Shri Baba's Cosmic Vision on the Moon

[Devotees asked Swami about the confusion of cosmic vision to be shown by Shri Satya Sai Baba in moon. Swami gave the following discourse to devotees:-]

Shri Baba showed thousands of miracles to the world and even scientists have accepted the truth in the miracles. If this particular miracle is not done, does it mean that all the previous miracles are invalid? Even if this miracle is done, our atheist-friends will say that some laser technology was adopted. Our friends have disposed all the earlier miracles also as magic. When Lord Krishna gave the cosmic vision to Kauravas, they did not believe it and concluded that it was some magic show. The laser technology was then not known; otherwise they might have told that Krishna passed some laser beam from a small box hidden in His dress! Krishna showed cosmic vision to Arjuna in whose case there was a temporary change. Same vision shown to sage Udanka resulted in permanent change of the sage. The same vision had no use in Kauravas and to prove that the visions are useless for such people only, Krishna showed this vision to Kauravas. The aim of miracles is only to establish the existence of unimaginable nature so that the unimaginable God can be established. Every time, every devotee needs the exhibition of a miracle to establish the existence of unimaginable nature.

God has arranged one unimaginable event in the creation, which can be seen by everybody at anytime. Such miracle is the infinity of space. The limits of this universe are unimaginable in this infinite space due to existence of infinite number of galaxies of stars in space. Everyone, including scientist, accepts the infinity of space. Even scientist could not see the limits of universe even through most powerful telescope. The stars seen by you with your naked eye are a very small number in the infinite number of galaxies of stars. In the time of Krishna, telescope was not there to realize this fact. Hence, by God’s grace, Arjuna could visualize the infinite number of galaxies. Krishna said that He is giving divine sight to Arjuna to see the infinity of universe. Krishna also stated, while showing this vision, that there is no end to His creation (Nantosti… Gita). Hence, the only purpose of cosmic vision is to establish the unimaginable limits of this creation. This establishes the unimaginable nature of God. Krishna stated that God is unimaginable, when He said that none can know Him (Mamtuvedana… Gita). Arjuna gets a doubt about the very existence of unimaginable nature at all. For that, a practical example of unimaginable nature is needed. All authorities (Pramanas) are based on perception (Pratyakasha) only. Experience is the final basis for the other three authorities viz., Shruti, Smruti and yukti. Krishna could have exhibited some miracle to establish unimaginable nature. But such miracle will be limited to Arjuna only. If the unimaginable limits of universe are established through the cosmic vision, it will be a permanent miracle for anybody to easily experience in the future. Anybody can stand on the roof of the house and look into sky so that he can easily imagine the unimaginable limits of space or universe.

Today, the telescope supports such imagination. One can actually see the infinite number of stars through the telescope and the same can be imagined by mind also. Telescope gives perception of the concept; whereas imagination by mind gives inference of the same concept. The grace of Krishna was the present telescope by which Arjuna could perceive the infinite number of galaxies similar to the scientists perceiving the same through the telescope. Infact, neither the telescope nor the special power is needed to see the infinite number of galaxies in the sky because the same can be inferred easily by even a common man on seeing the sky, since the limits of sky (space) are not seen by the naked eye. Hence, the vision of cosmos or cosmic vision is the best and easiest miracle to understand the existence of unimaginable nature through which unimaginable God can be inferred. This is the importance of cosmic vision, which is easily available to anybody at any time, and hence, it occupied unique place in the Gita. A common man need not search for the vision of any miracle to get proof for unimaginable nature.

