Essence of Religious Scriptures (Part-2)

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Grace of The Lord - Pleasure of The Lord

Swami's Reply to some phone calls from USA: To get the grace of the Lord is more important than to please yourself with the worldly pleasures here, which includes fame. To please the Lord is more important than to get the grace of the Lord. The sages tried to get the grace of the Lord to save themselves from hell through penance. But, the same sages in the form of Gopikas tried to please the Lord even by going to hell by offering the foot-dust to Lord Krishna. Therefore, the Gopikas are treated higher than the Lord by the Lord Himself and the life of the Gopikas is more sacred than the penance. The Bhagavatam, explaining the life of Gopikas, should be the highest aim of this human life. All the greatness of the Bhagavatam is due to Gopikas only. Radha, who even became mad in the love of God, stands as the queen of Gopikas. Grace of the Lord indicates selfishness in us, whereas the pleasure of the Lord indicates the sacrifice in us. Thus, the final stage of Sadhana is only to end selfishness and reach the climax of sacrifice in the case of Lord. Some ignorant people reach the climax of sacrifice towards the society, which is foolishness. Sacrifice to please your body and your family is more important than to please the society and this is Pravritti or justice. But the Lord is more important than your body and family and this is Nivrutti or spiritual field. You must know both Pravrutti and Nivrutti and act according to the context. Fully ignorant people of Tamas quality cannot know the significance of both these fields as said in the Gita (pravrittimcha nivruttimcha).

[Some people are asking about their problems of sex and even homosex etc., which are limited to Pravrutti. Some have expressed about their suicidal thoughts. A young fellow asked about his suspicion on the character of his wife, leading to high tension.]

One should not hide the problem of body before a doctor and should not hide the problem of mind before the spiritual preacher. Body and mind are inter-related and affect each other. If a wound happens on the body, one feels unhappy. Thus, body affects mind. If the mind is with stress, a number of chronic diseases start. Thus, mind affects the body.

First of all, one should know that the concept of sex should not be magnified and should not be given over attention. Sex is a biological need of the body like hunger and thirst. It is a biological issue at physical level because, when the food is taken, a part of it is supplied to the reproductive system, by which, it gives signals in the form of sexual desire for the growth of human race on this earth. It is created by God for this purpose so that the souls come down to the earth through the bodies created by sexual union. Thus, sex is a factor involved in the divine mission, which functions in a circular way by bringing down the souls to the earth and taking them away from the earth. Disease is another biological need for the body to disintegrate and liberate the soul for its journey to the upper world. This is the cycle of creation, called as karma chakra, which involves of taking the souls to the upper world for treatment and bringing down the souls after treatment. Birth is a vehicle in one direction running with the petrol, called sex. Death is the same vehicle running in reverse direction with the petrol, called illness. Petrol is one and the same and therefore, sex is a type of illness, which is in the divine service of God and should not be looked down or aversed. Sex is divine and its deity is Manmadha or Kama Deva, who is the son of Lord Narayana only. He is doing the divine duty following the path of Pravritti or justice. In the Gita, Lord said that He is Kama, following justice (Dharmaaviruddhah...). There is no need of shy in feeling hungry, thirsty, sleepy, spitting, urination, excretion etc., which are just simple biological, universal and routine activities. Sex is also in the same list, about which you should not think so much.

If you have understood the divine purpose of sex, there is no meaning in the homosexuality. It can be taken as a peculiar type of the biological need, which has no divine purpose. Satisfaction of hunger by eating food is not the divine aim. To maintain the body for doing Sadhana is the divine purpose and hunger is a signal indicating the same point. Without knowing this aim, some people say, “What is this eating, sleeping, living etc?” It shows their ignorance about the main aim of the human life. According to many, the aim of the human life is to enjoy the life with the family and get name and fame in the society as a rich man or as a scholar or as a capable person etc. Many feel that they have lifted the Govardhana hill by earning money and by bringing up their children. They feel that their lives are fulfilled, when the circle of their friends and relatives appreciate them as a great disciplined person by uplifting his children. He wants appreciation from the friends and relatives by words like “How much educated and rich he is! Yet see his humbleness, humility and simplicity!” The poor fellow becomes unconscious by this hypnotic drug and helps them, whose aim is only the help from him. When the help is over, their suppressed jealousy comes out, who will be abusing him. Thus, his life is neither fulfilled in this world, nor in the upper world.

