Discourse for Novelists and Scholars

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri M.V.K. Murthy, famous writer of novels came along with another devotee called Yogi. Swami started emitting intensive scent of camphor on seeing him for a long time. He was amazed since this scent is not found outside the room. Yogi joked ‘Swami does such magics now and then’.]

Swami joked: ‘I am a professor of chemistry. I might have used some chemicals for generating this scent. You must search Me fully’. Then Phani told ‘A devotee here was believing that the statue of Lord Venkateshwara is the only God. He argued with Swami on this point. Swami generated several types of scents. The devotee told that Swami being a professor of chemistry might have used some chemicals. But, the scents started surrounding the devotee for six months continuously day and night. Even though the devotee left the town and went away to far places, the scents never left him. He became very weak and his wife prayed Swami to stop the scents. Swami agreed and the scents were stopped’.

Swami gave the discourse: Miracles are just fundamental level of elementary schools, which are widely spread everywhere, by the wish of God. Even evil people can do these miracles by black magic. The idea behind such wide covering range of miracles is that these miracles are useful in converting atheists into theists. For such elementary work, human incarnations or professors are not necessary. The next level is Jnana Yoga, which is the level of high schools. The high schools are lesser in number than elementary schools because only some converted theists start the enquiry about the subject (Jnana Yoga) of the unimaginable God, since His existence was indirectly proved through the unimaginable miracles and He is the source of the unimaginable power behind the miracles. The next higher level is formation of theoretical love (Bhakti Yoga) or devotion on the Lord since a few of the scholars of God get this and this level is the level of colleges. The ultimate highest level is practical devotion (Karma Yoga) or service to God, which is the level of University and is very rare since a few of devotees only can become servants of God through practical sacrifice of work and fruit of work. The scientific analysis of divine knowledge (Jnana Yoga) is pervading all the four levels as the basic torchlight. In the first level, the existence of God is accepted. In the second level, the existence of unimaginable God is accepted. In the third level, the representatives of God like statues in human form are worshipped by words and mind to get rid of ego and jealousy towards human form. In the fourth level, the decision of the final conclusion of the intellectual analysis results in detecting the contemporary human incarnation and involve in a practical service in His mission.

There are two paths of love on God. The path of limited real love on wife and the path of unlimited real love on children. The first path is aspiring boons from God for selfish happiness, which involves mostly theoretical and little practical devotion. In this first path, one loves his wife for selfish happiness only and most of his love is emotional (theoretical) with little practical sacrifice. The second path is selfless love without any aspiration of fruit in return and consists of mostly practical and little theoretical devotion. In this second path, one loves his child without any selfishness and a total sacrifice of work and fruit of work. Hanuman and Gopikas are the best Gold Medal-students of the University. Once you are fixed in the divine service of God, there is no need of miracles, knowledge and theoretical devotion. The knowledge is the qualifying degree and the theoretical devotion is official appointment order. The practical devotion is the work done in the month and salary (fruit) is given to the monthly work only. Only work (karma) can yield the fruit.

The unimaginable God is beyond the four-dimensional model of space and time. You can imagine the dissolution of matter converting into energy filling the space. Subsequently, you can imagine the disappearance of energy in the space and the result is final vacuum. But, even if you try for your lifetime, you can never imagine the disappearance of vacuum. God being the generator of space, is beyond space and therefore, can never be imagined. If you have to imagine God, the pre-requisite is the imagination of disappearance of space or vacuum. Of course, space is a form of very fine energy and in this context, the word energy used by Me can be taken as crude form of energy. The only knowledge about God is that He is beyond the knowledge (Yasyaamatam… Veda).

Guidelines for Writing Novels

People are writing novels and these are also useful in building-up the justice in Pravrutti of the society. The authors have to raise the suspense, tension and anxiety to make the soul alert regarding the justice to be followed in maintaining the world peace. But, I find that this point of raising the tension is maintained throughout the novel just for increasing the business popularity and this is not good. When there is necessity like studies, the human being should be awakened from sleep. But when there is no necessity, let the fellow sleep. However, the impression of justice through novels is a total failure because nobody on this earth will give value to the human values in practical life, though these values are theoretically appreciated. You must at least indirectly stress on the consequences of good and bad deeds to be enjoyed here itself in the novels. Such inevitable consequences indicate the firm divine system of heaven, hell and God indirectly. But, you are writing the story in such a way to show that good is punished and bad is succeeding. For such special practical instances, the requirement of explanation of the doctrine of karma is essential. The sins done in the previous birth have to be taken into account for such practical cases. Even if the rebirth is not accepted, sins misunderstood as good deeds might have been done in this birth itself and their inevitable consequences explain such special cases. Without such total concept of spiritual knowledge in the background, people are just writing the novels to raise the tension continuously just for killing the time. The time can be killed by several ways without raising the tension. The tension is the source of all chronic diseases. They are writing the novels to earn wealth at the cost of the health of the people and this is a terrible sin.

Valmiki and Vyasa also wrote novels, which are noble stories with vast ethical and spiritual knowledge in their background. Even in the Mahabharata, which is a social novel, the aspects of Pravrutti and Nivrutti are stressed through the role of human incarnation (Krishna). These epics are not only scriptures for establishing Pravrutti but also, are the practical scriptures of spiritual knowledge, which surround the then live human incarnations of God. In fact, the Ramayana and the Bhagavatam are the best scriptures of practical spiritual knowledge of Hanuman and Gopikas, who have achieved the highest fruit of salvation. The Mahabharata shows the partial success of Pandavas in the recognition of contemporary human incarnation. Hence, you must write the novels after achieving the complete spiritual knowledge and you should use the point of raising tension to bring alertness in the soul only for the impression of ethical and spiritual concepts of Pravrutti and Nivrutti.

