Posted on: 01 Dec 2006
Datta Jayanti consists of two words. The first word Datta means given or adopted son, who is not born to the parents who adopt him. Such son is born to some other parents and therefore, he will have the date of birth. The second word Jayanti means the date of birth. In the case of such son or any human being also, the birth refers to the body only and not to the soul. If this is the case of the human being, there is no need to say separately that in the case of incarnation also the God (Parabrahman) takes a body and the birth date belongs to the external body only and not to the internal God. God Datta with three heads and six hands is energetic form in which God exists. Even such form also had birth because, the primary energy (Mula Maya) with which such form is made of, was also created by God and had birth. Such energetic form, which has superpower, was expressed from the womb of Anasuya, which stayed in her womb for nine days only. Such super natural point shows that the body is not materialistic. Even the sage Atri and Anasuya were also energetic forms (Atri is one of the seven sage-stars). The specialty of this energetic form is that it completely describes about the possible information of God. The three heads indicate creation, rule and destruction of the world by God and also represent the three qualities (Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas) in the external body with equal importance. The six hands represent the six modifications of a body. This means that the medium of the God is having all the good and bad qualities in equal proportions and the medium has all its natural properties like birth etc. (Six modifications).
For the human beings, God takes the human body, which is materialized from the energy. God takes the energetic form, for the sake of energetic bodies in the upper world and takes human form for the sake of human beings in this world. Thus, God takes the same medium in which the devotees exist. God gives Himself to the devotees through the same common convenient medium. Datta is God given to the devotees through the same medium and Jayanti is the birth of such form of medium. Datta indicates that the three principle energetic forms called as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are one and the same internally as well as externally. Internally the same God exists. Externally the forms may differ but the primary energy, which is the material, is the same. Same milk exists in three golden pots. The milk is same internally and gold is same externally. Only the forms and names differ. Similarly, in the case of human incarnations, the external bodies are made of the same five elements. The internal God is one and the same. The names and forms of the external bodies differ. The form is unreal in view of the reality of its material. Therefore, the name of such form is also unreal. Names and forms (Nama Rupa) are unreal and are called as Maya, which can be realized by even a wise human being. Similarly, the qualities of various forms of God may differ but the material of the qualities is one and the same, which is the pure awareness (Chit). These qualities (Guna) are also unreal with respect to the reality of the awareness and these also are a part of Maya only. The human being can easily realize the unreal Maya since he is above the plane of Maya. The human body is made of five elements and energy, which are real with respect to the forms. The soul of the human being is made of pure awareness, which is real with respect to the qualities.
Analysis of Human Beings and God’s Human Incarnation
The human being, which is made of matter (five elements), energy (light, heat etc.,) and pure awareness, is in the plane of Maha Maya, which is more relatively real than Maya. As far as the forms and qualities (Maya) are concerned, the human body is one and the same for God as well as the human being. Thus, this analysis is common to all the human bodies of souls as well as God. This analysis gives two conclusions. One is that all the human beings are one and the same internally and externally. The second is that all human incarnations are also one and the same internally and externally. The difference between human incarnation and human being is that in the case of the former God exists as the extra fourth item. In both human being and human incarnation, the common items are matter, energy and awareness, which constitute the medium (Prakruti). Matter and energy constitute the Apara Prakruti and awareness is Para Prakruti. Thus, the human being is part of Prakruti or nature or creation only and not the creator. When God takes the human form the soul (Pure awareness) and the external body (Matter and energy) exist in such human form as in the case of a human being. In the case of human being, the soul becomes the house owner in the absence of God. In the palace of a king, the servant is a slave to the king and he is treated as a part of the inert house. We say that the king alone lives in the palace. It does not mean that the king alone is in the inert house without the servant. In the absence of the king the servant becomes the owner of the house! Therefore, in the human incarnation both God and soul co-exist (Dvaa Suparnaa…Veda). But the soul is as good as the inert body without any freedom and hence becomes a part of the house. For the sake of counting, there are two living beings, which are king and his servant. But for all practical purposes there is only one human being that is king and the second is the inert house which includes the servant. In this sense we say that only the king lives in the palace. In this way, the Lord said in the Gita that God exists in the human body in the case of human incarnation (Manusheem Tanumasritam…). Hence, there is no difference between the Veda and the Gita. You may say that only God is in the human body as per the Gita or you may say that God and soul co-exist in the human body as per the Veda. When the king is absent, the slave acts as king in the palace and this does not mean that the slave is the real king. Here, Advaitins slipped in the concept by treating the slave as the real king. Every human being including a beggar is a king in his own house and this does not mean that every human being is the king. If that is so, there is no ruler and the ruling power of God disappears. The Advaitins removed the real king (Ishwara) by stating that He is unreal (Vyavahara Dasha) and brought the democracy as the real king (Paramartha Dasha). According to them, the Government is by the people and for the people! The monarchy was thrown away due to jealousy and egoism!
