Easiest Way to Attain God (Part-2)

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[Mr. Antony asked about the information of dangers in spiritual journey.]

Swami replied: The only basic danger in spiritual journey is ignorance. The ignorance generates certain decisions. Based on these decisions you are slipping from the path. The ignorance does not like analysis by reasoning which is called as ‘buddhi’. When the analysis is done, the ignorance becomes weak and decisions are cracked. If this process of analysis is repeatedly done, it is called as memorization. Such memorization generates continuous knowledge, which is like the light. Then the ignorance and its decisions are crushed which vanish like darkness. You never slip in the path as long as this light persists. I give an example here. You are acting as a king in a drama. Your dramatic son is artificially killed on the stage. You are weeping on the stage. You are ignorant that he is your dramatic son. Such ignorance created a decision in your mind and you are feeling that he is really your son. Such decision gives you real pain. Now if you analyse that this is drama, your ignorance disappears and subsequently your dramatic decisions and dramatic pain vanish. But, after a few minutes, you have left the analysis and so the ignorance, its decision and its pain continues. The ignorance is mainly created by the wrong interpretations of scriptures given by demons, who are born as some human beings.

Similarly, if you analyze your self and identify that you are the soul and not the body, all the worldly bonds disappear. This is called as Salvation. Now, you are qualified to attain and please God. With the help of the analysis of the scriptural knowledge, you can identify the Lord in human form. Here also you must remove your ignorance that He is the human body. As you have recognized your self in the human body by analysis, you must recognize the Superself or the Lord in that human body. Again, by analysis you must recognize that your self (Purusha), which is an item of the creation is totally different from the Superself (Purushottama). Such knowledge will keep you always in His divine service. Therefore, the only danger is ignorance as mentioned by Sanat Sujata in the Mahabharata (Pramadakhyo Mrutyuh…). Lord Krishna started the Gita with Buddhi Yoga only, which is the analysis leading to divine knowledge. Shankara also emphasized on the removal of ignorance by the analysis, called as Jnana Yoga. Then only you can understand the statement of Jesus about leaving the worldly bonds for the sake of serving the mission of the Lord.

[Mr. Antony asked what is the easiest method to please God?]

Swami replied: What is the easiest method to pass the I.A.S. examination and to become the district collector? If corruption and copying do not exist, can there be any easy method for this? The fruit of pleasing God is very high and eternal. You can please the selection committee for the post of a peon easily because the standard of questions and answers is very low. But to please the selection committee for a very high post requires lot of hard work and sacrifice of pleasures in studies. Therefore, pleasing God is on one extreme end and the easiest method is on the other extreme end. Love alone can please the Lord. But the Love must not be only in theoretical stage, it should be proved practically. If somebody comes and acts love on you, are you not testing it? The beggar praises you, but you shout at him. Your father shouts at you. But you are submissive to him because you know that he loves you really and his shouting is only for your welfare. Therefore, love expressed in words and mental feelings can be also false. Your wife expresses her love through words and feelings. But it is real because it stands your test. When the situation demands she serves you day and night. Therefore, service is the proof of love. The theoretical love must be associated with practical love, which is service. When the guest comes, you are giving a cup of water. That is theoretical love. The water is freely available. Similarly, the words and mental feelings are freely available, which are supplied by God to all the human beings. After giving the cup of water if you offer a plate of Tiffin, that plate indicates the practical love. The food in that plate is your hard earned money. Therefore, prayer and devotion must be associated with service. A plate of Tiffin without water indicates your foolishness.

Therefore, prayer by words, devotion by mind and discussions by intelligence is like a cup of water and it must be followed by service, which essentially is the sacrifice of the fruit of your hard work (Karma Phala Tyaga). The work done in such service is sacrifice of work (Karma Samnyasa). Thus, sacrifice of words, mind, intelligence money and work constitute the five parts of the total sacrifice. If you carefully analyse and frank to accept the naked truth, the sacrifice of hard earned money is the most difficult item. If the money is absent even the body leaves your soul which has to be maintained by money and there is no need of telling about other relatives. Therefore, this glaring truth is stated in the Veda as ‘Dhanena Tyagena Ekena…’ which means that you can please the Lord by sacrificing your hard earned money. People who are unable to do this mock at this statement or misinterpret it. You have to realize the truth in yourself only and there is no need of others. It is the fire test which is called as the flame test in chemical analysis. But this does not mean that you throw some money and purchase the Lord. If the most difficult sacrifice can be done, it is foolish in not sacrificing easy items like words, mind, intelligence and work.

