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Shri Datta Swami

 Posted on 23 Jan 2007. Share

Peace, Bliss and Liberation

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

The Lord comes in human form in every human generation. All people may not recognize Him. Only a few devotees can recognize Him and get the benefit of liberation form these worldly bonds. The human form of Lord has no obligation to see that everybody recognizes Him. Of course, He will try the level best to give His identity and to reveal Himself slowly according to the speed of digestion of the devotees. The teacher comes to the class and teaches the class impartially to His level best in view of the capacity of digestion of the sitting students in the class with equal approach. Some attend the class very carefully and get first class. Some attend with less care and just pass. Some do not attend and fail. The student is responsible about his final result. Similarly, some recognize the human incarnation as Lord. Some recognize the human incarnation as a blessed devotee. Some treat the human incarnation as an ordinary human being. For this variation, God is not at all responsible. Suppose, the teacher comes to a class in one year and does not come to next batch of the same class, it is injustice on the part of the teacher to favor one batch and not the other batch. Similarly, the human incarnation cannot favor one human generation only by direct contact.

Message of Hanuman & Gopikas To Devotees

There is no greater devotee than Hanuman and Gopikas. Both have worshipped their contemporary human incarnations only, which were Rama and Krishna respectively. Hanuman did not worship the statues of Vamana or Parashurama who were the past human incarnations or the statues of heavenly energetic forms like Vishnu, Shiva etc., or the formless God. After completing the leaning from the god-sun, He did not say that He was Brahman already but He became the Brahman finally by serving the contemporary human incarnation. The present Advaita Scholar is reverse to this who says that he is already Brahman and never became Brahman! Hanuman did not go to temples and pilgrimage, never chanted any mantra, never did any penance etc. He simply recognized the human incarnation in His generation and served Him in whatever way the Lord required. The same Hanuman lived after Rama also till the next human incarnation came. During the time of the next incarnation, Krishna, Hanuman was worshipping Rama only in His mind. But Krishna corrected Him and made Him a devotee of the contemporary incarnation again. Similarly, Gopikas did not worship the statues of past human incarnation like Rama or statues of Vishnu etc., and did not do anything except worshipping their contemporary human incarnation by offering butter, by dancing with Him etc. These Gopikas reached the highest Goloka. These Gopikas were the ancient sages who wrote the Upanishads, which form the basis for Advaitins. As Gopikas also, they retained their previous knowledge about God and cannot be treated as illiterate (Mahatmya Jnana… Narada Bhakti Sutra). Pandavas who recognized their contemporary human incarnation but could not do total sacrifice for the Lord due to limitations of justice, could go only up to heaven. Every devotee in Hinduism has digested these three epics thoroughly and the essence of these is very very clear. What more proof is required for the concept of the contemporary human incarnation than this? Everywhere in the Gita, the worship of Krishna was stressed, which means the worship of the contemporary human incarnation. The worship of alive human form of God is far better than worshipping the energetic forms and worshipping the dead human forms (Devan Deva Yajo Yanti Pitrun Yanti Pitru Vratah… Gita). The word “Pitru” here can be taken as the past human form of God who was the real Father of the soul. Jesus referred to these alive people who worship the past dead forms as dead because they should go to the past in the same state of dead to get the effect of contemporary human incarnation (Let the dead bury the dead…).

One cannot argue that it is impossible to please God in human form by such total sacrifice of work and fruit of work. This argument is not correct because such total sacrifice is possible in the case of the children. It is not possible only in the case of God. If it is really impossible by itself, it should have been impossible in the case of the children also. People want the highest fruit through the easiest path. Hence, they have changed the very goal itself. Suppose, it is very difficult for you to travel to Delhi. But you want to go to Delhi. Then, you name a nearest village as Delhi and reach that Delhi. Now, you are satisfied that you are in Delhi. You will say that there is no Delhi other than that village. Generations have passed and after a long time, that petty village stands as Delhi. People do not know even the existence of the real Delhi. But the truth is that that petty village can never be Delhi and any numbers of people of any number of generations staying in that petty village are not the citizens of Delhi. This is the power of truth and the incapability of the tradition. People want the grace of God by theoretical devotion like prostitutes or want the grace of God by investing some work or wealth like business people. The difficulties in selfless service and in doing sacrifice of work and wealth without aspiring any fruit in return to the contemporary human incarnation lead the people to investigate a new comfortable God with a comfortable path. This new God is formless or a statue and the path is theoretical meditation or theoretical devotion with sacrifice of little work in leisure time or with sacrifice of little wealth to escape the tax problems. The new path is tied with their own new conditions, which are possible to do with some difficulty so that they can also claim the path to be difficult. For example, cold-water bath in the early morning in the winter season is one such new condition, which is not possible to all the people. Some people could do this and satisfied the concept of the path to God being with difficulties.

