Posted on: 22 Jan 2017
When I incarnate, My creation (prakṛti) is associated with Me through which only I can become close to human beings, which are parts of creation. At the same time, this prakruti also misleads the human beings from Me by her talent. When I came as Rāma, this associated prakṛti didn’t show any miracle, so that the human beings are easily misled. The most unfortunate aspect is that every human being decides God through miracles only. It is proper also that unimaginable miracles indicate the unimaginable God. But, you should not decide God just by miracles, which are exhibited by devils and demons also. God gives miraculous powers to demons due to their rigidity in devotion and feels satisfied whenever a miracle was exhibited since it has positive side of establishing the existence of unimaginable God.
Miraculous power is also inherent of God only (Satya kāmaḥ…—Veda). But, miracle is not the real inherent characteristic of Me as the spiritual knowledge. I perform miracles through evil souls also since I am exploited by their rigidity through devotion and give them the credit of possessor of miraculous power. Any jewel on the body can’t be real inherent characteristic, which can be donated to anybody. The color or features of body are inherent characteristics, which can’t be donated to anybody. Of course, unimaginable nature (with respect to souls) is also inherent quality of Myself, but, when I exhibit the miracle through demon, I am hidden so that people think that the demon performed the miracle. This appears as donation but, truly the unimaginable power always exists with Me only and actually I did the miracle through him. Whenever, spiritual knowledge is to be preached, I Myself come down (Jñānītvātmaiva…—Gītā). I can also speak through My devotee hiding Myself, but, there is danger of misinterpretation from My devotee later on. When I came as Kṛṣṇa, I performed several miracles and people were expected to run to Me. But, the same prakṛti exhibited wrong qualities like stealing and dancing (of course, not wrong, if deeply analyzed,), which repelled the people coming to Me. Hence, I become very close and yet, I am not easily recognized. The human body of human incarnation also misleads devotees by birth, death etc., unlike the energetic bodies standing up to the end of creation. The energetic incarnation called as Datta exists forever, though it was created in the beginning. As far as your uplift is concerned, there is no difference between Datta and Sai Baba. Datta might have been eternal, having eternal medium and Sai Baba might have medium that perished by death. You are granted a license by a chief minister, who didn’t continue in the same post by defeat in the next election. The same chief Minister might have continued by victory in the next election. How does this difference affect your license?
Establishing justice through reformation of souls
I came down several times to pluck out demons harming My devotees. But, today, every human being is a partial demon becoming demonic on some unpredictable occasions. Hence, I have to pluck out every human being, which is not proper. Therefore, I came down to preach spiritual knowledge so that I am trying to pluck out the demonic nature from the souls. Killing demons is not a solution since the same nature comes with the soul in the next birth. Hence, transformation of soul through spiritual knowledge alone is the only true way. For that purpose, all of you have to extend your hands in this program by doing its propagation. It is an opportunity given to you for your transformation also since you are also partial demon. You will also transform by repeatedly memorizing these concepts during propagation. I am capable of propagating the knowledge without the help of anybody. The service given to you is due to your unassumable fortune. Once you are transformed, all punishments of your past sins are cancelled since punishment is given only for (temporary) reformation.
Females became grater than males
My left leg crossed My right leg while I am standing. This indicates that females (left half) have crossed males and became greater than males. It is My will because ego of gender should be eradicated forever. Ego of caste, gender, wealth, youth, beauty, knowledge, tradition, religion, country etc., shall be expelled out.
Taking care of one’s health
Gas generated from potato etc., cold generated from sweet and cool foods, indigestion coming from oil etc., spoil the health. You must stop the journey in rainy season since you will be attacked by illness. The secret of Chaaturmaasya (staying in one place during rainy season) is only this. You must have proper quantum of sleep to keep mind fresh and body also healthy. You must adapt yourself carefully according to changing seasons.
God’s judgement and punishments
If you insist Me through penance to cancel the bad fruit of bad deed, I am very much irritated because I prepared the constitution of deeds and fruits. I Myself gave the judgment. Now, if I cancel the fruit of your deed, sages and angels will say that I am a crack. Hence, due to your worship, I alter the punishment into other convenient form or postpone it to the next birth with compounded interest. Change in the form of punishment also gives you lot of relief. For a crime, it is written that Rs.1000/- fine or 6 months imprisonment is two forms of punishment. For a beggar, prison for 6 months is more convenient since he can get free food for six months. For a rich man Rs.1000/- fine is convenient so that he can continue his works.
Anger can take you to God: Anger in one sense can be the way to God. Such anger should be based on excess of love like the case of Satyabhāma frequently becoming angry with the Lord. The anger of demons is in different angle based on hatred to God. Such anger can’t lead the soul to God.