Even if you see the infinite galaxies through telescope or through the divine sight granted by God, the same conclusion drawn by a common man through normal sight of sky is achieved and that sole conclusion is that the space or universe is infinite due to unimaginable boundary. At any level of space, the same conclusion is drawn and this conclusion is only the inference of mind based on the above said perceptions. By this conclusion, the existence of unimaginable nature is established and thereby, the existence of unimaginable God can be understood. This conclusion is based on the cosmic vision and inference of mind. Mind is born from moon as per the Veda. Hence, the cosmic vision in moon means getting the inference of this knowledge thorough the mind with help of cosmic vision. The word cosmic vision indicates the perception of infinite number of galaxies. The word mind indicates the inference concluded based on such perception of cosmic vision. Even Arjuna uttered this conclusion only after seeing the cosmic vision through the telescope divine sight. He said that he finds no limits of cosmos (Sarvatonantarupam… Vishvarupa - Gita). The aim of cosmic vision as said by Krishna and the final conclusion as said by Arjuna are one and the same, which is that unimaginable God exists due to existence of unimaginable limits of cosmos. This is the exact link of cosmic vision with moon. Moon stands for mind here. The language of God is always symbolic. In Christian scripture, God is indicated by the word ‘lamb’ due to innocent nature of lamb resembling the purity of God. Otherwise, everybody knows that on the day of Ashtami, moon is not seen between 6 and 7 pm. The inner meaning is to be understood and such topics are several in the Veda communicated through symbolic language.

The vision of cosmos can’t relate God in anyway. God pervades the human body of Krishna and vision of such human body is vision of God. Shri Baba is sitting in the crowd and the vision of Baba itself is the vision of God, since Shri Baba is the human form of God. The airport indicates the aeroplane that travels in the infinite space indicating the unimaginable limits of cosmos establishing the unimaginable nature of God. All these put together indicate the vision of unimaginable God established by the unimaginable limits of infinite space (indicated by the airport) inferred by mind (indicated by moon) in the medium of human body (indicated by Shri Baba sitting there). Since the moon was not visible, which infers the unimaginable limits of space, the airport infers the unimaginable limits of space. It is for this reason of invisibility of moon (mind is invisible), the airport was selected as the place. The whole scene is to be understood carefully to conclude the concept.

God Exists in Incarnation Only in Universe

 The actual God is not seen by eye since God is not imaginable even to mind, intelligence and logic as per several Vedic statements. The Veda says that the eye cannot see God. But the same Veda says that a blessed soul can see God. This contradiction is easily removed by taking original God for the first statement and mediated God in human form for the second statement. God is not pervading all over the creation because the Veda says that God created universe to see and enjoy it. If you pervade all over the cinema and become that cinema itself, you cannot see and enjoy it. The Veda says that nothing in the world is God (Neti Neti…). The Veda also says that God entered the world after creating it. If God already pervaded all over the universe, there is no meaning in saying that God entered the universe. When the Veda says that this entire world is God, Ramanuja interpreted it as the world being under the control of God. You call a kingdom by the name Kalinga, when it is under the control of king Kalinga. Therefore, the universe is not like the human body of Krishna to be pervaded by God. In that case, seeing the cosmos is not like seeing the human body of Krishna. The human body of Krishna is seen completely, touched and served in several ways. This gives full satisfaction to devotees who are anxious to see God completely and serve God directly. In the same way, if you take the universe also like the human body of Krishna, the universe is not completely seen and it means God is not completely seen. It is also impossible to serve the universe. It is also impossible to talk with the universe like Krishna in the human body. Therefore, there is no necessity for God to pervade all over the universe to satisfy the devotees. In such case, the vision of cosmos has no use since it is not the medium of God like the human form of Krishna. But the cosmic vision is given importance in the sense that its unimaginable limits establish the existence of unimaginable God. But for this one reason, there is no purpose of seeing the infinite universe through cosmic vision.

