Posted on: 19 Aug 2006
[3rd Message on the Eve of Krishnashtami] Some people say that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and most people say that Jesus was a bachelor. Similarly in Hinduism, most people say that Hanuman was a bachelor but some say that He married Suvarchala. This argument is unnecessary because God comes down in human form and attracts all types of souls to uplift them. The main aim of the human form is that He wants to become very close to human beings. If the qualities of the human incarnation are similar to humans, human beings get more and more attracted and the Lord can become closer and closer to human beings. Therefore, the human form of God contains qualities similar to the human beings that that are around Him.
The human being is made of the three fundamental qualities [Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas]. A quality is a thought or feeling and is a wave in the awareness. Awareness itself is dynamic and is a form of work. The quality is also kinetic energy and is a form of work. Inert energy is transformed into awareness and the inert energy, which is the same primary energy in the form of the cosmos, is also dynamic and is the work of God. All the modifications of the primary energy (matter, awareness, light, heat etc.) are also forms of work. Therefore everything in this world, starting from a feeling or quality up to the primary cosmic energy is a form of work. Therefore, it is said that the world is made of the three qualities which are just the feelings of God. The entire world is the imagination of God and therefore the qualities or feelings form the world. The human body in which God is hidden is the human incarnation. The human body consisting of matter, energy and feelings is a medium, which is relatively real with respect to God. The worker is God and creation is His work. Therefore, anything in the world is unreal from the point of God. Therefore, it makes no difference whether the human incarnation is a bachelor or married.
Lord Datta has only one face, because Datta means God given to the souls through the same medium in which the souls themselves exist. When the souls are present in human bodies, He comes in the same human body. The angels exist in energetic bodies. Souls, after leaving the human bodies also have similar energetic bodies. Therefore God is given to these souls in the upper worlds through the energetic bodies like Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva etc. There are two forms of Datta: one having a single face and the other having three faces. The three faces indicate an important concept. No human form has three faces. It only means that the human form of God exhibits all three qualities. Sattvam is the good quality. Rajas and Tamas are bad qualities. This means that the human incarnation exhibits both good and bad qualities.
The human incarnation needs all three qualities to get close to human beings because every human being is a mixture of the three qualities. The Shastras say that a single quality out of these three can never exist independently. This means that there is no human being who is absolutely good or absolutely bad. The Gita says that the human being becomes good in one moment when Sattvam predominates and the same human being becomes bad in another moment when Rajas and Tamas predominate. Therefore the human form of God should also exhibit these three qualities in order to come close to the human beings for the purpose of uplifting them from the mud pond. When a person jumps into a mud pond to help a person who is drowning in it, the person who jumped is also contaminated by the mud. Not only the same human body, but also the same qualities are necessary for God to become very close to the souls. Therefore God also has to change the qualities every time.
Every moment the human being exhibits a specific mood, in which the three qualities are mixed in a specific ratio. From birth to death, the human being passes through thirty-three crores [1 crore = 10 million] of moods. Therefore God is also covered by different proportions of qualities [God also shows all the same moods]. Each mood shown by God is a divine form or deity. Thus for the same God, thirty-three crore divine forms (deities) exist so that every human being can be close to God in every moment. The same God having three faces is divided into three forms. One form called as Brahma, has the predomination of Rajas. Another form called as Vishnu has the predomination of Sattvam. Another form called Shiva has the predomination of Tamas. In each form, the other two qualities are hidden. Such division is again only for the sake of human beings. Some people have the predomination of one quality but they also have the other two qualities in hidden state. God wants to be a reflection of the human being and thus covers Himself with similar qualities. Rama was the embodiment of Sattvam but when He became furious with Sage Jabali, Rajas predominated in Him. When He was fooled by the golden deer, Tamas predominated in Him. Vishnu, who represents Sattvam has expressed full anger (Rajas) in the form of Narasimha. Vishnu also expressed full Tamas in the form of Krishna. Thus no quality can be completely isolated. Since this is the case with the souls, God also follows the same while covering Himself with a medium. God is beyond the qualities and the soul integrated with jiva [waves in awareness] is a bundle of these three fundamental qualities in various proportions called as the different qualities [gunas]. You should not think that God is a bundle of these qualities just like the human being. The human being is similar to the medium of God in having these qualities and is not at all comparable to the unimaginable God. Even if you assume that the soul (awareness) is without attributes, the awareness (chit) itself is only the quality of Sattvam. The Veda says that the power of God is in three forms, which are awareness, matter and work (jnana bala kriyacha).
Sages in quest of knowledge, go to Brahma. The angels who have good qualities go to Vishnu. Demons having bad qualities approach Shiva easily. The ease in accessibility depends on the similarity in qualities. Sages are always interested in knowledge and are involved in discussions. Therefore Brahma is shown reciting the Vedas and His power Saraswati, is the deity of language [speech and language] in which discussions can be done. Vishnu kills evil people and protects good people. Good people are always blessed with wealth and therefore Vishnu with His power Lakshmi is accessible to angels. Cruel demons do sins, wear frightening dresses, and always suffer with poverty for their sins. Shiva is accessible to them because He is shown to be poor and living near burial grounds with a frightening dress. Demons are always killing others. The power of Shiva, Kali, is involved in the destruction of world. Similarly the human incarnations also have predomination of a single quality. Kurma, Vamana, Buddha and Rama are famous for Sattvam. Parashurama, Narasimha, and Balarama are famous for Rajas. Matsya, Varaha and Kalki are famous for killing and thus have predomination of Tamas.
Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva concentrate on knowledge and represent the line of Brahma. Krishna is a mixture of all the three qualities. He showed Sattvam in preaching the Gita, He showed Rajas by engaging in wars. He showed Tamas while stealing butter, dancing with Gopikas and telling lies. If you see the recent human incarnations of Lord Datta, you can also find these three qualities mixed in various proportions. Sri Narasimha Saraswati had the predomination of Sattvam and He preached the Vedic Knowledge. Shirdi Sai Baba would get furious. In fact most human incarnations of Lord Datta often get very furious and scold using very vulgar language. Baba, Gajanana Maharaj etc., used to smoke a lot. Thus, Rajas and Tamas predominated in them. The exposure of such Rajas and Tamas is to attract the human beings who too have similar qualities. You should not misunderstand that Lord Datta actually has these qualities. These qualitites are just like red (Rajas), black (Tamas) or white (Sattvam) shirts on Him. The colour of the shirt does not touch Him (Nachaham teshu—Gita). But the human being is the very shirt with colours (Nanyam Gunebhyah—Gita). Suppose a person has become a strong devotee of Shankara and the person has lost his character by getting involved with some women. Now he feels guilty to approach Shankara. His closeness with Shankara is reduced. The incident in which Shankara enjoyed the queens of King Amaruka immediately gives confidence to Him to maintain the close contact with Shankara. But do not misunderstand that Shankara was involved in that incident for the sake of enjoyment alone. He was involved in that incident for various other reasons like defeating Mandana Mishra completely in debate and converting him into His disciple.
The action of the Lord is always multi-dimensional. Unless one gets close to the Lord, by seeing the Lord’s behavior which is similar to one’s own behavior, the Lord cannot inject the preaching. If you want to preach to a drunkard, you have to go to the bar along with him and drink with him. Only then will you will become close to him and slowly save him by your advice. Thus the similarity in the external covering (Upadhi) is needed and that does not change the essence in anyway. Sage Durvasa was eating everyday and yet claimed to be fasting everyday. Sage Vashishtha got a hundred children through his wife Arundhati but claimed to be a bachelor. The river Ganga gave path to Arundhati when Arundhati prayed to her mentioning these two claims made by the respective sages. [Ganga testified to the validity of the claims]. Lord Shiva exists in Durvasa. Lord Brahma exists in Vashishtha. The God in them never eats and does not require any type of enjoyment. Therefore with reference to the God present in them, such claims are valid. Similarly when Narada asked Lord Brahma about the address of a real bachelor in this creation, Brahma told him that Krishna is the only real bachelor. Krishna married 16,000 girls and also had extra associations with a thousand Gopikas. But the God in Him is always alone and is the single truth. God cannot have even a single wife because except God, everything is unreal. Therefore from the point of God, He is the only real bachelor. From the point of the external covering, which is the human body (Upadhi), He is associated with girls and women. Even if you take a bachelor like a sage, who has never even thought of a woman in mind, he cannot be the real bachelor, because he is an item of creation (relative reality) and he is one among several items of equal reality. Then the sage cannot be the one reality. The real bachelor is Brahman alone; He does not have a second item (wife) with equal reality.
Why were such qualities exhibited by Krishna and not by the previous incarnation, Rama? In the time of Rama (Treta Yuga), Dharma was in full swing. Therefore Rama with a single wife could attract the people since almost all people were of a similar character. But in the time of Krishna, which was the end of the Dwapara Yuga (Kali Yuga had almost entered), people did not have a good character and almost all had extramarital contacts. At that time if Rama had come, nobody would approach Him and everybody would run away from Him. Therefore Krishna had to possess such external behavior of the quality of Tamas. This was suitable to that time, so that the Lord could come very close to the human beings of that time in order to preach to them for their upliftment, slowly, in course of time. Again such external behaviour of Krishna should not be limited only to this one dimension because other dimensions exist. The Lord had promised the sages [of Dandaka forest, during the incarnation of Rama] who were willing to embrace Him in the form of women and who had prayed to Him that their family bonds (husband, children, parents, relatives etc.,) should be cut by the Lord through His powerful attraction. The Lord postponed this boon given to them to the end of the Dwapara Yuga where both these points could be clubbed.
Accepting Datta
It is very difficult to accept the human incarnation while alive. Only very few blessed souls who are already liberated and accompanied the Lord to help Him in His mission can recognize and serve the living human form of God. The repulsion to accept a co-human being even as a greater person is very difficult. Then you can never imagine any human being to accept another human being as greatest God. The human form of God is just similar to any human being. If any specialty is exhibited, people fear and run away. To become close to the human beings, no specialty should be exhibited. If the closeness is achieved, the recognition is lost. To get recognition if some super natural aspect is exhibited, the closeness is lost. Between closeness and recognition, which is better to be retained at the cost of the other? The recognition destroys the freedom to discuss with the Lord and clarify the doubts. When Krishna looked as an ordinary human being, Arjuna bombarded Him with all questions and clarified His doubts. However, when Krishna was in the state of cosmic form (Vishwarupam), Arjuna shivered with fear and no question could come out. The brain was blocked with shock and even the doubts did not arise. When the doubts remain un-cleared, the ignorance continues. Therefore closeness is better than recognition. The husband hears the advices from the wife in close association. Therefore through closeness, even if the identification is not there, the soul can be guided into the right path through convincing the soul by preaching. Instead of convincing the soul by exhibiting the super power, which induces the conviction though fear, it is better to induce the conviction through the super talent exhibited in preaching. Even if you think of the human incarnation as a preacher (Guru), there is nothing wrong. If you do not recognize Him as God, His crown has not fallen on the ground. I will just give an example. One woman was a very close devotee. She even used to argue and fight with Me on the points of the spiritual knowledge. One day, she quarreled with Me for not showing any divine vision. The Lord in Me gave a shocking vision of God Dattatreya. She became unconscious for one hour and even got a mild heart attack. From that day onwards, whenever she comes to Me, she is always with terrible fear. She simply accepts whatever I preach. The recognition has come but the closeness is lost. Therefore Jesus said, “Those who believed Me without proof are really blessed”. This means that the devotees who recognized the Lord through the knowledge always have close freedom and clarify all their doubts and hence they are blessed. They gain the complete devotion. If the proof is shown, the closeness is lost and the gap appears. The doubts are not cleared due to fear. Neither the devotee nor the God enjoys the close association. The realization will never come because the ignorance remains due to un-cleared doubts. Therefore the theoretical recognition arrived through the knowledge is always the best. The practical proof develops not only fear but also the attitude to fulfill the desires and solve the problems using the divine power. The attention is diverted from the path of realization. The real bond of love can never be formed. If the power is recognized, the whole situation is diverted. The mentality is always towards tapping the powers towards personal solutions. The commercial bond grows. The friendship becomes more and more intensive if the qualities of the human form of God become more and more similar. I heard some people telling that Sri Satya Sai printed notes and smuggling the foreign goods! I told them that this allegation is false in the case of Sri Satya Sai, but I told them that in future God has to come in human form with such talents also so that the smugglers approach Him closely and slowly get salvation.
