Models and the Concept

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

Lord Datta preached Yadu about 24 teachers. These teachers are the natural items like a tree, a river etc.; these natural items are the similes for the natural qualities of the Lord. When the qualities are more similarly seen, we say that the natural item and the Lord are one and the same. For example: When a girl is red in color, we say that the girl is red like the rose flower. When the similarities of the girl and the rose flower are more, we say that the girl is a rose flower. That does not mean one can marry a rose flower instead of that girl. An ignorant fellow will think the rose flower as the girl. Similarly, the Lord is compared with Sun, space, life etc. The Lord moves like the Sun and radiates knowledge like the Sun radiating the light. This does not mean that the Sun is the Lord. Similarly, the Lord pervades all over the world like space. This does not mean that the space is the Lord. The Lord maintains this world as the life maintains living body. This does not mean that life is the Lord.

When there is one similarity the figure of speech is simile. Ex: The girl is red like the rose flower. When there are many similarities, the figure of speech is metaphor. Ex: When the Girl is red, bright and tender like the rose flower, we say that the girl is rose flower. This does not mean that the girl is actually the rose flower or the rose flower is actually the girl. Similarly, when there are many similarities between the God and the Sun, we say that the God is the Sun. Neither God is actually the Sun nor Sun is actually God. Vyasa in His Brahma Sutras spoke about these similes (Adhikaranams).

The Veda clearly told that the Sun is not the God (Nedaṃ tat). Therefore, the Veda said that no item in the nature is Lord (Neti neti). Such natural objects are called representatives or models (Pratiika). A teacher always teaches with the help of similes and models. The Veda is the theory class in which the preaching about the Lord is done with similes. The world is the laboratory in which one can observe these models with concentration and know the qualities of the Lord. Such concentrated observation is called meditation, which reveals the nature of the Lord very clearly. Meditation does not mean constantly glaring at the model. Meditation also does not mean closing the eyes and retaining the model in the mind. There is no use of such meditation when it is not revealing the concept of the Lord. Clear knowledge should be the fruit of meditation. Keen observation of any model should give the clear concept.

Lord is like a science professor. The Veda is like the correspondence course, which the sages read. They observed the models in the laboratory (world) and understood the concepts by themselves. Gradually the sages disappeared and ordinary human beings came in their place. Some did not understand. Some scholars misunderstood and misinterpreted the Veda. The result was that the rose flower was decided as the girl. The Sun was confirmed as the Lord. The models like Sun, fire, air, water, earth etc., are confirmed as God or Goddess. Each river has become the Goddess. The power of the Lord called ‘Maya’ is constantly dynamic and moving the world. Therefore ‘Maya’ was compared to a river. Each river has become the Goddess. The whole Veda gives the description of several natural items as similes to the Lord and to the power of the Lord. These natural items were called as God or Goddess due to many similarities. Ignorant people have misunderstood.

Therefore, the Lord came in the Human form and gave the correct interpretation. It is just like the admission in a college instead of a correspondence course. In a college the professor teaches everything clearly. Such college professor is Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, Mahavir, Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva etc.; a model also indicates the concept that the Lord comes in Human form. But the students prepared this model. By the will of God, the human beings prepared the statues in Human form, which indicate the Lord in Human form. This model speaks that a particular human being is only the Lord and not every human being. If every human being is the Lord, the statue should have been a general human being. The statue was of a particular human being only like Rama and Krishna. But again, the same ignorance continued and people thought that the statue itself is the Lord. Therefore, the Lord gave the technique of Life Initiation (Praana Pratishthaa). The statue associated with this life initiation is again a model, which indicates the living human being. In a living human being also, the human body is inert like statue when there is no life in it. Therefore, the inert statue with life means a living human being. Again, the model is misunderstood and people thought that the life has entered the statue by this process of life initiation. If this process has the capacity of introducing the life into inert object, why don’t you do the same for a dead body and make it alive? If you say that the life awareness (consciousness) is already in the statue, then what is the necessity of this life initiation again? Since the experience and reasoning contradict, it cannot be authority.