Seeing the human beings is also of no use because neither they indicate the infinite limits like cosmos nor they indicate God like the human form of Krishna. Madhva established that the universe is completely different entity from God like the pot being different from the pot maker. Ramanuja said that the universe is inseparable from God like the body from the soul and in this sense, the universe can be treated as the body of the God. The Gita compares the body to the shirt. The shirt is different from the person but when it is on the body of the person, it is inseparable because if it is separated, the person becomes naked. Even the body is separated from the soul after death and hence, in no way it is different from shirt. Therefore, the universe is like a pot that always exists with the pot maker without separation. In this sense only, the Veda treats the universe as body. Thus, there is no difference between Ramanuja and Madhva in this point. The universe is controlled by the power of God, which is pervading all over the universe. In fact, the universe is only imagination of God and it is the product of the mental energy (power) of God. Thus, there is total difference between cosmic vision and the vision of human form of God. The first vision is to understand the unimaginable nature of God. The second vision is to see God with naked eyes, talk with Him and finally serve Him. Both the visions are important in their respective angles. The scholars understanding the inner sense of the whole scene are benefited by the incident. But the ignorant masses have taken only the external physical sense and were disappointed. Such masses have not taken the inner sense of unimaginable nature of God from any miracle that was exhibited by Shri Baba previously. They have never taken the inner sense of the miracles so far and hence, they have not taken the inner sense now also.

The Importance of Incarnation of Baba

Today is Thursday, the day of Lord Dattatreya, who comes down in the human form to guide the spiritual aspirants on the earth. The presiding planet of today’s star is also Jupiter (Guru), who is the preacher of angels. Today is Ashtami, the birthday of Krishna. Today is Punarvasu star, the birth star of Rama. Rama and Krishna are important human incarnations. The time between 6 pm and 7 pm is a mixture of zodiates of Aquarius and Pisces. In Aquarius, Saturn, Jnanakaraka, is in association with Ketu, Mokshakaraka. Pisces is the time in which Lord Dattatreya entered this earth. All this shows the holy aspect of time.

 Shri Baba is reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba, who was the incarnation of Lord Datta. Datta means the God given to humanity in human form. Shri Baba did several miracles to establish the unimaginable God. This time needs His mission to establish the existence of unimaginable power of God through miracles. In this time, science developed tremendously, so that people thought that everything is explicable by human logic and nothing beyond human logic exists. The foundation itself is cracked and all these miracles established that there is God, who can never be explained by science or human logic. Thus, Shri Baba constructed the strong foundation for spirituality on which any spiritual preacher can stand safely to preach spiritual knowledge. If Shri Baba did not come, by this time, all the temples must have been converted into business complexes. He established the fundamental faith in God all over the world, which is the foundation for the world peace. He showed universal spirituality in all His preaching. He rained ocean of knowledge and developed devotion through His sweet songs. He worked day and night to set right the Pravrutti, which is the basis for Nivrutti. The spiritual world must remember His name in the beginning of any spiritual effort. The ethical and spiritual values became alive due to Him only. Such divine personality is very rare.

Even devotees perform miracles by the grace of God. In the case of devotees, a divine program chalked out by God is strictly implemented. The devotee without the sanction of God can’t perform any extra miracle. If he tries to perform it, it will utterly fail. The miracle that happens spontaneously is due to will of God. The devotee need not plan for it. God comes down in human form as incarnation, but He will be acting as devotee also. Hanuman is God acting as devotee forever. Rama acted as master rarely and frequently as a devotee only. Krishna acted as master frequently and rarely as a devotee. The program of the incarnation is planned according to the requirement. Whenever God acts as devotee, He will be exemplary to all the devotees. In the role of devotee, God also shows the defects committed by devotees and reveals the results of such defects. God in the role of Parashurama exhibited the defects of devotees and showed the bad effects of such defects. Devotees think that they are human incarnations and show jealousy towards the real human incarnations and also to other devotees acting as human incarnations. Their ego gets insulted in the hands of God. Parashurama was egoistic and jealous towards Rama, who was real human incarnation. Remember that Parashurama is also a real human incarnation but acted as fraud incarnation to show the defects of fraud devotees acting as human incarnations. You should not misunderstand that Parashurama is really egoistic and jealous. He killed miraculously all kings as per the divine program of God. But when He saw Rama, He offered the bow of God Vishnu for handling and got insulted in the hands of Rama. This indicates that a devotee does miracles by the grace of God as per the divine program. Offering bow of Vishnu to Rama was an extra miracle, which was not in the divine program, and hence, he got insulted.