The sages saw Rama and liked to embrace Him. Is it not homosexuality? No. They will not have such feeling, which is unjust and unnatural also. It is unjust because, it does not serve the purpose of reproduction, which is the divine justice. It is also not a natural path of satisfying the sex hunger. They had beautiful wives and reproduced children, thus, serving the divine mission of the Lord. Moreover, they did not like to embrace Him in the same forms as males. They liked to embrace Him after transforming themselves into females. This does not come under Pravritti, because they have wives and children already. This comes under Nivritti in which the climax of love towards God called as devotion, which crosses all the limits of nature and justice. It is infinite love towards God, which is unimaginable. The context of such feeling is neither reproduction, which is divine mission nor the pacification of sex-hunger, which is a biological need. It is the unimaginable attraction of the heart of the devotee towards the Lord. This attraction is not simply based on the physical beauty of the Lord, which is meaningless, if analysed. It is the attraction of the heart of the devotee towards the total personality of the Lord. There is no distinction of male and female in Nivritti. It is the point between God and soul. The same soul can exist in a body of male or female. The attraction between the soul and God cannot be compared to the attraction between two souls. Thus, there is a fundamental difference irrespective of the biological sex, which is related to the bodies. “Pumsaam mohna rupaaya” means that the sages are attracted by the divine personality. Moha means attraction and not sex. Kama is sex.

Chaste – Unchaste

The husband wants that his wife should not be attracted by other males, but he is attracted by other females. Similar is the case with wife. Shri Rajaneesh attacked this issue in this way and such approach is only partial. What about the case in which one is attracted to the side while the other remains chaste? You cannot generalise the case of some people to all. Here is a person, who is very loyal to his wife but she is attracted by somebody else. Shri Rajneesh liberalized the concept by finding fault with the other side also. In general, he may be correct. But, what about a specific case? Ofcourse, this case may be otherwise, because tomorrow I may get a problem from a chaste wife complaining about her husband for his side attraction. Therefore, one should not misunderstand Me siding only chaste wives or only chaste husbands. The issue is if one side is chaste and the other side is not chaste, what should be the solution? The solution for this is again multi-dimensional and multi-stepped. First of all, I should question whether the marriage took place by the full consent of both the boy and girl. Sometimes the consent is given by boy or girl as a ‘no objection certificate’. But that is not sufficient for a marriage. It should have a positive certificate of intensive attraction towards each other. The attraction becomes permanent and real if it is based on the total personality. Mere physical appearance is only one factor. If the physical appearance alone is the basis, the love should reduce as the old age comes or if the appearance is spoiled by some illness or accident in life. Buddha was attracted to Amrapali in her old age to serve her!

The husband or wife gets attracted by a better ‘total personality’ of opposite sex, whenever met in life. Mental attraction is hidden by several people by controlling their words. Words and actions of body are inert and do not participate in the sin. When this body, which spoke or did some wrong activity is leftover here, the soul is taken to hell in some other energetic body, it is punished. If the body is a participant of the sin, it should be directly taken to hell and should be punished. Therefore, in the hell, the mind is punished through another new body. Therefore, the sin is in the mind and not in the body. Once the mental attraction is there, the sin is recorded. The words and actions of body are works of inert energy and matter and have no sin. When Sita was carried by Ravana, the body of Sita was fully touched by Ravana by force as per the Valmiki Ramayana. This was referred by Sita herself (yadyaham gatra samsparsam…). But such attraction was not in her mind and therefore, she was declared pure by fire- God (Agni). Renuka got mental attraction towards a king on the banks of Narmada river and she did not touch him even by finger. But she was declared as sinner and her head was cut by her son, Parashurama. Therefore, after marriage, to get attracted by another person is a sin and the soul is punished in the hell. If the other side is also not chaste, will the sin get mutually cancelled and so no punishment to anyone? No. Both will be punished in the hell. Therefore, the philosophy of Shri Rajneesh in this point does not save the soul in any way.

To get rid of such sin and the consequent hell, the control of mind cannot be the true path, which is impossible. Some control food, but it is not a permanent solution because such feelings (samskaras) are precipitated from several millions of births. You cannot control the mind through the body, when the mind (samskara) is controlling your body. Such precipitated samskara, called as prakruti or nature acquired from millions of births, decides the course of action finally as said in the Gita (prakrutistvaam niyokshyati…, Prakrutim yanti…). The only permanent and real solution for this is to realize the real aim of the human life and turn to God. The attraction towards God is like a mega-tsunami in which the side attraction towards another personality disappears like a flood of river. No other side attraction can exist, when the divine personality of God appears. This attraction is totally different since it is the bond between God and soul and not a bond between souls. There is no aspect of male or female here. Rama went for golden deer, even though Lakshmana tried to stop Him. Here it appears as if Rama is more attracted by the female devotee compared to a male devotee. No. It is the climax of His love on the soul of Sita only and not on her body. The same Rama said to stop the war and was prepared to leave the life when Lakshmana became unconscious in the war. Here Rama neglected Sita before Lakshmana. This context shows the love of the Lord on the soul of Lakshmana, irrespective of the external body. In such tsunami of love on Lord, both justice and injustice disappear. If one realises this divine knowledge, he attains the Lord and crosses both good and bad (Buddhiyogam tam yenamaaam, Buddhyaa yukto, Buddhiyukto jahatiha ubhe… Gita). Both the hell and heaven are thrown out when you approach the divine Lord as said in the Veda (Punyapaape vidhuya…).

