Posted on: 02 Feb 2005
Rohit:
Swami! I thank you very much for bringing me into the true path
From the mis-guidance of others, I am very grateful to you.
I need no miracle since True believers do not require any proof.
Swami:
Oh! Rohit! Do you think that You have deviated from the truth?
How can you deviate from the Lord, who is such a practical philosopher?
It is by the will of the Lord, that guy misguided you from the truth,
Realize that the Lord Himself spoke through that guy to you
Therefore, even that guy is under the control of the Lord only.
He need not be misunderstood at all, he acted as the Lord guided him.
Therefore, you are not responsible for whatever happened
Do you think that Arjuna by himself left the bow before the war started?
He knows surely that he has to fight with his grandfather and teacher
He went to Dwaraka and requested Lord Krishna to be his driver
In front of all the soldiers, Krishna stands fixed as a driver of chariot,
Will he withdraw like that and insult himself and also Lord Krishna?
No, he did like that on the will of Lord Krishna only
It is by the will of the Lord only Arjuna was overwhelmed
By love, kindness and emotion on seeing Bhishma and Drona
Who is Arjuna? Arjuna was His closest associate in all previous births
Both of them always lived together called as Nara and Narayana
Both are best friends, all that was the drama created by Narayana
He wanted to give the Bhagavad Gita to the world to uplift devotees
For this purpose He created this incident and Arjuna was a role in it
Similarly the Lord wanted to speak Rohit Gita to this world
Rohit Gita will stay in this world as long as this creation exists,
Rohit, Nikhil and Devi will be remembered forever on this earth
As long as the hills stand and rivers flow on this earth
The fame of these three shall remain, they shall be worshipped
Even by angels, believe Me, the word of Swami is the Veda.
Oh! Rohit! Do you remember one incident in Brindavanam?
In your circle of friends there was one guy called “Neela”
He told you, one day that Lord Krishna was a wrong Guy
In fact his mother told him so, he believed it sincerely,
Then he came to you and passed on that news into your brain
You are confused, deeply pained and stood still with doubt
You told your friend, Sudama who asked you for your dullness,
Then Sudama came and told Lord Krishna about your doubt.
Do you remember? Lord Krishna called you and told you
Some divine words, which are sweeter than the divine nectar
Lord Krishna told you “Oh! Rohit! Why don’t you ask Me straight?
I have come to this earth to clear the doubts of My dear souls only
Oh! Rohit! How much you love Me in your heart don’t I know it?
When our friends see Me, they come running and crying
‘Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! You are here! You are here!’
But as soon as you see Me, you run away to your home,
And bring butter for Me, though your mother scolds you,
You jump to the final step in the first long high jump itself
Sacrifice of fruit of work is the final step as said in the Vedas
You are My best friend and I shall reveal Myself to you”
Then He talked with you for a long time and cleared yourself.
You have come to the Lord like the first arrow of Arjuna
It was like the straight arrow of Rama, which pierced the heart deeply
It is like marriage at first sight unlike the love at first sight.
If you leave that married girl, your wife, will she keep silent?
She will run after you and try to convince you to bring back to her!
Generally people approach Sadguru with devotion
To solve their problems and get bliss and peace
They approach the Lord and offer the business terms to Him
“You solve this problem and then I shall offer this service”
When this is the normal procedure, you never asked for anything
You offered the service in the very first step itself as proven love
First devotees offer prayers by words, meditation by mind
And spiritual discussions by offering the intelligence
Slowly they offer the work and finally they offer the fruit of the work.
Sacrifice of wealth, which is the fruit of work is the final step
Yes! There is no trace of hesitation to announce this as the Veda says so
The Veda says “Dhanena Tyagenaike Amritatva Manasuh”, which means
That by sacrifice of wealth only one can reach the Lord.
It looks very odd to hear this, but what can I do in this point?
The Veda says so, and the Veda is final scripture in the spiritual knowledge
The Veda was the only scripture in the world, which was protected
From generation to generation through recitation process
No word could enter the Veda at any time since the beginning of this creation
All other scriptures have some injections of insertions in course of time
This point is perfectly true, if you analyze the very experience itself
In this world whom are you really loving in your heart?
You are loving your children only because you give
All your wealth to them only and to none-else
Therefore, it is proven real love and you place the Lord
In that position and think of your real love to the Lord
You have expressed this proven love at the very first step
Knowledge leads to devotion and devotion leads to service
Service consists of sacrifice of fruit of work and work
You have started with service itself in the beginning
What does this mean? You had passed the two steps
Knowledge and devotion, already in the previous births
Therefore, you have climbed the third step straightly now
The hunter Kannappa started with sacrifice only
Because as Arjuna in his previous birth he passed the two steps
He heard enough Bhagavad Gita, the divine knowledge
He worshipped Krishna with intensive pure devotion always
Therefore, now in this birth there is no need of first two steps for him
You have done service to your children, which alone is real
You have sacrificed work to them by clothing etc.,
You have sacrificed the fruit of work to them only
By giving all your wealth earned in their name only
Work and fruit of work are one and the same.
Work is power, which is the energy, and the fruit is matter
Matter and energy are inter convertible forms
Work or fruit depends on the state of devotees
And also on the need of the Lord in human form.
