From Breadwinning to Devotion (Part-2)

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Present Gurus Are Like Physical Directors

But I wonder about the old people, who are leading their lives easily with fulfilled minds stating that their children are well settled in USA! The old age is like preparation holidays before the examination or enquiry of God. At least, if you concentrate on God in old age, you will pass with minimum marks, which is the human re-birth. You are thinking that the preparation holidays are the vacation after exams! You have participated in the co-curricular activities like games (family affairs) very well but never touched the textbook (God). You have come across with the physical directors only, who guided you well in games. The present Gurus are very good physical directors, who teach you about the success in Pravrutti and release of stress in the co-curricular activities like job, family life etc. You have not come across the lecturer (Sadguru) who teaches you the main course and therefore, you have no idea of the main activity or aim of your student–life. You feel proud by the cups you have won in the games and feel the preparation holidays as the vacation given to you after playing the games well. Such people, I assuredly tell all of you, will enter the cycles of animals and birds only. I really pity these people, who are going to be the condemned souls. The atheists are already condemned souls like debarred students. The animals and birds never have the smell of spiritual knowledge. Eating, drinking, earning (food or money), sex, production of children and caring for the children are the only activities of the animal kingdom. All these are not wrong if they are realized as side activities, which are necessary for a change and thus, creation of these by God is justified. A student who does not participate at all in side activity (Saint) and a student who participates in side activities for a change (a devoted householder) have equal opportunity to get the best rank from God. Even if you make the games as the main activity, at least the studies should be a side activity! But what to speak of those who forget the main activity of studies even in the preparation holidays! When somebody reminds them, they acknowledge for a moment and again forget! At present, they are not condemned, but they are going to be condemned. They may console themselves seeing the atheists, who are already condemned by God. The atheists, due to their vehement emotional criticism against God, are going to be born as cruel animals and harmful insects (Tanaham dvishatah… Gita).

I declare that all those devotees, who recognize the present human incarnation, are human incarnations by themselves. Both Rama and Hanuman are human incarnations of God. Both Krishna and Radha are incarnations of God. Hanuman represents the climax of service and Radha represents the climax of devotion. Service is the proof of devotion.

Devotion is theory and service is practical. For both, knowledge must be the firm foundation. The climax of theory leads to firm determination, which results in the practice. When all the doubts are cleared, devotion reaches climax and appears as service. Removal of doubts is attained by knowledge and shrewd analysis. Devotion with doubts cannot reach climax and then service will not appear. All the devotees, who propagate the divine knowledge of present human incarnation, are also God in human forms. Delivery and propagation of divine knowledge complete the divine work. God does His own divine work and gives credit to these human forms (devotees).

The Veda says “Asanneva Sa bhavati…” etc. This hymn means “God exists while being the non-existent. Realize that God is both the existent and non-existent items. Then you will realize that God exists”. This hymn needs an elaborate analytical explanation. You can bring another Vedic statement here (Tat Srushtvaa…, Satcha Tyat Chaabhavat…). This means “God created the world and entered into it. Then He became both existent and non-existent”. Bring the Gita here (Manushiim Tanum...), which means that God enters the human body. The non-existent items (Asat) are energy, matter and awareness, forms and feelings. Forms and feelings are non-existent with respect to matter and awarnmess. Both matter and awareness are non-existent with respect to energy. Energy is non-existent with respect to God. God is never non-existent. He is always existent (Sat). When God enters in the energetic form, the energetic form consists of form and energy and both these are relatively true (Asat) items. When God enters the human body, the body consists of matter, energy, awareness, forms and feelings, which are also relatively true (Asat) items only. You have to take that form as God as you take the alive wire as current. If you agree that the unimaginable God exists and enters imaginable items, which are non-existent (since they are relatively true), now you can say that God exists and is visible. Through the imaginable and relatively non-existent items (like energetic form of human body) only you can experience God. The Veda says that God becomes both ‘Sat’ and ‘Tyat’. God exists as God and also as non-God (body and soul). In human body, He entertains Himself under the illusion of forms and feelings like an ordinary human being. If necessary, He will rise to a higher level and realize that forms and feelings are unreal. If still necessary, He will rise to still higher level, realize both matter and awareness as unreal, and perform miracles. Finally, He will rise to the highest level, where energy also becomes unreal and in this state, He is the creator, maintainer and destroyer of the world. In this highest level only, the Gita or the Bible or divine knowledge comes out.

