Posted on: 14 Jul 2021
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
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27) The recognition of contemporary human incarnation can be done only if the human devotee conquers ego and jealousy. For example, God Datta has unimaginable beauty. God Datta and God Brahmā are one and the same because God Brahmā is the divine preacher of spiritual knowledge (Sadguru) being the author of four Vedas and preaches in excellent way since His wife Goddess Sarasvatī stays on His tongue. God Datta is also divine preacher of knowledge and preaches in excellent way. There is no trace of difference between God Datta and God Brahmā. Of course, the same God Datta or God Brahmā acts as Viṣṇu and Śiva further while ruling and smashing the creation respectively. Every human devotee tries to project himself as very smart and this is the ego. The devotee tries to reduce the smartness of other human being and this is the jealousy. In ancient days, due to this ego and jealousy, the devotees tried to reduce the smartness of God Datta or God Brahmā by presenting God Brahmā with long white beard and called Him as Grandfather! For the first time Datta Swami projected God Brahmā as God Datta and described God Brahmā as the most beautiful personality in His composed prayer on God Brahmā (Trijagat mohana sundarāṅgam), which means that all the three worlds are shocked with the unimaginable beauty of God Brahmā.
The human devotee after conquering ego (self-projection) and jealousy (tendency to reduce the projection of others) can only become traveller (jñātā or draṣṭā) in the spiritual path, which is the first component of the triad (tripuṭī). The devotee shall reduce self-projection and shall try to glorify the God. When ego and jealousy are conquered, this divine behaviour develops. The second component of the triad is the path in which the traveller takes up the journey to reach the goal. In the path; knowledge, devotion and practical devotion involving service and sacrifice are the main concepts. The goal shall be God in contemporary human form, which is relevant to humanity and not the energetic form that is relevant to upper worlds containing energetic beings only. Devotees try unnecessarily wasting their time to do penance to see the energetic form of God and no time is left for their spiritual effort (sādhanā) in this short human life! The devotees fall to further lower level to worship inert photos and statues of the unavailable energetic incarnations and past human incarnations. Since God is in human form before our eyes, the repulsion between common human media develops ego and jealousy in us. Out of six vices arranged in ascending order of strength (Kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada and mātsarya) from left to right, ego and jealousy occupy the last two places. If you don’t conquer ego and jealousy you will lose the human incarnation on the earth and also the energetic incarnation in the upper world after this human life. After death, the soul goes to the upper world in energetic body and shows repulsion between common energetic media with energetic incarnation that alone exists in the upper world. As a result, the devoted soul loses God in his/her life and after life also. This is the permanent loss, which is everywhere and every time as said in the Veda (Mahatī vinaṣṭiḥ…). This last (27th) point is the essence of entire spiritual knowledge relevant to any human devotee.