Posted on: 26 Jan 2018
Prathama Anuvaakah (First part)
1) The cow surrendered to God Datta is the deity of justice, who is none other than the deity of death or Yamadharma Raaja. The cow is clean and white like the justice without any sin. Yama means control of senses and this is the important justice that prevents any sin. Sinless nature is also called as Anaghaa. The deity of justice is nothing but the nature of God Datta, which acts as judge. The deity Yama sits as judge and analyzes the deeds of souls to differentiate into sins and good deeds. This is the nature of God Brahma. The good awards for good deeds are given by the nature of God Vishnu. The punishments of sins are given by the nature of God Rudra. Rudra means the God, who makes the souls to weep through punishments (Rodayati iti). By these three natures, God Datta is reflected as the ultimate judge. All the deities are only just the various natures of God Datta only. God Brahma is creating nature. God Vishnu is the ruling nature. God Rudra is the nature of final destruction. Since these three natures involve the entire creation, these three are very important Gods, which are the main natures of God Datta.
2) All this world is just an imagination of God Datta only. The imagination must have balance. Otherwise, it will lead to madness. This balance is the basis of perfect imagination done in controlled way. The deity Yama was also punished by God for missing this balance in implementation of justice. Savitri praised deity Yama and blown by the praise, Yama gave life to her husband (Satyavaan). Markandeya was a devotee of Shiva praising always God Shiva (Datta). Yama was very rigid in doing his duty in killing Markandeya. Had Markandeya praised Yama like Savitri, he would have not killed him! Hence, God Shiva appeared and punished even Yama. Both Shiva and Yama are feelings of God Datta only. The feeling as Shiva suppressed other defective feeling as Yama. The entire creation is only play of feelings of God Datta as His imaginary world created for entertainment. The balance should not be lost in the entertainment. Hence, dharma or justice is never hurt by any force in this creation since God Datta is always balanced. Therefore, justice has the support of God Datta (Dharmasya Prabhu rachutah). Realizing his own ignorance, Yama became cow and surrendered to God Datta. Ignorance is the nature of animal. This means that the deity of justice does not want to take any independent decision and wants to be in the presence of God only so that he can be controlled like an animal. Cow is a female animal, which shows the absence of egoistic male nature. This cow is protected by the four Vedas (which are the four volumes of ethical scripture constituted by God) in the form of dogs. This means that God corrected even the deity of justice and gave protection after rectification.
3) From that time onwards, God became the protector of justice, which is in the form of cow and is called as Gopaala (protector of cow). A mutual agreement between God and deity of justice was also formulated, according to which, God will suffer for the sake of His true devotees. Of course, very little part of the punishment must be undergone by the devotee as inevitable formality. During the time of undergoing the punishment, God will not use His divine power to escape the suffering of the punishment and hence, will undergo the punishment in full reality. If this total truth is known to any true devotee, he/she will not agree to God to undergo his/her punishment. Hence, there is no cancellation of punishment at all. A scholarly devotee never asks God to cancel his punishments. A true devotee will never agree to God to undergo his punishment. Hence, if the devotee is true, God undergoes the punishment secretly without the knowledge of true devotee. A rigid ignorant devotee forces God through worship to cancel his punishment. In the case of inevitability, God postpones the punishment to next birth with increased interest and drags forward the fruit of good deed with reduced interest due to prematurity so that the ignorant devotee thinks that really the punishment is cancelled through his worship!
Dvitiya Anuvaakah (Second Part)
1) People say that as soon as you worship Datta, difficulties will come. You think that those difficulties were creations of God Datta. This is totally misunderstood concept. Datta conducts the entrance test and such entrance test is in the form of difficulties. But, remember, these difficulties are the punishments of your past sins only picked up by God Datta to be used as tests. If you pass the test, you are becoming the true devotee of Datta. Even if you fail in the test, it is also for your advantage only, which is that you have undergone the punishments of your sins and your future life is full of happiness! Hence, you are benefited in both ways whether you passed or failed in the test. Other devotees claim that their punishments were cancelled by God in other forms through their worships. But, actually, they are postponed to the future birth with increased interest by the same God Datta existing in those forms. Hence, without deep analysis of the concept, people misunderstand and leave God Datta!