After this stage, the Lord competes even with your life. Gopikas jumped into fire when Krishna left His body. Jesus told that His disciple must be prepared to carry on his own cross for the sake of the Lord. He sacrificed His body, life and finally sacrificed the final item called the soul by submitting it in the hand of the Lord. Thus, total sacrifice is required to please the Lord and Jesus is the best example for such total sacrifice. Hanuman tore His heart with His finger nails for the sake of Lord. Prahlada did not leave the name of Lord even though the demons tried to kill him in several ways. You can understand the path by these examples and this is the meaning of the statement of Jesus that He is the path. It means that He proved the path practically through His life. This statement does not mean that Jesus is the path. It means that whatever practiced by Jesus is the path. If you catch Jesus you cannot reach the Lord. If you catch His practice and if you can practice that, you can reach and please God. This is the correct interpretation of His statement. Simply chanting the name of Jesus and crying for His crucification is not the path. He showed the path by practicing it. Similar is the case of Hanuman and Prahlada also.

[Mr. Antony told that some of his friends say ‘Jesus told that He submitted His soul to God’. Based on this very statement some say that Jesus cannot be God.]

Swami replied: You are giving value to one statement of Jesus and you are not giving value to some other statement of the same Jesus. Jesus also told that He and His Father are one and the same. This statement of Jesus is also equally valid. Every human incarnation is a two-in-one system. When you say ‘God in flesh’, the word flesh means a living human being and not mere inert human body. Krishna said in the Gita that He enters the human body (Manushiim Tanum…). Here the word human body means the living human being and not mere inert human body. The word human body means the composite of three human bodies and such composite is called as a living human being. Therefore, this means that the Lord enters the human being. The three human bodies in the composite are

1) The outermost gross body, which is alive due to the awareness that pervades all over the gross body.

2) The inner subtle body which is the bundle of qualities or feelings, which is alive because these qualities are just the vibrations of pure awareness.

3) The innermost causal body, which is the core pure awareness.

The gross body is crucified. All the statements are given by the subtle body only through the mouth of the gross body. This subtle body stated that His body was not prepared for crucification. Here, the body refers to the gross body, which is different from the subtle body. At the end, this subtle body stated that it is submitting its soul to God. The word soul refers to the causal body. This composite of three bodies stands as the meaning of the word Jesus. This composite is the meaning of the word ‘flesh’. This composite is called as the human being or Jiiva. Strictly speaking the word Jiiva means subtle body only. The soul is called as Atman. God entered Jesus and therefore, God is in flesh. God is the fourth item and is called as ‘Super soul’. It is this super soul or God who said ‘I and My father are one and the same, I am the truth’ etc. Therefore, you should not confuse between the separate statements of subtle body and super soul.

Any ordinary human being is just a composite of these three bodies without the super soul.

Otherwise there will be glaring contradiction between such statements. The aspect of human being is to stand as a practical example for all the human beings. The aspect of God is to explain practically the divine nature of God. Any human incarnation consists of these two aspects, which is a mixture of human being (Nara) and God (Narayana). If you take any sweet, it is prepared by mixing sugar and flour. But the item is called as sweet referring to the property of sugar only, which is more important. Similarly, any human incarnation is divine referring to the nature of God only, which is more important. An electric wire consists of electricity and non-electric wire. But it is called as current referring to the more important electricity only. You call the lamp as light, which consists of flame and other materials like iron, sand, glass and cotton-piece with oil. It is called as light referring to the more important flame, neglecting other non-luminous materials. Therefore, you call Jesus as God which really means the God is in Jesus. Similarly, Hanuman is the incarnation of Lord Shiva. As a human being, He acted as a servant of Lord Rama. As Lord Shiva, He jumped over the sea and killed several demons. Similarly, Lord Rama learnt the spiritual knowledge from sage Vashishta. This is the aspect of His human body. But as Lord Narayana, a stone was converted into lady by the touch of His divine foot. Similarly, Krishna is a driver of the chariot of Arjuna from the point of human being. As Lord Narayana, He preached the Gita to Arjuna and gave divine vision to him. The aspect of God is to teach about the God to the human beings. The aspect of the human being is to freely mix with the human beings and stand as an example for human beings.

