Jealousy and Egoism

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

The jealousy and egoism towards human incarnation are not directed towards the inner Lord present in the human body but are towards the external human body. People think that the human incarnation is just the human being i.e., the human body only. Every human being has jealousy towards another human being in this world. Nobody can tolerate the point of “greatness” of another human being in any aspect like wealth, knowledge etc. Unless this repulsion towards the co-human beings is removed, the jealousy towards human incarnation cannot be eradicated. For this purpose, the devotee is required to undergo training in removing his jealousy towards the co-human beings. Therefore, recognise the greatness of every human being than yourself and develop the submissiveness towards any human being in this world. Feel that you are the lowest among all the human beings. Always see merits in others and see only defects in yourself. Such vision will give you the submissiveness towards any co-human being. Your egoism will be destroyed by such training.

Love all the human beings, seeing only good side in every human being. Serve the entire humanity as the most obedient servant. Such training will remove the jealousy towards the external human form of the Lord. Even if you have not realised the Lord in the human form, you will not have jealousy towards the human incarnation because you are loving and serving every human being. Thus, even before realization of the inner Lord, you have started serving the Lord as a human being also. In course of time you will experience the presence of the inner Lord and then slowly you will realise and become the devotee. You are advised to be slightly inferior to every human being and this does not mean that you should go down completely and develop inferiority complex, which is also dangerous. The patient expects that his temperature should be decreased by the doctor and this does not mean that his temperature should be taken to zero. It means only that the extra temperature is to be reduced. Even slightly lesser than the normal temperature is also not dangerous. Egoism is the extra temperature. Removal of egoism does not mean the removal of your self-existence. Some people condemn themselves always as sinners. They think that this is removal of egoism. That is over action only and not the removal of fever but that is bringing down the body-temperature to ice cold zero. You are advised to serve the humanity till you recognise the human incarnation, in order to avoid the danger of insulting the human incarnation by mistaking Him as the human being. Once the human incarnation is recognised, the training is to be stopped. Further service to humanity can be carried only under the instruction and guidance of the human incarnation. People have misconstrued this concept and have concluded that serving the humanity is serving the God. They plead that God exists in all the human beings. In such case you can serve yourself and such service is service to God.

There is no need of serving other human beings. Some people have gone to this extreme end also and started meditating upon the God present in themselves. Infact, this concept of the existence of God in all human beings is liked by everybody because by such concept every body becomes God. If the humanity is served without the discrimination of good and bad, the sinners should not be punished by the court and the sinners must be served. If God exists in all the human beings, why some human beings at the end are thrown into liquid fire? This means that God is thrown into liquid fire. Shankara condemned this concept of serving the humanity equal to the service to God (Loka Sevaka Mata Khandanam). Therefore, one should not remain in training only and forget the main aim for which the training is advised. Infact, the Lord came in the form of fish, tortoise etc., also. The Lord appeared as a small beautiful fish in the hands of a king. The king took it to home and kept it in a vessel containing water. The fish grew to the size of vessel by next day. Suppose the king was a non-vegetarian and killed the fish for eating, how much sin he should have committed towards the Lord! Therefore, the Lord in the form of Buddha and Mahaveer preached non-violence and condemned killing any living being. You should love all the living beings. But you should not continue in that line only and forget the basic goal of searching the Lord in the form of some living being. In Bhagavatam, a sage called Bharatha loved a deer so much that he was borned as a deer in the next birth. The Veda also condemns the continuous service to good people also without searching the human form of Lord (Devanam Pasurahaha…). Serving the good people gives you the heaven only from where you have to return back after some time of enjoyment. Therefore, the good qualities without the concept of the God are not yielding permanent fruits. When you start serving the devotees, the concept of God has started and you will soon reach the human incarnation of God through the blessings of the devotees.

