A permanent thing is always absolutely real in all the times

Shri B. Raghavender asked: How to come out from a thing in which my mind is deeply involved?

Swami replied: God is greater than any created item of world (Na tat samah - Veda). Hence, the attraction to God is higher than any worldly attraction. Therefore, divert your mind to the subject of God, which will swallow all the other attractions. You need not think of coming out of the attraction to God! The reason is that attraction to God will always give you the best fruits here in this life as well as there after the life. All these worldly attractions will end in misery since these are real illusions. All the worldly fruits are temporary and temporary is always illusion (Yadanityam tat krutakam – Shankara). Any relative truth is unreal in the absolute plane. The absolute truth is only God. You will realize this truth in experience if this advice is followed.

An example can illustrate this concept that temporary is always unreal. Take the temporary marriage taking place between two cinema actors in the period of film shooting. It was not real before shooting and also will not be real after shooting. Hence, it is temporary being limited to the time of shooting only. If you deeply analyze, this temporary marriage is not true in the time of shooting also. A permanent thing is always absolutely real in all the times. The shooting marriage appears to be real in the shooting time and hence, is called as relatively real, which means temporary. Some people weep while seeing the tragic scenes in the unreal cinema. An unreal thing can generate the real experience after realization also. A person continues to weep from the fear of a dream-tiger even after awakening! This means that even though the ignorance of unreal item (aavaranam) is removed, the practical influence of the ignorance (vikshepa) is not removed. This practical influence of the ignorance of unreal world can’t be removed since the relative reality of the unreal world is the reality of the unreal soul also because soul is a part of the world. But, the omnipotent God, who is the absolute reality, can bless you to come out of the practical influence of this unreal world. You can’t achieve this by thinking that you are God even for millions of years, which can be achieved by His grace only (Ishvaraanugrahaadeva- Shankara) and this is the state of human incarnation, which is not possible for any effort. Desire for this state is also a disqualification. Practical service to God generated by knowledge and devotion without aspiration for any fruit in return is only the path to attain this divine fruit. In this state, God identifies totally with the soul and the creation appears as unreal cinema for entertainment of both comedy and tragedy. Even if this state is not attained, the real devotee is blessed by the omnipotent God so that any misery doesn’t touch him. The basic truth that must be realized is that you are neither God (Monism) nor even a tiny part of God (inseparable dualism), nor different from God except in the common nature of awareness (dualism), but, a tiny part of creation of God. There is no trace of similarity that can be even imagined between the absolute unimaginable God and the soul, which is a tiny part of the relative imaginable creation (as per Datta Swami). You will understand this very well if you realize that awareness is a specific work form of created inert energy in functioning nervous system. The Vedic statement that this entire world is God must be taken in the sense that this entire world is under the control of God as interpreted by Ramanuja (tadadhina prathamaa). The above three styles of philosophy were told by the three divine preachers in the context of conversion of atheist to theist in various stages of spiritual progress. By saying that God is awareness, they have taken God mediated by awareness only and not the absolute unimaginable God for the fear of atheism. In this concept also, if the awareness taken is unimaginable (due to absence of creation of inert energy and materialized nervous system) such mediated God becomes the absolute unimaginable God only. But, the souls take the word as relative awareness and get confused to think that the soul and absolute God are made of relative awareness only. This confusion is essential also so that God is taken as mediated by imaginable relative awareness and thus God is understood by the souls, which helps to realize His existence also since existence of realized item is only accepted by souls.

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