Desires and Saints
Sometime back, some people asked Me that the saint Shri Jayendra Saraswati had some sexual affair with a lady. A saint (sanyasi) takes food and sleeps in the night. As long as the awareness exists, the properties of the body like hunger, sleep, thirst, sex etc. have to exist. Only in the state of Avadhuta, the awareness is transformed into its basic original form which is the inert energy. Since the whole cosmos is nothing but various modifications of infinite and all pervading inert energy, the inert energy is Brahman. Therefore, the soul of Avadhuta becomes Brahman and He is in the state of deep sleep continuously. Therefore, the feelings like hunger, sex etc., do not exist in his case. The Avadhuta is a form of matter externally and inert energy (soul) internally. He is like the inert stick carrying the inert fire-energy or He is like hot iron rod. The soul is the heat (inert energy) and His body is the inert iron rod. What is the value of such Avadhuta if he has not recognized God and not involved in the service of the Lord who came down in human form during his generation? For a saint, the soul (awareness) becomes inert energy only in the deep sleep as in the case of ordinary human beings. Just like an ordinary human being, His body performs all the biological functions. Now what is the difference between the saint and the human being? The saint avoided marriage and children for the sake of God’s work. The ordinary human being could not do this. The biological function is common to both. To pacify the hunger, both are taking food. To pacify thirst, both are drinking water. To pacify the tiredness, both are sleeping. Similarly, to pacify the sex, both may be indulged in the corresponding activity. This is the common aspect in the case of both the saint and the human being. However, the saint is greater than the human being because he sacrificed the marriage and children for the sake of God’s work, which the ordinary human being could not do. Now the criticism on the saint is that He is indulged in such activity secretly and is posing as if He is not indulged. Is it not hypocrisy? Now I put the same question to the ordinary human beings. Are they not doing the same activity secretly? Now the objection is that the wife is a licensed woman for that and that the woman involved with the saint has no such license. This objection is also rejected because license means the mutual agreement without any force. The saint also pacified the biological need secretly with the mutual consent of the woman only and not by force. You can treat such woman as a prostitute and thus she has to be criticized and not the saint. Vyasa is a great sage. You consider Him as a preacher and His birthday is Guru Poornima. One day He saw the dancer from heaven by name Ghrutachi. The biological function (sex) got itself expressed spontaneously. He was involved with her and also became the father of a son (Suka) through her. She is a prostitute. He wrote all this frankly in the Puranam. By this, did you reject Vyasa as Guru? Even today, we celebrate His birthday as the day of preachers. In view of His divine service which was done continuously day and night, these few minutes of wastage can be neglected. He gave so many scriptures in the line of spiritual knowledge. In view of the extraordinary services done by Vyasa, this small point can be neglected which is just a biological function like excretion, urination etc. I wonder why the people are not pointing out the same in the case of a great political leader who served the country very well. In view of the best services rendered to the country, such things are neglected but you are magnifying this point in the case of a saint only. This looks like the opposition party pointing out at the small defect by magnification, even though the same small defect is on their side. Of course this opposition party is in minority only. The ruling party consisting of human incarnations, saints, preachers and devotees is a vast majority. You know that the ruling party always exists in majority. You have to see the need of the situation which is inevitable and try to understand the point. Even in the case of Adi Shankara, the situation developed in such a way that He had to indulge in sex with the queens of King Amaruka. It was the pressure of the need and not the will with planning. We must understand the level of the soul and also the need of situation. Lord Krishna also had such secret indulgence with women but if you see the background and analyze the need of such activity, there is no misunderstanding. The human beings are always jealous at the human incarnation and the other divine people serving the divine mission. You must take what you have to take from the preacher. Certainly He is better than your level and He can be your preacher. Most of the human beings are also involved in such unlicensed activities. At least in the mental plane, they are sinners if they are frank before God. Sin is in the mind and not in the inert body or in the inert action. When people started throwing stones on a prostitute, Jesus told that the person who has not done any sin should throw the first stone on her. Similarly I ask the person to put the finger on the saint if he has not thought of any woman except his wife in mind. The case of this saint was exposed due to political background, as every body knows. Jesus asked to excuse the defects of even your colleague souls and you are finding fault with a saint who is certainly greater than you in view of his sacrifice of family for the mission of the Lord. Jesus told that if you find fault with another soul, God will also find fault with your sins. If you punish others for their defects, you must be also punished by God for your defects based on the same rule. Jesus excused even a prostitute and you are finding fault with a saint! Your colleague soul is greater than the prostitute and the saint is greater than your colleague soul. Sometimes I hear the criticism of Christian fathers and sisters also. They say some of them have secret sex. I condemn such statements also and ask them to see at their sacrifice of marriage and family life for the sake of God’s work. Due to the ignorant religious rivalry, the saints in every religion are criticized by the members of other religions. If the basic concept is realized the criticism disappears because what ever defect you are showing on the saint of other religion is existing in the saint of your religion also in more magnitude. Jesus tells that you see a small trace in the eyes of others while a big log is present in your eyes. You must understand the status of a saint in the spiritual ladder so that the saint of any religion is understood well, who is existing in the same status. Bharthruhari said that you should see the traces of your defects as mountains and simultaneously you should see the traces of merits in others as mountains. The approach in the path of spiritual knowledge should be always positive.