I (God in Me) advise all the preachers (Gurus) to become “Sadgurus” mainly and concentrate on Nivrutti. Your job is mainly to be lecturers and you can act as physical directors for just one period in the evenings. You are preaching games only in all the periods and solving all problems related to games only. Now and then you are preaching the main syllabus. You are making the college as a training center for physical education by conducting workshops on stress-relief and on peaceful and happy living. Of course, a balance in society is necessary and I am not denying its importance for a good foundation (Pravrutti). A sound body is necessary for a sound mind and thus, games are also important. But I tell you, all the problems in games (family & professional life) are due to over-attachment and undue importance given to co-curricular activities. If the main activity (spiritual effort) is stressed, these side activities can be overlooked and then many problems in games get solved by themselves. When you realize that a subject is negligible, the complication in that subject disappears, since the subject itself becomes weak.

 God is characterized by one highest miracle i.e., creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic primordial energy (Mula Maya). In the beginning, God created the original lump of energy, which is the material for creation, maintenance and dissolution of this world. Light, heat, sound, magnetism, electricity etc., are only modified forms of the primordial energy. This energy can be created by God only and not by the soul. This energy is referred as ‘Tejah’ in the Veda (Tat Tejosrujata…). This energy is referred as ‘Mahat Brahma’ in the Gita (Mama Yonih Mahat Brahma…). This energy is compared to wife (Yonih) since it gives entertainment by creation of universe. This Mula Maya is under the complete control of God. Since it is generated by God, it can be treated as daughter. This is the meaning of marriage of Brahma with Saraswati who was created by Brahma. It should not be taken in wrong sense. Similarly, when it is said that Jesus was born to Mary, who was not married, this should not be taken as that the father of Jesus was unknown and doubt the character of pious Mary. It has spiritual meaning. God is the Father. Mary and her husband are souls, which are part of nature only and thus, constitute the mother only (energy). If you analyze any human being, it is energy only from top to bottom. The soul is awareness, which is a special work form of energy. The body is made of matter and binding energy, which are again energy only. Energy is the mother. Jesus, a human body is thus, the son of the mother only and this is true in the case of any human being. Spiritual sense is misinterpreted by priests, who are not having the true logical analysis. Their mental work is rigid and conservative with recitations only like routine machines.

God alone creates this energy, which is not possible for a soul. A devoted soul, blessed by God (may be even a demon) through its rigid penance can create matter from energy. He can even create awareness in a dead person, if he is sanctioned so by God, because matter and awareness are forms of energy. Balarama, an incarnation of Adishesha, who is the best servant of God, gave life to a dead person called “Romaharshana” (Refer the Bhagavatam). You can find such miracle in the case of some other devotees also.

An ordinary human being can create a form in matter and a feeling (quality) in awareness. An ordinary person cannot create matter and awareness from energy. Thus, you have now three levels: God, blessed devotee and ordinary human being. Energy is created by God. Matter and awareness can be created by a blessed devotee, who may be even a demon. An ordinary soul can create forms and feelings from matter and awareness. The dream, which is made of feelings or thoughts, is created by soul and this point cannot make the soul to be God as advaita philosopher argues. In such case, a beggar should become a King by creating a feeling that he is the King! Even blessed devotees, who create matter and awareness, could not become God as seen in the case of demons. The demon belongs at least to the second higher level. The Advaitin belongs to the lowest level, claiming himself to be God. The Advaitin is neither a perfect atheist because he accepts God, nor he is perfect theist because he says that God does not exist separately. Thus, he is a very delicate and complicated person who does not belong to any of these two categories!

