneous and should be developed only in the ground (normal) state;
only then is it sweet. This entire universe is created by the Lord only for
tasting such real natural sweet devotion of devotees. The exhibition of
miracles always creates fear and tension and a natural flexible state is
not possible, in which alone the sweet devotion can be tasted.
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Fear and tension will block your mind and you will not dare to
clear your doubts. It is not congenial for the free growth and expansion
of divine knowledge. Unless there is a severe necessity, the Lord will
not perform miracles. When the work is not possible through the natural
way, then only does the Lord use the supernatural power. Even if a
miracle is performed the Lord will try to hide it so that the natural state
is balanced. When Lord Krishna covered the sun with His divine wheel,
He made it appear as if a cloud had covered it. The intention of the Lord
is not self-exhibition like a demon. The same supernatural miracle
performed by a demon is used for his self-projection. The Lord likes to
be loved by the devotees without exhibiting His supernatural wealth.
A prince, who is good and humble, likes to win the heart of a girl
without revealing his identity as the prince of that land. He does not like
to exhibit his wealth in order to win her heart. Similarly God likes to
attract the hearts of devotees by His divine knowledge which is His
eternal divine beauty. If the prince has no merit, he tries to attract her by
cheap exhibition of his identity and wealth. Thus a demon like Satan
tries to attract human beings by cheap exhibition of supernatural powers
and tries to convert them into his follower. Satan tried to attract Jesus by
showing his kingdom. Jesus attracted people by His divine knowledge.
When it becomes inevitable to do a miracle and when the performed
miracle cannot be hidden the Lord tries to neutralize the tension by
exhibiting strongly negative qualities.
Lord Krishna lifted the mountain and protected the villagers from
the heavy rain. Such miracles cannot remain hidden or cannot be made
to appear as a natural phenomenon. [People are bound to get fear and
excitement on seeing them]. In order to bring them to the normal state
the Lord exhibited very strong Rajas and Tamas like stealing butter and
dancing with girls. In the case of Lord Rama there was no necessity of
exhibition of miracles. Hence there was no need for Him to show the
negative qualities. Thus the Lord is associated with all the three qualities
to be used wherever and whenever necessary.
All the discoveries of science are only due to the grace of God.
Computer technology is the gift from God to humanity. Some people are
earning their livelihood through this technology. Livelihood is essential
and is the basis of sustaining the body, which is the instrument of all
spiritual efforts. Now this same computer technology is being used for
spiritual service. Are you objecting to the Creator of this technology
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using it for His own work? You must be grateful to the Lord. You can
use it for your worldly purpose but you should atleast express your
gratefulness by using it for His service also. Every scientific benefit is
granted by God to humanity with primary purpose of using it in the
spiritual line only. Majority of top scientists believe in God and accept
their discoveries as the results of grace of God only. A discovery is
always experienced as an accidental incident like a flash. It is not the
result of the continuous hard work. During the hard work a flash strikes
the brain of the scientist. The scientist gets disgusted during his hard
work and suddenly a flash in the brain results in a new discovery. If the
discovery were the fruit of hard work, it would come naturally at the end
of the hard work without any flash. Such a flash is due to the grace of
the Lord. Almost all top scientists agree to this truth. Only a few
egoistic scientists do not agree to this.
Science is very helpful in the analysis of this creation, which helps
one realize that no item of this creation is the Creator. Science does not
help us understand anything about the Creator. Infact even philosophers
and sages have not understood anything about the Creator. The
philosopher also analyses the entire creation. In this aspect there is no
difference between the philosopher and scientist. The only difference
between them is that the scientist does not accept the existence of the
unknown Creator who is beyond creation, whereas the philosopher
accepts Him.
For a philosopher, miracles are not necessary. He is very sensitive
and recognizes the existence of God through deep analysis of various
incidents in his life. The scientist is not so sensitive. He needs physical
proof through miracles. Most scientists turn into devotees through such
miracles, which are visible to the naked eye. Such scientists have an
open mind and courage to accept the truth due to their wise flexibility.