Even the Prophet Mohammed is the Human Incarnation of the Lord. He did not reveal His divine aspect because it was not required in those circumstances. Thus, you have to realize the program of the human incarnation according to the requirement suitable to the surroundings. If Lord Krishna was born in West instead of Jesus, people might have been more spoiled. The people there were very cruel because nowhere in the world in the history, the human incarnation of the Lord was killed in such a brutal way. That shows their cruel nature in that time. For such nature only love and kindness can bring realization. If Krishna were born there, they could have very easily grasped the negative qualities like stealing etc., without understanding their significance and the significance of the human incarnation. Therefore, a suitable program was adopted by the Lord. You should not criticise Jesus joining such cruel people about incapability of self-protection. Similarly, you should not criticise Krishna, for stealing butter, which was only to cut their bond with their hard earned wealth. Similarly, attracting Gopikas by dance was only to cut their bonds with their husbands. Gopikas were sages in the previous birth and prayed the Lord for Salvation from the bonds. Hindus in India believe in previous birth and therefore, they can digest this background. If this happened in the West, Christians do not believe in previous birth and therefore, will certainly misinterpret these concepts. Therefore, the divine program can be understood in the context of the background of a particular region only.

Therefore, we have to understand the statements in the light of God as well as in the light of flesh accordingly, since both aspects are required for the devotees. The human aspect shows the path and the divine aspect shows the nature of the goal. Similarly, the nature of the program of the human incarnation depends on the level of the psychology of the people living in a particular region in a particular time. With the help of such parameters only you can appreciate the total behaviour of the personality of the human incarnation.

[Mr. Antony asked the significance of the present human incarnation.]

Swami replied: When you read the scriptures, which are the discourses of past human incarnations, you will get so many doubts for clarification. The original Lord is not available and we have to depend on the fellow human beings for clarifications. Suppose you are studying a correspondence course. When you get a doubt, you have to depend on your classmate who is studying the similar course. He is not competent to clarify your doubts and you will be poisoned by the wrong interpretation. Suppose you are studying the same course in a college and the lecturer is explaining in the class. Whenever you get a doubt, you can ask him then and there itself and you will surely get the correct interpretation in the correct moment. The clarification is important in the correct moment because without clarification the latter part of the lecture may not be understood or may be misunderstood. Such facility does not exist with the past human incarnation and past scripture. In this light only, Jesus modified all the Old Testament and gave correct interpretation as and when the people were asking Him. If Jesus is not in the present generation, He must be blamed with partiality towards that generation. God is impartial and comes in every generation.

The present generation is very much blessed because of this facility of computer technology. You can clarify your doubts through this computer system without any strain in the journey. All the divine preachers in this world are in contact with God and are doing the divine preaching to various levels. Their preaching may be mixed with some ignorance and it is not a fault because such mixing with ignorance in various proportions is required to various lower levels of human beings. The knowledge without any trace of ignorance can be grasped only by very few topmost devotees. The number of research students under a professor is very few. Therefore, the direct human incarnation is recognized by a very few top level devotees only.

The number of elementary school students are always many and the number of elementary school teachers are also many. As you rise in the level, the number of students and the number of professors become lesser and lesser. Therefore, you should not aspire for a large number of followers. For the direct human incarnation, there will be only very few deserving devotees of such top level. But such top devotees are spread here and there in all over the world. Therefore, there is a necessity for propagating the topmost divine knowledge of the topmost human incarnation all over the world. But the number of followers will not be topmost and it will be least only. Jesus said that His path is very narrow and only very few people travel in it. Lord Krishna told in the Gita that one in millions only can perfectly understand Him (Kaschit Mam Vetti…). Therefore, the aim of the topmost human incarnation is not to have a large number of followers, which is impossible. The aim is only to see the topmost knowledge reach the few deserving devotees who are spread all over the world here and there. If you wish to have majority as followers, the divine knowledge has to be adulterated with ignorance. The naked truth should not be exposed in such case. Diamonds are always few in number, whereas the gravel stones are many.