Therefore, miracles show the blessings from God, but do not mean that the possessor of the blessings is God. The third class (Advaitin) and second class (demon) cannot be first class (God). One can attain any miracle except the creation of energy, which is the basic form of universe. The Brahma Sutras say this point and Ramanuja supported this. Madhva clarified this very well. Shankara also clarified this to theists and devotees (satyapi bhedaapagme…) but to atheists (Purvamimamsakas and Buddhists), He told that soul is God since He has to bring such extreme fellows to the path. It is Arthavada, which means a lie told for a good purpose. The mother says to the child “if you eat this, the Moon will come to your hand”. The child eats the food by that attraction. It is not cheating and a lie. Artha means a purpose, Vada means a statement, and Arthavada means a statement given for a good purpose. It only shows the excessive compassion of Acharya (Guru) or preacher to uplift the humanity.

A soul can never create energy because the soul itself is made of energy. How can it create itself? God is beyond energy since the Veda says that He created the energy. Neither the blessed soul should pose that he is God nor the ignorant public should mistake him to be God by such miracles. The creator of energy can also create matter and awareness from energy. In fact, when a blessed devotee creates matter, it is only the will of God that creates the matter or awareness from energy. In the fuel cell, it is the solar energy that created current.

In a blessed devotee, the power of God exists, which is the energy associated by will of God. In human incarnation, God directly exists. Miracles exist in Human incarnation also because a college student can also write the school examination. Miracles cannot be the characteristic identification since they are common to God and blessed devotee. If you say that your cow is having a bell-belt, people cannot distinguish it since all cows are having bell-belts. It is only one of the signs and is useful to distinguish the cow from a donkey since donkey does not have a bell-belt. Thus, you can distinguish a divine person (God or a blessed devotee) from an ordinary human being by miracles. The miracles are only one of the signs as said in the Veda (Satya kamah…) like the bell belt. Love and kindness are another sign as said by the Veda (Raso Vai sah…), but several human beings also exhibit extreme love and kindness, which is a quality that is made of awareness. The other sign is bliss, which is continuous happiness as said in the Veda (Anando Brahma…). Bliss comes only when you can treat this entire life as a divine drama. By the grace of God, a blessed soul can attain this state also. Thus, Ananda can be present in a blessed soul also. The last sign, by which you can clearly identify is divine knowledge, which is special to God only and is called as ‘Prajnanam’. The letter ‘Pra’ means the special best quality in the explanation. Such knowledge is based on the harsh truth, since God never cares for any soul to please the soul and get some benefit (Satyam Jnanam… Veda). Krishna by the Gita, Jesus by the Bible, Mohammed by the Quran, Buddha and Sai Baba by preachings are recognized as human incarnations. Even such knowledge is a special design of awareness only and is not the nature of God. It is only a constantly associated jewel of God by which you can understand the existence of God in such human form. Therefore, there is no direct sign, which is the nature of God and thus, God is always unimaginable. The Prajnanam also indicates only the existence of God in that human form (Astiityeva– Veda). Even such special design of awareness (Prajnanam) cannot give the nature of God. How can you say that the lump of crude awareness (Chit), which is existing in every living being, is the nature of God? The word Jnanam is Yoga Rudha, which means that it is applicable by the root meaning and is also fixed in the knowledge but not in mere awareness. The Advaitin is erring in this very fundamental step itself. The second blunder is to say that the awareness (wrong interpretation of Jnanam) is infinite. The awareness is limited to a finite body of the living being only. It is not continious and contradicts the practical experience. If it is continous and infinite, there should be no inert object in this world!

It is the egoism that makes Advaitins and demons to think that they are God. This egoism never dies, especially when the soul is in a body of male. The sages took the birth of ladies and were born as Gopikas to receive the highest grace of God. The upper caste also induces egoism and so the sages were born as ladies in a lower shepherd caste. The ladies and lower caste are blessed and should feel fortunate in the spiritual field. They can easily attain the divine grace due to their submissive nature and they should not feel that they are suppressed. Jesus told that you would rise so much as you suppress yourself. If such suppression is done by others, are you not fortunate? The suppressor becomes more and more egoistic and will fall soon from the eyes of God. I am a Brahmin by caste and a male by sex. Can I say this? No, I am not telling this, only God in Me is telling all this to the world.

