Posted on: 03 Feb 2005
[Pure awareness is common to the human incarnation or any soul. This same cosmic pure awareness is God. Thus, I have an equal right of heritage from God, like the human incarnation. Should I not treat every human being as God? Is this not the easiest path?]
The medium in the human incarnation and human being is one and the same. The medium consists of three bodies:
1. Gross body like a glass tumbler
2. Subtle body like the waves of water present in the tumbler
3. Causal body which is the water without waves
The gross body is made of five elements. The waves of water are the good and bad qualities (Sattvam, rajas and tamas). The causal body is pure awareness, which is called as the soul. Thus, the medium is common in both. But there is a fourth item in the human incarnation, God, which has entered the medium. Of course God is invisible and even unimaginable. But the human incarnation gives the experince of God to human beings. The human being is like a wire without electric current. The human incarnation is also a wire but with the invisible electric current. The current is only experienced but is not visible to the eyes. The wire is visible to the eyes. Thus there is a difference between the human incarnation and a human being. There is no difference between God and the human incarnation. There is only difference in bodies. The body of God is this universe and the body of the human incarnation is the limited human body. Both the bodies are qualitatively same but quantitatively differrent because both the bodies can be defined by three dimensional space co-ordinates which are called as volume. But God is beyond space and so one and the same in the human incarnation as well as in the universe.
It is wrong to think that God is pure awareness. The pure awareness is the finest item of creation. The Gita calls it as Para Prakriti. Prakriti means creation. Scholars have misunderstood that God is pure awareness because God wished to create this world. They bend God by the rules of creation. According to the natural laws, anything that wishes, must be life or awareness. God can wish even without being life or awareness. In fact, the awareness is created as a property of life by God Himself. The Veda says that God will turn this world into ash in the end. This does not mean that God should be fire. Therefore, you are only the medium and you have the right of inheritance of being a part and parcel of the creation but not the creator. Even Hanuman, the greatest soul did not aspire for oneness with God. Are you greater or wiser than Hanuman?
By believing every human being as God, we cannot achieve the fruit, which is the grace of God. Apart from your faith, that human being should be actually God. Mere belief cannot achieve the results if there is no truth in the object. If you really have cold water before you and believe that by touching it you will get happiness, then the desired result is achieved. If you have fire before you, but if you believe it as cold water and touch it, the desired result is not achieved. Some people treat their children to be God. Such treatment cannot give the desired result because the child is not God. You must love God as you love your child but not love your child as God. It is only a misinterpretation and cheating yourself.
If you are unable to climb 100 steps, don’t put the label on 10th step saying that it is the 100th step. By such act the 10th step cannot become the final step. Don’t modify the rule to bring it to your level. Don’t cut the foot to the size of the shoe. What is the use of false satisfaction? Realise the truth always. Try constantly to reach it. God will certainly help you. Only one in the class can get the gold medal. But, everybody has a right to try for it. Getting the grace of God and becoming His servant is the final goal and not becoming God. Of course, every human being should become eligible for the grace of God. If God wishes, He can enter any human body for some divine purpose. During His stay in your human body, you are one and the same with the God. But, you should not demand for it as a right. God enters only when the egoism and jealousy in the human being are completely removed. The jealousy and egoism in a human being make him think that he is the human incarnation of God. Hanuman never aspired to become God. He always remained as a servant of God. But God made Him the future creator. That means Hanuman became God. He never tried or even aspired for it even in his dreams. The oneness with God is not an inherited property and can also not be achieved by any effort. It is given by God to the most deserving devotee whenever there is a need for the divine mission in this world. It is given based on love and kindness of the God for the deserving devotee provided there is a need.
Mere awareness, mere love and mere bliss cannot be the integrated criteria in the recognition of God. There is awareness, love and bliss in the case of even a prostitute. She has life or awareness. She makes you love her. She gives infinite happiness. But she is not God, because she is not associated with the special infinite spiritual knowledge of truth. Wherever such knowledge exists, awareness, love and bliss follow. Therefore the only integrated sign of God is such special knowledge, which is called as Prajnanam in the Veda. Love and bliss are automatically generated through that special knowledge. Where there is knowledge, awareness must be automatically associated with it. Therefore, such special knowledge, which is automatically followed by awareness, love and bliss, is the real sign of God. Mere awareness, love and bliss cannot be divine signs. This means that only a special human being like Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed can be God and not every human being. If every human being is God, where is the necessity of the spiritual effort?