The lower level devotees and the lower level school teachers should not be criticized. The levels of school, college and university are obvious due to the existence of various human beings in the corresponding levels. Therefore, you should not criticize the students of school and college. Today you are a student of university. But one day you were in the school and in the college. Without the guidance of the school teacher and college lecturer, you could not have entered the university. The direct human incarnation of the Lord is the topmost Professor who is having a few post graduate and research level students. Being the Head of university, the schools and colleges are affiliated to the university working under His headship. It is the huge system of divine preachers. The school teachers and the college lecturers are working under the guidance and will of that professor only. The system is split to suit the various levels and there is no split in the preachers. The whole system of divine preachers is perfectly working due to the grace of that supreme preacher only. There is no split in the preachers. Mixing up ignorance is inevitable and is done according to the level of the students.

The supreme preacher is only one in a generation and He will be covering all the preachers and religions under the concept of Universal Spirituality. Some lower preachers may oppose this concept and it is not the fault of those preachers. Since the students of some lower levels do not agree to this concept, those preachers have to proceed according to their psychology. The supreme preacher knows this fact and smiles only, if any preacher of lower level opposes this concept. It is by the internal wish of supreme preacher only, that preacher is opposing to have a grip on such students of lower level who do not like this concept. It is a very long journey to transform the entire Universe to realize this concept of Universal Spirituality. But one day or other this divine goal is achieved and the entire world will be like one family with one divine Father. The various cultures and religions need not disappear. But the innermost single continuous thread of the garland of Gems with various colours will be realized by every human being of this Universe. Such a state is called as World Peace.

Please remember that the divine preachers in this entire Universe are not at all split. They appear as if they are split in order to have grip on their corresponding students who are really split. All these divine preachers are connected by their innermost souls and are working by the grace of that Supreme preacher, who is the Lord in human form. The difference in the preachers is only apparent to satisfy the different psychologies of the followers. One preacher may criticize another preacher in order to satisfy the followers but all these divine preachers are internally united and are working on the single program only to transform this entire world to realize the Universal Spirituality, which is the absolute truth like the one Absolute God.

All the original preachers like Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad etc., are brilliant diamonds and all the followers are the black charcoals. The diamond and charcoal are made of same carbon atoms. Similarly, the preacher and the follower are human beings. In diamond, there is a regular crystal structure. The charcoal is amorphous without any crystal structure. Thus, the correct logical interpretation makes the scripture shine like a brilliant diamond. The same scripture without regular logical interpretation becomes a black charcoal.

Revelation of the Human Incarnation

[At the time of departure to Bombay, Mr. Antony asked Swami “Why don’t You declare Yourself clearly that You are the present Human Incarnation?”]

Swami replied: Buddha did not speak even about God and therefore, there is no question of the topic of the human incarnation. Therefore, Buddha was safe. Mohammed denied the concept of human incarnation and declared Himself as only the Messenger of God. Anybody can be become Messenger and therefore, Mohammed was also safe. Lord Krishna emphasized on the concept of Human Incarnation throughout the Gita, but Krishna told that He is the Human Incarnation only to Arjuna and not to any other person. Therefore, Krishna was also safe. Jesus told that He is the Human Incarnation by telling that He and His Father are one and the same. He told this to many people and this news spread everywhere. This statement is in the Bible and the Bible is His message given to the public. For this statement, He was brutally killed. Now, if I state the same in the present time, crucification may not be there due to improved legal atmosphere, but people will laugh at Me and will say that I am mad and should be admitted into a mental hospital. Ofcourse, this does not mean that I have accepted and stated that I am the human incarnation. Assuming that I am the Human Incarnation, I am telling this. Let this not be taken as My declaration. This only means no human incarnation will declare Himself as God after the crucification of Jesus. Since then God is terribly afraid of such declaration. Therefore, even if I am the real human incarnation, I will not declare it. If I am not the human incarnation, I should not declare it. Therefore, in any case I cannot declare this.