From impure devotion to pure devotion
It is sufficient to work for some limited time to earn for the minimum needs like food, drink etc. In spite of such possibility, if one works all the time to earn just money only, such soul will be born as animal or bird, which has to put efforts all the time just to earn food. If a soul concentrates on God at least for some time, there is a possibility of human rebirth. The soul earning all the time doesn’t know that these earnings can’t help it in the upper world. The soul earns more and more for its personal family, which also does not help it in the upper world. Excess of money spoils the family members also. The family doesn’t even recognize you there. Whatever you have given to them with lot of fascination, all that is only clearing the past loan with interest and hence they are not ungrateful to you if they don’t care for you in the upper world. You feel that you have given wealth to them due to your climax of real love. In fact, it is not so. This excess love is created by God to cover your eyes as mask that provokes you to clear their loan. Such action of God is the divine māyā. If you allot some time to God to whom also you are always indebted, your next birth shall be without any financial problems. A born rich man is he, who left all his duties due to the help of a rich man and devoted all time for God’s service in the previous birth. Such born rich man shall help another devotee for propagation again in the same way. If you donate your wealth to God, your issues are blessed by God to become more wealthy. Otherwise, the issues will lose your wealth and become useless due to vices. At least, divert yourself to God based on this concept of the welfare of your issues only! By this way, it is proved that there is no real love towards God in your heart.
Yet, initial level is always with mistakes only (Sarvārambhāhi… Gītā). The forced love on God for boons in the beginning may develop in to natural real love in course of time. In the ancient days, marriages were done simply by the will of elders whether the boy or girl likes or not the other partner. Yet, such marriages were successful in course of time with gradually developed wonderful love seen in the couple. Most of the arranged marriages are successful in due course of time. All love marriages are also not successful. The elders arranging a match between a boy and a girl, also see the matching of beauty between both and they are not such blind fools to neglect this point since they faced this same point when they were young! Hence, there is every possibility of a forced unreal devotion in the beginning to transform into to real devotion in course of time. Granting boons for theoretical (Veśyā) and practical (Vaiśya) devotions is also a forced unreal devotion only. But, in course of time, such unreal devotion may be transformed in to real devotion. The tradition of forced unreal devotion on souls started with this possible hope of transformation in to real devotion in future. Hence, the earlier major part of the Veda concentrates on various worships to God for getting various selfish desires fulfilled. It is like giving chocolate to kids in the initial stage of going to school. Later on, the student gets interest in the knowledge and goes to college without any chocolate.
The posterior part of the Veda (Upaniṣad) indicates the college student. But, if you sit in the school only throughout your life aspiring always chocolates, you are no more sent to school. You will be asked to leave the school and go for work to earn! Similarly, if you sit in the initial level (forced unreal devotion of worshipping God for materialistic problems and boons) only throughout your life, you will be thrown into the cycle of animals and birds, which always work for selfish benefit only. You are unfit to be readmitted into humanity since human birth is mainly for the sake of recognition and worship of God only. All these worldly works are just secondary only.
All divine forms and paths lead to the same God
Don’t worry about the form of God. God exists in all the divine forms. Whichever form attracts you, stick to it without criticizing other forms. If you criticized other form, simultaneously, you have criticized your form only since God is merged with every divine form. Similarly, you need not bother about the way of worship of God. All the ways lead to God provided you are alive to walk in the path. If you are not alive, what is the use of the debate about paths like which is better? Which is best? Which is worst? etc. You must not worry about the path. One path may be longer than other. The alive person can reach God even by the long path. A dead person can’t reach God even in the shortest path. Even if both are alive, the person in the long path may reach early if he has strength due to which fast walk or even running is possible. The other person walking in the short path may be very weak and can reach God only after long time.
Now, let us know what is life and what is the strength in walk mentioned above. The life is the practical devotion (sacrifice and service) based on pure theoretical devotion. The strength is not the magnitude of the quantum of sacrifice or service. It is the percentage of the quantum of sacrifice or service in the total possessed by you. A beggar sacrificing one rupee is the strongest. An old man, who can work for one hour, working for one hour in divine service, is the strongest. A king sacrificing one lakh rupees is weakest. A young man, who can work for 6 hours, working for 3 hours only, is weakest. I assuredly tell all of you that Datta never counts what you have given to Him, but, finds what more remaining you have still in your pocket! The ticket for journey is fixed based on the money present in your pocket and not on the money given in the counter of Datta. If you give Rs.100/- and Rs.900/- are still in your pocket, you will be given the ticket just for the nearest next railway station only. If you give Rs.10/- and don’t have even a single rupee in pocket, you will be given the ticket up to the next terminal railway station. Don’t criticize this divine railway minister as mad. In the spiritual railway administration, this is the policy of Datta, the Railway minister. If you criticize this, you are mad. If you analyze this, understand truth and appreciate, you are the wisest.
