Swami's Birthday Message

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

Identification of the contemporary human incarnation and selfless service to it is the total essence of the total spiritual knowledge. The starting point is the direct atheist or the scientist (an indirect atheist) misled by the ambition of the follower of Advaita. Whenever the Veda uses the word Atman in the context of God, it means only the particular individual soul, which is charged by God called as human incarnation. When it is said in the Veda that the space is generated by the soul, the word ‘soul’ means the human being charged by God like Krishna who came as the human incarnation. Krishna says that He is the source of the entire creation and the first item of the creation is space, which is the first of the five elements. The Gita clearly says that God comes in the form of a human being (Manushiim…). But the serious objection to the human incarnation is that if there was only one human incarnation like Krishna, only one human generation was blessed and therefore, God must be partial. To avoid this blame, Krishna told that He will come again and again (Yadayadahi…). But the same human body of Krishna is not seen again and again. This means that God is beyond the human body and hence, God is beyond this entire creation. God takes a fresh human body everytime just like the soul. The human body is only a shirt, which can be changed often (Vasamsi... Gita).

Unfortunately, the human beings due to repulsion between common items neglect God in the human body. The human beings do not recognize God existing in a particular human body and treat that particular human body as an ordinary human being only (Parambhavamajananto… Gita). As long as the human incarnation is alive, no human being recognizes it but recognizes it after its exit. Krishna said that a human being recognizing Him as God is very rare (Kaschitmam…, Samahatma Sudurlabhah… Gita). But, today most of us recognize Krishna as God. In such case, how Krishna said this? Is not the Gita universal, which is applicable to all times? A simple analysis of this point shows that Krishna said this in view of negligence shown to Him by the human beings in His lifetime. Hence, this statement means that many do not recognize the alive human incarnation and several recognize it only after its exit. This statement also clearly proves that Krishna was speaking about the human incarnation (Himself) existing in His time only (Contemporary human incarnation) and this does not mean a single human incarnation generalized for all the times. If Krishna was the single human incarnation generalized to all the times, this statement becomes wrong because later on several human beings worshiped Krishna. The recognition of Krishna as God exists during several human generations after Him (a long span of time) and only a short time (His lifetime) is related to this statement. This means that there is no single human incarnation generalized to all times.

Krishna said that He knows all the births of Arjuna. Arjuna was the sage Nara who was associated with sage Narayana. The sage Narayana was a human form charged by God. But due to the repulsion between common media of human bodies and subsequent ego and jealousy, the sage Nara could not recognize fully the sage Narayana and the sage Nara treated the sage Narayana as his friend only (Sakhya Bhakti). The same attitude continued when Narayana became Krishna and Nara became Arjuna. Arjuna worshipped Lord Shiva through penance to get the divine weapon called Pashupatastram to win the war and he was not having full confidence in Krishna since he was treating Krishna as a human being with some limited divine powers only. In those days, divine power was not a big thing since even Arjuna had several divine weapons, which were having the miraculous superpowers. For such incomplete faith of Arjuna, Krishna told Arjuna that he would not fight with any weapon in the war. It is an indirect hint to Arjuna about his incomplete faith in Him since Arjuna tried for the grace of Lord Shiva while Lord Krishna was already present before his eyes. Krishna means that since Arjuna is having the divine weapon from Lord Shiva, there is no need for Him to participate in the war. Arjuna could not understand this sense in the statement of Krishna. Arjuna approached Krishna not as a devotee but as a student only treating Krishna as a human Guru but not as Sadguru or God in human form (Shishyah teham… Gita). Further, Arjuna asked Krishna that how Krishna taught Yoga to god Sun because Krishna was recently born. Further, he asked for the proof of cosmic vision. Even after all this, on the last day of the war, he did not get down from the chariot before Krishna gets down and this shows the attitude of Arjuna to Krishna as a human being only.

The result of all this incomplete faith was that Arjuna went to heaven for sometime after death, he returned back to the earth and was born as a hunter called as Kannappa. He continued with the same worship to Lord Shiva in that birth also. He sacrificed his eyes for the Lord in the test. This shows that he gives full value to God and the only problem is in finding out the correct address of the Lord due to repulsion between common media. Then, he went to the abode of Lord Shiva and could not worship Shiva there also due to the same repulsion of common media because he was also in the same energetic body as that of Lord Shiva. Shiva in meditation gives an impression that He is meditating upon the formless God called Brahman. All the devotees there are again misled by this Maya and neglect Shiva due to the repulsion of common media and meditate upon the formless Brahman only. These souls on the earth neglect the human form of God and worship the energetic form as greater than the human form. But the same souls, in the upper world, neglect the energetic form of God and meditate upon the formless God as greater than the energetic form. Hence, the disease of repulsion of common media is common to both earth and upper world. Even the souls in the divine energetic bodies called as Devas are subjected to this powerful illusion of neglecting the common form before eyes and loving the unavailable form, which is not before eyes. This is stated in the Veda (Paroksha Priyaa Ivahi Devah Pratyaksha Dvishah).