The divine knowledge will make you realize that though this world is real for the soul, the bonds between souls are unreal and dramatic. The sage Astavakra preaches the King Janaka through “Astavakra Samhita”, in which, the sage says that the mother and son in this life are becoming husband and wife in the next life! It is like a hero and heroine acting in two different roles in different pictures. We have two pictures running side by side in two theatres in which the same couple of actors acting as husband and wife in one picture and acting as mother and son in another picture! This bond did not exist in the past birth and will not exist in the future birth. That which was unreal in the past and will be unreal in the future is also unreal in the present according to Shankara (Yadanityam Tat Krutakam…). It is just a dramatic bond. Realize the main aim of human life and concentrate on that. You are unnecessarily worried in the side activity, which is just a change for recreation. Let her or him go to hell. Do not bother about it. There should be no tension in a game for a student. Game is just a recreation arranged for change. Do not be jealous on a classmate in a game. Be jealous in studies on the same classmate, because study is the main aim of your college life. Attractions are spontaneous, which can neither be created nor suppressed by force. A forced attraction by fear is not real and what is the use of such faith and love? In spiritual path also, the attraction to God should be spontaneous and natural without fear or force. Fulfilling the desires is the force. Fear is for the hell. Gopikas were prepared to go to hell in the love of the Lord and no force on the earth could deviate them from it. The attraction should be spontaneously generated in a free atmosphere without any attraction to boons and without any fear for the hell. In the human incarnation, the human form masks the real nature of the Lord so that a free atmosphere is created without fear and fulfilment of desires by using His superpowers. Such love is really sweet. God created this Universe and His main aim is to taste such real sweet love of His devotees. When the Lord showed His mega energetic form (Vishwaroopam), Arjuna shivered with high tension. In such state, can you even think of love? The love of Prahlada to Vishnu was spontaneous. His father tried to resist it and divert it to Lord Shiva. The resistance increased the devotion more and more. Therefore, the realization of the main aim of human life, the realization of the family life as a side activity for recreation of the soul, the realization of unreal dramatic bonds of family will remove all the tensions. The ignorance of the real aim of this life and the ignorance of the unreality of these bonds are responsible for these high tensions. A realized soul will laugh at such problems (karma bandham prahasyasi … Gita).

Aim of the Human Life

This human life is very rare. Next human birth is still rare. The ignorance of real aim of the life leads to thoughts of suicide due to tensions created in this unreal drama. Will anybody kill himself or herself really on the stage while acting a drama? Is he or she not a fool? Is he or she not mad? Suppose a student is defeated in cricket game and commits suicide. Is he not a fool? The game itself is a side activity meant for a change. This worldly life is just a side activity for change and one should not get even tension in this worldly life, not to speak of suicide!

Even the bond with your child is unreal because the blood from your body entered into the body of other soul. This external gross body is destroyed here and the bond is destroyed with that gross body. The soul of Abhimanyu in heaven did not recognise his father, Arjuna, for the same reason. The bond with wife is more unreal, which is formed due to touch between the two gross bodies, which are like the external clothes. The bond of the child perishes with the death. The bond with wife may die at any moment with divorce even within the span of this lifetime. The Gita says the same (Ye hi samsparsajaa bhogah …). A realised soul will not entertain himself in such unreal bonds (Na teshu ramate budhah – Gita).

A king in Srirangam was attracted to the beauty of the eyes of his wife. Shri Ramanuja showed the eyes of the Lord, which were radiating with divine knowledge and the king was attracted to the Lord leaving his wife. The physical appearance of the gross body is external personality, which is temporary. The qualities of the internal subtle body (along with the causal body) constitute the internal personality. When the wonderful God charges the human form by entering the human incarnation, generally He charges the internal subtle and causal bodies so that the qualities become divine and wonderful. The qualities of co-human beings may be good but not best and wonderful. Sometimes God charges the external gross body also according to the requirement as in the case of Krishna, which may become wonderfully beautiful or even radiating, giving divine visions and Vishwarupam. Shirdi Saibaba was not externally beautiful, but His internal personality was divine, charged by God. God withdrew Himself even in the case of Krishna from the external gross body at the end. The internal body (subtle and causal) can be called as Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva according to the predominating quality of the subtle body. Various qualities arise due to various mixtures of these three qualities giving rise to various deities. In the Vishwarupam, all these deities were shown with the central three qualities. Whenever the wonder (Maya) is mixed with the medium (Prakriti), the attraction becomes highest. Wonder (Maya) indicates the presence of God (Mayinamtu … Gita).