The names like Rama, Krishna, Jesus etc., belong to the external human body, which has taken birth. Such names are generated only after the birth of these human bodies. Therefore, such names are certainly the names of the external human bodies only, which are like the shirts. When the human bodies perish, these names also must perish. But these names exist as eternal names even after the disappearance of these human bodies due to death. The reason is that these names were directed towards the inner Lord even during the time of existence of these human bodies. A person is carrying vegetables for selling. You call him by the name “Vegetables”. The person is not vegetable and the vegetables are not the person also. But the possessor of the vegetables is called by the name of the possessed material. Similarly, when the name “Krishna or Jesus” was called, this name was directed towards the internal Lord also. Therefore, even if the human body perished, since the Lord is eternal, Krishna or Jesus is also eternal. When Krishna said that He will come again and again, whenever necessary (Yadaa Yadaa hi… Gita), it means the eternal Lord present in the human body will come again and again through different human forms. Similarly, when it is told that Jesus will come again, it means the Lord present in that human body will come again. Here the names Krishna and Jesus indicate the Lord and not the human body. When some body says that He will come again after 20 years, it does not mean that he will come in the same shirt. Even in the case of the ordinary human beings the name indicates the inner eternal soul also.

When people say that Subba Rao died, it means that the name indicates the external human body. People say that Subba Rao’s last journey is today. It means that the name indicates only the external body, which is going to be cremated in the burial ground on that day. In these sayings the name indicates the external human body. But after one-year people say that today is the yearly ceremony of Subba Rao. When you have stated that Subba Rao finished his last journey one year back, how can you bring Subba Rao again after one year? Here the name indicates the inner soul. Therefore, even in the worldly terminology the name indicates both the external body and inner soul according to the context. Therefore, when you say that Jesus was crucified and killed, the name indicates the external human body. When you say that Jesus will come again on final day of destruction of this world, the name indicates the inner Lord. Thus, the same name indicates the external or internal item according to the context. When you say that Krishna danced in Brindavanam, the name indicates the external human body. When you say that Krishna will come again and again whenever necessary, the name indicates the inner Lord. If you realise this discrimination, you have no quarrel with any religion. When you say that Jesus or Krishna will come again, it means that the inner Lord is going to come in different human bodies again. When you are drawing the picture of Jesus or Krishna, the picture represents the external human body only and not the inner Lord. You can never draw the picture of the inner Lord because He is beyond the realm of imagination. You cannot say about the existence of two unimaginable Lords. When the Lord is unimaginable, He can be only one. If you say that there are two entities, it means that both the entities are imaginable. Therefore, you have to accept that there is only one unimaginable Lord or God. The external human bodies are different and cannot be one. When I say that Krishna is Jesus, it means that the Lord in the body of Krishna and in the body of Jesus is one and the same. It does not mean that the two different bodies are one and the same.

When you are worshipping the statue or photo of the past human incarnation, your photo or statue also indicates the eternal Lord existed in that human body. The Lord being eternal exists even today. Therefore, your photo indicates the Lord existing today. The statue or photo only indicates the existence of the Lord in a human form. It does not mean that the Lord existed only in that human body and is not present in any human body later on. If the Lord can exist in one human body, what is the objection for the Lord to exist in another human body also? Once the concept of the existence of the Lord in human body is accepted, you must not have any objection to accept the Lord in another human body also. When you say that the current flows in this wire, you should not object the possibility of the flow of same current in another similar wire. If you object, you are a blind, rigid, ignorant lay-man and you can never be called as a scientist. Such conservative people will never change and even the liquid fire in the hell cannot change them. When Jesus told that one could approach the God through Him only, it means that one can approach the unimaginable God through the medium of human form only and does not mean that one can approach the unimaginable God through that particular human body called as Jesus only.