Please note one important point that while doing sacrifice or service to God, your mind must be fully filled with purest love to Him. Hence, it is told that practical devotion based on pure theoretical devotion is the path. Theory associated with practical is also important. Practical sacrifice with theoretical love is like scented gold! Theoretical devotion is the mother of the practical devotion like a mother delivering the child. The mother accompanies the walking child also. Similarly, the pure theoretical devotion that generated the practical devotion must follow the latter during its implementation also. The rich young man, who has given Rs.100/- and got the ticket for the next station also need not be discouraged in comparison with the beggar getting ticket up to terminal by paying Rs.10/-, which was all possessed by him . The rich man should be satisfied that at least he has given Rs.100/- and reached the next station practically. He is certainly better than a person not purchasing any ticket keeping Rs.1000/- tight in the pocket. A humble beginning is always better than zero. This analysis shows only that one should not feel proud about the magnitude of his sacrifice and service to mock a poor man for his meager sacrifice and service. If God starts His explanation with analysis, first shall be last and the last shall be first!
Unimaginable God Incarnates in Human Form
15-08-1993, 5.00 am.
Overcome religious conservatism: All the divine forms are in Me only like various roads in a city. You may travel on any road, you are in that city only. Even the roads out of the city existing in all the four directions lead to the same city only. Similarly all religions (paths) lead you to the same God (same city). Similarly, any form of God (just like any road in the city) makes no difference to say that every form of God belongs to the same God (just like you may be on any road in the city, you are in the city only). You come by that road which is in the direction of your home. Hence, the roads reaching Me are also one and the same.
You can follow any religion and worship any divine form in this world, there is no difference. Even if you are conservative of your religion, nothing is wrong. In fact, conservatism should be appreciated for the firm decision and rigid effort in a religion followed by his/her ancestors. There is nothing wrong in this and more over this is highly appreciable (Svadharme nidhanam…—Gītā). The problem comes only when you start criticizing other divine forms and other paths (religions). If you bend your head in your path and reach the centre, such conservatism is not wrong. But, if you lift your head and mock others travelling in different paths leading to the same centre, you will never reach the goal even in your path as far as spiritual journey is concerned. Such attitude was developed by the middle age scholars and the ancient sages were like the conservatives travelling in their paths bending their heads down. Due to these ignorant middle age scholars, blind traditions were also propagated and splits in religions leading to mutual hatred resulted in chaos. The peace of the world is spoiled with terrorism based on religious difference. The father will be happy if his children are living with mutual love, happiness and peace, even if the children don’t serve him. Love to father is nivṛtti and love between souls is pravṛtti.
Universal Spirituality is the Goal of Shri Datta Swami
The main goal of this Datta Swami is to establish Universal Spirituality that runs through all the religions like the thread in the beads of a chain. This is like the Central Government of India running through all the State Governments. India is not a separate state and Universal Spirituality is not a separate religion. You can be Hindu or Buddhist or Christian or Muslim worshipping Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, Christ and Mohammad respectively like a Tamil or Andhra or Keralite or Maratha etc. Simultaneously, you belong to Universal Spirituality like Indian. The statement to be chanted in the Universal Spirituality is
|om namaḥ kṛṣṇa buddha khristu mohammadādi avatāra dattāya|
Meaning: salutations to Datta, who is incarnated as Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, Christ, Mohammad etc.
After saluting God of your religion, you salute that one Universal God by this statement. The word Datta here means just ‘given’, indicating that the unimaginable God is given to humanity in the form of these human incarnations. Remember that Datta has no significance of any specific religion.
Value of one’s present lifetime
Remember that you can’t achieve anything extra after death. Whatever you attained while you are alive here, that much only follows you after death also. If you got salvation from worldly bonds and caught God in human form here, you are a liberated soul and you will be attached with God in energetic form also in the upper world since energetic incarnation is the same human incarnation. If you are fascinated to worldly bonds here, you are not a liberated soul after death also and continue with the same worldly fascinations. Due to the severe fascination to worldly bonds here, you will wander on this earth as an evil spirit (ghost) only. Since you have neglected the human incarnation, you can’t be attached in the energetic form of God there due to same repulsion of common media. Hence, death has no specialty, which is like a gate between here and there. Therefore, learn the truth and follow the spiritual path here itself to attain anything here itself while you are alive. If you are misguided to think that something different will be achieved by you after death, you are simply fooled. Even after death, a bonded soul remains bonded with this world only and such soul wanders between hell, heaven and earth only.