2) This universe is a drama enacted for the entertainment of the spectator called as God. The boundary of this drama is justice and the drama shall never cross its boundary. Hence, no soul should cross the limits, which are the rules of justice. Even the devotion shall be under the rules of justice only for any soul. Taking the devotion as an advantage, demons violate the rules of justice and get seriously punished by God, who does not care for their such selfish devotion. Devotion shall be confined between God and devotee only and shall not hurt other souls in any way. There shall be never a clash between pravrutti (worldly life) and Nivrutti (divine life). Even in the climax of Nivrutti, you can cross the limits of pravrutti in a tactful way without hurting other souls. Shankara created a crocodile to catch His foot and requested His mother to accept His divine life at least in the last minutes since it was His last desire! The mother agreed and the crocodile disappeared! Shankara explained that the worldly bonds themselves got personified as crocodile! This means that you have to convince other souls for the work of God and not force and hurt other souls. Demons started hurting other souls not for God’s work, but, for their self-enjoyment and hence, are totally different from true devotees like Shankara.
3) Hurting or even killing (if necessary) bad people is justice only. You should not hurt or kill any good living being. Even though Shankara cheated His mother, He came in the end of her life and granted her the salvation, which is not obtained even by a mother having her obedient son always with her! He performed her end rituals also crossing the rules of scripture. The loss is very little and apparent whereas the compensation is tremendous and eternal. You should not hurt good people, but, shall hurt or even kill the bad people provided your judgement is impartial. You should help the good people, but, shall not help bad people provided your judgement is impartial. Hence, deep and impartial analysis is a prerequisite before deciding justice or injustice.
Trutiya Anuvaakah (Third Part)
1) You shall not involve the absolute plane in doing injustice in this world. This means that you shall not say that this world is unreal and hence, your sin is also unreal! For your unreal sin, unreal punishment will be given by God (just like the unreal run of Shankara from the unreal elephant running towards Him!). Since sin and punishment are parts of the unreal world, you have to take both as unreal and should not grudge for the unreal punishment! Basic ignorance to take the world as reality is done by God also for His entertainment. Such basic ignorance is not a sin since it is not the cause of any unjust action. The Veda says that you will cross the death by ignorance (avidyayaa mrutyum tirtvaa…). If you enter the absolute plane for which you are not eligible (since it is eligible for God only), you will live like a dead body without any activity (entry itself is impossible). If you want to be alive, you must be active thinking that this world is real. For you, the world becomes real and hence, the mediated God (Eshwara or Datta) becomes real, whom you shall worship and attain His grace and this is the knowledge based on dualism or plane of relativity (vidyayaa amrutamashnute). This path will lead you to real monism with God (human incarnation) and also will lead you to super dualism (becoming master of God), which is greater than the former!
2) When God incarnated as human incarnation on this earth, He will have two types of nature:- i) External human nature and ii) Internal nature of unimaginable God. Face of cow is the external nature and the root of tail (anus) is the internal nature. The Veda says that God is the root of tail (Brahma puccham pratishthaa) or the basic seat. Hence, the face of cow is not bowed whereas the anus of cow is bowed by the people. The anus or basic seat is the substratum or possessor of the power (purusha) whereas the entire rest body is the power (prakruti). The unimaginable God (or unimaginable power) or Parabrahma is the substratum whereas the entire creation is His imaginable power (this indicates that God is the substratum of justice).