The worship of the statue or photo is useful to develop the devotion in your heart towards God. But such worship will not create love in the heart of Lord. Ekalavya worshipped the statue of Drona and learnt the technology of shooting arrows. The statue developed concentration of his mind and he became an expert in that field. But such worship did not develop any love in the heart of Drona. Infact, Drona did not show any love on him and got his thumb cut. Through statue, Drona did not teach him anything. He could not get the astras like Brahmastram from Drona, which is based on some secret hymn to be taught by the Drona. Arjuna got the technology of shooting arrows (Shastra) and also the astras from Drona, because he served Drona in physical human form. The devotion or love to the God involves both sides i.e., your love on God and God’s love on yourself. The second love comes only when the first love is present. For the first love the worship of statue or photo is helpful. For the second love the worship of human form can only bring the result. In worshipping the statue or photo you need not offer food as Naivedyam or Money as Dakshina. In this line of worship, you can clean the statue or photo and decorate it. The constant vision on such photo or statue develops love and concentration in your mind. The statue or photo will not eat the food offered by you or will not take money offered by you. Keeping the statue or photo as the screen, the priests or managers are deceiving you.

You are offering food and money in the name of Rama and Krishna. But Rama and Krishna are not taking that. Since, the priests and management is helping you to develop your love on God through the maintenance of statue or photo, you can offer them some remuneration. But when you offer, beware that you are offering to the priest or manager. Let your offer be direct based on their merits. When they have no merits, do not offer anything in the name of Statue or photo. Based on the deservingness of the priest you can offer anything. If the priest is only to the level of a worker by cleaning the statue, you can treat him as equal to your servant washing your house and offer in the same level. But since the priest is in the presence of the statue of God, you must show respect to him unlike to your servant. If the priest is of the level of a preacher, you can offer to your best. Sometimes the priest may be the incarnation of God like Sri Rama Krishna Parama Hamsa. Then you surrender everything including yourself at His divine lotus feet. Thus, the priest may vary from an ordinary level of the worker to the highest level of human incarnation. The priest should not feel great simply by his presence before the statue of God. His greatness is recognised by his virtues and divine knowledge. The priest should not keep himself to the level of worker earning some lively hood in the name of the statue of God. He should develop spiritually to the level of Sri Paramahamsa. Collection of offerings from the devotees should be direct. Sri Shirdi Sai Baba was offered lot of money by devotees directly and He did not deceive the devotees by keeping any statue of God before Him. On analysis, one can easily find the intention of this drama using statues and photos of God. Actually, the statue or photo indicates the human form of Lord only. It indicates that you should search for the present human form of the Lord. Even the Shiva Lingam of Lord Shiva indicates the shape of wave, which means the life energy. It concludes that the Lord is present in a living form. First the people worshipped inert objects like sun, river etc. Later on the Shiva Lingam appeared which indicated the life energy. At last, the statues and photos of human form appeared concluding that the Lord comes mainly in human form only. In the Gita, the Lord mentioned that He enters the human body only.

You can become God and can become even the master of God provided you follow one condition. That condition is that you should never think that you are God. Take the case of Hanuman. He became God and attained even the power of creation of world. Brahma sutras say that the soul may attain all the powers except this one power. But Hanuman, as an exceptional case attained even that power and became exactly Lord. But He always thinks that He is the servant of the Lord. Radha became the queen of Goloka, which is above the Brahma Loka. The Lord sits in Brahma Loka and her feet are above the head of the Lord. The Lord in the form of Krishna also pressed her feet. The Lord applied the dust of the feet of Gopikas on His forehead. Therefore, Radha became the master of the Lord. But still Radha feels that she is only the most beloved servant of the Lord. This is the correct route of becoming the God or even greater than God. But if you think that you are the Lord already, such route is not correct and then you will not attain even a trace of the grace of the Lord. Only demons thought that they are the Lord and some demons thought that even they are greater than the Lord. You cannot achieve the fruit by this path of egoism and sanctioning yourself as the Lord already. Hanuman killed the devils and demons. What does it mean? It means that the concept of Hanuman will remove the concept of egoism of devils and demons by which one thinks that he is already God.

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