Unimaginable God and Human Incarnation of God
There is no difference between unimaginable God and Datta (Īśvara). Unimaginable God is like a person without any imagination. Datta or Īśvara (unimaginable God in first energetic form before creation of world) is like the same person creating some imaginary world on which He has perfect control. The person in the first state didn’t imagine anything and therefore the world is unreal to the first person. For the same person in second stage also, the world is almost unreal because the imagination is very very weak compared to the imagining person. In the second state, we can’t say that the imaginary world is really unreal, but, can be treated as unreal due to its very weak and negligible strength. The imagined world is unreal in essence but gains reality due to the experience of imagining person in feeling the unreal as real. The reality of experience happens to be the reality of imagined world. Assume that a person walks through vacant space in the room without any imagination. This is the first state before creation of the imaginary world. Suppose the same person walks through this same vacant space imagining a wall just before him, then also, the person walks just like in the first state only since imaginary wall is essentially unreal, though is experienced as real by the imagining person. The absence and presence of imaginary wall makes no difference due to its essential unreality. His walk in the second state also is not hindered by the imaginary wall in any way. The imagination gives Him the least entertainment since imaginary wall is almost absent. The word ‘almost’ is used because of its reality in his experience. All this pertains to the imagining soul in awaken state.
The state of a soul in dream is totally different. In your dream you are walking and the same imaginary wall in the dream is as real as yourself and obstructs you in your dream. You can’t walk through the wall in the dream since you are under the control of the dream and also happen to be a part of the dream. You are not the dreaming person but you are dreamt person being part of the dream. A dreamer can never become part of dream directly. You are also imagined person in dream and you are as good as that imagined wall in reality. A person least entertained by his imaginary world identifies himself with a person of the same imaginary world (such person of imaginary world is also unreal) and enjoys the dream fully through perfect ignorance of that imagined person, who is feeling the imaginary world as equally real. This is the concept of energetic incarnation or human incarnation of God in the world. The imagined person (person in imaginary world) is like a blind person unable to perceive the unreal nature of dream. The person imagining the imaginary world is like a lame person unable to enjoy the dream by perceiving the unreal nature of the dream. When both join, both can walk in the correct path (paṅgvāndha nyāya). The lame person will give guidance about direction in the path. The blind person will walk as per the direction given by lame, carrying on the lame on his shoulders. Similarly, the vision, touch and talk are due to the imagined (blind) person. The spiritual knowledge given to humanity is due to the imagining (lame) person. All the enjoyment of the imaginary world is simultaneously received by God and God gets involved in it also in real way. Since there is no difference between imagining person (God) and imagined person (human being possessed by God) due to perfect merge, everything belongs simultaneously to both becoming one (both became one by merge).
Of course, you can say that awareness is the actual item and not the imagining person. Is there independent awareness without a container (living being)? Awareness is to know itself or to know something else. It is an activity or work. Only work can’t exist independently without working element. Such working element is the unimaginable God, who is able to do the activity (work) or the process of knowing due to His unimaginable power in the absence of awareness, matter and energy. If awareness is independent entity, we must find walking, talking, dancing etc., also independently without the working person! The imaginer of imaginary world is unimaginable God. Before creating imaginary world or day dream (in the sense that one doesn’t sleep in the day and only imagines dream in awaken state. This should not be confused with a person sleeping in the day time also and is dreaming. Such dream of sleep in day time is as good as dream of sleep in night.), the unimaginable God identifies Himself with first energetic form created by Him called as Īśvara or Datta. The energetic form Datta is the different from human being (of human incarnation) since ignorance did not start at all before the creation.
Hence, the imaginary world is created by unimaginable God and same unimaginable God mediated by first energetic form called as Datta or Īśvara controls it. Then, Datta containing merged unimaginable God in Him, merges with some specific selected energetic or human forms called as energetic or human incarnations respectively. Energetic form like Gaṇapati becomes God when Datta merges with Gaṇapati in the upper world. Similarly, when Datta merges with Vāsudeva (Kṛṣṇa) on this earth, Kṛṣṇa becomes God. The soul is a part of the imaginary world and is controlled by the day dream or imaginary world and such day-dream controlling the soul is as good as night dream as far as the dreamt person or imagined person (human being) is concerned. God is always imaginer and soul is always controlled person of the day dream (imagination of God) and such controlled person is as good as the controlled person in the night dream.
You shouldn’t be confused to say that the same imaginer slept, the day dream is converted in to night dream and the imaginer Himself became the controlled dreamt person or soul. This brings a very big problem that if the imaginer Himself became the controlled soul (dreamt person), does it mean the imaginer (Īśvara) disappeared because the same Īśvara became the dreamt person? Hence, you must take the day dream of one person and night dream of another person. The imaginer of the day dream in the awaken state is a different person called as Īśvara or Datta whereas the dreamt person (person controlled in dream) controlled by the day dream or night dream is a different person called as soul. You can’t take a single dream simultaneously as day dream and night dream employing only a single person, who (Īśvara) is always in the awaken state imagining the day dream and also simultaneously in sleep state (soul) caught by his own day dream due to sleep in the day itself! If the imaginer is in awaken state imagining as imaginary world, you can’t make the same person to sleep and become a controlled dreamt person, in which case Īśvara and awaken state can’t exist simultaneously. If you keep Īśvara as imaginer in the awaken state only, He can’t sleep and become controlled dreamt person. In His imaginary world, another person may exist as controlled dreamt person called as soul. If the imaginer (Īśvara) enters His imaginary world while remaining in the awaken state, by identifying Himself with a dreamt person to become human incarnation, the imaginer is not controlled by His day dream since He did not sleep at all. Such human incarnation still remains in awaken state only and is never controlled by the day dream. Thus, the case of human incarnation is totally different. An ordinary dreamt person caught by the dream is the normal human being (soul) controlled by the imaginary world, which is in turn under the control of Īśvara only.