But a few scientists have a very rigid mind and do not accept even the
physical miracles attributing them to magic and illusion. Such people
should not be called as scientists. Science means rational flexibility;
leaving old disproved concepts and accepting the new proved concepts.
People who are rigid in their old fixed concepts are called as
conservatives. Such people mock the devotees as conservatives and the
joke is that they are the original raw conservatives!
The bonds with wife, children, and money are the strongest bonds
and are called as the three ‘Eshanas’, which are like steel chains. The
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Lord competes with these three to test your love for Him. It is not the
question of requirement. It is the question of identifying your love. Your
son may be well settled and may not require money. But you still give
your wealth to him alone. It shows your love for him which is not
related with his requirement. You cover your absence of love for God
with this pretext of non-requirement (saying that God does not need our
money). By such a cover, you want favor from God even though you do
not love him truly. You can deceive a human being by such an
intelligent cover, but can you deceive the Lord who is omniscient?
Instead of such tricks, God will be pleased with you, if you say frankly
that you do not want to give Him money since you do not have love for
Him. Truth is always better than trickery.
A lady was applying perfume to the feet of Jesus. A disciple of
Jesus told her that it was waste, since Jesus did not require it. But Jesus
objected to the disciple and accepted the perfume which signifies her
immense love for Lord Jesus. It indicates the divine love of the lady and
there is no question of requirement here.
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HUMAN INCARNATION, THE ONLY PATH
Meaning of Jesus
[Jesus said that one can reach His Father only through Him and
that He is the only path. Does this not mean that we have to follow only
Jesus? In such a case how can one accept Universal Spirituality? This is
a question posed by several devoted Christians from all over the world.]
O Learned And Devoted Servants of God,
My answer to these dear devoted holy Christian souls is as
follows:
Does Jesus represent a human body, the word or both? If it
represents a particular human body, then such a human body does not
exist now. Only a particular human generation and that too, in a
particular place was favored by the association of the human body of
Jesus. Is it not the partiality of God?
If Jesus represents the word (Message of the Christ), then the
previous human generations before the birth of Jesus were not favored
with this word and this also leads to the partiality of God. If Jesus
represents both the body and the word, then both the above objections
will attack together, strengthening the partiality of God.
Impartial God
God is impartial. He created this entire universe. He should not
favor a part of the infinite time and a particular piece of the world. Since
there is no re-birth of the soul, as you say, all those unlucky souls fell
permanently in the hell. Now such souls cannot take human re-birth to
pray to Jesus for their salvation. If you say that some other prophet by
name Moses or some other name, who was equal to Jesus, existed
before the birth of Jesus, then, the Christian belief “Jesus alone is the
Saviour” will be wrong. If you say that Moses was also the same Jesus,
then, why not some other person, X or Y or Z, after Jesus also be Jesus?
In such a case Jesus exists before and after the birth of Jesus. Then Jesus
is omniscient and omni-potent. In such a case, Jesus in some other
human forms, by some other names, must have always existed. Then,
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Thus you are the best cream of this creation in all the aspects. But why
don’t you apply a trace of that powerful systematic logical scientific
analysis in this spiritual knowledge also? Why should you follow the
interpretations of your fellow human beings, who are just equal to you?
You can yourselves analyse the divine statements of God Jesus with
your own intellectual faculty based on simple logical analysis. Since
only one God created this universe, since only God is the Father of all
the human beings in this world and since the Father must be impartial to
all the children, the same God must have written all the religious
scriptures of the world. These scriptures cannot and should not
contradict each other. If there is any contradiction, that must have been
the misinterpretation of some closed minds.
Before Jesus was born, prophets announced Him as ‘Emmanuel’,
meaning that God was coming in human form to live with human
beings. Whenever the word Jesus comes, it should mean only
‘Emmanuel’. When you say that Jesus is the only path, it means that the
human form of God is the only path to reach God. Whenever Jesus
utters the word ‘I’, that word ‘I’ means ‘Emmanuel’, who is a general
human incarnation of God and not just a particular human incarnation.
