Message on Guru Purnima

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

God created this world with happiness and misery, which are alternating in the cycle like the plates in a moving wheel. God arranged the fruits of good and bad deeds in alternating manner even though good or bad deeds are done in a long sequence. This reshuffled arrangement of happiness and misery resembles the sweet and hot dishes in the meals and also resembles to a cinema containing both scenes of happiness and tragedy in alternating manner. Such system of alternating arrangement gives continuous entertainment not only to God but also to the individual soul. Thus, the basic intention of the God is only to entertain Himself and also all the individual souls. Anything, either happiness or misery bores, if it is continuous. Boring itself is misery. If you have compelled God to give happiness continuously though your prayers and worship, God will drag the happiness from the future cycle as a premature fixed deposit with reduced interest and hands it over to you. He will not give happiness to you if there is no balance of good deeds. As the impartial judge, He will not give happiness to you if there is no good deed in your list. Therefore, asking God for continuous happiness is the most foolish solution because it bores, giving misery to you at the expense of good deeds. You are purchasing the misery with your hard-earned cash! Moreover, when all the good deeds are exhausted, you will have the continuous misery only in all your future births. Therefore, praying God to solve a problem is the most foolish path of ignorance. Such happiness attained is temporary. Hence, the permanent solution is only to learn to enjoy both good and bad results and attain continuous happiness without boring and this is the real bliss.

Bliss is the state of God, who is entertained with this world having alternating scenes of happiness and misery. You have already learnt to be happy by enjoying the happiness. Now, through the spiritual knowledge and continuous practice, you learn to enjoy the misery also in equal way. Now, your enjoyment becomes continuous without boring due to absence of single phase (happiness or misery), and you have attained the state of God, which is possible through effort. Now, you can say that you are God because the maximum possible state of God is achieved (Matbhavamagatah... Gita). Creation, Rule and Destruction of this world are impossible for any individual soul though any effort and hence, these three capabilities are irrelevant to the spiritual effort. If you attain the aim, which is possible for attainment, it is certainly the full success and you can claim that you are God in the total sense of the possible achievement.

If you are irritated with the misery, you are indirectly criticizing God for His creation of misery in this world. A poet becomes fully happy, if you are entertained by each poem written by him. If you are irritated with some poems, the poet will be unhappy with you. The poet is happy with each poem written by himself. Therefore, if you dislike anybody or anything in this world, it amounts to disliking a particular poem of the poet. If you love even the greatest sinner, who is your bitter most enemy and if you like every situation in this world, then you like every poem of the poet in his epic (world). This is the best way of pleasing God. The producer and director created the cinema and if you are his beloved servant, you should like every scene and every role in the cinema created by him, while you are giving company to him in seeing the picture. Anything created in this world exists because God liked it. Hence, if you dislike anything or anybody, it means that you dislike the part of His creation, which exists because He already liked it. If you are a true devotee and a loyal servant of God, His liking must be your liking. Since God likes everything and everybody in this creation, everything and everybody exists. If He does not like anything or anybody, such thing and such living being cannot be created at all. Since whatever exists, is created by God and that is created because God liked it, you must also like everything and everybody in His system created by Himself. Even the atheist who scolds God is liked by God, like a hot dish of chilly in the meals.

Infact, God requested His loyal servant, Jaya, who is standing before His gate to take the role of Shishupala and scold Him continuously hundred times! God wanted to eat hundred hot dishes continuously since He was bored with the continuous sweet praises of devotees. You must know that the producer and director of the cinema pays the actor of the villain-role also, because without villain, the hero cannot shine at all. If you want to attain the possible state of God, you must also like the atheist like the hot chilly in your meals. When the hatred or rejection or repulsion to anything and anybody completely disappears in the heart, I assuredly tell all of you that such person has attained the possible state of God completely and you can call Him as God. When there is no break in the continuous love of everything and everybody and when there is continuous bliss, I assuredly tell all of you that such a person has really become the God.