Finally, the human being is given as a model. The human being has all similarities with the Human incarnation, except that in Human incarnation the Lord is living in the body instead of the soul. Thus, human being is the best metaphor for the Lord in Human form. Again, the human being is misunderstood and every human being is thought to be the human incarnation. Like this, starting from inert objects like Sun up to the living human being all are similes only. Thus, you have to eliminate every inert object and every living being and such elimination process is called ‘Neti neti’ as per the Veda.

The various inert models in the nature explain the qualities of the Human incarnation. The human body of any human being explains the external human body of the Human incarnation. Let us take a king. He is compared to the Sun in his valour. This does not mean that the king is the Sun. His silk cloth is compared with the same type of silk cloth of a rich man. This does not mean that the rich man is the king. The external human body is like the external dress for the Lord or for the soul.

Every human being is repelled by another human being. This is due to the natural jealousy and egoism. This is the main reason, which hinders the acceptance of the Lord in Human form. This is the only actual reason for the misinterpretation that is coming at every stage. People will be prepared to accept the statue in human form as the Lord. Otherwise, people are prepared to accept every human being as the Lord. To accept a particular human being as the Lord is very very difficult. Therefore, knowledge of the Lord (Brahma Vidya) is very complicated. The reason for the complication is not in the subject. But the reason is the egoism and jealousy of the human beings only. Due to such jealousy only, several enemies opposed Lord Krishna in His time. Lord Rama was not opposed because Rama behaved just like any other human being. He never exposed His divinity and so nobody was jealous. Jesus revealed His divinity and so He was killed. Shankara revealed His divinity and He was killed. Swami Dayananda spoke the truth of the Vedas and so He was killed.

A temple is also a model of the body of the Human incarnation. The statue in the temple represents the Lord. Thus, a temple is a model for the body of the Lord (Deho devālayaḥ proktaḥ, jīvo devaḥ sanātanaḥ). The outer compound wall of the temple is the gross body (Sthuula Shariira). The inner temple is the inner subtle body (Suukshma Shariira). The inner most temple is the cause body (Kaarana Shariira). The statue represents the Parabrahma with “Maya’.

If you take the human body of Rama or Krishna the external human body is the outer compound wall. The inner subtle body is Lord Vishnu. The innermost cause body is Lord Datta. The innermost statue is ‘Saguna Brahman’ (Brahman associated with Maya). The Nirguna Brahman (Brahman without Maya) can never be even imagined.

Each Yantra is a design indicating a concept of spiritual knowledge. For ex: Shri Chakram indicates the whirlpool of illusion of money. The four triangles represent the Lord indicating Manas, Buddhi, Chittam and Ahankara. These four indicate the life energy or the basis of knowledge. The five triangles indicate the five elements, which constitute the Maya or ignorance. In one type of Shri Chakra the knowledge becomes the base. (The base of the four triangles is upward) and this is called ‘Samhara chakra’ which means the destruction of the mental bond with money. In the other type of Shri Chakra, which is called ‘Srushti Chakra’ (formation of bond with money) the base of the five triangles (Maya) is upward and this denotes the formation of mental bond with money.

The three circles denote the three types of bodies in both types. In the first Chakra the eight petals of the lotus indicate the eight superpowers and the sixteen petals of another lotus indicate the sixteen divine qualities of the Lord. The four gates indicate the four Vedas. In the second Chakra the eight petals indicate the eight forms of wealth and sixteen petals indicate the sixteen Kalas (Lights of the moon representing the mind). The four gates indicate the four Purushaardhas (Dharma, Ardha, Kama and Moksha). The essence of the concept indicated by Shri Chakram is only that you should come out of the influence of Chakram (vicious circle) of Shri (Money). Shri Chakram is considered to be the root of this world because the influence money is the root of all the family bonds. Without understanding the concept, ignorant people have started worshipping the Shri Chakra!

Thus, the temples, statues and yantras are the models which are the teaching aids of spiritual knowledge. Of course, all these models must be protected carefully, but the model becomes fruitful only when the people understand the concept. A planetarium is the model of scientific knowledge. When you visit the planetarium, you must learn the concept from it. Without this, what is the use of simply enjoying the visit of planetarium like a small child? Once you understand the concept, for you, the model is not necessary. Of course, the model should be preserved for the sake of the future ignorant people. When the finger indicates the dish of food, you must look at the dish, go and eat it. Without doing that, what is the use of constantly looking at the finger? Of course, since the purpose is served, you should not cut the finger of the person who showed you the dish. Let the finger remain, which will be useful for the next person.