Therefore it is immaterial whether Jesus was a bachelor or got married because God can come in both the ways to attract bachelors as well as householders. The bachelors can become close to Hanuman since He is a bachelor. The householders can approach Hanuman since He married Suvarchala. The bachelors need not feel proud above the householders because Hanuman is the servent of Rama and Rama was a married person. The family life is just a diversion for some time in this spiritual path for a change. It is just like playing the games for some time in the evening after hectic class work. If a student studies in the time of games also, he is expected to come first in the class. But this is always not true. Some times a student who plays games in the evening comes first. Therefore a little diversion for a change is not an obstruction to the success. Some times a householder achieves the goal and the saint may fail. Everything depends on the intensity of your interest. The real information about Jesus in this aspect has no spiritual value. The reality of the historical data is unnecessary. One can become God in all aspects except the attainment of the power to create, maintain and destroy the universe. This is impossible because the soul being a part of the primary energy cannot create the primary energy which was the first creation. If the soul creates primary energy, it means that it has created itself! This aspect is unnecessary unless one has ambition about the power. Actually it is only the highest responsibility. If you can get the same entertainment as God gets in the creation, who is luckier? You are luckier than God is. The producer took so many troubles to produce the cinema and he sees the cinema for entertainment. The spectators in the theatres also enjoy by seeing the cinema equal to the producer without such worry in producing the film. The soul is in the second plane which is matter, awareness, light etc. Therefore it cannot create the items of its own plane. The matter cannot be created by the soul. The awareness cannot be created by the soul to give life to a dead body. The soul cannot produce light etc. However, the soul can come out of the illusion of forms and illusion of qualities or thoughts, which are in the lower third plane. The form is a modification of the matter and is unreal for the soul. Similarly, qualities or thoughts. Most of the souls are disturbed always with the forms and feelings only. You may argue that you are bored with the misery in the world and therefore God should stop the show so that God also need not have the problem of coming in human forms with so many combinations of qualities. If the show is put off, God is certainly bored. That is not the point here. Why don’t you enjoy the cinema continuously by sitting in the theatre? You can enjoy even the tragic scene and you need not go out of the theatre when the tragedy appears. You need not ask the producer to close the show. If you are going out of the theatre, it is just your suicide. Anyway, death will come after sometime which means that the final dissolution of the world comes where the souls are stored as inert impressions in the inert energy. You can enjoy the life remaining in the second plane by realizing the third plane (forms and qualities) as unreal. The boy need not commit suicide if a beautiful girl rejects his love. It means that he is not realizing the nature of the life and is running out of the theatre. If he realizes that the forms are unreal, he can even marry an ugly girl who loves him. The beautiful girl may have even good qualities. What is the use of those qualities when the love to you is absent? God will not recognize the forms and qualities except the devotion which is the love to Him. Indra, the elder brother of Vishnu was attracted to the dancers of heaven for their external beauty. He was always in trouble. His brother Vishnu in the form of Krishna was not attracted to those dancers of heaven even for a second. He was attracted to Gopikas who are not good looking and their ugliness is doubled since they were villagers without fashions. The cow dung was the snow, powder, and sometimes was even their lipstick! They were having a bad smell with sweat whereas the dancers of heaven were using the divine flowers which have divine scents. Krishna was completely attracted to Gopikas and gave them Goloka, which is above His permanent abode. What is the reason for His unimaginable attraction towards such Gopikas, though He was so handsome and was loved by 16,000 beautiful girls of the dynasty of kings? The attraction of the Lord was towards their unimaginable love which is the devotion. Therefore the youth should realize this and try to enjoy the life fully. They should understand that the real beauty is only love.
You are doing worship and service to God. However, you are asking some worldly desires. For all this, you are forgetting that God Himself is the highest fruit. You can get infinite happiness even by singing a song on Him. Then how much bliss you get form serving Him? Then you are getting the infinite bliss directly from the worship and service of God. Why should you ask some worldly benefit which does not give even a trace of happiness and instead gives misery only? You are given a pot with divine nectar. You are selling it in a hotel for a cup of sugarless coffee. Therefore the devotees, who have tasted the bliss from His knowledge and form the devotion to Him, never ask for any other fruit. After all, the aim of the boon is only to get happiness. When you derive it in infinite quantity directly from God, why should you sell God for getting misery? The rich people who are blessed by God for their prayers are not at all happy. They are running to the spiritual people for getting just a drop of the divine nectar. A real spiritual devotee will refuse to sell even a drop of divine nectar to these rich people because if he does so, he will become rich and will have the same fate. If you see Goddess Lakshmi who is pressing the feet of the Lord with Her both hands is gaining infinite bliss from the service of the Lord. The Lord has given infinite wealth to Her. She knows that the wealth gives only misery. Therefore she never feels that she is the possessor of that wealth. She feels that she is the constant slave of the Lord. With just Her left hand, She is showering the inert gold coins, which give lot of misery only to the people who are craving for the wealth. While praying Goddess Lakshmi, we do not even understand Her nature and philosophy. Parvati is very beautiful. She was serving Lord Shiva with all good qualities like obedience etc. Still Lord Shiva was not attracted to Her even though the stupid cupid tried for it. The Lord turned him into ash and disappeared. The external beauty (form of matter) and good qualities (forms of awareness) are considered as unreal only by the Lord. However, when Parvati developed immense love through penance, the Lord tested whether such devotion was still attached to the external form and qualities. He came in disguise and discouraged Parvati about the frightening external form and the bad qualities about Shiva. But when the love of Parvati was proved to be above the external form and qualities, the Lord gave half of His body to Her. Later on He became even a slave of Her, keeping Himself under Her feet as you can see the dance of Kaali over Shiva.