Mild – Average – Topmost Difficulties

Bajji is a special item of tiffen, which is prepared with the flour of pulses with internal chilly. It is the hottest dish. There are three types of chilies. The chilies from Ballari region are mild. The chilies from other regions are of normal intensity of burning sensation for the tongue. The chilies from Guntur region are of the top hottest taste. The bajjis prepared from these three types of chilies represent misery of mild, normal and high intensities. Some people weep even for mild difficulties. Some people weep for difficulties of average intensity. All the people weep for the topmost difficulty, which is the time of death while leaving this gross body cutting the bonds with everything and everybody. Thus, death can be compared to the bajji of Guntur chilly. The Gita says that if one remains in bliss even in the state of the death, such person is in the permanent state of God (Esha Brahmi Sthitih… Gita). Lord Krishna was with smile, narrating the future of this world in the coming Kali age to the sage Narada in the last stage of life, while the leg was bleeding! Jesus did not fear or weep even on the cross and He was preaching about God even in that last state by assuring salvation to another neighbor who was also crucified and surrendered to Him. Rama jumped into the river of Sarayu with the smiling face. Hanuman tore His chest with His own nails without any trace of sorrow on the face. Therefore, if you can enjoy the bajji of Guntur chilly also (death), you are sure to have continuous enjoyment. I belong to the region of Guntur! While eating the hot dish, you will respire much, tears will be flowing from your eyes, and your tongue will be vibrating. All these are external symptoms of misery and the internal enjoyment is not indicated by these external symptoms. Such equal enjoyment of good and bad results is called as Yoga (Samatvam Yoga… Gita), which means the attainment of the possible state of God. Without attaining this yoga, there is no meaning if an Advaita philosopher says that he is God, stating that his soul and God are the same pure awareness. All the other meanings attributed to Yoga like physical and mental exercises are misinterpretations of the word Yoga.

The happiness and misery in this world are based on the bonds you have with the items present in the world. Real matter and real energy constitute the forms. The forms are only unreal designs of matter and energy. In a cinema, all the items are the unreal designs of the real energy only. In a drama, all the items are the unreal designs of the real matter only and slight energy also exists in drama as the light focused on the stage. For God, this entire world is a cinema, which is just imagination of the awareness or nervous energy. Therefore, there is no difference between a cinema and imaginary world except that the cinema is made of visible light energy and the imaginary world is made of invisible nervous energy or mind. For individual souls, this world is a drama consisting of real materials and real human beings having equal status with the observers (individual souls existing in human bodies called as human beings). Hence, the world is equally real with the observing individual soul. But in the case of cinema, the observer is real matter, whereas the cinema is real energy, which is weaker than matter in expression. Hence, the observer is in higher status in view of strength of expression. If you take the imaginary world, which is made of the weakest real energy or mind, the observer is in far higher status. In the case of God observing this world, God is in the highest status as the ultimate absolute reality, whereas the world is in totally relative reality. However, from the view of God or the individual soul, the bonds in the world are totally unreal and illusory only, since the bonds are related to the totally unreal designs of energy and matter only. One bond is full of love on a particular design and another bond is full of anger on another particular design. Since the design is unreal, the related bonds must be unreal.