Saints sacrifice work and householders both fruit and work
Hanuman was a saint and Gopikas were householders
Lord met Hanuman in the latter part of His life
Because He needed work from Hanuman
Hanuman was suitable for the work to fight with demons
Gopikas were not suitable for the wars with demons
They have plenty of cows and lot of butter
The Lord met them in the early part of the life
When there was no need of any war,
He alone killed the demons who attacked Him.
In the latter part of life, He met Arjuna
Who was suitable for the war like Hanuman?
Nikhil: Oh! Swami! All this is your play (Leela) only
Who can understand the plan and aim in your divine game?
Swami: Bade Bhayyah! Nikhilji! Apto Sub Kuch Jante hai
(Oh! Elder brother! Nikhil! You know the whole divine secret)
How can the Lord give you His experience without the divine game?
Lord created this play only to give you the experience of Para Brahman
The very aim of the creation is only entertainment by the divine game
The Veda says this “Ekaki Naramate”, which means that He was one only
Before this creation and He was very much bored with the loneliness
This earth is the field of deeds (Karma Bhumi), a real play ground
The Lord comes to this playground to have the full game here
He will play with all His closest devotees only and not with everybody
When you go to play a game, whom are you inviting?
You will invite your close friends only to participate in the game.
You will not invite unknown people or enemies for your game
Similarly, you are His closest friend with whom only He can play
So that He can give the experience of His internal divine nature.
He told you long back that He wants to give the Gita in the name of devotees
Previously the Gita told by Him was named after Him as the Bhagavad Gita
That gives the fame to Bhagavan or the Lord
But the Lord wants the fame of His devotees on this earth
And not His fame, since He is bored with the fame in the upper world
Due to this divine will only, He created all this divine drama
His aim is to give this eternal Rohit Gita to the devotees here
The game of the Lord is of high level since the Lord is highest
It is not like the cricket game of school-boys playing
It is like the cricket game of Kapil and Gavaskar .
In this game the Lord plays only as a role but not as the actor
He has entered the drama in a role of ordinary human being
He can not reveal Himself as the actor, He has to play as the role
Suppose the producer himself acts in the role of servant
He has to sit at the feet of his master-role only in the drama
The actor in the master-role was only his employee, no doubt,
The master must play as the master only through out the drama
The servant should not come out as producer at any time in the drama
If Lord Krishna shows His Viswaroopam in the beginning of the war
And swallows all the army along with the evil Kauravas in a minute
The whole cinema is over in a minute and is not for three hours
The audience who purchased tickets to see a three hour-show
Will through stones on the curtain and walk out with slogans
Krishna acted as the driver of the chariot only and not as the Lord
Therefore, the war went for 18 days as a three-hour show.
I never claim that I am the Lord, nor I ever claimed
That the Lord stays in Me, nor even I ever claimed
That I am the messenger sent by the Lord from heaven.
I always say that I am the last person in the devotees’ list.
When the devotees come to Me and praise Me as the Lord
I negate their praise at least one thousand times
But still they continue their faith and say that they are very firm,
Then I start testing their faith, some run away
But some of them stuck to Me inspite of serious tests
To them only I speak as the Lord
I test their faith in two stages, in the first stage,
I test how much they believe Me as the human incarnation
In the second stage, even if they have believed Me as the Lord
How much value they give to the God Himself in this world
Some people pass the first stage and fail in the second stage
Some people fail in the first stage itself and no need of second stage
Even if they give highest value to God, what is the use?
They do not like the form in which God is ready to receive their value
The form for which they give highest value is not ready to receive it
Since the form is not receiving, therefore they like that form!
The Veda says that the unimaginable God (Avyaktam) is greater
Than this imaginable world (Mahat), this means
That God is not in the entire world, in which case,
This entire world must have become God and so greatest.
The unimaginable God enters a particular item of this world,
Which is the human body (Vyaktam) and becomes imaginable God
The imaginable God is greater than the unimaginable God, why?
The unimaginable God is of no use to the human beings
The imaginable God is of immense use to the human beings
By preaching and clearing all the doubts of the devotees
And by receiving their practical service as the proof of their love.
This is explained by the Veda as “Mahatah Paramavyaktam
Vyakto Avyaktat…”, the fish can never find the Bombay city
In the ocean, because the city lies only out of the water
God is beyond this creation and He can never be found in the world
The Veda says “Neti Neti” which means that nothing here is God
Esavasyam says that He enters a mini world present in this gross world
The mini world is representative of the gross world
The five elements and the four Antahkaranas, which are
Mind, brain, ego and memory, totally nine items of Nature
Which are called, as ‘Navavaranas’ are present only in human being.
Oh! Nikhil! Enjoy this divine play that takes place
In every human generation with the Lord at the centre
Along with His closest devotees for the sake of world
The actors are the same, only the dress changes
In cinema of Maha Bhartha, our dress was different
And in the present social movie our dress is different
But all of us were present, are present and will be present
As actors, the names of roles and dress only changed
Lord Krishna told this point in the very beginning of the Gita as
“ Natvevaham Jatu Nasam Natvam Neme Janadhipah”