Bhaskara Sarma prepared food for Shri Narasimha Sarasvati, the human incarnation of Lord Datta. The Lord invited all the villagers for the feast and hence, the food was multiplied. If Sarma invited villagers, the Lord will not perform the miracle. The Lord will also come for food along with the villagers. Sarma can’t make the Lord to perform the miracle. Govinda Bhagavatpada, the preacher of Shankara, jumped from the top of hill announcing that if God is the author of the Veda, he will be protected. He was protected because his statement was from God. If every fellow utters this and jumps from hill, he will die since the statement is from the devotee and not from God, even though the statement is true. You should not embarrass God by such foolish statements even though they are true. If God states through you, He will certainly act through miracle. You are the best judge of the source of your statement since your inner consciousness knows the truth very well. If the statement is from God, you will utter it forcibly and spontaneously. Satan challenged Jesus to turn the stones into breads by the grace of God if God is really omnipotent. Really God is omnipotent and God can turn the stones into breads in no time. But Satan provoked Jesus to do the miracle and God is not involved in this issue directly. Jesus replied to Satan stating that one should not test God through miracles. Jesus did several miracles to change several human beings into devotees. When the devotee deserves the miracle, it was done spontaneously. Satan doesn’t deserve the miracle and God does not wish to do the miracle for the sake of Satan. Jesus grasped the will of God and did not force God to do the miracle. Even if He forces, God will not do the miracle. He acted as a devotee to preach this point to devotees.

Jesus did several miracles and even gave life to a dead person. But He couldn’t save Himself from crucifixion in the end. The soldiers stated this point and mocked at Jesus. Krishna even as boy, killed several demons who came in disguise to kill Him. Same Krishna, grown up well, couldn’t prevent a hunter who killed Him by mistake. Krishna laughed at sage Udanka, who was ready to curse Krishna and gave cosmic vision to him. Same Krishna didn’t control Gandhari, a common lady, giving curse to Him. Jesus and Krishna were certainly God in human forms. When that is the fact, why both did not show the power of God to control the situation against to them? There must be a message in such action, apart from God’s wish to enjoy the role of an insulted person. God is bored with continuous success and happiness and sometimes likes to enjoy defeat and insult also. Apart from this self-entertainment from a negative role, there is a message for the devotees also because the action of God is always multi-dimensional. Another aspect in suffering with insult is to enjoy the sins of His devotees personally and get them relieved from sins. Another dimension is the message given to devotees regarding the defeat occurring due to their defects.

There should be minimum standard even if you criticize somebody. You say that Shri Baba is doing magic only. Baba performed miracles in petty village even from childhood. Who is the master of magic for Him in that petty village? If He has undergone some training under somebody to learn magic, people should have noticed it. Miracles prove the unimaginable nature and thereby, establish the existence of unimaginable God. This is the only basic purpose of miracles. Even demons performed miracles through the power of God. God allowed the power to perform miracles through them also because miracle is the basis to prove the very existence of unimaginable God. If everything is explicable and if there is no existence of unimaginable item, it straightly means that the human being alone is God and there is no God other than the human being. This will spoil even Pravrutti, which is based on justice.

Even the Governments Fail if Atheism Develops

If God is absent, hell is absent and everybody tries to do injustice secretly and if the law of court is managed through a strong advocate, there is no fear to do any sin. Even the Governments will fail if such atheism comes up. If Nivrutti is destroyed, the slow consequence is destruction of Pravrutti leading to disturbance of justice in society. God is not much worried about Nivrutti because it is His personal affair. Infact, God discourages devotees in Nivrutti and in spite of opposition from God, devotees please God by their extreme love to God. God is always worried about Pravrutti, which is a peaceful balance of society. In the Gita, He told about His purpose of visit to establish justice in Pravrutti only. He tries to establish Pravrutti only. He never tries for Nivrutti, because Nivrutti is the affair of devotees loving God. God never tries for anybody to love Him. He is only worried about the peaceful co-living of human beings in society (Pravrutti). He encourages Pravrutti by giving gift of heaven.