The design does not exist before its production and after its destruction. That, which did not exist in the past and will not exist in future must not exist in the present also. Therefore, its existence in the present is only illusory. The love and anger in those bonds are foolish and if you analyze, even the love and anger are unreal because they are qualities. A quality is also unreal design of the mental energy. Hence, the love from somebody and the anger from else one are also unreal and your love and anger based on such qualities are also unreal. Therefore, your bond based on the unreal design, which defines the individuality of a human being like wife, son, father, mother etc., must be also unreal. Your bond based on the personality of unreal qualities must be also unreal. Therefore, when Shankara said that the world is unreal (relatively real), it means that the world made of these unreal bonds only is unreal for the individual souls. The matter, energy and awareness (a form of energy only) are real for the individual souls and hence, the world made of these three items is not unreal. But, for God, the total world is unreal. However, for both God and individual soul, the common world consisting of these unreal bonds is unreal, which is the basis of the entertainment. You can entertain with unreal items only. The entertainment is not at all based on matter, energy and awareness, which are the three uniform phases without any difference. The difference only causes the design and brings the limits causing the individuality. The homogeneous single phase of cosmos (since matter, energy and awareness are inter-convertible resulting in the final single phase of cosmic energy) is called as Brahman, in the form of creation (Karya Brahman) and this cannot give any entertainment. If you try to analyze God (Karana Brahman), it is also homogeneous phase of unimaginable entity. Shankara represented God by this single phased cosmic energy in the form of awareness (awareness is a special work form of energy) or Karya Brahman. This clearly means that neither Karya Brahman is God nor God charges Karya Brahman homogeneously. If such charging takes place, there is no difference between seer and seen. Such charging takes place in the case of human incarnation because if an individual soul is charged by God, such human incarnation can be the seer of the rest uncharged world (cosmic energy).

Therefore, analyze both love and hatred and realize that both are foolish as far as the worldly bonds are concerned. Based on such foolish ignorance, if you become corrupt in your life for the sake of some unreal bonds and as a result, you are thrown into hell, you are the biggest fool. All this results due to lack of analytical spiritual knowledge. If you destroy these foolish ignorant bonds in your heart and entertain yourself continuously with these unreal bonds, you will be called as Sthitaprajna (Prajahati Yada… Gita), which means a person whose intelligence is firm by constant analysis. Divert your entire unreal love to God, who is the absolute reality and your love also becomes absolute reality. Divert all your unreal hatred towards the above said foolish ignorance and then your hatred becomes real and meaningful. By this, you can avoid the unreal love towards your own religion, which is conservatism. Religion is also an unreal design giving individuality and limits. Then, you can avoid the hatred towards other religions based on the same analysis. There is one God and there is one message from God to all the human beings on this earth and that is the Universal Spirituality. All the merits of any religion are the concepts of the Universal Spirituality.

The unity in diversity of various forms of God and of various branches of philosophy related to different levels can be appreciated from Hinduism. Love and compassion leading to social service of needy in the name of God should be appreciated from Christianity. Sincere faith in God and disciplined life must be appreciated from Islam. Control of desire through analysis by intelligence (buddhi) leading to justice and social service must be appreciated from Buddhism. Non-violence of even animals and birds by avoiding non-vegetarian food must be appreciated from Jainism. Avoiding the projection of non-God items as God through systematic analysis of world must be appreciated from science.

Meaning of Brahma Loka

People think that Brahma Loka is a place like America. Brahma loka means the life in contact with God existing in human form on this earth and God existing in energetic form in the upper world. If a person on the earth is in contact with the human incarnation of God and subsequently after the death comes in contact with the energetic form of God in the upper world, such a person is said to be in the eternal Brahma loka, since he recognizes God here and there. This is stated as eternal life with God or Paramdhama (Tatdhama paramam mama… Gita). The soul is in human body on this earth and is in energetic form in the upper world. Therefore, God exists in the same common medium of the liberated soul to give this His eternal association (Nasapunaravartate… Brahma Sutra). Devotees who have worshipped the statue of energetic form or past human incarnation in this world instead of contemporary human incarnation due to ego and jealousy will reach the energetic form of God in Brahma Loka but will return back due to repulsion between common media since they were also in the same energetic form (Punaravartinorjuna… Gita). People have misunderstood that one, who reaches God in medium (Karya Brahman), reaches the original God (Parabrahman or Nirguna Brahman), when the God in medium (Karya Brahman) dissolves in the original God during the final dissolution of the world. Even if the medium dissolves, the soul cannot reach the unimaginable God because when the medium dissolves, the soul also dissolves. The soul is a part of creation called as Paraprakruti in the Gita. The original single state of God before the first creation will not be attained again because God is not foolish to destroy the creation, which was done for His entertainment. You may say that God has the power to create it again. A producer of a cinema may be very rich to create the cinema again and if he does so, he will be certainly called as a fool.