The identification of human incarnation is the most complicated subject because of several hurdles in it. The first hurdle is that people are generally affected by the egoism and jealousy. A human being never likes to accept another human form as God. Even if some human being conquers his egoism and jealousy and accepts it, it is only temporary. It is impossible to smash the egoism and jealousy. You can only reduce them temporarily. When Krishna taught the Gita, Arjuna accepted Lord Krishna as the Lord, but just after eighteen days, Krishna asked Arjuna to get down from the chariot. Arjuna was reluctant because he expected Krishna, the driver, to first get down and then only the charioteer shall come down. It is the question of prestige of a charioteer in presence of soldiers. Just in eighteen days, the egoism and jealousy grew in Arjuna and he forgot Krishna as the Lord. By eighteenth day, he treated Krishna as driver only. Therefore, only one in thousands will accept the very concept of human incarnation for this reason. Even if one accepts this concept, he likes to limit it to the past dead human incarnations only. Unless one conquers his egoism and jealousy completely, one cannot accept the present human incarnation standing before his naked eyes. Therefore, only one in thousands accepts this concept of present human incarnation and starts to search for the address of the present human incarnation. This is told in the Gita as “Manushyanaam Sahasreshu…”. Thus, this verse refers to the devotees who are searching for the then human incarnation. This verse does not refer to the devotees who search for God because several people are theists and investigate for God. This verse says further “Kaschit Maam Vetti…”. This means only one in such devotees can identify the present human incarnation. This means though you have conquered your jealousy and egoism and though you are searching for the existing human incarnation, there are several hurdles before you identify the present human incarnation. What are these hurdles? As I told the first hurdle is your own egoism and jealousy. You may say that you have conquered them and therefore, you are investigating for the present human form of Lord. Though you have conquered, your victory is only temporary. They are the two sleeping snakes in your heart. They will rise at any time and bite you. Therefore, you must try for a permanent conquer and thereby, to destroy them forever. Then only the first hurdle is removed. Assuming that you have destroyed them, before you reach Him still there are several hurdles. The priests of the temples, the preachers of ethics and puranas and Scholars, who preach the philosophy are the hurdles. They will not allow you to proceed, who wash your brain on the way. They are against the present human incarnation. If you reach the present human incarnation, they will lose income and fame from the devotees. They are earning money and fame by singing the glory of the past human incarnations. Infact, while Jesus was alive these people were His main enemies and the reason is very very clear. People started following Jesus who opposed the collection of money in the church. These people killed Jesus who was obstructing their income and fame. Even after the death of Jesus, these people misinterpreted the statement of Jesus that He will come again. Jesus meant that He would come again and again in every human generation to give the same divine opportunity to every generation because He was the impartial God. If this meaning is accepted their income and fame will be obstructed in every generation. Therefore, these people misinterpreted the meaning of this statement by saying that Jesus will come only at the end of the world. When the world is destroyed even if Jesus comes, there will be no problem. By this interpretation, they have cleared their way of business till the end of the world. The followers are also congenial for such misinterpretation because of their inherent egoism and jealousy to accept the existing human incarnation. Therefore, there was a co-operation from both the sides. Assume that you have passed this hurdle also. The next hurdle is false human incarnations that will trap you for the same reason of income and fame.

Ofcourse these false incarnations are based on the will of God only. He tests your scriptural knowledge by which only you have to identify the real human incarnation. They are just like the wrong answers present in the multiple-choice question. The same examiner who gives the right answer creates the wrong answers also to test the power of your discrimination. The discrimination results only if you digest scriptural knowledge with perfect logical analysis. Then only you can eliminate the fraud incarnations like wrong answers. Poundraka Vasudeva was such false incarnation, who looked like Narayana wearing the same dress and the same weapons. Krishna was not having the same dress since He was having His own special peacock feather on His head. Instead of weapons, He was carrying on a flute. Both these are not with Narayana. The main identification of Lord Krishna is only the Gita. The Veda says that the Lord is characterised by His own special divine knowledge, which cannot be preached by any other human being in that generation (Satyam Jnanam…, Prajnanam Brahma…). These fraud incarnations are like the artificial diamonds, which resemble the original diamond in many properties. The artificial diamonds glitter with seven colours just like the original diamond. But, the refractive index of the original diamond is very high and a scientist can only identify it. The false incarnations also preach knowledge. But the power of the knowledge of the real incarnation is very very high. Yourself aided by your intellectual logical faculty (buddhi) can only be convinced and get cleared from all the doubts only by such special divine knowledge (Prajnanam…). One person who was very close to Me posed a big problem through a question. He told Me “I have analysed Your divine knowledge after hearing the knowledge of several divine preachers. My inner self is completely convinced by Your knowledge only. This means You are the human incarnation. I doubt You have given such procedure to me by which the result falls on Yourself only”. Then I replied “I have given you all the procedure as given by the sacred scripture, the Veda. I have also given equal position to your logical analysis before accepting that procedure. The scripture along with logical analysis gives the correct result. If the result falls on Me, what shall I do? Shall I change the Scripture? Shall I say that there should be no logical analysis? To avoid Myself as the result, shall I say that the person who does not convince your inner self shall be the human incarnation? You can put your logic and if there is a logical question on the analysis of the scripture, I can answer that. If you are convinced by all means, I cannot help it”.