He discourages people in Nivrutti and in spite of that if some strong devotee aspires Him only, He allows the soul to be with Him in His divine service. Even the fruit in Nivrutti is only service but in Pravrutti the fruit is heaven. Baba always tried to establish Pravrutti through His speeches and this shows the divine nature of God in Him. Rama and Krishna always tried to establish justice in Pravrutti through continuous efforts like killing evil demons. Rama was hiding Himself by dense ignorance and never gave opportunity even to recognize Him as God. Krishna left Gopikas forever and discouraged Nivrutti. If you try to make somebody to love you, you are the biggest fool. Real love comes spontaneously and grows tremendously in spite of your terrible opposition. If you try to generate and develop love in somebody’s heart, such love is not true. How can you advertise about the process of loving you and the consequent gifts to be given by you? If somebody loves you, even if you discourage it by showing loss and misery, if still that soul is loving you, prepared for loss and misery, that is the real love. Shiva in disguise discouraged Parvati about her love to Him in several ways. Therefore, God is always for establishing Pravrutti in the society, since it is the issue of love between souls and He is not involved in it. He never tries for Nivrutti because it is the issue of love of souls towards Him.

Pravrutti is rejection of unjust bonds before justified bonds. If you reject the love of a prostitute before the love of your wife, it is rejection of injustice and voting for justice. Hence, in Pravrutti, justice is basis and is the very essence. When you come to Nivrutti, you are rejecting wife before God. This appears to be injustice but on analysis, you can find that this is your vote for highest justice as you have voted for higher justice in the above case of Pravrutti. Hence, the basis of justice continues in Nivrutti also if you analyze deeply. A person loving a prostitute and rejecting wife neither has the perfect knowledge of wife nor has the perfect knowledge of the prostitute. Only in the ignorance of both, he says that his love to prostitute is justice and his love to wife is injustice. Similarly, when you do not have the knowledge of God and world, then only, you will feel that the worldly bonds are more justified than bond with God. This is only due to your ignorance of both God and world as in the above case. If you have to be grateful to your parents, wife and children, how much you should be grateful to God on the same basis of help done to you? Since you have not realized the help of God, you are less grateful to God. You have overestimated the help of your family and you are more grateful to the worldly bonds. God is helping you million times more than your family and His help is continuous for millions of births even though you are not grateful to Him. The help from your family is limited to this birth and if you analyze, you will find that business is always hidden in your worldly bonds. The Veda says that any soul loves you since you are the means of its happiness (Atmanah kamaya…). Hence, voting for God and rejecting worldly bonds is not violation of justice but it is based on the same very very justice only. Lack of deep knowledge and analysis makes it to appear as voting for God against justice. But in fact, it is only voting for highest justice and rejecting higher justice.