3) The climax of justice is nonviolence, which is not hurting (not to speak of killing) other soft-natured good living beings including human beings. These living beings include animals, birds, etc. These living beings are not reacting even though you are killing them just for variety of your food. After their natural death, one can eat them. Kaapaalikas (a sect of Hindu religion) eat dead bodies and are respected devotees. Plants have life but do not have awareness to undergo any pain. Anesthesia is not the solution because you have no right to snatch their lives given by God. Demons eat human beings as food and do you agree your killing after getting anesthesia to become food for demons? You may not do the direct killing, but, you are a shareholder of the sin since these are killed for your eating only.
Chaturtha Anuvaakah (Fourth Part)
1) You are killing the fish etc., (aqueous life) and hence, the ocean is giving cyclones. You are killing the animals and birds on the earth and hence, the earthquakes are resulting. These indicate the anger of God on you. Similarly, you shall avoid the illegal sex and illegal earning (corruption) due to greediness. These three are the main gates of hell here in the life as well as there in the upper world. If you want happiness here and there, you shall avoid these three basic sins, which make God very furious. Since justice is in the form of cow, cow slaughter means slaughter of justice. Actual cow slaughter is only a part of injustice because slaughter of any good living being is injustice. Good animals are helping you by giving milk, by helping you in ploughing, etc. Birds are eating worms that harm you. Brahmin (Braahmana) is such person, who follows the rules of justice throughout his life and becomes near and dear to God. Birth will not decide the caste. Qualities and actions alone decide the caste.
2) The three threads put in the ritual called upanayanam (thread marriage) indicate the three Gods (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) united representing as one God Datta. Catching these three threads by hand in the prayer means that you have to catch the human incarnation of God Datta (with single head) for worship, who is the Satguru. If the concept is understood and implemented, there is no need of symbolic representation. A saint following the concept leaves this symbolic representation and is respected as the highest soul. Symbolic representation is needed only to understand the concept. Once the concept is understood, the symbolic representation is useless. Similarly, Gayatri means singing the praise of God and not a hymn written in the meter called Gayatri. If the meaning of Gayatri is understood, the hymn is also useless. The meaning of the hymn is also to catch the Satguru (human incarnation), which is not a prayer to God. It is just information of an important point in the spiritual knowledge. What is the use of chanting the concept again and again without implementing it? Hence, any soul implementing these concepts is a Brahmin, who is neither related to any caste or gender. Kshatriya means the duty of protection of justice from the attack of injustice. Vaishya means the duty of helping poor and deserving receivers with basic needs of life. Shudra means the duty of serving the needy in the society. Every human being doing all these four duties will become near and dear to God and is called as a real human being (purusha). Respect and insult shall be given to any soul based on its qualities and deeds and not by birth in a caste or gender.
3) Your inner consciousness will speak to you immediately whether you are doing justice or injustice by the will and power of God. People with sattvam, who have conquered ego and jealousy, clearly hear the inner voice and implement it. People, who are with rajas, neglect it even if they hear. People with tamas do not hear it at all. Every human being is a mixture of these three qualities. Certain people have only one quality predominating always and hence, they can be predicted in every action. In certain people, any of these three qualities may predominate in any context and hence, they are highly unpredictable! Hence, whenever Datta is appearing as human incarnation, He is trying to cover all the varieties of humanity. You may not do justice by which God may not be pleased with you. But, never do injustice by which God becomes very furious with you. The final decision of justice and injustice is not your conclusion, but, is the ultimate conclusion of ultimate God alone. If you are giving utmost attention to the pravrutti, which is the basic stage of this creation-drama, God will certainly carry you on His shoulders in the rest path of Nivrutti. Failure in pravrutti is a crack in the foundation by which the supported upper building (Nivrutti) also gets damaged. God is for pravrutti only and a special devotee is for nivrutti in which the basic part (pravrutti) is already covered with success. God says in the Gita that the sole purpose of His incarnation is to establish justice and destroy injustice (pravrutti) only.
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-1: Anaghopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-2: Kaalabhairvopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-3: Vishnudattopanishat
Datta Upanishats: Chapter-4: Dharmopanishat