If the scripture and the logical analysis lead that person as the result, he would have jumped with joy. If some other human being becomes the result, atleast he would have been silent. But, since the result happens to be Myself whom he is seeing everyday, the problem came. Therefore, the repulsion caused by jealousy and egoism will be following you always in your spiritual journey and you can be trapped by it at any time. Assume that you have crossed this hurdle also and caught the original human incarnation. Up to this point only the first half of the cinema is over.

From this point onwards the second half of the cinema starts, which is more complicated. The real human incarnation will not encourage and accept your identification. He will try to mislead you from the truth. When you observe His external physical body, it exhibits the same properties of any human body like hunger, thirst, disease, birth, death etc. This itself is sufficient to throw you out. Here you must analyse that God is in that human body and God is not that human body. You must understand the Gita “Manushiim Tanumashritam”, which means that God entered the human body. God in flesh also means the same. God is not the flesh. This analysis is given by the Gita itself clearly in the verse “Avyaktam Vyaktimapannam”. This verse means that the unimaginable (Avyaktam) did not become imaginable (Vyaktam). This means that the unimaginable God entered the imaginable body. Therefore, the unimaginable God did not become imaginable, which means that God did not become the human body. By this analysis, you can cross this hurdle. The external outermost gross body (Sthula Shariira) shows these properties and is like the shirt. The shirt of a king is as good as the shirt of a beggar in its properties. Since the shirt is same, the king is not the beggar. Similarly, since the gross body is similar to the gross body of a human being, the Lord is not the human being. If you cross this hurdle, there is second hurdle, which is the inner subtle body consisting of the three qualities. The subtle body of the human incarnation is also exhibiting the same three qualities as in any other human being. The subtle body (Sukshma Shariira) is common to both the human incarnation and the human being. Again, with the help of the same above analysis you should cross this second hurdle also. As you should not mistake the Lord to be the gross body, you should also not mistake Him to be the subtle body. Therefore, you should not mistake the Lord by His exhibited three qualities (Triguna Maya). Sometimes, the Lord tries to mislead you by exhibiting the bad Rajas and Tamas. Generally, there is an impression that the Lord has good qualities (Sattvam). Here you must analyse that He is beyond the three qualities and that He is neither good nor bad. The Gita says that the Lord is beyond these three qualities (Nachaham teshu). Assume that you have crossed this second hurdle also. The third hurdle is final. This third item in any human being is the causal body (Karana Shariira) or called as soul, which is pure awareness. This soul in any human being is also beyond the three qualities or subtle body as said in the Gita (Gunebhyascha Param). The Advaita Scholars are trapped at this point. In the above verse, the Lord is said to be above the three qualities (Maya) and in the present verse, the soul in the human being is said to be above the three qualities (Avidya). Though both Maya and Avidya are made of three qualities, Maya and Avidya are qualitatively similar but differ quantitatively. Both Maya and Avidya arise due to the self-ignorance.

When God forgets Himself, Maya arises, which is the creation. When the individual soul forgets itself, Avidya arises as a dream. Both the creation and the dream are made of the three qualities and arise due to self-ignorance. But there is a vast quantitative difference between the Creation and the dream. You can pass through your imaginary wall of your daydream. But you cannot pass through the real wall in the world. If you cross Avidya, you can attain yourself. But if you cross Maya, you can attain God. But you can never cross Maya as told in the Gita (Mama Maya Duratyaya). Ofcourse the liberated soul, which is fully blessed by God, can cross Maya (Maya metam tarantite). But by crossing Maya, the liberated soul cannot become God because God is creator, ruler and destroyer of Maya. By crossing a river or sea, you cannot create or control or destroy the river or sea. Therefore, even the liberated soul, which has crossed the Maya could not become God. Can this ordinary soul, which can cross just Avidya become God? Therefore, even Hanuman who jumped over the sea did not claim Himself as God. Can this Advaita Scholar who can jump over a tiny drainage canal become God? Ofcourse the soul, which is beyond Avidya can be called as Brahman. The word Brahman is very loosely used in its original sense. Brahman means the greatest. Soul is the greatest among all the items of creation and can be called as Brahman. If you argue that the word Brahman is to be used strictly only for God, how is the Scripture Veda called as Brahman? The Veda is an item of creation because it was generated by God and therefore, the Veda is not the Creator (Asya Mahato…). Therefore, the word Brahman cannot be strictly limited only to God. The Veda is called as Brahman in the Gita (Brahma Akshara Samudbhavam). In this verse, the Gita says that the Veda is produced by God. Therefore, when you have used the word Brahman in one item of the creation, why not it be used in another item of creation? The Veda is called as Brahman because it is greatest in the category of Scriptures because it is the only scripture, which is protected from the pollution as it was passed on through recitation only from several generations. Similarly, in the category of the items of creation the pure awareness (soul), which is the finest form of nervous energy, can be called as Brahman. Therefore, the soul can be Brahman but not the God (Eeshwara). You cannot have even the qualitative similarity between the soul and God, because God is completely unimaginable and the soul is imaginable by shrewd analysis.