Do not worry about the sins of your close family members. Tell them once and help them in the analysis. Do not hate them and resist their side attractions. Resistance will only increase the attraction. You are promoting it indirectly. You help them in analysis and still if they do not change, neglect them. In this world, the souls and five elements are real but the attractions or feelings, which are called as bonds are unreal. The actors, stage, dress, lights etc., are real but the story and dialogues, which together called as drama, are unreal. God, the absolute reality, is the source of both the reality and unreality of this world. When I say that the world is a dream, you should not mistake it and confuse by thinking that everything in the world is a dream. If you analyse your wife and child, their souls and gross bodies are real. But their subtle bodies, which are made up of feelings (gunas) are unreal. The vessel (gross body) and the water (causal body) are real. But the waves in the water (subtle body) are unreal, which constitutes the whole drama–dream. All the actors and the materials used in the picture-shooting are real. Only the story, dialogues and the feelings expressed like attraction and hatredness are unreal. The Advaita scholars misunderstand here and say that the entire world is unreal.

You are admitted in the college and your main aim is to get the degree. If you fail in the exams, your main aim is upset. Therefore, you should get tension. Similarly, you should have tension if the main aim of the human life i.e., to achieve the grace of God, fails. Except that, all this family life and relationships are only extra-curricular activities. In your college life, a game is conducted as an extra-curricular activity. Suppose you are defeated in it. You should take it sportively and not seriously, because that is not the main aim. Therefore, take everything in life sportively, because, this life is not the ultimate aim. If family life only is the goal, even animals and birds have their family lives. The speciality of human life is to think and achieve the grace of God.

Attraction should be spontaneous and natural. You can get real bliss in such love only. You are already attracted to the greatest Lord. Why do you wish that you should attract some other soul by your personality? If any merit is present in your personality, it is from God and not yours. Pass on the credit to God. Advise the soul attracted by you also to get attracted by the greatest Lord. That will protect you both here and as well as in the upper world. The Gita says that if any greatness is seen in any person that is from the Lord only (Mama Tejomsa Sambhavam). Sita is attracted to Rama always and Ravana could not divert her. Rama never tried or compelled Sita to be chaste for Him. In fact, after the war, Rama told Sita to go freely and select Lakshmana or Bharata or Vibhishana as her husband. But Sita felt so much that she jumped into fire. Rama did not jump into fire, doubting Sita! The inert body cannot be partner of the sin. Only the live subtle body, made of qualities is responsible for the sin. Even though the body of Sita touched the body of Ravana, Sita was not sinner since it was against her will. Stating this Sita refused to sit on the shoulder of Hanuman, because she will not touch anybody except Rama consciously (Yadyaham gatra samsparsam– Ramayana). Therefore, attraction should be spontaneous and should not be compelled. Prahlada was spontaneously attracted to Vishnu. His father forced him to love Shiva instead of Vishnu. This does not mean that there is no devotee of Shiva, if Prahlada was not attracted to Shiva. Markandaya was as much attracted to Shiva as Prahlada to Vishnu. The love or attraction should be spontaneous and reasonless. God wants such love from the devotee. The attraction, which is not based on benefits in return is the real love. Therefore, since somebody is benefited by you, you should not expect love from that soul. You can expect gratitude. Love is beyond reason. Your love on God should not be based on the benefits you received from Him. You can be grateful for the help from God. But love is generated based on the personality. Sita loved Rama like that. Gopikas loved Krishna similarly. The weight of love is important and not the form of love.