When you reject prostitute before your wife, it is voting to higher justice against lower justice or injustice. Justice and injustice are only comparative terms. If a bachelor loves a prostitute and marries her as social reform, such love to the prostitute becomes justice only. Hence, justice becomes injustice and vice-versa in different contexts. It is only a relative concept. Therefore, establishment of justice means establishment of both Pravrutti and Nivrutti. You can identify the justice at every level through the torchlight of analytical knowledge. Therefore, if you cannot identify justice in Pravrutti, how can you identify justice in Nivrutti? If you cannot vote for your wife against a prostitute, how can you vote for God against your wife? Hence, analytical knowledge and voting for justice continue without any change in both Pravrutti and Nivrutti. Hence, Lord stressed on establishment of justice only and this covers both Pravrutti and Nivrutti. The high justice becomes injustice before higher justice. The higher justice becomes injustice before highest justice. To reject the lower justice before higher justice is the very essence of justice and this is established by God (Dharma samsthapanarthaya… Gita). When God said that you have to leave the justice before Him, it means you have to leave the higher justice before Him, who is the highest justice. There is no contradiction here. Shankara served His mother in the highest place. He even diverted the river for her sake. He gave highest place for her in Pravrutti. Since He is very much analytical in discriminating justice and injustice, He rejected everything and everybody for her sake. The Veda also gives first place to mother. But with the same sharp analytical discrimination, He rejected her before God and even cheated her to go out for God’s work. This is highest justice and His importance to His mother is only higher justice, which is highest within the Pravrutti, since God doesn’t appear in Pravrutti. God establishes Pravrutti so that it is a training for you to reject lower justice before higher justice so that in Nivrutti, you can follow the same principle to reject this higher justice before the highest justice. Hence, you will find on deep analysis that Pravrutti and Nivrutti are not contradicting with each other. The same principle and the same practice exist in both. If you have failed in Nivrutti, you will also fail in Pravrutti. Once you have the power of discrimination through sharp analysis (Sadasat viveka as called by Shankara), you will succeed both in Pravrutti and Nivrutti. Heaven is the fruit of Pravrutti and abode of God is the fruit of Nivrutti. Heaven is the third world and abode of God (Satyaloka) is the seventh world. Without climbing the third step, how can you climb the seventh step? Climbing the third step is Pravrutti and if you learn to climb third step, you will learn to climb the seventh step also. Up to third step, God helps you because love to Him is not involved and it is only love between the souls.

Modern-day Arjuna and Modern-day Gopika

Shri Baba tried His level best to establish justice of Pravrutti and a good society with love flowing between all the souls of the world. He never projected Nivrutti, which is limited to very few only and God always keeps silent and if necessary, even opposes it since it is the issue of love towards Him and becomes His personal issue. Of course, that is of highest value and is eternal. But today, the souls have come down even from the third step by rejecting justice before injustice. People are rejecting justice and voting for injustice due to lack of true knowledge. You are voting for corruption and rejecting the justified way of earning through hard work. You are loving others who are going to cheat you, rejecting the advice of your family members. When you cannot discriminate the higher and lower planes and truth and false in Pravrutti itself, how can you discriminate God from world in Nivrutti? When you can’t leave corruption and favor justified earning in Pravrutti, how can you sacrifice even your justified earning for God? When you cannot reject false friends and listen the true parents and family members, how can you reject parents and family for God? In the ancient time, people rejected false love and voted for justified family. They rejected corruption and favored justified earning through hard work. Then, God competed with family and justified earning because the love of God is far more compared to the love of family. But today, He need not compete with justice, which is already rejected by injustice in Pravrutti. Today, justice cannot give a strong competition to God. Only injustice gives strong competition to God. Today, Krishna need not ask modern Arjuna to kill his grandfather, since modern Arjuna is already ready to kill grandfather for the sake of kingdom. Today, Krishna has to ask him to sacrifice kingdom for His sake. Today, the modern Gopika has already sacrificed her husband for the sake of her boyfriend and Krishna has to compete not with her husband but with her boyfriend!

