05 Dec 2006
Note: This article is meant for intellectuals only
[Datta Jayanti, Shri Ajay asked: You have said that Maya is unimaginable and Prakruti is imaginable. But, you said that Prakruti should be understood as Maya and you quoted the same from the Gita (Mayamtu Prakrutim Viddhi…). How to correlate these two points because unimaginable is different from imaginable?]
Swami replied: You will understand this concept, when God helps a realized devotee and an ignorant devotee in difficulties. The difficulties giving misery are the best ground to understand this statement of Lord in the Gita. Therefore, love the problems and misery. Hate peace and happiness. But, this should be limited to yourself for the personal spiritual effort and should not be extended to society surrounding you. You are not supposed to disturb the society around you in any way in which case God will be furious with you. Demons were punished for this because, they gave misery to the society for their personal happiness. Those, who undergo misery for the happiness of the society, please the Lord and reach the temporary heaven. Here you are serving the society without any selfishness and therefore, for the sake of welfare of the society, you are rejecting your peace and happiness. You are certainly greater than a fellow, who serves the society for his personal peace and happiness like the present politician. But, those who undergo misery for the sake of the mission of the Lord, will achieve the love of the Lord and reach His divine abode forever. Here also, you are serving God not for your peace and for your happiness. Therefore, whether it is service to society or God, the selfishness should be absent and sacrifice should be present. Several devotees aspire bliss by serving the Lord. This is not the correct spirit. One should aspire for the bliss of God through his service and not selfish bliss.
Love is far greater than pleasure. If an employee performs his duties well, without causing any disturbance to the office, the employer is pleased and grants promotion to the employee. But, the promotion is not permanent because the employee has to retire from the job one day or other. The employee performed his duties well to get the benefit from the employer and this is not the love on the employer. But, the employer loves his wife and children and gives all his wealth to them permanently. Pleasure of God and love from God are quite different. The employee gets the benefits of promotion up to certain specified period only i.e., up to the date of retirement. Similarly, a good person involved in social service without the element of God, gets temporary heaven. This is the result of the pleasure of God, which is temporary because the social worker did not love God. But if you take the family members of the employer, they loved him personally and their love is main point for them. (Of course, if you take the absolute reality, their love is also selfish compared to the love of God. But relatively with respect to the love of employee their love is better). They may help the employer in the office also but their help is based on their personal love to him. In such case, the employer loves his family and love is greater than pleasure. Therefore, the employer gives all his wealth to the family forever. Similarly, a devotee, who loves God personally and does the social work also due to his love on God only, is treated as the family member of God. God loves such devotee and gives him all His divinity to him forever. Therefore, your aim should not be becoming mere employee but your aim should be to become the family member of God.
The difficulties in your life are your best friends, which keep you always active and alert about everything related to you. They will lead you to the direction of God and increase your devotion to God tremendously. The help received from God in the climax of difficulties is very much relished by you like cool water in the hot summer. The divine experience will be deep.
The Ignorant Soul Needs Miracles
Now with this back ground I am answering your question straightly. If you are ignorant and not a completely realized soul about the God, the divine help comes to you through unimaginable way so that you will recognize God without any doubt. If the help from God comes to you in an imaginable way, you will not recognize the divine help and God in that incident. Suppose you are getting the monthly salary after doing the job in a month. You will think that the salary is the fruit of your work, which is a natural way of getting the fruit. But suppose you have not done work in a month and somebody not known to you comes suddenly and donates the exact amount of the salary to you and goes away, then you will recognize God’s help through that unknown person. Therefore, for ignorant people difficulties are necessary to recognize God, because only difficulties can accommodate the unimaginable events as proof for God, since they do not treat the imaginable events as works of God. Hence, Jesus told “Blessed are those who believe Me without proof”. Here proof means a miracle which is the unimaginable event. Therefore, proof always needs troubles for you.