The reason for the emphasis on the human form of God is that, human
beings can have His vision for a long time, can touch Him for a long
time, can converse with Him for a long time and can live with Him for a
long time when He is in the human body. The Holy Spirit can enter a
body of light also, which is called as angel. Such a body can be seen for
a little time only since the light has the nature of propagation in the
space. Such an angel cannot be touched due to the high intensity of
radiation. The angel talks briefly for the same reason. The angel cannot
live with human beings for a long time. Thus the human body is most
convenient for human beings. This soul goes to the upper world by
taking a body of light-energy. For those souls in the upper world, God
also appears with a body of bright light-energy. Jesus referred this form
of God as the Father of the Heaven. A human being with this
materialized body cannot approach God with that powerful energetic
body. The meaning of the statement that a human being can approach
God only through Jesus is that a material body can approach God
through a material body only. God is one and the same whether He is
present in the body of light or in the materialized human body. From the
point of God, Jesus and the Father of Heaven are one and the same. The
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milk present in a golden cup is the same as the milk present in a ceramic
cup. “Jesus will come again!” means that God will come again and
again in human form for every human generation, to avoid the partiality
of the Father to a particular human generation. In this context the word
Jesus means Emmanuel. The statement that Jesus is the light is a
concept of science. The word Jesus indicates the external human body,
which is made of the five elements i.e., earth, water, energy, air and
space. Space is common for both matter and energy, which is the basis
of the concept of volume. Volume is the property of the space. Both
matter and energy need space. Earth, water and air constitute matter in
solid, liquid and gaseous states. Thus the matter in the human body is
another form of energy according to the law of mass-energy equivalence
(E = mc2). Thus the human body of Jesus, which is constituted by
matter, is a form of energy and thus it is equal to the energetic body of
the Father of heaven. Thus from the point of external body also, the
Emmanuel and the Father of Heaven are one and the same. A person
present in bright silk clothes or dull cotton clothes is one and same.
Such interpretations must be logical and also must prove the impartial
love of God towards all His children on the earth.
What is the Meaning of Saving?
[Shri Anil Antony, Mumbai, asked Swami some questions critical
to the present belief of Christianity. What do you mean by saving? Will
Jesus save me if I accept Him as my saviour? What is truth? What is the
kingdom of God? Who is Satan? Why rituals are more in Hinduism and
not in Christianity? What do you think about worshipping idols,
approaching astrologers, and people having super natural powers? How
do you explain the Heaven of Kingdom compared in several ways in
Holy Bible? Please explain (Luke 9:60-62 2, 12:51-53; Mathew 6:8;
John 18:37-38; Mathew 11:28-30, 5:3-8). Swami has answered the
questions below.]
Saving from troubles and misery is the general sense of the word
saving. In the spiritual sense, saving means cutting all the worldly bonds
to establish the real bond with God who alone is the truth. God is truth.
This means that God is infinite power. This creation is just His
imagination and is almost not true. The imagining person is said to truly
exist. The world, which is just His imagination, is not completely
‘nothing’. The world is made of an iota of energy of God. God is like
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This imagined form, with which the outside person (one who is
imagining) has identified, is treated as the outside person directly. This
small imagined form is the human incarnation. The outside person is
God. The huge imaginary city is this world. Thus God identifies
Himself with the human incarnation. From this angle the human
incarnation and God are one and the same.
There is another angle in which the human incarnation is not the
original God but a part and parcel of God. In this angle, God and the
human incarnation are treated as Father and Son. You can experience
the Father only through this Son. In the third angle the human
incarnation is just sent by God into this world as a messenger with some
power. Jesus told this truth in all the three angles. Jesus can save any
human being who has any one of these three angles. Acceptance of
Jesus as your saviour is the essential step in the spiritual effort. Here
Jesus means the human incarnation in general. Only God is the saviour.