The simile should not be applied to the concept in total sense. If you say that the awareness of one person as imaginer is maintaining the imaginary world forever, you can’t say that simultaneously the same imaginer slept and became the imagined person (soul) or part of the imagined world. This makes the imagined world devoid of the imaginer or controller (Īśvara), who already slept! Here, we must understand two points: 1) The imaginer controlling the imaginary world continues forever as Īśvara and 2) the imagined person in the imaginary world is controlled by the imaginary world forever, which is ultimately controlled by the ultimate controller, Īśvara. The imagined person has no freedom just like a dreamt person is controlled by the dream after sleep. In this aspect, you need not touch the person before sleep because the dreamt person in dream is a simile for the imagined-person in the imaginary world. Imagining person, imaginary world containing imagined persons alone stands as the total picture, in which the imagined person controlled by imaginary world (day dream) is just compared with the dreamt person (person in dream) controlled by night dream. If you take the dreamer before the dream, you do not have the dream in such awaken state. If you go to next state of dream, the dreamer does not exist at all as far as the dream is concerned since even in night dream the dreamer didn’t enter the dream directly. The dreamer in the night dream can’t be called as dreamer anymore since the dreamer is fully controlled by the dream. A representative imaginary form of the dreamer alone exists in the dream, which is as good as any part of the dream. Sharp and patient analysis is required here to understand the point.
The day dreamer (Īśvara) and night dreamer (soul) do not have any comparison anywhere. The day dream (imaginary world) proceeds as per the wish of dreamer whereas the night dream proceeds on its own accord and not as per the wish of the dreamer. In such case, you can’t say that the day dreamer is turned into night dreamer.
Mere miracles are not deciding factors to confirm the human incarnation because demons blessed by Me also performed miracles. The biggest miracle is creation, control and dissolution of the world, which can’t be done by demons as pointed out in the Brahma Sutras (Jagat vyāpāra varjyam...).
Three Eyes of Lord Śiva
23-09-1993, 5.00 am.
God Śiva burnt Cupid by His third eye when he tried to attract God towards Pārvatī. What is the inner meaning? Pārvatī means daughter of hill. Hill means matter indicating the physical body. The shinning beauty of the body is inert energy. The love expressed and ego of beauty is awareness. All these three are components of creation representing the soul is called as Pārvatī. The soul is made of prakṛti and hence every soul is a female. Cupid is the personified worldly attraction trying to attract a spiritual aspirant (represented by Lord Śiva) towards worldly bonds. This means that the Rajas and Tamas try to attract Sattvic spiritual aspirant towards worldly bonds. The third eye of Lord Śiva represents the analytical spiritual knowledge with the help of which the worldly desire is burnt. Knowledge or Sattvam represents fire in the third hidden eye. The two physical eyes, representing Rajas and Tamas seeing a beautiful girl are made blind by the worldly desire and hence, can’t think of spiritual knowledge. Only the third eye (the third of Lord Śiva is also in closed state), which is not seeing the girl can be above the lust and can analyze impartially in a free state. The Cupid (worldly desire) is always a stupid and tries to attack even God thinking Him as a soul. Just for a minute the senses of God were also shaken by the astonishing beauty of Pārvatī due to the arrow shot by Cupid, called as Sammohana or the weapon of intense fascination. This indicates that no soul can resist it. God acted so to preach this point. Hence, spontaneous prevention is impossible. Only cure by using the knowledge fire of third eye is the solution. To show this cure, He controlled the disturbance just after one minute and burnt the Cupid with the fire of third eye. This means that even the top most spiritual aspirant will be attacked and shaken for some time due to the influence of polluted psychology (saṁskāra) of previous births. In the case of Lord Śiva, previous pattern of the psychology was experience of family life with His first wife called Sati. Then, one can burn the worldly desire by his strong spiritual knowledge. The fire of the eye indicates the strengthened true knowledge. Pārvatī is unmarried and sexual thought before marriage is not justified and hence, Cupid was burnt by God for the sake of pravṛtti or destruction of injustice. The third eye of fire represents your divine spiritual preacher in whose association you can do this burning. The two eyes represent Sun and Moon and the third represents knowledge-fire that shines in all the times. Sun and Moon shine in their specific times (day or night) only. The third eye is on the forehead representing the place of brain (intelligence) doing analysis for taking decision. The Sun and Moon (physical eyes) represent Rajas (energy) and Tamas (night or darkness), whereas the fire (third eye) represents Sattvam or knowledge. Rajas is activity (day) and Tamas is blind (night) worldly desire of sleep or ignorance. Sattvam is the analytical spiritual knowledge. This story happened on the snow mountain and snow is rained by Moon. Moon represents mind and hence all this takes place in mind. After this, Pārvatī left the ego of beauty of her body and did lot of penance for God Śiva, which is the beginning of nivṛtti from the angle of Pārvatī. Then, marriage took place in proper way. Then Cupid was blessed by God for His service. Justified desire is not at all wrong (dharmāviruddhaḥ kāmo’smi…—Gītā). Any extent of lust between married couple is justified.