The Veda also says that God is before the eyes of the souls existing either on the earth or in the upper world since God takes the same common form as His medium (Yat Sakshat Aparokshat Brahma). When divine bodies are not exceptions to this great illusion, what to speak of human beings? Indra neglected even Lord Shiva due to the same principle of repulsion between common energetic bodies and was made stand still by a single look of Shiva. If that is the case of Indra to the energetic incarnation, what about his attitude towards God in a lower human body like Krishna? Therefore, Arjuna also worshipped formless Brahman in the upper world and his devotion to Shiva was subsided completely by this new form of devotion. He was born as Swami Vivekananda on the earth with the formless devotion and his next birth will be an atheist. A devotee of formless Brahman is easily trapped by misconceived Advaita and will conclude that the formless Brahman is his own self. Therefore, the next step will be only atheism. But the Lord wanted to save him because the Lord was very much pleased with his basic sacrifice for God in the previous birth. The Lord wanted that this soul should get the proper address of God since the value for God is there already in climax. He was then dragged to Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa who was a simultaneous human incarnation in the time of Sai Baba and Akkalkot Maharaj.

Shri Paramahamsa praised him as Lord Narayana in the human form. This is the special style of Datta in preaching. When He wants to preach a fellow with ego, He will reverse the concept to Himself and the meaning of that statement is that Shri Paramahamsa was Lord Narayana in human form. Nobody has understood the real sense of that statement including Narendra. Swami Vivekananda was called as Narendra, which means Nara (Arjuna) who is the son of Indra. He led all his life as an Advaita philosopher only. He treated Paramahamsa as his master or human guru only. The Advaita philosophy can be used to develop confidence and to come out of stress for which the God is pleased like a father-Doctor seeing his child claiming as a doctor. One can feel that he is God and develop confidence in self. Krishna told that Arjuna is Himself i.e., God (Pandavanam Dhanamjayah). This statement aims at building up the self-confidence in Arjuna, which was lost by tension and grief. One can come out of stress feeling that this world is unreal and that he is God. But one should not really believe this and practice it. If the child claiming as doctor starts performing surgery to a patient, the same father will become furious because the life of a human being is spoiled. Especially in the case of Advaita philosopher, the other spoiled soul is another issue of God only because the advaita philosopher is misleading several innocent souls. Shri Paramahamsa told that He would open the brain of Narendra in the end only because such confidence and stress relief have to be given to the world through Narendra. At the end, Shri Paramahamsa opened the brain of this soul. In the last days, Narendra sat near Him and thought whether his guru was really God. Shri Paramahamsa immediately looked at him and said, “I am the Rama and the Krishna”. Narendra realized that He was the human incarnation and fell on His feet. He became the liberated soul by attaining the full salvation from ego and jealousy rising due to repulsion between common media.

God exists in the same medium for the sake of a soul so that God can preach the soul and the soul can fully experience and serve God fully with full satisfaction. The soul is in the human body on this earth and is in the energetic body in the upper world. Therefore, God exists in these two media only. One is the human form in this earth and the other is the energetic form in the upper world. The soul also enters the births of plants and stones (Sthavara), but there is no need for God to enter such inert medium because neither knowledge nor service with satisfaction is possible in such medium for plants and stones. Therefore, God does not enter the common medium for plants and stones. For the same reason, God does not enter the bodies of animals and birds also since the knowledge is not possible for them. God may enter the body of animal like fish, tortoise etc., just for a very short time to kill the demons or to do some work suitable to such body only. Such form is not for knowledge and service of the soul. The soul should accept the God in the common medium and get guidance and further get the satisfaction to serve God, whether the soul is in the earth or in the upper world. For this, the soul should first conquer ego and jealousy towards the common medium. If the soul misses God in the common medium in this earth, it will also miss God in the common medium in the upper world also (Ihachet Avedit… Veda).