But you cannot approach God directly. Only through the human
incarnation can you approach God. This means that you should accept
the human incarnation as that very God. In such a case, only the human
incarnation becomes your saviour. God is like free electrons flowing in
the atmosphere. These electrons are electricity. Then can you heat water
by keeping a vessel containing water in the atmosphere? When these
electrons enter a medium like the metallic wire, you can heat water. If
the medium is the human form, it is most convenient for you to clear
your doubts, to love and serve Him. Therefore, acceptance of Jesus as
your Saviour means that you should accept the human incarnation as
your saviour.
It is told that Jesus will come again. This means that the human
incarnation comes in every human generation. Otherwise, if one
generation was only blessed by such fortune, the other generations will
charge God as partial and such a charge would be justified. Therefore, if
you think that Jesus means only that particular human incarnation,
which came about 2000 years back, you have lost the whole concept.
Through a particular example, a generalization must be made. If you say
that the sodium atom is indivisible, it means an atom of any element is
indivisible. If you say that Daniel is born, it means that every human
being must be born. If this basic analysis is lost, the entire spiritual
castle falls down due to the absence of its foundation.
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should not say that you have really scarified to God. Thus, you can see
everything as positive from the lower level.
Kingdom of God
The Kingdom of God is compared to a treasure hidden in a field.
This means that God is hidden in the human body of the human
incarnation. In the Gita the human body is compared with a field (Idam
shareeram…). Locating the field containing the treasure means
identifying the human incarnation. Purchasing the field means serving
that human body. If the treasure is announced, the owner will not sell
the field. Then it is impossible to get the treasure. This means that it is
impossible to serve the real form of the God, who is beyond
imagination. The human body of the incarnation is a part of the
kingdom of God.
Again the kingdom of God is compared to a merchant who is in
search of pearls. This means that the Lord in human body is in search of
real devotees. But only one in millions can be the real devotee as said in
the Gita (Kaschit maam …). When a merchant finds such a pearl, he
purchases it by selling all his property. This means that the human
incarnation will go to any extent to save that rarest devotee. Again the
kingdom of God is compared to a dragnet, by which all categories are
captured, and from each category, the good is taken and the bad is
thrown. This means that God captures all types of devotees. Some
devotees use God for their selfish benefits. Even for them, God answers
their prayers and thus God captures them. Out of these devotees, those
who are turned in to real devotees are accepted by Him and the others
are thrown out. These other type of devotees love God as an instrument
to solve their problems and that is not real love.
Matthew 5:3-8: Mercy and purity are praised because such
qualities will develop love for God. Only then will God bless them.
Simple mercy and purity related to worldly bonds are of no permanent
use. Such good qualities without the element of God, lead to temporary
heaven, which is not a permanent fruit. Mere love for the society leads
only to a temporary heaven from which one falls back to earth, as said
in the Gita (Ksheenee Punye…)
Matthew 11:28-30: The yoke of the Lord is light where as the
yoke of human beings is heavy. This means that the work of the Lord
will never give misery as there is no selfishness. But the worldly work
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remain the same. Whatever may be the religion, the devotee who
converts, remains as a theist alone. If a theist becomes an atheist, then
we shall have to worry about him. Thus by conversion no religion gains
anything and no religion loses anything. After all, the person is in the
same house of spirituality and he has changed from one room to the
other. I don’t know why some people are anxious about conversion and
some other people desire conversion. The person does not develop any
better by conversion. If a student changes one section for another, his
standard does not increase. Only his language is changed; the syllabus
remains the same. Thus by conversion, one has changed the culture and
language only but not the actual substance called as spirituality. Change
of culture is not spiritual progress. In every language all standards are
present. He should try to go to the higher standard in his own language
and that is called as academic progress. Similarly one should try to go to
higher levels of spirituality in his own religion. One should go up
vertically from the lower standard to the higher standard in his own
religion to reach the goal quickly, but not go horizontally from one
religion to the other religion. The former is called as progress and latter
is a waste of energy and time.