People think that the eight wives of Krishna really loved Him. But when His finger was cut, it was Draupadi who cut the new silk sari for bandage but not the wives. Here the brother-sister love proved is more than husband-wife form. God sees the weight of love and not form of love. The cost of one kilo sugar donkeys is more than half kilo sugar horses. The cost is based on the weight of sugar and not on the form. The bond between Rama and Hanuman is only Master and servant, which has no relationship in our terms. But, the love in that bond was highest and Hanuman was rewarded with the post of creator i.e., God Himself. The mentality to attract other souls is egoism. The mentality to be attracted by God is divinity. When you never aspire to attract any soul, you will attract all the souls by the grace of God. When you like fame, you will be defamed as in the case of demons. If you ask, that shall not be given. If you knock, the doors will be closed. This is Nivrutti. The reverse of this is in Pravrutti for initial encouragement. For initial attraction towards God, some boons are granted, but it is temporary only. In the permanent advanced stage, love without aspiring any benefit in return is valid. Hanuman wanted to be the servant always. His devotion in this line was famous (Dasa Bhakti). But He was made the Lord of the world! Therefore, love without any aspiration for benefit and that which is based on the divine personality is only the real love. Such divine personality is only God. Always be attracted to Him. All will be attracted to you, because His grace will fall on you. Even then, let your attraction to God continue without egoism. You will rise and rise and God will keep you on His head. Not only the world, even God gets attracted by you. That is love of Radha or Hanuman to God. There is no concept of male and female here. It is the concept of soul and God. Any soul is like a glass lens only. It shines by the light of that Sun only.

Whenever a soul wants to be attracted by other soul or souls, it is only desire for fame, which has its root in egoism. If one makes himself as zero, he will become hero, since the grace or power of God enters into him. Arjuna without Krishna was defeated even by hunters from the forest. When he was associated with Krishna, he defeated all great warriors and became the topmost hero. Hanuman is the greatest hero in every aspect because, He always thinks Himself as zero. He sat on a stone like a school boy, when other monkeys were expressing their capacities to jump over the sea. Other monkeys were posing as heroes. He sat silently making Himself as zero. But He became the real hero by the grace of God and crossed the sea just by one short jump! He declared Himself as the weakest monkey (Mattah pratyavarah Kashcit – Ramayana). Therefore, learn to be attracted to God and not to attract others. Desire for fame is also a wine to induce the egoism. When Vivekananda was roaming in the streets of America, nobody cared for him. When he stood on the stage, then also nobody was attracted to him. But when he surrendered himself to his Guru, the power entered him and he attracted crowds by the divine knowledge–showers! If you become the absolute zero, you will be made infinite hero by God.

The gross body is inert and is like a cloth of the soul. Sex is the momentary happiness that is experienced by the physical touch of the two inert gross bodies. People use the word ‘love’ for sex. Love is the quality of subtle body (the inner item), which is made of qualities. Sex is the physical action of the gross body, like hunger, thirst etc., which is a biological function. Sex (kama) is related to body and love (Prema) is related to mind. Body and mind are mutually linked. Both sex and love are created by God for the divine work of reproduction of souls (dharma), which is the essential basis of His divine drama. All this is the issue between two souls only. After death, both sex and love disappear because even the recognition of the other soul does not exist any more. The love towards God is called as Bhakti, which is eternal, because the bond with God is eternal. Love is not eternal as it is limited to this birth only.

Sculptures on Temple Walls Remind Divine Purpose

The Veda shows the two ways. One is Pravrutti and the other is Nivrutti. In Pravrutti, the Veda advises the soul to marry for reproduction (prajatantum…), which is divine mission only. In Nivrutti, the Veda asks the soul to do the work of God without marriage (yadahareva virajet…) because the soul is not interested in any other thing except God. Ofcourse, marriage and reproduction of the souls coming from the upper world and training them with good devotion to God is also divine work. The momentary selfish happiness present in sex is not considered, because it does not persist afterwards. Thus, it is participation of two souls like two colleagues in a job. The third soul takes a body out of it and appears here with its own line of destiny. The third soul is like a new trainee-employee for the divine mission. Even the Lord needs parents to come in human form to uplift the humanity. If the divine purpose of reproduction is absent, God would have not created the sex and love between two souls. Without realising this divine mission, the three employees forget the job and the employer and develop liking to each other, which intensifies into blind foolishness, called as Moha.

In the Jaimini Bharatam, there is a story that tells that in the kingdom of Babhruvahana, people think Lord even during their copulation in the nights. This means that they are remembering the purpose of the sex in the service of God. If this divine goal is realised, one need not feel shy and hide sex feeling as if it is a sin. This divine purpose is reminded by the sculpture that shows the union of couple on the walls of the sacred temples. The present westerners and ancient Indians do not feel shy about the sex and are frank without hiding the feelings regarding it. One need not magnify it and keep it as secret like divine knowledge (Brahma Jnanam). When you are doing some work in the job, you forget it and go home peacefully. Shankara had to indulge in sex to defeat the wife of Mandana Mishra in the knowledge of Kama Shastra. He forgot it and never carried on the feelings about it, because His mind was not on it. He replied to Goddess Saraswati about the same and told that He was pure while climbing the throne of ‘Sarvajna Piitha’. When some devotees asked Me about the sex affair of a great saint, I asked them ‘why don’t you see the great works done by him? Are these silly things need any mention, which are just the biological functions? Why do you magnify them, which are not worth of even thinking? When you see a picture, do you see the excretion of hero in the lavatory? Why such scenes are not shot? Only the great works done by the hero are mentioned on the screen. A Nobel prize is not given to a person who controlled sex, which is also not denied to a great person because he could not control sex’.