The actual path is with thorns and nobody can go in it to God except in the case of their own children. Now, a new path is made for the new goal and the path is artificially made to contain some small pits. Now, to cross these pits in the new path is the difficulty in the path to God. Somehow, some people cross these pits and have the satisfaction of traveling through a path of difficulties. Such selfish, clever misinterpretations of the long blind tradition have harmed the souls in such a way so that even a soul, which is capable of traveling through the thorny path, is not even aware of the real path and the identity of the real goal. Even such a capable soul is misled to travel through the false path of small pits and reach the petty village called Delhi. At least, such capable soul should have at least the knowledge of the right path and right goal. For this purpose only, the true path and true goal are revealed today in My divine knowledge. The truth will attract only very few gems. The fraud will attract many gravel stones. If I want only the majority of gravel stones, I need not preach this divine knowledge anymore, because already sufficient fraud is established by the blind tradition. One should not fear for the thorny path, which alone is true. One should constantly try to travel in that true path. If the soul is in constant trail, God will help the soul by sanctioning any number of future human births with congenial atmosphere and one day or other the soul will certainly reach the true goal. This is better than reaching the false goal through the false path in this very human birth itself. But, remember, the effort should be really sincere and not a cinema action.

Meaning of Liberation

The Advaitin preaches Atma Yoga to get rid of both happiness and misery. It is no profit and no loss business, which no fool does. Such Atma Yoga denies the existence of God other than self and this greatest sin generates the continuous punishment to be enjoyed by the soul. When the punishment is to be implemented, you cannot escape it by limiting yourself to a state of non-involvement. The powerful divine Maya will catch you and drag you out for giving the punishment. If the thief hides in underground without any involvement in the world, the police will search for him, catch him and impart the punishment on him. The final result of Atma Yoga is to become an inert stone but one cannot become even that stone if there is balance of sin and the sin is endless in this case. Hence, there is no chance of becoming even a stone through Atma Yoga. However, if you are so fond of becoming a stone, you have to worship the Lord who is the controller of yourself. Then, no sin is generated. When the previous balance of sin is exhausted by punishments, you can become the stone by the grace of God. Such state represents the deep sleep where the soul has no awareness and remains as a lump of inert energy only with eternal peace. If such state is the highest, God also should have remained in that state without this creation. Perhaps, you are wiser than God for having such a better state, which is not realized even by God. In your opinion, God has foolishly created this world to have full enjoyment through full entertainment based on full involvement in the world.

When you have become a liberated soul though selfless service to God in human form, you will attain the same state of God of full entertainment in the world based on the full involvement. In such state, you will enjoy both happiness and misery like sweet and hot dishes in a meal or like comedy and tragedy in cinema or like winter and summer seasons in the world. You may think that you have known this clue and start enjoying the world like God forgetting the God once again. You may think that God is no more necessary since the clue of enjoyment is known. Now you will become the Bhasmasura who tried to burn Lord Shiva after getting such power from Lord Shiva Himself. Such ungratefulness to God again generates the sin and to undergo the punishment of that sin, Maya will drag you to the lower level of normal human beings. As long as you are in the selfless service of God, you will be always with God in human form in this world to derive bliss from the entertainment continuously. If you become far from God by egoism and jealousy by crossing the mark of circle of His closest devotees, the thousands of hands of Maya will bite you like black poisonous serpents.

To become a liberated soul, one need not exhaust the results of all his deeds to be enjoyed by him. There is no need of transfer of sin to God in this case. Such transfer of sin only protects the closest devotee before liberation. In the case of the liberated soul, the existing balance of sin can be enjoyed by himself through the divine clue. If the devotee gets this clue from God and maintains His grace through the selfless service, one can be liberated in any moment in this very human life. You need not doubt about the balance of the results of his previous deeds. The doubt has no validity because the moment you become a liberated soul, you are going to enjoy the balance of the results of your deeds also as a part of the world to be enjoyed like that in the future. Any way, he is going to enjoy both sweet and hot dishes in a hotel outside his house. He can enjoy the sweet and hot dishes leftover in his house also in a similar way. Therefore, the Jeevan Mukti (liberation while alive in this human life) is possible for any one at any time. It is just like seeing a part of the cinema in your T.V. (the magnitude of the screen is same) in your house and see the next part of cinema in a theatre outside your house immediately. The story of the cinema is a continuous stream only.

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