If a Christian is converting a Hindu into Christianity, My advice to
him is “Why are you so much particular about the change in the culture,
which is the external religion. The internal spirituality remains same and
therefore you have done only external conversion but not the internal
conversion. Since spirituality in both religions remains the same, you
have not converted him at all. You have plenty of money and a broad
mind to sacrifice. You help the poor Hindu because he is a poor theist.
He is not atheist.” On the same occasion I advise Hindus also like this,
“Most Hindus are poor. The rich Hindu minority has no broad mind to
sacrifice to poor fellow Hindus. Neither do you help the poor people of
Hinduism, nor do you allow them to get help from broad-minded, rich
Christians. Majority of Christians are rich and also broad-minded. Why
do you worry? The Hindu did not become an atheist by becoming a
Christian. Only his external dress is changed. He has just changed his
shirt and you need not worry about it.”
I wish that every human being in this world recognizes the
underlying common basis of all the religions, which is Universal
Spirituality. If that is realized, a Christian will not worry even if the
entire world becomes Hindus and a Hindu will not worry even if the
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entire world becomes Christians. Both the Christian and the Hindu
should worry if the entire world is filled with atheists. Any human being
can wear a dress of any colour. Nothing is gained if the majority wears
shirts of a particular colour and if one celebrates that as a victory; there
cannot be greater foolish ignorance than this. One should become the
fish living in the unlimited ocean of Universal Spirituality .One should
not linger as a stagnant fish in his own river called as the religion. If the
fish of the river is patient enough to travel to the end of its religion-
river, it will find the above-said ocean.
One can follow the religion of his choice in this world. All
religions are equal but all the steps in each religion are not equal. All
standards in a school are not equal but all classes in different languages
of the same standard are equal. The formless God, the God with form,
like statues and finally the human form of God are respectively the
school, college and university levels. Hanuman is the highest among
devotees and He also gained the highest result, which is the post of the
future Creator. Nobody can be wiser, more devoted and more gifted
than Hanuman. He worshipped Rama who was the human form of God
in His time. In Valmiki Ramayana, there was no single reference of
Hanuman worshipping formless God or energetic forms like Brahma,
Vishnu etc., or statutes. Similarly there was no single reference of him
doing bhajans, meditation by mind or discussing about God using
intelligence. Hanuman silently worked for the Lord and got the result
also silently. Thus the human form of God and practical participation in
His work are the highest steps to please the Lord. You should not say
that all the steps are equal in a staircase, but all the staircases are equal.
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GOD’S MEDIUM AND WORSHIP
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does not mean that he has entered every shop. Hence, the existence of
God in every human being is ruled out and Advaita has no basis. If you
say that the awareness existing in living beings is the cause (God) that
has entered the effect (creation), this is also not correct. In that case, the
cause should have been an independent entity and not a generated item.
The gold that entered the chain is the independent item and is not an
item that is generated in the chain. The awareness in human bodies that
exist in creation is not independent and it is generated by the combined
function of inert energy that is generated by the oxidation of food and
the nervous system.
The Vedic prayer called as Mantra Pushpam is a clear explanation
of the human incarnation. The same little world mentioned in the
Ishavasya Upanishat is referred here also (Kimchitjagatsarvam)1. This
little world means the human body. The human body existing now and
the human body that existed in the past i.e. the present and past human
incarnations are referred to here and are said to be the same in this
respect (Drishyate shruyatepiva). The Lord who imagined this world
has entered this world in His original state (Tadevanupravishat)2. But
the objection here is that the person imagining can never actually enter
his own imaginary world in his original state just like fire cannot enter
water. Here, the Veda gives a beautiful simile of the existence of
volcanic fire (Vadabagni) inside the ocean (Samudrentah pratishthitam).
For the omnipotent God, nothing is impossible and hence any simile in
the world suffers from some limitation. Here, God is said to be
pervading all over the body (Antarbahishcha) and at the same time God
is said to be confined only to a particular region of the human body
(Tasyasikhayahmadhye). This means God is confined to His guest room
whenever His involvement is not required. In this time the individual
soul, who is the owner of the house (and God’s personal assistant, P.A.)
deals with all the worldly matters as usual. The individual soul can
alone act as hundred percent ignorant in worldly matters and therefore,
the worldly experience derived out of it is also hundred percent. God
being associated with His P.A. derives that experience and is
entertained. Ignorance, directly superimposed on God, can never be
hundred percent and hence, the worldly experience can never be full.