Therefore, respect the statues, temples and yantras and meditate upon them. Meditation means learning the concept of the Lord clearly. When once you understood, there is no use of worshipping the temples, statues and yantras. When you have recognized the Human incarnation of the Lord, there is no need of the temple and statue. When you have broken the bond with money, there is no need of worshipping the Shri Chakra. Lord comes in human form in every generation to avoid the partiality to a particular human generation. Therefore, if you can get rid of your jealousy and egoism to the human form and identify the human incarnation with the help of the models like temples and statues, your life becomes fruitful. If you become His servant in His mission and participate by sacrificing work and fruit of work (money), there is no need of the worship of Shri Chakram. If the concept is not understood, all the models are useless.

When the Lord comes in human form, you have to recognize Him and serve Him. Even if you do not serve Him, do not insult Him. Generally, people insult the Lord in human form because of jealousy and egoism. To avoid this, try to love all your fellow human beings. This is called ‘Pravrutti’. By this, you will not at least insult the Lord in Human form. Rama preached Pravrutti. Serving the Lord in Human form is called Nivrutti. Krishna preached Nivrutti. The aim of Pravrutti is again for Nivrutti only. Without this purpose, only Pravrutti, which is social service without God, is a waste. You are accepting the statue prepared by the Human being, but you hate that Human being. The human being is the statue prepared by the Lord.

The identity signs to recognize the Human incarnation are knowledge (Jnana), love (Rasa) and bliss (Ananda). These three are the characteristic marks like the heat of fire. The Veda says the same (Satyaṃ jñānam, Raso vai saḥ, Ānando Brahma). These three signs are associated with sacrifice (Datta) because Datta means donation or sacrifice. Therefore, knowledge means that He preaches the knowledge. Love means that He generates love in your hearts. Bliss means that He generates bliss in your hearts. If you go near the fire, you will experience the heat. Similarly, you must experience the knowledge, love and bliss from the human incarnation. When you do not experience, he does not possess these three characteristic signs and therefore he is a false incarnation. The Veda says that He possesses special knowledge, which is impossible for any other human being (Prajñānaṃ Brahma). Such a special knowledge generates love on Him in our hearts and we are filled with bliss.

The associated sign is superpower, which does the miracles as said in the Veda (Satya kāmaḥ). He may expose the superpower as Lord Krishna or may hide it as Rama. Even if He uses the superpower, He will not use it for exhibition and for attracting the people with egoism. When there is an emergency, then only He uses the superpower. Shankara entered the house of Mandana Mishra by using superpower because the doors were not opened in spite of His several calls. But Mandana Mishra did not give any importance to that superpower. He became His disciple only after hearing the divine knowledge of Shankara, which created love and bliss in his heart in a debate, which went on for twenty-one days. His own knowledge did not give him bliss in his heart. Therefore, a scholar whose knowledge cannot give you bliss is not the Lord. A scholar also is not associated with the superpower. A demon is always associated with superpower. But He is not associated with knowledge, love and bliss. Like this one can easily eliminate the false incarnations. The knowledge of the Lord is always with full of quotations from the Vedas, Shastras and Gita because He is the author of the Vedas and the Gita. The Gita says that the Shastra is the authority (Tasmāt śāstraṃ pramāṇaṃ te).

The first three great sentences of the Vedas (Maha vakyas) gave the similarity of Lord Krishna (Lord in Human form) with the three human beings you, he and I. It is just like showing three roses and say that the girl is similar to the three rose flowers. The fourth great sentence gives the actual difference between the rose flower and the girl to avoid the misunderstanding that the rose flower is the girl. The fourth sentence says that Lord Krishna is having special knowledge (Prajnaanam) which is not possible for any human being. The word Jnana or Prajnana is never used for the simple awareness (Chaitanyam). Nobody says that a living animal or bird is a Jnani or Prajnani. Jnani means a scholar and not every human being. Prajnani means the Lord whose knowledge is beyond even the scholars.

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