Testing Devotees
The exhibition of bad qualities by the human form of God is not only to come close to bad people but also to test the faith of devotees. It also serves the purpose of neutralizing the jealousy of the people. Even the devotees have jealousy in their sub-conscious state about which they are unaware. The Lord neutralizes that and protects His devotees. Thus there are so many dimensions in the plan of the God. The devotees ask Me about My reverse statements. I always keep Myself in the lowest state and often pass negative remarks about Myself. The devotees get worried. However, they don’t know the purpose for which I am talking in that way. I can see even their sub-conscious levels about which they themselves are unaware. I satisfy the jealousy in that level so that it will not grow and enter the main upper level of consciousness. Sometimes it serves the purpose of testing the devotees so that they can realize their real position.
Devotees having full egoism and jealousy will never worship even a stone on this earth. Thus they will worship only the formless energy or awareness or at least the energetic forms like Shiva, Vishnu etc. which are available in the upper world only. They reject this earth completely. People in Brundavanam thought of worshipping Indra, who is an energetic form. Krishna wanted to introduce something on the earth and He introduced the mountain, which is a collection of stones. At least let the people accept a formless stone because they cannot tolerate the human form introduced into the stone for worship. Salagrama for Vishnu and Lingam for Shiva are such formless stones, which are suitable to devotees having very high level of jealousy to the human form. Somehow it is the beginning stage because at least the material with which the human form is carved is introduced. When the jealousy is slowly reduced, they can accept the human form introduced into the stone. At this level the jealousy is pacified because the human form introduced in the stone does not exist on the earth. Thus the statues of Shiva, Vishnu etc. are accepted at this level. Somehow the concept of human form is introduced. When the jealousy and egoism are further reduced, the human forms of past incarnations like Rama, Krishna etc. are introduced. At this level also, the jealousy is pacified because the human forms are not alive at present before the eyes. Somehow this is a better step because devotees believe that God comes in human form. These three levels constitute the worship of statues through rituals. If you analyze the rituals, they are the steps of service to the human form. The training is given to worship and serve the human form of God. Shankara said that the rituals purify the mind (Chitta Shuddhi). The purification of mind means only removal of jealousy and egoism completely from the mind. When the purification of mind is completed, the devotee is ready to accept the present human form of God. When the devotee deserves to meet the present human incarnation, certainly He will have the fortune of meeting the Lord in human form. Unless the devotee comes to this maturity, there is no use of meeting the human incarnation. The human incarnation also behaves like a human being and will be meeting so many ordinary human beings daily in routine. There is no significance for such meetings. However, when the devotee achieves the complete maturity by uprooting the egoism and jealousy, such devotee experiences God in a human incarnation in the very first meeting itself. Hanuman experienced this in the very first meeting with Rama. If the mind of the devotee is completely matured, the inner God in the human incarnation reflects immediately in the pure mind of the devotee. If the mind is tarnished by the black egoism and jealousy, the inner God is not reflected. In such case even if the miracles are performed, there is no use. Even if the Lord pours down the divine knowledge, there will be no use. Therefore the people who are not purified through rituals cannot have the recognition of the Lord in human form. The rituals are called as karma (training) to remove the egoism and jealousy towards human form. Social service is also a way to achieve this in which one serves the human beings so that the natural repulsion towards human form is removed. For the God in the human incarnation every human being is equal. The recognition depends only on the purity of mind. The sun reflects in clear water but does not reflect on the charcoal. When the God is not reflected, the human incarnation appears as an ordinary human being only. The Lord also will not try to impress all the human beings about His divinity. If the situation is plain like this, there is no problem, but some deserving devotees recognize the Lord due to their pure minds. Generally the liberated souls who have accompanied the Lord in His mission recognize Him spontaneously and straightly enter into the service without any doubt or proof for the divinity. The second type of devotees who are not liberated souls but achieved the purity of mind through rituals or social service recognize the Lord but are unable to enter into service because of the lack of liberation from the worldly bonds. The third type of people observes the Lord but treats Him as the human being only because their minds are impure with jealousy and egoism. The whole problem starts when the third type of people hear the first two types speaking that the human incarnation is God. Now the reaction starts in the minds of this third type of people. They cannot accept Him as God due to the impurity of their minds and therefore start mocking at these two types of devotees. If the jealousy and egoism of these people is at the climax level, they start mocking the human incarnation also along with those devotees. If such people are strong atheists, they start even abusing the human incarnation. The atheists have no faith even in the existence of God. They reject the miracles as magic. If the experienced miracles are magic, why not the experienced scientific experiments also are magic? Why the experienced world is also not a magic?
The action of God should not be taken in one dimension which will lead to misunderstanding. For example if you take Krishna, do not think that He danced with Gopikas just to become close with the people who are having contacts with several women. If you take His action only in this dimension, Krishna is misunderstood. Several requirements coincided. The Kali Yuga has almost entered and most of the people have developed such tendency. Therefore there is a requirement for the God to come in such line to become close to the majority. At the same time, the word given to sages to cut their bonds has to be fulfilled. The sages cannot be born as males because they desired to embrace the Lord after becoming women. Therefore that desire was also to be fulfilled. Thus all the dimensions are coincided and the Lord waited to fulfill this from Treta Yuga to the end of Dwapara Yuga. If the Lord fulfilled the desire immediately, the people in Treta Yuga will not relish this. In fact Hanuman belonging to Treta Yuga did not like this and He went up to the extent of even refusing Krishna as God!
