Posted on: 07 Oct 2017
Shri Durga Prasad asked: Padanamaskaram Swamiji:
1) About the religious fighting at His time, what did the incarnation Prophet Mohammed said and how to interpret it regarding present Jihad?
Swami Replied: I have already explained this point. The human incarnation was totally negated because before Prophet Mohammed, Jesus claimed Himself as human incarnation and was bitterly crucified in spite of His best preached knowledge and exhibition of genuine miracles. He did not oppose the crucifixion by doing a miracle since such crucifixion was will of God to generate kindness to melt the stony hearts. Jesus attached the cut ear of a soldier and proved that He can avoid the crucifixion through His miraculous power. Without understanding this, people crucified Him mocking the miracles as magic and mocking Jesus to protect Himself if He has real miraculous power. People were not having patient analysis to find out the truth completely. After Jesus, Mohammed came as the next Prophet or human incarnation of God. For such emotional people blinded with ego and jealousy, human incarnation was not a correct concept. Hence, He removed this concept totally from the spiritual knowledge with reference to such devotees only (and not with reference to all devotees). Knowledge always needs four requisites (anubandha chatushtaya). 1) Adhikari or eligible receiver – The receiver should be eligible to grasp and digest the concept preached by you. 2) Vishaya – The actual spiritual concept preached by you now. 3) Sambandha –The relationship between the receiver and the concept, which must be easy digestion of the concept by the receiver and 4) Prayojana –The immediate benefit that can be attained by the receiver easily without showing the ultimate benefit in long range by which the receiver may fear and run away! Jesus had two parts of His program:- 1) Miracles establishing the existence of unimaginable God in Him and 2) The preaching of spiritual knowledge to develop devotion to God. The miracles are very dangerous since not only the human being component of the human incarnation gets spoiled by ego but also the surrounding human devotees increase their selfishness to solve their problems through miraculous powers. Moreover, the miracles performed by Jesus were not received in the context of establishment of unimaginable God through unimaginable events called as miracles, but, were received in wrong direction to hurt the ego aided by jealousy of the devotees unable to perform miracles. Hence, Mohammed also negated the miracles performed by human incarnation as magic to avoid jealousy of devotees. Some false God men also perform magic and claim it as miracle! Even demons perform miracles in wrong direction of ego. In view of such bad side reactions, the miracles were confined to unimaginable God only and not to human incarnation. In fact, even in the case of human incarnation, unimaginable God present in It only performs the miracles and this can be properly understood by true devotees lacking ego and jealousy towards co-human forms. The second aspect of human incarnation is preaching spiritual knowledge to devotees. This second part was completely accepted by Him, but, such a human incarnation preaching spiritual knowledge is claimed as the Messenger or servant of God coming to the world with the message of God. Hence, He confined Himself to the word Prophet or Messenger of God.
Regarding Jihad or the fight against injustice, it was also confined to the context of external atmosphere present in His time. There were several religions having their own individual gods resulting in the multiplicity of single God. He established the concept of single God called as Allah without any medium (the unimaginable God). Of course, He agreed to the mediation of unimaginable God by formless light, in which human form leading to the danger of crucifixion is totally negated. In His time, the multiplicity of all these ignorant religions resulted in mutual fights ending with mutual killings. He wanted to stop these fights with the help of a fight called as Jihad or fight against the injustice of killing each other. The clue in this is that a thorn can be removed only by another thorn. Real followers of Mohammed understand this and use Jihad for stopping killing each other, which is not to be used to kill each other! Prophet Mohammed said that one should reveal the message of Allah to every human being and leave it safely in its house after protecting it from every external damage. His real concept is not understood by some followers because original preacher is always a shining diamond and the followers are always black charcoals twisting the meaning always with misinterpretation. All of us should appreciate Prophet Mohammed for sacrificing the honor of human incarnation even though He is human incarnation! This sacrifice is for the sake of the emotional humanity present in that time so that it will not commit the greatest sin of killing human incarnation to fall forever in hell. His theory shows His kindness towards humanity preventing it from such greatest sin!
Kishore Ram asked: Padanamaskaram Swami
2) Why the human incarnation always speaks about God and not himself to be God?
3) In the Human Incarnation, don’t you think that human being component is greater than God component since the human being takes the suffering on itself?