Method to Overcome Common Media Repulsion

To remove the repulsion between the common media, the soul can serve the common media or at least serve the statue or photo having the form of the same common medium. For a human being, service to humanity is advised for this purpose only. For this purpose only, service to the statues of human forms of energetic bodies of the upper world or the past human incarnations in this world, is recommended in the form of rituals by which one worships the statues and photos in temples. The whole plan of the entire ancient tradition is excellent, provided you are using it for a specified period and develop further. If you become stagnant, we have to criticize you and open the limited purpose of that level so that you will try to go up realizing the limited value of your present level. The school is good without which the college cannot exist straightly approachable to the student. But if you sit in the school only throughout your life stating that the school itself is the final college and university, then we have to show the right place of the school in the entire educational curriculum. You may misunderstand us as if we are criticizing the school. We are not condemning the school; we are only advising you that the school is not the final university. We are fully supporting the entire pattern of the original ancient tradition and we are condemning the twisted concept of treating the school as the final university.

All the epics describe God in the common medium. The main three epics describe the worship of God in human form by Hanuman, Gopikas and Pandavas through the Ramayana, the Bhagavatam and the Bharata respectively. Among the Pandavas Arjuna is great and you have seen the whole life history of Arjuna. Dharma Raja went up to temporary heaven only because he can sacrifice anything and anybody for the sake of God except the justice by which one can reach the temporary heaven only. He refused to tell a lie even though Krishna desired for it. You will become near to God by all the sacrifice and all the service that is possible for you that can be done to God. But you will become dear to God when He asks you to do a particular sacrifice and service and when you can do that sacrifice and that service, which you cannot do for anybody including God. God knows your single specific weak point, which is the only bond that cannot be sacrificed even for the sake of God and God finally asks to sacrifice that weak point also for His sake. Unless the sacrifice and service are total, you cannot become dear to God. Gopikas have sacrificed everything and everyone for the sake of Krishna and God tested them finally whether they can sacrifice even the fear for the torture in the hell for His sake. God asked for the dust of the feet to be applied on His forehead to remove the headache. If such foot-dust is given to God, severe hell is certain and Narada stated this everywhere. Even Rukmini refused to give the foot dust fearing for the severe hell. But Gopikas gave the dust from their feet without fearing for the hell for the sake of Krishna and their sole aim was only that Krishna should be happy for which even going to hell is happiness for them!

Bhishma was fighting against the justice since he was bound by the word given to his father and mother that he will protect the throne irrespective of justice. He considered the parents to be the highest and he wounded even the Lord. He suffered all the torture of the future hell here itself on the bed of arrows but since he could not sacrifice the word given to parents for the sake of Lord, he went to Pitruloka only. Duryodhana and Dhrutarashtra went to hell since they could not sacrifice even the justified part of the kingdom to a devotee like Dharma Raja even though the Lord Himself was requesting for it. The only successful devotees were Hanuman and Gopikas who recognized the contemporary human incarnation and served it with full sacrifice in all angles. Hanuman and Gopikas served the Lord personally only. Hanuman did full sacrifice of work for the Lord for His purely personal service. Gopikas did full sacrifice of fruit of work (butter) and sacrificed even traditional justice by dancing with Krishna and all their sacrifice was for the personal growth of the body and happiness of Krishna only. In both these cases, there was no trace of social service of the souls. The personal service is totally for the Lord only and there is no service to society here. This shows the highest devotion in which the goal is only Lord and not any soul or aggregate of souls (society). Social service is only service to other souls. In the case of Arjuna, the Lord showed the personal service to Pandavas in getting their kingdom and the social service of establishing justice on the earth. The Lord did not give opportunity to Arjuna to serve Him personally in His personal issues.

In all the wars with demons of personal affairs, Arjuna was not involved and God did His own work. The reason is that Arjuna is not of the highest devotion like Hanuman and Gopikas. Arjuna will certainly misunderstand the Lord if it was purely personal service of the Lord, since Arjuna was not having full faith in the Lord. Apart from these three epics dealing with the contemporary human incarnation for human beings, the other epics (Puranas) deal with energetic bodies of God in the upper world, which are worshipped by the human beings here itself, hit by ego and jealousy that are failing to worship the human incarnation. Even there, the human form of the energetic body represented by a photo or statue gives a training to serve the human form only to remove the repulsion to human form. The social service to other human beings is also praised here and there in the Gita and this is also a way to remove the repulsion towards co-human form. The three best epics concentrate only on the service to the contemporary human incarnation revealing the full success of Hanuman and Gopikas and the partial success of Arjuna. These epics also reveal the fate of the people who hate the human incarnation as in the case of Ravana, Shishupala, Kamsa, Duryodhana etc.

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