The dissolution of creation means closing the show of cinema on the curtain, but the cinema is stored in the form of film. Such subtle state of creation is called as Avyaktam. Therefore, there is no point of dissolution of God in medium (Karya Brahman or Eshwara). Since the medium exists, the soul also exists and hence, the association of God becomes eternal. If you say that the soul has to dissolve in God, like sugar dissolved in water, the molecules of sugar remain separately along with the molecules of water. Here, the sugar in water exists separately in invisible microstate. If you say that sugar must be transformed into water, the molecules of sugar have to be re-arranged into molecules of water by the re-arrangement of fundamental particles (protons, neutrons and electrons). Then, the number of water molecules increase. It means God will increase in size after the transformation of soul into God. This is not acceptable because God is constant without any change. Alternatively, the soul should disappear and this is possible when the film is destroyed. But God is never such a fool! The single state of God is possible because it existed before the first creation, and if God wishes, it can be attained again. We do not say that it is impossible for God. We only say that God is wise to continue the creation in microstate of the film so that it can be projected for entertainment again and again. Hence, when the devotee reaches Eshwara, the devotee reached the original God also. The original God may enter the devotee also like the current entering the associated metallic wire from the live wire. In such case, you can say that the soul became God from the point of normal external view and you can call this as monism (Advaita). But in subtle view, God charges the soul and therefore, dualism exists even in the monism on deep analysis. When sugar dissolves in water, you may say it as monism but in subtle view, dualism exists because the invisible sugar molecules exist separately along with molecules of water as you can see in the microscope.

The high devotees of God serve His office (society or world) as employees and take salary. God is pleased with them also. Pandavas served God in establishing justice in the world for which they were paid salary (Kingdom) in this world and heaven after their death. Pandavas went up to heaven only (Swargarohanaparva). The higher devotees of God serve His family members or His closest devotees of His innermost circle. Hanuman served Sita by protecting her through the war, served Lakshmana by bringing Sanjeevi and served Bharata by saving his life. Even today Hanuman serves the real devotees of God. Hanuman became God and protecting the devotees of God can continue as usual. The highest devotees of God serve Him directly like Gopikas. They were given Goloka where they can continue the direct service to God. There is no much difference between the higher and highest devotees. God is extremely pleased in both the cases because God loves His innermost devotees equal to Himself. He does not differentiate between the service done to Him and the service done to His closest devotees. Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Miira etc., carried on the propagation of knowledge and devotion related to God only and hence, they are also highest devotees. Since the propagation is aimed at the majority of human beings, they did not take the concept of contemporary human incarnation, because majority suffers with ego and jealousy. In the case of the majority, either God in the medium of awareness (named as awareness by Shankara) or God in the medium of energetic body like Narayana or God in the medium of past human form like Krishna was selected for propagation. Due to this, devotees will reach Brahma Loka temporarily but shortly such devotees will reach Brahma Loka permanently by overcoming ego and jealousy towards contemporary human incarnation.