The composition and technology of human being is created by God in a particular fashion so that it stands as a good model of simile for the human incarnation. In the human being the soul (Pure Awareness) pervades all over the body (Matter and energy). Similarly, in human incarnation, God pervades all over the body (Pure Awareness, matter and energy). The superimposition of body and soul leads to the treatment of body as the soul. The superimposition is created by God in this simile so that one can have the same superimposition in the case of human incarnation. By this, you can treat the human body of Krishna as God Himself without any difference. Thus, the superimposition is created by God for a divine purpose. Without this superimposition, you can never worship God directly because God is even unimaginable.
Ignorance Has Its Own Use
You can experience God only with the help of this superimposition. Hanuman embraced Rama and experienced God through the body of Rama. He treated the body as God by superimposition. It is like treating the alive wire as current. If you think that superimposition is ignorance and condemn it, you can never experience or worship God directly. Everything in the creation has divine purpose and without understanding it, you are discarding certain things in the creation as ignorance. No doubt, the superimposition is based on ignorance only. But the ignorance is created by God and has its own divine purpose. Without using it in the proper occasion, you are rejecting it and such rejection insults the creator. The Advaitin analyzes the simile and finds out ignorance in it and does not apply it to the human incarnation. You have to reject the superimposition of soul and body in the case of human beings, which helps you to detach from the worldly bonds. But you have to use the same superimposition in the case of human incarnation and worship or experience God through the medium. The knowledge of the concept of superimposition helps in the detachment from the world and the ignorance of the same concept helps in experiencing God through the medium. The same knife has two edges for two opposite programs. The same electricity can be used for destruction and construction in different contexts. Every concept in this world is a teaching model created by God to help you in understanding the spiritual knowledge.
Relevance of the Contemporary Human Incarnation
The human form of God is the only relevant medium of God for human beings. To speak this point completely, the contemporary human incarnation is the only way, which can respond to your doubts and guide you in the correct spiritual path. The energetic forms exist in this time also but they are not in this world. The past human incarnations existed in this world, but do not exist in this time. Due to these two limitations, they can be represented only by statues or photos indirectly. Such statues and photos cannot guide you and also cannot give you the experience of God as a living form. These also cannot give the satisfaction of receiving your worship directly. You can find all the energetic forms of God and all the past human incarnations in the present alive human form of God. You can only find the past in the present but not the reverse. You can see the face of grandfather in the face of grand son but not vice-versa. The same God exists in the present human incarnation. The present human body of God also consists of the same components (Matter, energy and pure awareness). Only the form of the body, which is unreal, differs. Infact, there are no direct photographs of the energetic forms and there are no direct photographs for almost all the past human incarnations. The forms presented by the statutes and photos are only imagined by certain artists. Even from this view also the forms are unreal. I do not know why people are so blind to cling to the doubly unreal forms of God. The only reason is the egoism and jealousy, which are very difficult to be conquered. Atleast you treat the present human incarnation as a devotee and a messenger of God and accept Him as your guide. Mohammad called Himself as a messenger of God only. There is nothing wrong in this. The knowledge given by Mohammad was treated as the knowledge of God only and Muslims follow it strictly and get divine fruits. Jesus also declared Himself as a divine messenger only, but He revealed Himself as God to a few deserving devotees. That information leaked out and the majority rebelled against Him. Krishna never told to anyone that He was even the messenger. He behaved like an ordinary human being with some divine qualities which were common to several divine human beings in that time. Krishna revealed Himself as God vehemently to Arjuna only in the context of certain divine purpose only. Whether the human incarnation is God or messenger, it is immaterial for the devotees. It is sufficient if the devotees believe that the knowledge given by the messenger is from God and follow it. When the devotees analyze the knowledge and practice it, they will conquer their jealousy and egoism and finally realize that the messenger Himself is God. If the jealousy and egoism are not conquered, the devotees may think that the knowledge given by the messenger is an intellectual interpretation of scriptures so that the messenger Himself manages to fit Himself in the position of the God. But in course of time, when the egoism and jealousy are fully conquered, they will realize the truth. When such misunderstanding comes, they can themselves analyze the analysis and interpretation of the messenger with their own logic and find out whether it is truth or a twist given by the messenger with selfish motive. However, they should take long time to analyze the messenger, since several false incarnations exist just for the sake of fascination of the position of the God.
The capability of the correct spiritual guidance decides the final truth. One should be very very careful to decide the human form of God (Datta) because Datta is becoming your Satguru to guide you in the spiritual path, which is the most important eternal aspect of the fate of the soul. You should not be hasty in this aspect because it is going to decide your eternal divine future.