When the Lord comes in human form, some devotees certainly recognize Him as God. However, such recognition of Krishna as God brings the concept that Krishna is omnipotent. This aspect immediately diverts even the devotees to get attracted towards solving their problems by using the omni potency of God. Thus the devotion becomes impure and the devotees are diverted to sideline of worldly affairs. If Krishna remains as Krishna, this problem does not arise at all. The recognition of Krishna as God spoils the mind of the devotees. After recognition, the devotees are expected to travel in the right line, which is service to Him without aspiring any fruit. If the devotees go in this right line, then only they are said to be realized souls. If they take the loop line (using the super power for personal problems) from the point of recognition, they are as good as ordinary human beings. Therefore recognition of Krishna as God is not the end of the spiritual effort. This is a junction-station. If you proceed straight, you are a realized soul. From this point if you take the sideline, you are an ordinary human being. In fact the ordinary human beings are always in search of God in human form for solving their problems. It is just like searching for oil wells in the ground. The search is for using the oil as a fuel for daily comforts. Therefore recognizing the human incarnation is of no use unless you proceed in the main line from that point. At this point, there are some guides to lead you to the right line. Such guides are the liberated souls who come down along with the Lord. They are scattered and mixed with the ordinary human beings. They recognize the Lord along with the other people. From this point of the recognition, the liberated souls proceed in the main line only without any deviation standing as guides for the devotees, who are with them standing at the point of recognition. Therefore, the liberated soul is already realized soul who comes down along with the Lord to stand as a guide from the recognition point onwards. Thus the liberated souls are the close servants of the Lord who come down to participate in the divine play for fulfilling the divine mission. Seeing them as examples, at least some devotees may follow the main line along with them and may get liberated. A liberated soul is already a realized soul doing the spiritual effort (Sadhana) from the starting point to the end point to stand as an example for the human beings. After recognizing the God, you can follow the path of the liberated soul who is acting as a devotee trying for success in the spiritual journey. The liberated souls will certainly succeed in their spiritual effort because they are already liberated and they try to achieve liberation only to guide others. Thus all the devotees who recognize the Lord without any proof and spontaneously participate in the service crossing over all the hurdles are the liberated souls. The liberation of such liberated souls is only a part of the drama. Role of the human incarnation can be taken up by the Lord only and not by the liberated soul. When the Lord left Parasurama, who is a liberated soul, he could not maintain the status of the Lord. However, the Lord can act the role of a liberated soul. Lord Shiva acted in the role of Hanuman, a liberated soul. The devotee will fail to act as Lord. The Lord never fails whether He acts as the Lord or as a devotee.
The devotee can become the Lord in all aspects except the aspect of creation, maintenance and destruction of universe. The other aspects are not at all disturbed due to absence of the last aspect. Suppose a producer of a film is enjoying His own picture. Though you are not the producer, you can enjoy the cinema in equal status with the producer. You can enjoy just like the producer because you are enjoying the same cinema without taking the laborious efforts of its production. Therefore you should not say that since he is the producer, he is enjoying. People often say that since the human incarnation is Lord, He can enjoy the tragic scenes of the cinema. Do you mean that the producer only can enjoy the tragic scenes of the cinema? Any spectator can enjoy the tragic scenes of the cinema. The only requirement for such continuous enjoyment of comic and tragic scenes of the cinema is only the realization of the nature of the cinema. If you know that the cinema is unreal, you can enjoy even the tragic scene. Whether the spectator is a producer of the film or an ordinary human being the requirement for the continuous enjoyment of the cinema is only the knowledge about the unreality of the cinema. Therefore you need not run away from the problems of the life and leaving the theater is committing suicide. Therefore do not say that Rama, Krishna etc are God and so could stand unperturbed during the difficult times in life. The argument is completely wrong and what you lack is the knowledge of the reality of this creation (forms and feelings) and not the producer-ship of this creation.
Never allow the worry to enter your heart in difficult times. When it knocks the door, shout at it to go away. Don’t open the doors of the mind. If you allow it, it is a thief which steals away your energy. It is like the dog that steals away your food. It is like the cat that steals away your milk. Food is your energy and milk is your courage. When you loose courage and energy tension is created, which is the source of all chronic diseases. Doctors say that the tension raises the level of lactic acid in the blood, which opens all the doors for all the chronic diseases. The physical health is spoiled because the mind and body are related to each other. The illness in the body affects the mind. The tension in the mind affects the body. Such tension results in the loss of memory and loss of intelligence. In such state you are completely inefficient to plan for the solution. Your body is incapable of executing any plan. The worry cannot solve the problem and moreover it weakens you so that you will become permanently incapable to solve the problem. Dharmaraja approached Bhishma before the war for blessings. Bhishma blessed him and told that he will reveal the secret of his death when time comes. Ten days have gone and Bhishma was killing ten thousand soldiers everyday from the army of Pandavas. Dharmaraja developed tension during these days and lost even memory. He forgot the assurance from Bhishma. However, Krishna never allows tension into His mind. Even though His sons, grandsons and relatives are killing each other, He was just silent spectator of that without any tension. Krishna immediately reminded Dharmaraja about the initial assurance from Bhishma. Dharmaraja followed it and solved the problem. Therefore neither should you run away from the life nor should allow the worry to enter your mind. If your realization about the unreality of the cinema, which is this life, continues, instead of worry, you can enjoy the problem in your life, which is as good as a tragic scene in the cinema. You may argue that you are involved in the life and not standing outside the life to be a spectator. This argument is not correct. The answer for your argument is that you can enjoy the tragic scene even if you are involved in it just like an actor acting in a drama. If you are aware that the drama is unreal and if you are aware that you are only acting the role which is also unreal, you can still enjoy the drama as a spectator of the cinema even though you are involved in it.