Hurdle in Rising Higher & Higher Levels

If you want to come up in the life to higher and higher levels, you need not pray God for that, because God is always anxious to bring you up to the highest level. God wants every soul to come up to His level or even more than Him. This is the attitude of a father towards all his children. God created all the souls and hence, He is the divine Father of all the souls (Ahambija pradah pita… Gita). He is the constant Father in all the births of the soul unlike a father-soul, limited to the present birth. His affection to the souls is far superior to the paternal affection. Therefore, He is ready and always dreams to bring any soul up to the highest level. Then, what is the hurdle? The only hurdle that stops Him is the consequence of your behavior in the highest level. Your eyes climb the roof of your head and your increased ego will throw you down to a level far below your feet. Instead of such drastic fall, your present position on the earth is far better and hence, God is not helping you to come up. Therefore, learn humbleness and be submissive always. If God gets confidence that you will not fall down after reaching higher levels, God will immediately push you up. As you suppress your ego more and more to lower level, God will bring you up more and more to the higher levels. Most of you are using the fan all the time in your house and office. Observe the fan constantly and take the message from it, which is your best spiritual preacher. The fan is drawing a zero in the space in every revolution. It is reminding that itself is a zero only and the real hero is the current that is revolving it and giving air. People think that the fan is giving the air and the fan should develop ego due to the praise. But it is very careful in passing on the credit to the current and feel itself as zero constantly. If the current is absent, the fan cannot move even an inch. Similarly, whenever anyone praises you for any good work, feel yourself as zero like the fan and pass on the credit to God who is the real hero. If you can develop this behavior, you will reach to the unimaginable heights very shortly. Instead, people want to hear the praise regarding them from others. Some people boast constantly about themselves by narrating the incidents and want others to appreciate them.

Best Worship

The best worship of God is not through flowers etc. You remember constantly God’s help in the past incidents of your life and feel grateful with tears in eyes. Try to express gratefulness to the past help and you will be helped in the present and future without asking for it. If you cannot recognize the contemporary human incarnation and if you cannot sacrifice in any way in His mission, at least, remember the previous help and become grateful to the invisible God without asking anything at least in that time. God will be certainly pleased with you and you will be helped by Him in your life. Regarding the case of devotees, who serve the God in present human form without aspiring anything in return, they will receive the eternal love from God. The fruit of His eternal love is unimaginable!

This creation consists of matter, awareness and energy as the components. Matter takes different forms like pot, table etc. Energy takes different work forms like light, heat etc. Awareness is also a special work form of energy only, which is generated when the energy functions in a special system called nervous system and brain. The work forms of awareness are ideas, which if become firm, are called as qualities (gunas). For example, charity is a quality, which in the initial stage is an idea only. This world is said to be constituted by the three fundamental qualities (Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas), but remember, this world is made of the three qualities only from the point of God. This means, for God only, this entire creation is imaginary. For a soul, it is not so. For a soul, this world is made of matter, energy and awareness. In fact, matter and awareness are also different forms of energy only. Hence, basically the creation is made of energy only. Awareness is the weakest form of energy. Hence, the conclusion is that this world made of energy is weakest for God and hence, this world is just an imagination only for God. For the soul, the world is very strong because the soul itself is awareness or the weakest form of energy. This is the scientific explanation for the creation to be strong and real for the soul, whereas the world is just the weakest form of energy or awareness modified into qualities for God.

The imaginary world for God is made of awareness, which does not require the existence of nervous system for God because the unimaginable God does not require the rules of nature as required by the soul. This is said in the Veda that God can walk without feet etc. (Apani Pado...). The knowledge part is Sattvam, the static inert part is Tamas and the kinetic inert part is Rajas and all these three qualities exist in the imaginary world of God. God is said to be associated with this creation constituted by these three qualities (Trigunatmaka). Your spiritual effort needs the existence of these three qualities also and hence, your effort (Sadhana) is also constituted by these three qualities. Before conclusion, you must analyze the subject in various angles so that after decision, you must not have any doubt. This analysis is Sattvam. The firmness in the decision, standing like a rock without any vibration by the efforts of your mind, your family and the public, is Tamas. The conversion of this firm decision into practice leads to Rajas because practice or work is Rajas. You must meditate God associated with the creation constituted by the three qualities (Eshwara or Saguna Brahman) through spiritual effort constituted by the three qualities. For meditation, Eshwara (God associated with Brahmanda or world) is sufficient, but for direct service and for direct clarification of doubts, the same God in human form (Pindanda) is required. This is denoted by the three threads of Yajnopavitam given to you in Upanayanam, which means that you are taken towards God. The threads are symbolic representation of the concept only and hence, one need not worry whether the three threads exist or not. It is foolishness to think that the three threads will do something directly. If the concept is grasped, there is no need of the symbolic representative model.