Spiritual knowledge is captured from divine preacher and it grows in the association of your spiritual friends. Divine preacher is like water and spiritual friends are like fertilizers for the seed of spiritual knowledge to grow as big tree. In yoga, the two eyes are concentrated on the tip of nose at the centre of the two eyebrows, which represents the indication of third eye on forehead (brain) for analysis. If you don’t recognize this inner sense, your mode of such eyes can be used only to threaten children!
Cosmic Vision
23-09-1993, 12.00 am.
The cosmic vision given by God Kṛṣṇa is to show that this world was created and it didn’t exist before creation (cosmic vision). It (cosmic vision or world) is maintained for some time and again was dissolved to show that it will not exist after its end. Reality exists always and it can never be unreal at any time. This establishes that the creation is unreal with respect to real God. Kṛṣṇa showed this vision to say that the human incarnation is the actual unimaginable God (due to perfect merge with Datta and perfect merge of Datta with the human being), who is the creator, maintainer and destroyer of this world. You always see the human incarnation with respect to the body or medium only, which has birth, existence for some time and death. This body including soul (human being) is a part of creation like all of you, in to which I entered and merged to become one only for the sake of your vision, conversation etc. There is no other way than this (Nānyaḥ panthāh—Veda) because I am unimaginable even to your deepest imagination. Due to homogeneous merge, you see Me only and talk with Me, the unimaginable God only. If you touch the electrified wire, you are touching electricity only and not the wire because electricity only gives shock and not the wire without electricity. This means that the electricity and wire are perfectly merged with each other. This unimaginable knowledge and some unimaginable events you observe are the shocks of God-electricity only and not of the human being-wire.
Leaving Worldly Work for Serving God
25-09-1993, 4.00 am.
Four Vedas are one
All the four Vedas are one Veda only because the Veda means the knowledge, which exists in all four texts in common. The meaning is one and the same, which is the spiritual knowledge that is preached to you and not known to you already. You have ocean of knowledge of world acquired through authorities like perception (pratyakṣa), inference (anumāna), similarity (upamāna), reference scripture (śabda) etc. From the Vedas, you get such precious spiritual knowledge not achieved by you from the world through these authorities. The Veda is in four different volumes based on difference in the word and not in the meaning. Word means language used for communication. It can be prose (Yajur Veda), poem (Ṛg Veda) and song (Sāma Veda). Many accept the classification as three Vedas only. The Atharvana Veda is based on the mental recitation in silent language and stands as the fourth Veda. It is better to worship Me through four Vedas. Anybody will be pleased if you supply the food in varieties. Your mind is also bored with one mode of worship or one item of food.
Four castes
Brahmana means the soul having perfect true spiritual knowledge, which is the Veda, and diverts all towards God (Brahma Vedaṁ Jānāti, Sarvān Brahma Paramātmānam nayati iti). Kṣatriya means the soul implementing the spiritual knowledge in practice crossing over the worldly obstructions wounding you (Kṣatāt vighnarūpāt trāyate iti). Vaiṣya means ordinary human being (‘vit’ means normal human being), who aspires both this world as well as the upper world and worships God (theoretically as well as practically) mainly for the fulfillment of personal desires only. Shudra means almost an atheist, who is constantly immersed in the worldly life only and is shaken always with worldly grief only (shuk-shoke, shocati iti). The fifth untouchable caste belongs to a person, who is a perfect furious atheist criticizing the spiritual knowledge (caḍi-kope caṇḍaḥ-kruddhaḥ-caṇḍālaḥ). The caste shall be decided on qualities and deeds only, but, not by birth. Based on birth, you say that Rāvaṇa is Brāhmaṇa and Kṛṣṇa is Yādava (a backward caste)! Is it justified in any way? Ego of caste by birth is the worst of all egos.
God’s topmost servants
You see devotion of My top most servants. What is the reason for them to be like animals, birds etc.? They are not condemned souls thrown in to births of animals and birds. The reason is that since I am in the human form, they don’t want to be in the same level of their Master. Nandi is bull, Swan and Garuda are birds, Śeṣa is a serpent. Deity of justice is cow. The Vedas are dogs. I have special affection on dog since it represents unshakable faith. Hence, the dog represents most powerful deity called as Kālabhairava, thereby meaning that unshakable faith is the highest power.