Whenever you face difficulties and if you have not realized the unreality of the world (forms and feelings), there are two ways to solve your problem. One way is in natural level and the other way is in super natural level. The nature is the separated power from the Lord, which follows the rules of the logic and is called as Prakriti. The nature is separated because it becomes the separate object to be observed by God who is the spectator. God created this universe to see it for His entertainment. Even if He enters the world as human incarnation the spectatorship and entertainment continues because there is no difference between cinema and drama as far as its unreality is considered. Therefore if your problem is at the level of the nature, try to solve it using your courage and energy without allowing the worry into your mind which steals both these. If your problem is beyond the level of the nature, then also you cannot solve it by allowing the worry. In such case the super power (Maya) has to enter into this world sent by God. The Maya is never separated from God unlike the Prakriti. Now, only the super power of the God can solve your problem and for this you must concentrate on God. For such concentration also, you need the energy and therefore you should not allow the worry to enter your mind even in this case. For doing concentration on God, you require the congenial atmosphere of real devotees around you. Therefore whenever the problem that requires the super power to interfere enters your life, you have to immediately prevent the entry of the worry into your mind and you have to enter into the association of real devotees so that you can concentrate on God for help. If you remain in the association of the ordinary human beings, they will magnify the impossibility of the solution and force the worry to enter your mind. If you leave the association of these dirty people, who do not want to solve your problem and if you enter into the association of real devotees, you can easily concentrate on God for help. God will give an immediate stay because the problem cannot be cancelled forever due to the cycle of deeds presided by justice. However, the temporary stay has the possibility of permanent solution also. After the stay, there may be a chance for you to become a liberated soul by entering into the service of the God in which case your file may be condemned permanently. If you are ungrateful to the help which involves the super power of God, your file will be opened after some time and the punishment can be given to you in some other form so that your impression about the cancelling of that problem by God is not disturbed. Therefore, at every step of your life, become grateful to God and transform yourself as a liberated soul through service to Him which alone can give the permanent solution.
You may be compensated regarding your loss in course of time. Thus you may recover the loss but the time you spent in worry can never be compensated. Since your lifetime is a fixed quantum, the loss of time cannot be compensated. If you entertain yourself with enjoyment even during the time of loss, the time is not lost. When the loss is compensated you have gained both the time and the lost thing.
The actions of God are always viewed with utility in all aspects. Suppose your wife asked for a sari from Bombay, you will not immediately run to Bombay. Suppose you have a meeting in the next month in Bombay, then you will postpone the purchase of sari to the next month which is not as important as the meeting. Even ordinary human beings club the issues in this way. What about God? He will club several issues. A Gopika wanted the union with Krishna. Krishna postponed it to the next birth. The reason is that the same Gopika is going to be born as Tulasi, the wife of the demon Jalandhara. Then the power of her chastity is going to protect the demon, who is going to fight with Lord Shiva desiring to marry Goddess Parvati. Killing Jalandhara is important and therefore, spoiling Tulasi is inevitable. When the Lord spoiled her, she fought against the injustice. The Lord consoled her by showing the previous birth. If Krishna fulfilled her desire in the previous birth itself, this present aspect of killing Jalandhara becomes very critical. If the Lord spoils Tulasi without this background in the previous birth, the Lord is doing sheer injustice. The Lord will never do injustice. Therefore several issues are clubbed by the Lord so that the administration of the world runs smoothly and critical problem like saving Goddess Parvati from the force of Jalandhara can be solved. Without understanding the complete background, the Lord is misunderstood. Even in Nivrutti, the justice is perfectly maintained if the total picture is realized. Thus whether it is Pravrutti or Nivrutti, the Lord always protects the justice because He is the writer of the constitution and He is the judge who gives the judgment based on the constitution. Brahma represents this judicial department. Vishnu represents the various offices of the administration department. Shiva represents the department of police and army to punish the injustice. The underlying single force is Lord Datta and therefore there can be no contradiction. God always points out at the injustice of the souls. The soul cannot point out at God if the total background is known. Tulasi was a devotee of the Lord Narayana. The Lord also tested the devotee whether the devotee can cross Dharma for the sake of the Lord. Tulasi failed similar to Dharmaraja who refused to tell a lie even on the wish of the Lord. There also the Lord is perfectly justified. Drona was supporting the injustice because he has to be loyal to the king. However, the loyalty is only a lower Dharma. The higher Dharma (supporting justice) should not be sacrificed for the sake of lower Dharma. The doer and the supporter of injustice are equal criminals and must be punished. When it becomes inevitable, injustice can be destroyed through unjust ways. Ends always-justify the means. Therefore you have to get the clarification from the Lord for all your doubts, before criticizing or abusing the Lord with foolish emotion based on the ignorance of the total reality. Therefore you need not show any sympathy on Lord justifying His peculiar actions in the field of Nivrutti. Whether it is Pravrutti or Nivrutti the Lord is the embodiment of the justice.