The realized soul (Samnyasin) throws away this symbol since the concept is understood. Without understanding this point, people are quarrelling with each other that the Upanayanam is done for a fraction of people only. In fact, it should be done for a fraction of people only, who is interested in the spiritual effort and this should not be decided by birth or sex. Swami Dayananda tried to bring out this truth and save the Hindus from internal hatred. Unfortunately, He was opposed and was killed by the ignorant selfish Hindus, who blindly believe in birth and sex only for eligibility to reach God. Even Shankara stated that there is no caste or sex for spiritual effort (refer His commentary on the first Brahma Sutra) and He even fell on the feet of the untouchable scholar. He was also killed by black magic for such revolutionary reformation. Krishna stated clearly that the caste system introduced by Him was based on the qualities and actions of the soul and not on birth (Guna Karma Vibhagashah… Gita).

Shankara told that God is awareness. By this, He means that God is always in human form for human beings. The awareness is not available independently anywhere without a gross body. Therefore, the awareness indicates the human body and it avoids the statues and photos, which are inert. Of course, statues and photos are essential for worship for beginners, who cannot accept the human form due to ego and jealousy. Hence, you should not criticize the idol worship since the majority will be hurt, which is trying to get rid of the ignorance gradually. You should not condemn the idol worship but you should analyze the truth in it and try to help the beginners to come up. Any effort is with mistake only in the beginning (Sarvarambhahi doshena... Gita). Awareness is the identity card of God for humanity. This can be understood from Lakshana from Tarka Shastra. According to that, when you call “apples”, the word apples indicates the possessor of the basket of apples, who is selling apples in the street. Apples are in the basket and the basket is on the head of seller. This does not mean that the seller is apple. Similarly, the awareness is in the human body and God is in the human body. God is neither the awareness nor the human body. God charged the human body containing awareness. The main program of God is to give spiritual guidance. Hence, you cannot take a living being like a bird or animal since it cannot preach the spiritual knowledge. Hence, the awareness indicates human body only. The specialty of awareness is that awareness is the basic material of knowledge and hence, from the point of the importance of knowledge in spiritual guidance, the essential basic material (awareness) is indicated here. Every human being cannot give such spiritual guidance and hence, every human being is not God and there is no question of calling every living being as God. Only the topmost spiritual preacher like Krishna, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha etc., can be the human form of God. The other spiritual preachers catering to the lower levels are the liberated souls, who are the servants of God incarnated to help His mission.