Always try to minimize your desires to reach the final state of no desire. You know that worship of God without desire for any fruit in return will take you to the climax of nivṛtti, which is the highest unimaginable fruit!
The spiritual effort must be deliberate
Soul is the form of six vices. Creation is the form of three qualities (Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas). I am beyond the creation including the soul. The imaginable soul through imaginable path shall reach the unimaginable God mediated by imaginable medium. The thumb (Angushtha) indicates unimaginable God always standing separate from the other four fingers, which are always united. The indicating finger (Tarjani) represents Jeeva with ego of individuality. This individual soul can be called as soul also since both are imaginable awareness only. The individual soul is always associated with the other three fingers (madyamikā, anāmikā, and kaniṣṭhikā) representing the three basic qualities or creation. The soul is always associated with the world since soul is a part of the imaginable world and is always away from the unimaginable God. This is the natural state of a palm seen. In spiritual meditation, you find a special mode of palm (Cinmudrā), in which the indicating finger (soul) leaves the other three fingers (creation) and joins with the God (thumb), which is unnatural and forced state. Hence, soul is trapped by the world in spontaneous process to lower its power (free energy). By forced spiritual effort, the soul joins God to raise its power (free energy). This is scientific explanation of spontaneity.
Creation is both a process and the product
Creation means the process (work of creation) as well as the product (world) since we use this word in both senses of work and product. This means that the product is also the work only. Work is basically inert energy and hence the process and product are work or inert energy only. The working element is God. Hence, the total picture is God in the mode of work. Everything in the creation is work of God only (like walking, talking, thinking etc.). When you are walking, are there two items visible like walker and walk separately? Only one item is visible, which is the walker or talker or thinker only. Similarly, there is only one God (unimaginable God) and the rest is unreal to Him. When the walker stops walking or talker stops taking, or thinker stops thinking, you will find the single unimaginable God without imaginable work or creation like Śiva after dance. This entire world is only imaginary world of God.
You may argue “apart from the walker, walking exists separately as kinetic energy. The walker (on stopping walking) is potential energy (matter is also a form of energy). Moreover, since both potential and kinetic energies are energy only, God and world are one only”. This is the problem of overextension in simile. When I give a simile, it is always from world only made of imaginable items only. My concept deals with unimaginable God and imaginable world in the simile. Hence, you can’t apply the worldly simile in total sense to the concept of God beyond the world. Even in comparing two imaginable items, simile should not be applied in total sense like in the similarity of face and moon (similarity is only in pleasantness and not in aspects like moon has black spots, moon decreases or increases everyday etc.).
You can’t make unimaginable God and imaginable world as one and same in which case there is no need of any spiritual effort. You must know that every static form is only a form of energy, which always has internal dynamism in the form of waves. This dynamism is the force or power, which is the essential structure of energy. Any thought like desire also is dynamism only. Hence, the entire world is just different forms of dynamism of God only, which is represented by the dance of God Śiva. You can never be away from dynamism (work or karma) since you are also essentially work only. Hence, becoming static or inactive is impossible (Jātu tiṣṭhatyakarmakṛt…—Gītā). But, the Gītā says that the highest stage is to be static without work that can be attained by saṁnyāsa or sacrifice (Naiśkarmya siddhiṁ…—Gītā). Here, leaving work means leaving worldly work by minimizing fascination to worldly bonds and this is achieved by involving yourself in the work of God. Sacrifice of total work is impossible as said above by the same God.
The Human Incarnation is God Himself
26-09-1993, 5.00 am.
God is beyond all qualities
Nirguṇa (beyond qualities) applies to unimaginable God, who is beyond the entire creation. Guṇas mean qualities, which mean thoughts. Guṇas stand for even the three qualities as basic components of the world. Thus, nirguṇa should not be taken simply thoughtless item like stone, in which case you are confining the word guṇa to thought only. It should be taken as an item beyond the entire creation because the basic components of the world called as Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas are also called as subtle inert properties. The blue color of lotus is also called as quality or property (guṇa) of inert item. The whole world is a composite of various works of God. All the works of awareness are thoughts (Sattvam). All the work form-properties of inert energy like light, heat, electricity etc., are inert works (Rajas). All the work forms of ignorance appear as materialized forms of matter (Tamas) like the various elements and compounds made of materialized atoms. Since God is beyond all these works (components of entire creation), He is called as nirguṇa. In the beginning of creation, these three qualities as subtle forms of works exist as the basic components called as the three qualities. Hence, guṇa or quality need not be confined to non-inert awareness only. We call a medicine has a specific quality (Oṣadhi guṇa). The medicine is inert. Hence, the three basic qualities Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas are not confined to non-inert awareness only. You can confine guṇa to thought (awareness) from the angle of God since all items of creation are only thoughts of God. But, if you take the angle of creation, guṇa means both non-inert thoughts of awareness and also inert properties of inert items like energy and matter.