When you want proof from God, He will wait till you get problems according to your cycle of deeds. For the sake of giving proof, God will not create troubles. When the difficulties come, then He will help you through unimaginable way so that you will recognize God and get yourself uplifted. Therefore, the miracles which are unimaginable are needed for ignorant people only, who are almost atheists. But, certain rigid atheists, treat even this unimaginable incident as imaginable only. Such atheist thinks that the person who gave that amount must have been mad and the exact amount of salary is just a co-incidence. Duryodhana treated the cosmic vision given by the Lord as an illusion of the eye through magic. For such rigid atheists, God will not perform any miracle or may perform once and leave them forever since the realization will never come in their case. Therefore, the aim of the miracles is only to help the spiritual path and not solving your petty problems faced by you according to the cycle of your deeds. God will certainly do miracles if He has a hope about you that the miracles will help you in the spiritual path. Often the devotees pray God to do miracles for the sake of spiritual path but in their hearts, the aim is to solve their problems only. They forget that God is omniscient and knows the heart of their hearts and therefore in such cases, He keeps silent. The hope about the progress of your spiritual path through miracle should come in God’s mind by itself and not by your request.
The Realized Soul Gets Help by Imaginable Means
If you are already a realized soul, the divine help comes through imaginable ways like help through human beings because the recognition of God is not necessary for you. The ultimate aim of the miracle is only to help you to recognize the existence of God and once you have recognized the existence of God, miracles are useless. Hence, miracles are limited to the very basic level only. If you are a realized soul, you have already recognized God and have firm faith in Him. For you everything and every work in this world is only the work of God. For you, every monthly salary is given by God only through your employer. You will not think that your work is responsible for getting the monthly salary. You know that even the work done by you is also due to the power of God only. Therefore, in your case even the natural event is the work of God and is His miracle only. You thank God whenever you receive the monthly salary. For you, this world which is a composite of natural and logical phenomenae is also simultaneously a composite of supernatural works of God, which are called as miracles.
All the nature, which appears as imaginable, becomes unimaginable if you go deeply into it with the help of science. In this context, the Lord said that on realization of the deeper phase of nature by scientific analysis, one has to accept that even the imaginable nature (Prakruti) is the unimaginable power or work (Maya) of God in the deeper structure. For such a realized soul, separate miracles are not necessary since he finds the entire cosmos as the greatest miracle of the God. The endless space with infinite galaxies of stars and planets itself is a biggest miracle of God, standing as a direct proof for the superpower of God. This is the aim of showing the infinite cosmic vision of God to Arjuna. Therefore, if you just look into the sky and realize the infinite energetic stars and space, you have obtained the cosmic vision of the Lord! There is no need of a separate cosmic vision because the same miracle is just before your eyes and God is giving this cosmic vision to every one in every minute, which is a proof of His existence. The second Brahma Sutra says that the existence of God is inferred from the infinite cosmos and its unimaginable nature in the deeper structure. Shankara specifically referred to the unimaginable nature of cosmos in the deeper phase in His commentary on this sutra. Therefore, a realized soul will not ask for cosmic vision from the Lord. Arjuna representing the ignorant soul only asked for the cosmic vision. Therefore, the Lord asked Arjuna to recognize the nature (Prakruti) itself as the superpower (Maya) of God by analyzing deeply. If you see just a leaf and observe it deeply with the knowledge of Botany, you will be shocked with the miraculous work of God, which reveals its unimaginable design, unimaginable co-ordination of functions of various cells etc. Through such unimaginable structure of the leaf you are first recognizing the unimaginable superpower (Maya) of God. Immediately you will accept the possessor of the superpower (Mayi), who is the Lord as said in the subsequent line of the same verse (Mayinamtu Maheshwaram…). Therefore, the deep analysis of the nature which is Science is exposing the miracle of God to everybody in this world and there is no need of a separate miracle. Therefore, Science is the best religion exposing the existence of God to every ordinary human being on this earth including atheist. Therefore, I have given a place for Science in the symbol of Universal Spirituality. A scientist does not require a separate miracle to recognize the existence of God like a realized soul since the deeper analysis of this nature reveals the unimaginable power of God and there by His existence. A scientist, who does not believe the existence of God, is not a scientist at all. Thus, an ordinary ignorant devotee is helped by God through unimaginable ways. The exceptionally excellent devotee finds God’s help even through the natural ways. He thinks that even the natural respiration is by the grace and power of God only.