Without understanding all this, if you foolishly argue that awareness is God and since awareness is in every living being, every living being is God, you have not understood even an alphabet in the preaching of Shankara. You require the knowledge of all the Shastras to understand the Veda and Shankara (Tasmat Shastram… Gita). The Brahma Sutras also tell that you can understand God only through Shastras (Shastra yonitvat). The word Shastra is limited to the elaborate logic that is essential to understand the Veda. The Veda (Shruti) is the primary text. Smruti is the secondary text like the Gita. Yukti is the logical analysis, which is the Shastram. Finally, Anubhava is the practical experience and this is the most important. If anubhava is contradicted, your interpretation of the texts is wrong due to your wrong logic. Sometimes, the experience of a foolish, ignorant person stands in the way, and to negate this, the logic is needed. The experience of scholars (Vidvadanubhava) should be taken and majority is not the point. The texts and logic help to avoid the experience of ignorant majority. Let us analyze your foolish argument that awareness is God and therefore, every living being is God. In such case, the practical experience is that awareness exists as discontinuous bits in different living beings, which are separated from each other. Now, if awareness is God, either there are several Gods or God is divided into bits. Both these possibilities are denied by Shankara, who says that God has neither Sajatiya bheda (many Gods) nor Svagata bheda (God in bits). You cannot say the space between living beings is also awareness and hence, the awareness is one pervading homogeneously. This is against the practical experience of all including scholars. The space between the living beings is inert and the air in it is also inert. If you say that you are the only scholar experiencing awareness everywhere, there is equal possibility of your madness also. When there is the alternative excellent solution, why should you cling to your madness? The alternative excellent solution is that a particular human being like Krishna alone is God. The awareness in Him is one and is homogeneous and hence, there is no Sajatiya bheda and Svagata bheda, because awareness is pervading all over the human body and is called as Atman. This charged soul is can be treated as God because a wire charged by current can be treated as current itself. The word Atman is used to the gross body also in Sanskrit language and hence, the entire human being is charged by God and can be treated as God. The little and tender finger of Krishna lifted the mountain for seven days and this proves that the entire human body also was charged by the unimaginable God. The human body became unimaginable and hence, the mountain is lifted by the little finger. The wire charged by current gets the property of current and gives shock. Similarly, the unimaginable nature of God is seen in that human body also. Such miracle is need for atheists. For theists, miracles are not necessary and spiritual guidance is sufficient.

Shankara told that God has no Vijatiya bheda also, which means that there is no existence of a second item other than God. If you take this in the absolute sense, then there is no entertainment for God, since He remains alone always (Ekaki Naramate… Veda). You should take this in relative sense. The world exists as relatively real item. The imagination of any person is relatively real. The awareness in the form of mind is the absolute reality in him. The imaginary world is relatively real, which does not exist at all if absolute reality is absent. This means that this world is under the full control of God like the imaginary world existing under the control of the mind of a person. Now, this is also possible in the case of Krishna, who can control this world, as He likes. But, this aspect is not at all seen in the case of any other human being. Therefore, the world is almost unreal or unreal for God only and hence, there is no Vijatiya bheda for God or Krishna charged by God. For any other human being, the world is more real and stronger and hence, you cannot say that Vijatiya bheda is absent in the case of individual soul being treated as God.

The Brahma Vidya is most difficult because you have to recognize co-human form as God and this is possible only if you conquer your ego and jealousy. As training, you start with removing your ego and jealousy towards other co-human beings. Do not be jealous with any human being and do not show ego towards any human being. By this training, you will conquer ego and jealousy towards co-human forms and shortly, you will recognize God in human form. In the training period, you can treat every human being as God to avoid ego and jealousy. But, this is not truth and hence, you need not worship a bad person without discrimination. You can worship all the good people and especially all the devotees. God treats His devotee more than Himself. God will bless you shortly by giving His identification if you complete the training successfully.

The Advaita philosopher is treating every human being (living being) as God not to love all as God, but to treat himself as God only. The intention is not to train himself to remove the ego and jealousy but to increase the ego by becoming God! If you think that the Prime Minister in Delhi means that the Prime Minister is in every house in Delhi, it is foolishness. You have to recognize his particular residence. If you think that he is in some house, though he is not actually in that house, at least you are better, because at least your concept is improved because at least you know that he lives in one house and not in every house! Therefore, it is better to worship some deserving person like a poor devotee as God instead of treating everybody as God. Treating a statue or a photo as God is like treating a vacant inert house as the living Prime Minister himself!

Today, is Guru Purnima. If you recognize Guru as a particular human form of God, the Guru Purnima is meaningful and it becomes complete by this full moon. If your recognition is correct, the full moon is spotless. But the full moon shows black spots, which are your defects of ego and jealousy towards co-human form and this is main black spot, though your spiritual effort is full by devotion. The lack of perfect logical analysis is the black spot in this full moon like full devotion of your spiritual effort.

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