The grace of God is also not related to sex for a householder, who is involved in the sex just for a few moments as in any biological function and involves himself in God’s work without caring for it. It is the mind that is related in this issue and not the gross body, which is inert. Scholars say “Enaivaalingita kanta Tenaivalingita suta’, which means that the same gross body embraces wife and also daughter. The physical action is same. But the mind is different. The mind is responsible for the sin. Actually, here mind means the intelligence (buddhi) that decides everything. Buddhi is the driver of this chariot-body. The driver is guided by his knowledge in driving. Therefore, buddhi or the driver means the knowledge or Jnana yoga that ultimately decides the sin. Only analysis can decide the sin (Buddhiyukto… Gita). This knowledge that comes from God alone is correct. Therefore, God decides the sin.

Brahma created the first soul i.e., Saraswati and married her. The other souls are generated from that divine couple. This story is mocked, that the Father married His own daughter. You are telling that all of us are created by God and that He is our divine Father. Then all of us are brothers and sisters only. How the marriage can take place in the creation? Now, the mockers should mock at themselves. The rules are created by us only in course of time, but they are valuable after framing only. There is no concept of sin if you realise that Brahma, Saraswati and all the souls are involved in sex to help this drama and entertains God by bringing down the souls from upper world and provide them the external gross bodies like dresses for drama. If we realise that the very process of sex is only for this divine purpose and that it is a divine process created by God Himself, there is no point of sin. When the creator is forgotten and when the purpose of our creation and existence for the sake of the entertainment of God is also forgotten, a life without sex is also a sin only.

This world is Mithya, which means almost unreal because its reality is negligible. The existence of a tiny cut on your shirt is negligible and you will not count its existence. This entire world is almost unreal for God and is like a daydream. All the five elements viz., matter and energy are almost unreal in view of God. The soul is made of tender and weakest energy called as awareness (chit), which is nervous energy flowing in most delicate matter i.e., brain and nerves. This nervous energy is almost negligible before the physical matter and inert energy and this physical matter and energy are negligible before God. Thus, the soul is twice negligible for God. The most negligible item of this world is the soul. The qualities or feelings (gunas) are like waves of soul. They are negligible before the existence of soul. The water associated with some kinetic energy induced becomes a wave. The wave represents that kinetic energy. The physical existence in terms of visibility of energy is negligible before the matter. Thus, the wave representing energy is also not completely unreal and can be called as Mithya. The subtle body made of these qualities is Mithya before the soul. Thus, a dream made of feelings is Mithya before a soul. What are these bonds like parents, wife, children etc.? These bonds are only just feelings, which are waves of the nervous energy. A father and daughter or a brother and sister separated from the beginning met in a foreign country and got married. Later on, they realised and could not continue as couple. The daughter of sister is married but the daughter of brother is treated as daughter. In some other region and religion, this system is reversed! It is the wave of mind or feeling that is the essence of a bond. Therefore, all these bonds are almost unreal (Mithya) for a soul. Why there should be tensions, murders and suicides for the sake of these almost unreal bonds? Why there should be corruption for the sake of these almost unreal bonds and go to hell for the sin of corruption? It is these bonds that form the meaning of the word ‘world’ for the soul, when the world is said to be Mithya and not the physical world. This is the essence of the preaching of Shankara, which is misunderstood and the soul treats the physical world as unreal! An ignorant soul thinks that these bonds are real and undergoes tensions.

A paper and pen are sufficient to give a certificate. Similarly, the knowledge and devotion, which are also made of nervous energy, are sufficient to attain the grace of God. The attachment to wealth is also a bond like the bonds with your family members. You are sacrificing your attachment to wealth and family members for the sake of God. Already the wealth and your family members are the immovable and movable properties of the Lord. For the sake of God, Shankara sacrificed the attachment to His mother and not sacrificed the mother because she is already a part of the movable property of the Lord. Similarly, Gopikas sacrificed their families and butter (wealth) for the sake of the Lord and here also sacrifice of their bonds is the point. All the game is only with these feelings (bonds), which are almost unreal and not with real things. Therefore, there need not be any tension regarding the bonds. Your bonds with other souls are unreal compared with the bond with God, just like the bonds in the drama are unreal compared with the bond with the owner of the drama. The dramatic bonds change from one drama to the other. Similarly, the bonds with your souls change from one birth to the other. The bond with God is real and eternal because, even in Maha Pralaya (the final dissolution of the creation), the souls exist in God, which are controlled by Him always. The Master-Servant bond exists always, which is the essence of any other bond also.