Revelation of the Truth of Truths
Today is Datta Jayanti. Let Me reveal the truth of truths on this day to My closest inner circle only. I am not partial to these closest devotees because this truth of truth cannot be digested by all. Others may neglect this or may criticize this due to partial or incomplete digestion of this point. Therefore, even though I am impartial, I am giving this point to My innermost circle of devotees only. Fearing the indigestion even in their case, sometimes, I am revealing this truth of truth after stating an initial statement i.e., whatever is spoken now is coming from Lord Dattatreya who exists in My body and this is not coming from Me, who is just an ordinary human being (Jeevatman). You take the example of current in the alive wire and realize that the work is done by the current and not by the wire or fan. This point will always protect you from falling from your firm faith. Whenever a doubt enters in your mind about Me, immediately you think this simile and know that God in Me is doing the meritorious work where as the wire is responsible for all defects. When your faith is firm without any doubt, then you think that the alive wire itself is current. The doubt is made of wrong knowledge including jealousy and egoism and such wrong knowledge can be cut only by the right knowledge like a diamond by other diamond. The truth of truth is: I (Datta the current and not Myself the wire) am the Lord Dattatreya (assuming that the alive wire is current), who was received by the sage Atri and his wife Anasuya on this earth for the first time. Whenever the direction to God was twisted by misinterpretations, I came several times to this earth through human bodies to remove the misinterpretations and restore the correct direction. I communicated the truth according to the then existing standards of logic and analysis (Science). I could not go beyond a certain level of logic because the receivers could never digest and appreciate it. But, today the development of science is so tremendous that the capability of logic is in its climax. Therefore, I have used the present standards of logic in communicating the spiritual knowledge. Ofcourse, God is beyond logic and logic cannot show God directly. But based on this fact, you should not reject the logic (Tarkaapratishthaanaat… Brahma Sutra). Even though the logic cannot indicate the unimaginable God directly, the logic can eliminate the non-God items, which are established as God by misinterpretations. For example, with the help of the advanced logic (Science), I could easily eliminate the soul from the position of God. By removing the fungus, and impurities, the water becomes clear and there is no need of any direct purification of water. Similarly, by removing the misinterpretations through the powerful logic of today, God becomes clear by this indirect way. When all the imaginable items are eliminated, the unimaginable God is inferred. God can be inferred indirectly but cannot be perceived directly and therefore, God remains unimaginable always. However, God gives the experience of His existence in a specific medium by entering it, pervading all over it and identifying Himself with it like current in the alive wire. Through Science you can infer the existence of unimaginable God, whereas through the medium you can experience the existence of the same unimaginable God. Do not mistake that experience means understanding the nature of God. You have only experienced the existence of unimaginable God, which was already inferred by you through Science.
Now let Me speak about Myself to the people who are other than My closest devotees. Do not think that certain specific souls are only My closest devotees. It is a just circle in which some souls exist as on today. Some of them may go out of this circle and mix with the outside majority on any day in future. Some may enter in to this inner circle from outside even in this minute or at any time in the future. The innermost devotees are only the posts in which the souls exist. The soul may resign suddenly from his post and somebody else may join the post again. A person in the post may resign and join a better post elsewhere. A devotee in My closest circle may find some better preacher and may leave Me and join him. Some may retire after getting bored with Me for a long time and some freshers may join the post. A reversible dynamic equilibrium always exists between the people in majority and the devotees in the inner circle. Some of the souls in the circle may doubt Me for a few seconds and cross the circle. Some of the out side souls may believe Me for few seconds and may enter the circle. A scientist can easily understand the concept of dynamic reversible equilibrium between reactants and products.