Sages asked God to cut their strong justified bonds like bond with wife or husband, bond with hard earned wealth like butter and bond with children. These three are the strongest bonds called as Eshanas. God as Krishna attracted their minds from all these justified strongest bonds and gave salvation from these bonds, when they were born as Gopikas. But today, the strongest bonds were different. The husband is already sacrificed in the love of her boyfriend and the husband has already sacrificed the wife in the love of his girlfriend! The hard-earned money is already sacrificed to give bribe to officials to earn unjust money by corruption. The children were already sacrificed since the parents are roaming in clubs. Now, God has to cut the bonds of souls with boyfriend or girlfriend, with unjust wealth earned through corruption and with clubs. Replacing them with justified bonds should cut these unjust bonds. Hence, knowledge of Pravrutti is needed first. Justice is weapon by which the unjust bonds are cut for the sake of justified bonds. Then, Pravrutti is established. Then, the society lives with peace and happiness and heaven is the gift. But all this is not eternal, and everytime effort is needed to maintain the cycle of happiness and heaven. Hence, a few wise souls investigated the path of Nivrutti even without the interference of God. The interference of God is only up to Pravrutti and He gives lot of encouragement in it. Though Nivrutti is eternal, God opposes it, since it is the point of love of the soul to Him and not the love to other souls. Love to Him is Nivrutti and Love to other souls of family and society is Pravrutti. Of course, Nivrutti is also based on justice only, which is higher than justice involved in Pravrutti. Still, God does not show interest in Nivrutti because it is His personal issue and He is involved in it. If He supports it, even though it is justified based on logic, it looks as personal interest and hence, God opposes it. He is satisfied if you love other souls and keep the balance of family and society.

Shri Baba never encouraged Nivrutti and He always concentrated on the establishment of Pravrutti only, since He is interacting with the masses only. Majority can come up to the third step of heaven only at the maximum. Only minority can climb up to the seventh step. Shri Baba concentrated on the majority always. He was giving speeches continuously and shed sweat and blood for establishing Pravrutti for world peace, which is the basic stage even for the minority trying for Nivrutti. Today, His throat is severely affected by the continuous speeches given to establish justice in this society. The entire world should be grateful to Him for the peace existing in the world today. The peace of world should have been powdered by this time if He did not come and work for it.

Miracles only prove the existence of unimaginable God. Anybody including the demon demonstrating the miracles is in the service of God to establish the existence of God to an atheist. Miracles exist widely with God in human form, devotees and even evil demons. Establishment of existence of original unimaginable God is the fundamental subject that needs wide publicity and hence, God has spread miracles in wide range. Once the existence of God is accepted, the atheist becomes theist. This is the foundation step. Even Shankara spent all His life in the first step only to convert atheistic Purvamimamsakas and Buddhists. Existence of God is needed even to establish Pravrutti through creating fear for hell. If God and hell are not accepted, the sin will grow to climax in a slow and steady way. Atheists promise to follow justice even without faith in God, but such promise is not having strong basis and it can be violated at any time. God doesn’t mind even atheism provided the justice is maintained in the society. But there is always a possibility of violation of justice if the hell disappears from the mind. When you are provoked to do injustice, at least the concept of hell and God will control you to certain extent. At least, the percentage of people committing sins will be reduced. Of course, the concept of God and hell is not bringing the percentage to zero, but if that concept is totally absent, by one day or other the percentage will be hundred. For this point only, God comes down to establish His existence and thereby, create the fear for hell so that at least the percentage of sin and injustice comes to a minimum level, though complete eradication is impossible. God is not at all bothered to establish Himself for the sake of Nivrutti. If the society runs completely on justice, He will not mind even if all the human beings are atheists. He comes down only to establish the peace and harmony in the society and not to encourage devotees for Nivrutti, which is His personal affair.

In fact, He is not interested in Nivrutti and only when few diamonds (devotees) are rigid in Nivrutti, He still discourages Nivrutti by showing no fruit for Nivrutti. After all, the final fruit for Nivrutti is only continuous service of God like a slave! If you still argue that such service is highest bliss for you and cling to it only, He grants it in unavoidable situation only. Brahmaloka is only a place of such slaves of God and no facilities exist there! God created heaven with all extreme luxuries for the people who follow justice in Pravrutti and closed the entire spectrum of knowledge with that only. Nivrutti is investigated and invented by devotees only and was not announced by God at anytime. God announced Himself as Father of heaven only in scriptures of all other religions. Only in India, in Hinduism, devotees due to extra intelligence, called as sages, like Sanaka, Sanandana etc., only invented Nivrutti and God became helpless in the final stage because devotees were rigid in that line in spite of His hectic opposition. The real bliss of the true love exists only in such path of Nivrutti. When somebody loves you and becomes rigid in his or her love to you, in spite of your hectic opposition, such love is real and the real bliss comes to you and also to the other side in such path only. Hence, Nivrutti is justified with such specific nature only.