I have come down to preach and reach each one of you here. I am impartial from My side. Your attachments depend on your own merits and defects. I am controlling My fame as long as I am alive, which will rise like a Tsunami after My exit. There is a reason for this. To accept the human incarnation itself creates the seed of egoism and jealousy. If the human form of God becomes famous while alive, the seed of egoism and jealousy will grow like a huge tree even in the heart of the closest devotee. Priests accepted the past human Prophets. But, to accept Jesus as Prophet in live form, jealousy entered as seed. Jesus was drawing crowds by His divine knowledge and the growing fame of Jesus developed the jealousy more and more, which lead to His crucification. Even His closest devotee betrayed Him due to jealousy and egoism. God is not fond of fame because He is bored with the fame in the upper world. Only human beings are fond of fame. God enjoys defame, which is not available in the upper world. Crucification was defame and the Lord enjoyed it well here.

I was keeping silent about such issues of “Pravrutti” from a long time on the questions related to such problems of sex. But recently I got a phone from one person from USA and the person told “Swami! I read Your messages through emails. I am newly married. My wife is side attracted. I am chaste and like to commit suicide. Please advise me through Your spiritual knowledge.” I told him to wait and see My message on such issues. The story of Saktuprastha is a train from earth to heaven (I mean Brahma Loka). This message is a train from hell (Patala loka) to heaven, so that anyone can get into this and reach the other terminus. The Gita says “Apichetasi papebhyah…”, which means that even the greatest sinner will reach the Lord following the divine message i.e., the Gita. Similarly, Jesus showed the path of divinity even to a condemned prostitute.

I once again tell you to realize the main aim of this human life and forget the insult in the side activity. For a student, the education is the main activity and he should be upset if he fails in the unit tests. But, he should not be worried, if he fails in a game conducted as an extra-curricular activity in the college. All this worldly life is only a game of extra-curricular activity only. If you fail in your efforts to achieve the grace of the Lord, you shall get tension because the spiritual effort is the main activity and aim of this human life. Othello killed Desidimona and ended his life also doubting her character and his doubt was actually unreal. But I assuredly tell you that this entire worldly life made of these unreal dramatic bonds is really unreal and even if Desdimona is wrong, if Othello is a realized soul, he will neglect the total issue as an extra-curricular activity. Love in free atmosphere alone is worthy and in a compelled atmosphere, the hypocritic love is useless. Before matter, energy is negligible because energy condensed is matter. Before energy, awareness (soul) is negligible, which is the weakest form of energy. Before awareness, the feeling is negligible, which is only the wave of awareness. Qualitatively matter and energy are one and the same energy. But quantitative difference brings the negligence to be treated as almost unreal (Mithya). These bonds are feelings only and you can laugh at these bonds as said in the Gita (karmabandham prahasyasi).

Replies to Phones from USA: Whether it is homosex or heterosex, do not give much attention to it. Try to control the homosex, because it is unjust since there is no reproduction and it is unnatural way of pacification of sex-hunger, which is as good as any biological function. In any case, do not give much time and energy in thinking about that momentary extra-curricular activity. Let that moment be spent as a moment spent in excretion etc., which is inevitable to the body. That point is not a problem of Pravrutti also since you are not disturbing the society in any way like the corruption or communal war. It does not stand as an objection to the spiritual path in any way. It is only a laughable extra-curricular activity. Suppose a college student is playing with a small child. The spectators will laugh at it. But that has no connection with the main activity like attending the classes and writing the unit tests. Therefore, do not waste much time for such meaningless points. I assure you that your spiritual life has no link with that in any way. God simply smiles at it but will not be angry on it. Regarding the issue of heterosex and suicide the same argument holds good. Try to preach your wife regarding the justice in Pravrutti especially when you are loyal to her. Attract her mind to God so that all attractions including attraction to you also are diverted to God. The grace of God on her will not only protect her everywhere but also will protect her husband and children. It is meaningful and useful diversion. Do not wish that her side attraction should disappear and attraction to you alone should remain. Such wish is selfishness and egoism mixed with ignorance. If such thing is to happen, that should happen spontaneously in a free atmosphere only and not by force or economic attraction or fear of hell. There is no real taste in such unreal apparent love. In fact, Rama encouraged side attraction in Sita after war! But, Sita refused and jumped into fire even for hearing it! That is the real spontaneous love, which is really enjoyable. Rama did not commit suicide doubting Sita. He did not try to attract her but He was spontaneously attracted by her.