Relative Truth
Now let Me tell the truth (relative), which is not the truth of truth (absolute). Now the speaker is Myself (wire without current) who is a soul with its own bundle of Samskaras (Jeevatman). I am an ordinary devotee and I am the last in the line of all the devotees on this earth. Jesus told “First will become last and last becomes first”. I am the actor in the role of Datta, for My closest devotees and as a role, stand first in the line of devotees. Even the Lord is a devotee of His devotees. Devotion means love. The Lord loves His devotees. His love towards devotees is highest and therefore, I stand first in the line of devotees as the role. But for the majority I am an ordinary human being without any role. Then, I am the last devotee in this line of devotees from the point of Myself. As a human being I am the composite of the three qualities (Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas). If you accept Me as the alive wire, I (Datta the Internal actor) always test the devotees and the test is done by Me (External role) because test always needs the exposition of Rajas and Tamas (Bad Qualities) only. Therefore, I (wire without current) am standing as the last devotee. I express Sattvam (Good quality) while preaching the knowledge, since knowledge is born from Sattvam only as per the Gita. Now the External speaker here is the role (ordinary human being) as Sattvam but the internal speaker is Datta who is beyond Sattavam. Here the credit comes to the external role. Similarly the internal actor is testing the devotees but the external role appears to be performing these tests through Rajas and Tamas. Here the role gets the blame. Credit is always associated with the blame. The inner Datta neither receives the credit nor the blame (Anasnannanyo…Veda). The external human being enjoys the credit and also suffers with the blame (Pippalam Svadu Atti…Veda). Sattvam is one third only and hence credit is one third. Rajas and Tamas are two thirds and hence blame is two thirds. Hence, I am pushed back as the last devotee due to the major blame. Now tell Me, whether any one of you will accept this position of human incarnation. You are seeing the present enormous credit for Jesus today which He does not enjoy. During His life time also, the pain in the crucification was far more than the little credit He had. A good teacher allots more time to conduct tests for the students, which is the revision of the knowledge. The teaching should be lesser than the revision. A foolish teacher goes on preaching without testing the extent of digestion of student. Therefore, Lord Datta is famous for frequent tests for devotees. He is the best preacher, since He gives more importance for tests than teaching. The external three faces indicate this whole concept of preaching the spiritual knowledge along with frequent tests. The central Vishnu preaches the knowledge. The side Brahma and Shiva conduct continuous tests exposing the extent of digestion to the students so that they will take care of their practical error in digesting the knowledge. This means more attention should be paid on the digestion of the knowledge by the students than mere preaching continuously from one side.
When the intermediate course is selected, it involves a lot of teaching and less time in the examinations. Such routine teaching is not given much value. The special EAMCET coaching involves very less teaching but lot of time is spent in conducting tests and explaining the test papers so that the student understands the place of error practically during the examination. Such EAMCET coaching is given lot of value and students run to such institute in which more and more tests are conducted. In fact, as you see, the advertisement for EAMCET coaching throws more highlight on conducting more tests every day. Even in the worldly knowledge, such analysis after tests is more valid than mere preaching. But people are reverse in the spiritual knowledge. They want to enjoy the spiritual knowledge as entertainment like hearing a radio for time pass. They do not like the tests conducted by Datta. They run away from Datta blaming Him as the God, who is always paining people with tests. A Satguru (God) shows the right goal and right path completely. A partial Satguru, who is the incarnation of a liberated soul can take you in the right path up to an intermediate station only up to which only you can travel. But the Asatguru (Satan) shows you the wrong goal in the opposite direction and shows you the complete path to it. A partial Asatguru who is the incarnation of a demon can take you up to an intermediate station in the wrong path. The demon is better than Satan because the follower of demon is relatively near to God than the follower of the Satan. In the case of Satguru, He is better than the liberated soul. Satan is the Lord of demons where as God is the Lord of liberated souls. Datta is the God given to the devotees through the human body as Satguru. Therefore, every human incarnation is Datta and there can be more than one human incarnation in a generation depending on the requirement. The omnipotent God can exist in more than one human body in the same time like Akkalkot Maharaj and Shirdi Sai Baba or like Parashurama and Rama or like Krishna and Vyasa. The Lord may exist in one human body only like Vamana or Shankara. It depends on the requirement of the divine mission and does not depend on the fascination of the devotees.
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