Once you are settled in the practical service of the contemporary human incarnation of God, there is no need of anymore-theoretical devotion (Bhakti Yoga) and there is no need of any more analysis of subject (Jnana Yoga). The practical service (Karma Yoga) is the endless stage, in which, one has to continue for births and births till the end of creation. This is the significance of endless life (Chiranjiivi) of Hanuman, who fixed Himself in the service of human form of God. The knowledge (jnana) and theoretical love (bhakti) exist in the soul, as samskaras and the soul need not waste time again and again in these two. The short lives of Shankara and Meera indicate the brief periods of learning Jnana and getting bhakti.

You must come out of Pravrutti as early as possible and enter Nivrutti. Shankara and Prahlada entered Nivrutti even in their tender childhood. People misunderstand that the subject of Pravrutti is made of chapters so that one can turn to Nivrutti at the end of some chapters atleast. If you are at the end of a chapter and if the bell rings, you can request the other teacher for five minutes time to complete your chapter before coming out. But, if it is continuous subject, there is no meaning in such request. You think that you will come to Nivrutti after settling of your children. But, your children are never settled virtually because they are again unsettled due to their children. Hence, your children are never settled since their children are unsettled in your lifetime. Thus, the chain is endless and you have to break the endless chain at some point or the other. In an endless chain, any point is worth of breaking up. The Veda says that you must leave the chain at any point once you are completely attracted to God (Yadahareva Virajet Tadahareva Pravrajet). Shankara, the topmost genius realized the truth and broke the chain in the childhood itself. Today, people are not breaking this endless chain even on the deathbed. A fellow in Karnataka died and his last word was ‘Kasabari’. The word means the broomstick to be used to sweep the dust on the floor. A donkey was trying to bite it. He warned his son to remove that and save it from the donkey. You know, that soul was born in the next birth as a sweeper on the roads with broomstick in hands. A pickle soaked in the jar for a long time in salt and acidic fluid, cannot give the sweet taste if you put it in sugar solution. Therefore, it is better to turn towards Nivrutti as early as possible. A poor peon is the greedy fellow in the previous birth, who earned wealth for generations through businesses and corruption without any sacrifice. A beggar searching for money is a person, who wasted the money in lavish manner by giving to undeserving people. A lifelong diseased rich fellow is a rich person in the previous birth, who spent all the earnings for his selfishness only. The sins and punishments are very systematically implemented by very powerful computerized system called Citra Gupta in the hell.

I am surprised to see scholars even in old age are involved in the deep analysis of useless routine family affairs only. Even if they spend 1/10^th part of their time, energy and talent of logic for the subject of God, they will get salvation. What happened to their spiritual knowledge in which, they are very famous preachers? Is it due to the effect of the long association with the family life? The darkness may be associated with you from a long time. But the moment, the sun shines, the darkness existing from centuries and centuries also should vanish. In such case, what is the reason for the inefficiency of their divine knowledge? The power of knowledge-light is very less in which case the darkness is not much affected. What is the reason for the absence of power in their knowledge? The power of the knowledge is directly proportional to the degree of truth in it. If the knowledge is absolutely true from all angles, it is like the summer sun and the ignorance-darkness of any extent of intensity and to any extent of the period of its stay, has to vanish in a fraction of second. Therefore, the absence of absolute truth is responsible for the reduced power of the knowledge to remove the ignorance. Though the moon and stars exist, the darkness also exists in the world. But in the daytime no trace of darkness can exist before the sun. The sages built-up the tradition in such a way so that the absolute truth is always masked by the extent of ignorance suitable to the level of devotees.

For example, the contemporary human incarnation is God covered by the three qualities and five elements, which cannot touch Him, is the ultimate goal. To reach this highest state, you have to worship the human form of God as a statue. Before this, you have to accept that a representative medium is necessary to worship unimaginable God and a representative model like a stone (Shiva Lingam) should be worshipped. Since ignorant people neglect even the diamond present before their eyes, to satisfy their psychology, the model should be far from his place like the Shiva Lingam in Varanasi. To encourage him to go to that city, the river Ganga should be praised with an attraction. So, it is told that if you take bath in Ganga and die in Varanasi, your entire sins end. The death in Varanasi means that atleast in old age, you should turn to Nivrutti. This is absolute truth masked by infinite intensity of ignorance. If that is true, what is the value of the karma cakra and the necessity of hell?

Today, you can find even a scholar with deep knowledge of scriptures is going to the river Ganga for bath and several dead bodies are constantly immersed in Ganga. What happened finally? The sins remain in the same status. The river Ganga is so much polluted that a resident of Varanasi cannot even drink the water from Ganga. The person, who has taken bath in Ganga and died there, has added this new sin of spoiling the drinking water to the list of his sins. I know that the ignorant traditional people will revolt against this revealed truth. Nobody has guts to say this absolute truth in the city of Varanasi. The foremost rebels will be the priests and the other business people of Varanasi, who are earning money, exploiting the ignorance of this absolute truth. People will not have even patience to argue about the truth. The emotion is always a sign of ignorance (Krodhaat Bhavati… Gita).

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