The Veda says that soul is an imaginable item for the sharp intellectual (Drusyate Tvagraya). This pure awareness (soul) is clearly seen through advanced instruments by a scientist. Therefore, by such careful analysis you can cross this final hurdle and conclude that God is beyond the soul or pure awareness also. In the human incarnation, the gross body appears as a limited human body but actually that limited body itself is the world simultaneously. This truth can be known only by the insight. Lord Krishna showed His limited body itself as the infinite cosmos to the inner eye of Arjuna. The Subtle body in the human incarnation is the Maya, which is the bundle of three qualities that pervade all over the universe. This means the Avidya in the human incarnation is simultaneously Maya. The soul present in the human incarnation is the Mula Maya simultaneously.

This is the most complicated aspect of the human incarnation, which can be never understood even by sages. It becomes the unimaginable concept because this little human body of the Lord standing on a small place of the earth itself is the entire infinite cosmos. The Lord showed the entire creation in His mouth standing on a small place in a village. But the entire earth is in the mouth of the Lord and this scene is also present on the earth present in His mouth. By this itself, you can understand that the God is unimaginable. Thus, in the case of the human incarnation only Avidya is Maya simultaneously, the limited human body is the world simultaneously and the soul is Mula Maya simultaneously. But in the case of ordinary human being, such wonderful concept does not exist. In the case of the human being, the soul is a tiny particle of Mula Maya, Avidya is a small part of Maya and the gross body is a small part of the world. The ordinary human being is just a composite of the outermost coat (gross body), inner shirt (subtle body) and the innermost banian (causal body). There is no fourth person inside this composite. This composite of the three is dancing by the power of God, which is called as Mula Maya or the pure awareness, which appeared in the beginning of creation. Therefore, the soul or human being is controlled by Maya (Maya Vashikrutah). This Mula Maya along with its will (Maya) and its modification (creation) is under the control of the God (Vashikruta Mayah). This is the difference between the human being (Jiiva) and God (Eeshwara). In the human incarnation the fourth item, God exists who is wearing the banian, shirt and coat. The human being is a composite of three items whereas the human incarnation is the composite of four items. The Veda says God as the fourth item (Turiya) and the three covering bodies as Vishwa (gross body), Taijasa (subtle body) and Prajna (causal body).

Therefore, the identification of real human incarnation called as Brahma Jnana or Brahma Vidya is the most subtle and complicated subject, which you can understand only by careful analysis and lot of patience. The Gita says that one can identify this son of Vasudeva as the Lord only after continuous efforts through several births (Bahunaam Janmanamante). Identification of God as a statue is very very easy. Identification of God as formless is also easy to understand if you give a simile like space or air, which is formless and all pervading. The energetic form of God like Vishnu, Shiva, etc., is also easy to digest because no human being develops repulsion towards such energetic form since no egoism and no jealousy arise in that case. The problem of egoism and jealousy along with all the above hurdles arise only for human beings to recognize the human incarnation. If the human being does not identify the human form of God here, such a human being also cannot identify the energetic form in the upper world because of the same repulsion of likes. As the human body repels the human form here, the soul covered by energetic body in the upper world rejects the energetic form of God also for the same reason. Therefore, such a human being is lost forever as said in the Veda (Ihachet Avedeet…).

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