You must clarify all your doubts with the Satguru so that you can get the complete right knowledge from Him, which leads to complete correct practice. You should not analyze other aspects of Satguru during the phase of knowledge. The aspects other than knowledge are irrelevant in the clarification of your doubts. Arjuna is asking doubts and Krishna is clarifying the doubts with full intensity of knowledge. Suppose suddenly Arjuna says that he will not listen to Krishna because He ran away from Mathura to Dvaraka. It is irrelevant to the knowledge and it has its own background as a part of the divine play of the Lord. The human incarnation is preaching the human beings and that is the main activity but not the sole activity. The entertainment of the Lord through divine play is also associated with it as a secondary issue without disturbing the main issue. Mandana Mishra was defeated by Shankara in the debate pertaining to spiritual knowledge. His wife entered into the debate at this stage and started asking questions in the sex-education (Kama Shastra). When the subject was the spiritual knowledge and the defeat of Mandana Mishra was in the spiritual knowledge, how do you justify this Kama Sastra relevant to the line of Shankara? It is highly irrelevant. Mandana Mishra was defeated by Shankara and became disciple of Shankara. After sometime, the mother of Shankara died and Shankara went there and performed the rituals. All the villagers boycotted Shankara in this issue. Already His mother was boycotted because she gave birth to Shankara as a widow. Shankara returned back and continued His divine mission. A relative of Mandana Mishra went to the native place of Shankara and got the information that He was boycotted by the village. He brought this information to Mandana Mishra and asked Mandana Mishra to leave Shankara on this point. Mandana Mishra replied to the relative “The information brought by you is irrelevant to the spiritual knowledge. I can leave Shankara if I am not convinced in the spiritual knowledge. If some ignorant traditional fools boycott Shankara, can the scholars like us leave Shankara, who is achieved by us due to our infinite fortune?” Actually here, what happened? When Mandana Mishra was a householder, lot of money was coming to him since he was doing Vedic rituals. This relative was often visiting the house of Mandana Mishra and was getting benefits. Now this is stopped. For this Shankara was responsible. All the relatives of Mandana Mishra also approached a great saint in Varanasi to defeat Shankara because they were also in such loss. The saint was defeated by Shankara. Then the saint sent one of his disciples who is a relative of Mandana Mishra to the native place of Shankara and got the information, which was passed on to Mandana Mishra. In fact Shankara argued with Mandana Mishra to establish the truth only. He never asked Mandana Mishra to follow Him as a saint. Mandana Mishra himself followed Shankara spontaneously. But people misunderstood that Shankara attracted Mandana Mishra. They have opposed and made several trials to get back Mandana Mishra based on the financial aspects. When Mandana Mishra became the disciple of Shankara, all his love and service were concentrated towards Shankara only. Naturally all the relatives and especially the parents who lost such love and service became jealous of Shankara. But Shankara has no such plans to attract anybody because the Lord does not need anyone in His mission. He can get the work done just by His will. He accepts the people to serve the mission only to uplift them. Thus the service is the fruit given by the Lord and therefore the real devotee does not aspire for any other fruit from this fruit. Jesus was boycotted and was even crucified by the priests based on the same reasons of economy and fame. They feared that Jesus will become famous and the donations may go only to Jesus. They could not find fault with His divine knowledge (Bible). They have found irrelevant silly reasons to boycott Him. Jesus told that He will destroy the church and raise it in three days. He meant His body when He said church because when He uttered this statement, He was pointing to His body. The priests just repeated the statement without referring to the finger-indication. Based on this irrelevant point, He was boycotted and crucified. Certain people in some regions had boycotted Him in certain times but now in all the regions, all the people including the priests respect Him so much! Therefore the human form of the Lord faces such problems during His stay in this world. When Gopikas loved Krishna and became mad about Him, all their family members were very furious on the Gopikas and were very much angry at Krishna in their hearts. It is natural. Therefore Krishna left Brundavanam and never returned back. The Yadavas disliked Krishna in their hearts. They were acting as devotees externally because He is not only King but He is also assumed as God with superpowers, which were witnessed by themselves. The Lord knows the heart of every soul. The Lord saw all the Yadavas got destroyed by killing each other based on the curse from a sage. He was a spectator of that tragedy and did not prevent it in anyway. In fact, a very few people remained and Krishna killed them. Though the Yadavas lived very near to the Lord and were close relatives, the Lord did not protect them because He knows their internal hidden feelings. Gopikas also died jumping into the fire after the death of Krishna. But Yadavas went to hell and Gopikas went to Goloka, which is the highest divine world.
The knowledge should be in the view of the permanent welfare of the soul and not in the temporary sweet-coated poison. The Lord in human form differs in this point. The Lord has guts to say the truth even if it is not liked by anybody (Satyam Jnanam—Veda). But the human preachers aspire for money and fame and therefore they twist the knowledge to suit to the liking of the soul and get their personal benefits. The Lord does not need such benefits. Even the messenger from the Lord will do his duty perfectly. He will deliver the knowledge given by God as it is. Suppose you are paid the total salary of your entire life in the beginning itself and the shop owner asks you to sell an item. Suppose nobody is coming or only very few are coming. The employee should not bother about the business. If the employee is receiving monthly salary, he may fear that if the business is not taking place, his salary may be affected. God gave the true knowledge to Jesus and asked Him to propagate and He assured the reward for it to give place to Jesus for sitting on His right side. Now, Jesus has guts to deliver the knowledge as it is because the salary was already assured. He need not worry about the business. Therefore Jesus told that unless one leaves the parents, wife and children and even the life, the soul cannot become His dearest disciple. He told that He came with the sword to destroy peace in the family. He told that He will split the family. He told that by His knowledge, the youngsters will rebel against the elders. Even on the cross, He did not change the version of the Bible. An ordinary human being cannot tell such pungent truth. Lord Krishna asked Arjuna to kill his grandfather and all his relatives and for this purpose only the entire Gita was preached. The Lord shows the ultimate truth to be fixed as the goal so that one can achieve at least pass marks. If the pass marks are the goal, the student fails. When the knowledge of Jesus and Krishna are kept as goal, at least the blind attraction on the family and relatives decreases to some extent. Since the Lord does not require any benefit from you, He will not mind to reveal the ultimate truth.