God is the spectator of creation
I become a spectator (Sākṣī) of My imaginary world and get entertainment to little extent only since My imagination is almost nil to Me. The imagination is certainly made of very weak substance to be neglected as nil just like an imagination before the concrete imaginer. By this, you can’t bring homogeneity in cause and effect and say that imaginary world and imaginer are awareness only. Since God (cause) is unimaginable, you can’t call God as imaginable awareness. He can be called as unimaginable awareness, which means that the unimaginable God knows without the worldly awareness, which is based on inert energy (transportation of information) and inert matter (nervous system and brain). The absolute unimaginable awareness of unimaginable God and the relative imaginable awareness of human being or totally different from each other having one similarity in end, which is to know something. This means that both unimaginable God (without eyes, nervous system and brain) and the human being know that this is a tree and that is a hill.
The relative awareness in a human being disappears in the deep sleep remaining as inert energy called in a talented way as awareness with full ignorance. In the deep sleep, the happiness of rest of brain is not received due to absence of awareness. The freshness of rest is received by the awareness as soon as it is awaken. The awareness makes an inference that the body rested well in the adjacent past time. This does not mean that awareness existed in the deep sleep, which was receiving the happiness of freshness continuously during the sleep. Such argument is against the experience of anybody. Then, why Śaṅkara told that the awareness exists in the deep sleep of every human being in the state of enjoying bliss (prājña)?
The answer for this question is given as two points: 1) In the human incarnation, the unimaginable God exists with unimaginable awareness, which does not disappear in deep sleep due to the rest of brain and nervous system. Such unimaginable awareness exists alone in deep sleep since the entertainment with the external world as well as entertainment with dream ended in deep sleep. The state of unimaginable awareness is similar to the state of a person after returning from Cinema Theater and enjoying by its memories. 2) I told in My speech given to Sanskrit scholars here, sometime back, that every human being was declared as God (human incarnation) by Śaṅkara in order to motivate them towards theism. Hence, Śaṅkara is forced to say that the state of human incarnation is the state of every human being, which resulted in saying that awareness exists in deep sleep of every human being also. We must understand this point in view of the forced context of that time.
God enters creation of greater entertainment
A spectator of cinema gets some entertainment only on seeing, but, such soul gets full entertainment only when it acts in a role in a cinema directly. This is called as entering the cinema field (God entering creation). Basic reason is entertainment (na ramate— Veda). Entertainment to some extent as a spectator is next stage after the stage of creation in which I have awareness through My unimaginable power and I am still in the state of unimaginable God mediated by the first energetic form, fully controlling the world as Īśvara (Sākṣī cetā kevalo nirguṇaśca…—Veda). To get full entertainment, I enter My imaginary world to merge with a soul in energetic body to become energetic incarnation in the upper worlds and to merge with human being (soul in materialized human body) on this earth to become human incarnation (tadevānuprāviṣat…—Veda) and this is My final step. Entry in to world need not be taken as the awareness in all the living beings and entry into a single human being can also be said as the entry into world. If one enters a house to sit in a room, you can say that he entered the house and hence he is to be found everywhere in the house. When you say that the entry of God in to the world as awareness in living beings, then also God doesn’t exist in the entire world so that every item of the world should become a living being! When I become incarnation, I merge homogenously with the entire medium so that I become that medium itself. I remain in invisible-unimaginable state as well as invisible-imaginable state simultaneously due to My omnipotence (Satca tyatcha abhavat—Veda).
Human Incarnation: monism between God and soul
Any sweet is prepared by mixing tasteless flour and sweet sugar. Both flour and sugar are mixed homogenously so that when you eat the sweet, what are you saying? You say that the prepared sweet is good in taste. How can you even call it as sweet since it is made of both tasteless flour and sweet sugar? You must call it as sweet & tasteless-eatable item to be good. But, you call it as only sweet indicting sugar only and flour is totally neglected. You have neglected the flour because when you eat it, you don’t experience both tasteless flour and sweet sugar simultaneously or at least alternatively. Your saying is based on your experience of sweet taste only and hence saying so is justified. You put your finger on a burning stick. Stick by itself is cool. The fire is hot. Both are associated there. You don’t say your experience as cool and hot simultaneously or cool and hot alternatively representing both stick and fire respectively. You say simply that it is hot as your finger is burnt. Stick is neither hot nor burns anything. Here, the weaker flour and weaker stick are subsided by the powerful sugar and fire respectively. The stronger is called as whole (God) and the weaker human being is called as part (by Rāmānuja). Hence, logically and by experience also, the human incarnation is directly the unimaginable God, who is expressing His powerful qualities. This is the perfect monism.
Your spiritual effort should be always in your theoretical and practical devotions only. Be always in the spiritual effort. You may change one mode of spiritual effort into other, but, should not be without any spiritual effort. You can change one type of cloth by other type of cloth, but, should never be naked.