Swami Replied:- 2) The true human incarnation never speaks Himself to be God since such declaration results in hurting ego aided by jealousy. This is a general statement to mean that the human incarnation will not say so to everybody. Krishna told so only to Arjuna and did not tell so to everybody. When Jesus claimed that He and His Father are one and the same, devotees crucified Him mercilessly. The human incarnation is always having the context of general psychology of humanity. Hence, while projecting about God through spiritual knowledge, He will be very careful. Even Jesus declared perfect monism between Himself and God to the deserving devotees only, who are lacking ego and jealousy. He told that He is son of God to the next grade of devotees having reduced ego and jealousy. He declared Himself as a messenger of God (like Mohammed) to the lowest grade of devotees blinded fully with ego and jealousy. The communication of the statement given to the first-grade devotees was carried on to the lower and lowest grades of devotees also. The lower and lowest-graded devotees crucified Jesus. The human incarnation always maintains dualism so that the devotee is not affected by ego and jealousy. Even though the devotee is not having dualism towards human incarnation in the present time, it may get it in future. The human incarnation presents dualism even to such devotees and this is like a pre-vaccination acting as an anti-dote for the future attack of virus (ego and jealousy). The devotee is really benefitted, if he stands in monism only thinking that human incarnation is totally God always. But, this state is very difficult to come to a devotee since the human body is naturally attacked by virus and the human soul is naturally attacked by ego and jealousy. Even though the human being-component is never defective due to the presence of presiding God existing in It (prakrutimsvaamadhisthaaya– Gita), the human incarnation mentions the failure of human being component in human incarnation taking the example of Parashurama. Such mention is also to pacify the jealousy. In fact, the human being-component in Parashurama acted so by the will of God only so that the jealousy in the devotee can be neutralized to some extent on hearing that the human incarnation also has the danger of ego. All these are techniques of psychology which are essential for a teacher and preacher in handling the students and disciples respectively.
3) God is always greater than the human being component like the owner of horse maintaining the horse by giving food is always greater than the horse. Of course, the horse is the basis while owner travels on it. Similarly, the human being component or the creation or the energy (Shakti) is considered to be greater than God since God is expressing Himself based on it (medium) only. Such greatness of human being-component is given by God only since such context is depending on the will of God only, which is to express Himself to the humanity. If God does not entertain such will, the importance of human being in this one context also disappears! While undergoing the suffering in crucifixion, God present in Jesus (human being-component) underwent the total suffering. This is the reason why the human being-component could say with full mental balance and peace that the criminals must be excused since they are ignorant. If the human being component is really undergoing the suffering, any human being will say that the criminals must be severely punished by God! Hence, there is no loss to the devotee-component at any time in the service of God. While preaching excellent spiritual knowledge, and performing miracles, actually the unimaginable God does these works, but, gives the full credit to the devotee-component only. Hence, the devotee is always in benefit and is never put to any loss in the divine service.
Kishore Ram asked: Padmanamaskaram Swamiji
4) While explaining God having associated characteristics, energy is denied to be God – Please explain this with more clarity (Refer Phani’s recent question on October 01, 2017).
Swami Replied: Characteristics mean properties that do not separate from the possessor of such properties. These are of two types:- 1) Associated characteristics like the yellow thread of a married lady without which the married lady is never seen. But, still, it is only associated and not inseparable-natural characteristic like the color of the lady. 2) Natural characteristic, which is inseparable like the color of the lady. The first Brahma Sutra says that enquiry of God will be done. We expect that in the next Sutra, the natural characteristics will be given so that the possessor can be identified. When we say that lady is with red color, it will help us to identify the lady. But, instead of giving natural characteristic of God, the second Sutra says about the associated-inseparable characteristic (which is actually separable) and not the natural-inseparable characteristic. The associated-inseparable characteristic of God mentioned is that God is He, Who creates, rules and destroys the world. It is like telling about Rama as the builder of a house. This will not help to identify Rama or God. The natural-inseparable characteristic of God can’t be given because God is unimaginable even to intelligence. The Veda says that the only information about God is that He exists (Astityeva…) and that He is known as unknowable (Avijnaatam vijaanataam). The Gita also says that nobody knows God (Maam tu veda na kashchana).
Based on this, we can’t say that cosmic energy that creates, controls and destroys this world is God, because these three properties are only associated-inseparable characteristic (Tatastha Lakshanam) like the yellow thread of the married lady, which is not useful to identify the nature of lady or God. Hence, energy can’t be called as God in the absence of knowledge of natural-inseparable characteristics (Swarupa Lakshanam) of God like the red color of a lady useful for identification.