God enters the human body for this reason alone. In this body, the
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Narayana Suktam, Taittiriya Aranyakam 4, 10, 13
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individual soul (son of God), who is His best devotee, exists. The Son of
God is also equally benefited by the association of God in divine
experiences. Thus the human incarnation is a two (Nara and Narayana)
in one system (human body).
Advaita means the unity of two items. If there is only one item the
word Advaita has no place because in that case the word ekam (one) is
used. When two things exist and become inseparable, then alone is the
word Advaita used. If you take God and a human being separately, God
is one item and the human being is another item. Electric current is one
item and the wire is another item. When the current enters the wire and
pervades all over it, the word Advaita can be employed. Giving an
electric shock is the property of the current, but it cannot be directly
experienced from the invisible current; it requires the presence of the
wire.
When the knowledge contains unimaginable clarity, it creates
unimaginable happiness, which is called as bliss. The clarification of
confusion gives real happiness to the climax. Removal of confusion and
ignorance cleanses the soul, resulting in bliss. It is like the removal of
gas and undigested matter from the stomach which cleanses the body
resulting in immense happiness. Such unimaginable nature of the
knowledge is the property of the unimaginable God, like the shock of
the electric current. But it cannot be experienced directly from the
unimaginable God. The unimaginable knowledge indicates the existence
of God in a particular human body like Krishna, Jesus etc.
Silence About God
Finally, only the existence of God is experienced because the
unimaginable God and the unimaginable nature of His knowledge
always remain unimaginable. Only His existence is imagined and such
existence is called as Sanmatravada (Astityeva…—Veda). Since God
and His nature remain unimaginable, you cannot say that God is
awareness or that awareness is His property. Therefore, Chinmatravada3
is not acceptable. Awareness in creation does not exist independently
since it is always a generated item; generated by the combined operation
of the respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems. Charvaka4 or science
should be respected in this point.
3
The philosophy that Awareness alone is the ultimate reality or God.
4
An ancient sage, who maintained that direct perception alone, can prove the truth. His theory was similar to
modern science.
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by yourself. You must note one important point here, which is that
Shankara used the word Brahman for the individual soul and not the
word Parabrahman. Since Brahman means any greatest item in a
category, several items can be called as Brahman. The Veda, food, life,
mind, intelligence, knowledge, bliss, etc were called as Brahman in
several places (Brahmakshara samudbhavam, Annam Brahma, Prano
Brahma, Mano Brahma, Vijnanam Brahma, Jnanamantam Brahma,
Anando Brahma, etc). All these statements mean that these items are
greatest among their own categories. Similarly, the individual soul is the
greatest among all the items of the creation due to its specific property
of knowledge (Jnanitvatmaiva…Gita).
Creator, Controller and Destroyer
Awareness can handle the inert energy in a tactful way but that
does not mean that awareness has full control over the inert energy. For
example the powerful nuclear energy is controlled in atomic reactors
and is used by the scientist for various purposes. This does not mean
that the soul can control the powerful atomic energy directly. When
atomic energy attacks the soul directly, the soul in the human being runs
away due to the destruction of the human body. This is true even in the
case of a human being, who is a scientist and who handled the same
energy tactfully. Therefore, if you take God to be awareness, God could
only handle the universe in a tactful way like a scientist. He could not be
the direct controller of the universe. But Lord Krishna swallowed the
huge fire-energy in the forest, which shows the direct control of God
over the inert energy irrespective of its intensity and quantity. If you say
that awareness in Krishna is the controller, then the awareness or soul in
every human being must be similar. This proves that there is a
difference between the awareness in Krishna and the awareness present
in all other human beings. The control is due to the difference between
and not due to the similarity. This means that the extra component
existing in the awareness of Krishna is what has the controlling power
and not the common general awareness. This extra component is God or
Brahman. Similarly the huge Govardhana hill was held on the tiny
finger of Krishna for seven days. The reason again is God, who
pervaded all over the body of Krishna and not the finger and not the
power (inert energy) of the finger, which is common to anybody.