In any way, all this is a momentary extra-curricular activity, which has no significance at all. Therefore, neglect that point after certain level and concentrate on the main activity. When Jesus was carrying on the cross, people were weeping about Him. He asked them to weep for themselves and for their children. What does this mean? Even the death is a momentary side activity like changing the old dress as per the Gita and that point is inevitable to anyone. Whatever may be way of death, it is inevitable like the biological function. Therefore, that point need not be concentrated. Whether you are killed or you die naturally, death is one and the same, which is inevitable. Why should you bother about it and waste time thinking on that? Jesus did the work of God successfully and His life became fruitful. He is going to sit on the right side of God forever after the suffering of death for few hours. Suffering sometimes exists even for months and years in the case of some illness that attacks before death. But the other people are going to hell forever after this little human life for which also the suffering before death is inevitable. If you analyse this, who should weep for whom? One need not weep for Jesus but should weep about himself or herself or about their children in view of the permanent hell after death. This is the meaning of the statement of Jesus.

Krishna was shot dead. Rama jumped into the river at the end. Shankara suffered with blood motions at the end. But they never cared about death, which is inevitable. Before the problem of death, no other problem is more serious and therefore, should not be thought over. I did not answer such issues from long time with this aim only. But the negligence is from My angle. Now I am answering from the angle of those affected persons by the ignorance and illusions and I want to uplift those people also towards the spiritual path. I have extended the train of this divine knowledge to the last terminus so that any person can get into this train from any point. Even the highest sinner can get into this train since the starting point is now extended to the extreme terminus. Now, let every human being become brave and not discouraged by any problem. Realisation of the Absolute Truth through divine knowledge is the only permanent solution. Doing some exercises of yoga is only a sedative, which does not solve the problem in a permanent way.

Money is also another meaningless problem like sex. Money is needed and is inevitable for the basic biological needs. But too much concentration on endless earning of money and getting tensions is meaningless. God provides the necessary money even to atheist. Even the thief in the jail is provided with the basic needs. All right, you can put efforts to that level or a little higher level than that, foreseeing some unexpected needs in the future. But it is meaningless to go intensively into the issues of money (Artha) and sex (kama) and get tensions and think of even committing suicide! The real aim is lost and the real person to be cared is forgotten. The side activities are taken as main activity. The unreal bonds are assumed as real. The useless colleague-souls are felt as useful. These are the real illusions. All these illusions form the illusory world. The physical world consisting of matter and energy is real and in fact, it is more real than the soul because of greatness in quantity. Matter, which is condensed form of energy, is real. The basic energy is real. The awareness, which is a form of energy is real since it is also basically the energy. All these are the basic items, which are real. But the qualities are unreal because they are the waves of the weakest form of energy, which is a very high dilution. Strictly speaking it is real but can be assumed as unreal by its least quantity due to high dilution as it becomes negligible in its existence. Strictly speaking nothing is unreal.

Even the space is a form of energy and thus, the vacuum is also energy and is something. You are thinking vacuum as nothing (Akasham gaganam shunyam), which is indicated by the word ‘shunyam’. There is nothing like nothing. The electromagnetic spectrum is infinite and you have waves of even more shorter wavelength than cosmic rays. You could grasp only up to cosmic rays. Though the entire world is made of the same energy, different properties of matter arise due to the different quantitative arrangements of drops of energy, called as sub-atomic particles. This is the explanation given by science, which is correct. Such properties are unreal in view of God like the qualities of awareness in view of the soul. The properties of matter are not unreal for soul. The different properties of matter and energy are like the different feelings of the soul for God. As you go into deeper levels of this nature (Prakruti), the super arrangement (Maya) is revealed but cannot be grasped after some level of depth (Mayam tu prakrutim… Gita). Only the divine liberated souls can understand the Maya at the deeper level compared to the ordinary human beings (Mayametam taranti te). But still deeper level or deepest level exists because Maya is endless (Mama maya duratyayaa… Gita).

The essence of My divine knowledge is condensed into a Sanskrit verse by Me as

“Avatiirnanaro Brahma,
Margah Karma phalaarpanam,
Jivah Srushti Kanah Srustih,
Mithyaa tasyaiva naatmanah.”

This means “The human incarnation is God for human beings. The path to please Him is only sacrifice of work and fruit of work in His divine mission. The soul is an iota of the creation. The creation is almost unreal (Mithya) for God only and not for the soul.”

Propagate this verse as the essence of all My theory. All the divine knowledge is only the elaboration of this divine verse and clarification of doubts arising on this theory only. I shall be pleased and bless you all if you propagate this knowledge, whether you consider Me as the human incarnation or a devotee of God. In both ways, My blessings are useful to all of you.

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