Starting from energy, up to the form, the entire creation is Maya only, which means wonderful because with respect to God, this creation is unreal by itself, yet it attracts and confuses every soul as if it only exists. The ultimate basis is God. Without God, energy is unreal and does not exist at all. Without energy, matter and awareness do not exist because matter, awareness, light, heat, etc., are forms of energy only. Without matter, form cannot exist and without awareness, quality cannot exist. Thus, Maya exists at three levels. The highest level is energy and energy can be unreal for God only. This energy-level is called as the Mula Maya. The second higher level is Maha Maya, which is conversion of existing energy into matter, awareness and other forms like light, heat etc. This second level of Maha Maya constitutes the superpowers (Ashta Siddhis). The third level is Maya, by which you can produce a form like pot from mud (matter) or a feeling from awareness. The soul can cross this Maya and realize the unreality of forms and feelings. A blessed soul by God can control the Maha Maya also and can create matter, awareness (life), light, heat, etc., from the existing energy. But the blessed devotee can be even a demon and Satan has all these superpowers and controls the Maha Maya. You cannot differentiate Krishna and a demon at this level. Krishna created energy, which is converted into gold (matter) and the matter is converted into a pot. Thus, He controlled the three types of Maya. The demon also produced a golden pot but he did not create energy. From the existing energy only, he created gold and pot from gold. Thus, the demon controls only Maha Maya and Maya but not Mula Maya. But you cannot differentiate Krishna from the demon on the basis of the creation of golden pot because the creation of energy by Krishna is invisible. Therefore, miracles indicate power of God but not God. A solar battery producing light indicates the capture of the Solar-energy but not capture of the Sun.

Realize that this family life is only a co-curricular activity like games, seeing picture etc. The spiritual effort to get the grace of God is the main aim like the academic work of a student in the college. Play the game with full involvement as you read, but do not bother about the success or defeat in the game. Your purpose of playing the game is to have a change from studies. For such a change, a real involvement in playing is essential so that you will have a real change. Your aim is not success or defeat in the game. So, do the worldly works with full dedication so that you will have a real change and the purpose is served. Do not bother about the result and this will avoid all the tensions as said in the Gita (Karmanyevadhikarah…). But for this, you have to realize that the game is a side-activity. For this, you should first identify the main activity, which is spiritual effort (Nivrutti or Sadhana) i.e., to please God by your service, which is the proof of your real love to God.

But, today, the preachers are not emphasizing on the main activity, which is the main aim of human life. They are concentrating only on the side activity and so the people are feeling that the game is the main activity. Now the preacher says that one should not bother about the results. How is this possible? It is impossible as long as one does not recognize the main activity and as long as one is confined to the side activity. Unless you show the ocean, you cannot make him realize that the well is a petty item. How can you relieve the people from stress as long as they feel that the game is the main activity?

The lack of complete knowledge is the main reason of lack of spiritual practice and practice alone can bring the grace of God. Once you are convinced, the determination comes out, which spontaneously results in practice. If all your doubts are cleared, you are convinced. All the doubts are cleared only when the knowledge is true and complete. Therefore, at present, there is a bare necessity of propagation of the divine knowledge, which should be up to the standard of the present developments of science. Science represents the stage of the development of the analytical faculty of humanity. The present standard should be kept in your view. Otherwise people will not be convinced.

The last incarnation is Kalki, which is after Krishna and Buddha. Both Krishna and Buddha preached the divine knowledge at very high analytical level. Kalki will be in that level and will not go to the level of physically killing the people with a sword moving on the fast horse. The sword is the divine knowledge and the horse is the present fast propagating electronic media. The knowledge of Kalki is final. If the ignorant person is killed, he will be born again as ignorant. The ignorance must be killed. All of you should participate in the divine mission of the Lord practically and get the real and permanent grace of the Lord.

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