Therefore, neither matter (finger), nor the inert energy (the power of the
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finger), nor the awareness (soul) is the controller of this universe. The
unimaginable God existing in Krishna is the Creator, Controller and the
Destroyer of this universe.
The soul creates an imaginary world or a daydream, controls it and
finally dissolves it into itself. The imaginary world is neither the total
real world and nor is a component of the real world like a hill, a river, a
tree, etc. The capacity to create the dream is in no way related to the
capacity of God in creating the universe. The soul, its capacity to create
a dream and the dream itself, can be compared to God, His capacity to
create the world and the world respectively. A simile can never be an
identity. God created such examples in the world to teach us concepts
related to Him. You can say that God created this real world, maintains
it for entertainment for sometime and finally dissolves it in Himself just
like the soul creates the dream, maintains it for sometime for
entertainment and finally dissolves it in himself. Since the dream is not
even a tiny part of the real world, the soul is also not even a tiny part of
God. Since God is unimaginable, the imaginable soul cannot be a part of
God. Today due to the latest developments in science the soul or
awareness or the nervous energy flowing in the nerves as waves is even
visible through powerful microscopes.
God is understood as the basis (adhara) of the universe (Brahma
puchcham pratishtha—Veda) and this does not mean that the nature of
the basis is understood. Assume that we understand that an object,
which alone is visible, is standing on some support. Now whether the
support is a table, or a person or some other object is not visible. In that
case we are inferring the existence of something as the support but the
nature of the support is not understood. The cosmic energy is
independent since electromagnetic waves have an independent identity.
But even though it is independent, it cannot act as the designer [of
creation]. Awareness has the designing talent but it does not exist
independently. If radiations of awareness or nervous energy existed
independently in space, like the independent electro magnetic radiations,
the scientist could have tapped them. Then he could have used them to
raise a dead body, just as cosmic energy is tapped to recharge a battery.
Thus both inert energy and awareness suffer from these defects and
cannot be claimed to be the defectless God.
If your goal is to become God, you must understand the Ramayana
and practice it in your spiritual effort keeping Hanuman as your guide,
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since He became God. If your goal is to become the master of God, you
must understand the Bhagavatam and practice it in your spiritual effort.
Here you have to keep Radha as your guide, who became the queen of
Goloka, which is above the abode of God. In both cases the direct
worship of the contemporary human incarnation i.e. Rama and Krishna
is the main essence. In any case, understanding the Mahabharatam is
very important, since it teaches you where you can slip in your spiritual
effort. Such slips can lead to your downfall. In any case you must be
careful about the inevitable cracks in your faith regarding the
contemporary human incarnation.
Arjuna was born as a hunter in his next birth because he could not
believe in Krishna who was God in human form before his eyes. Instead
he had worshipped the irrelevant energetic form of the upper world
(Shiva) to win the war. Arjuna acquired the Pashupata weapon from
Lord Shiva but Lord Krishna showed in His cosmic vision that He was
simply swallowing all the Kauravas in His mouth. The firm faith in the
contemporary human incarnation is very important and it is also
impossible. The fundamental reason is the nature of negligence resulting
due to the repulsion between common external media. The Veda says
that it is like an incurable disease even in the case of angels, to like
things which are not before their eyes and to dislike anything that is
before their eyes (Parokshapriya ivahidevah pratyaksha dwishah). Lord
Krishna clearly said that He will come again and again whenever there
is a requirement. God comes in human form to guide everyone through
divine messages and also to give the experience of Himself to the
devotees, who cry for it in every generation. If He favored only one
generation in the form of Lord Krishna, God would become partial.
Then God would remain as no-God.
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