Devotee of Nivrutti

If you take the case of any devotee in Nivrutti, you will find either negligence or opposition of God and the rigid devotion of the devotee standing firm and finally only the acceptance of God to such love happens. Prahlada was rigid in his devotion and God appeared only after a long time. Radha was rigid and Krishna neglected her throughout her life and she could get love of God as Goloka only after her death. Hanuman was insulted in the end for His sincere service, and the fruit given to Him was not announced by Rama at any time. The fruit is that Hanuman will get the post of creator in future. After all, future is always a future! You will find a plate on the front of shops on which it is written that tomorrow only you will get the item on loan. Tomorrow always remains as tomorrow. But Hanuman is not worried at all, because He never aspired for the fruit at any time. Only we are worried about His future post, because we are always worried about the fruit. He is living in bliss of devotion continuously without any aspiration for fruit. This shows the real interest of devotee in God even though God discourages it. Shri Baba always concentrated on establishment of Pravrutti for a peaceful living of souls with love and harmony in the society, since He interacted with the majority (masses) of the society always. He is always engaged in the construction of the basic stage of the society and if justice is not established in Pravrutti, Nivrutti also fails because it is also based on the same justice. If you slip from justice, you will lose heaven and thus, heaven is not eternal. But the same risk is in Nivrutti also. If you slip from God, you will lose His service. You can attain the heaven or God by realization through knowledge and subsequent rectification in both Pravrutti and Nivrutti. God helps you in both to rectify. But if you say that the taste of God is million times more than heaven and hence, you prefer Nivrutti, God cannot help, because God is God and heaven is heaven always. If God multiplies the taste of heaven by million times, relatively the taste of God also gets multiplied by million times. It is the inherent characteristic of God, because the infinity of God always makes the bliss infinite. Heaven is always finite and hence, the bliss of heaven can never become infinite.

The Veda says that the bliss of God is several times greater than heaven. God cannot change His own inherent characteristic and at the maximum, He can hide Himself with ignorance or Maya so that He will not come in contact with you at any time. It is you, who investigated Him and found His taste in spite of His running away from you and terrible opposition to your efforts in reaching Him. You are responsible totally in Nivrutti and God is not at all responsible. His responsibility lies only in Pravrutti. The eternality of the fruit is also from your side only. After tasting God, your mind is not for tasting any item other than God. God did not make the fruit eternal. The highest taste of God is inherent characteristic of God and is not by the will of God. Miracles are easiest for God since the entire creation is His imagination only as nothing is impossible for you in your imaginary world. Miracle proves not only the unimaginable nature of God but also proves the imaginary nature of world. Miracle does not give the exact address of God, since miracles are also seen in demons. Only knowledge gives the address of God. Krishna is named as God (Bhagavan) only when He was delivering the Gita. To convince and change the human being, which is like the curved tail of dog, only God can do something. Hence, God alone can preach directly. His all-pervading power can enter anyone to express a miracle. Krishna preached Pravrutti to all in the court of Dhrutarashtra. But He preached Nivrutti-based-Pravrutti only to Arjuna in person. He preached Nivrutti to Gopikas through flute as secret since they were rigid in devotion. Krishna advised them strongly to go back to their houses and never encouraged them. Seeing their firm faith, He interacted with them in Nivrutti. The address of God is given by the special spiritual knowledge (Prajnanam) and not by miracles. Miracles give only knowledge about the inherent unimaginable nature of God. Except this one purpose, miracles are useless and are always harmful. They are not useful to identify God since demons also show miracles. They increase the selfishness by utilizing the superpower for solutions of problems and they increase ego. Shri Baba should be taken as God in human form not by His miracles but by the guiding knowledge through His speeches. The Veda says that the special spiritual knowledge (Prajnanam) is the identity mark of God.

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