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Shri Datta Swami

 01 Jan 2005

 

DIVINE POETRY: LAKSHMANA GITA

LAKSHMANA GITA-I

Lakshman:

When I reach the state of awareness of awareness

That is the final state of salvation in which state

I experience the Brahman and that is Samadhi

Oh! Sadguru Dattaswami! Explain to me clearly

 

Swami:

I am the knowledge, love and bliss

The Vedas call Me Parabrahman

Knowledge, love and bliss concentrated

Multiplied by infinity is Myself.

 

My power is called Maya,

Which is inexplicable for you

I keep this secret of Maya with Me only

Otherwise, human beings will catch My hair

 

To keep the soul always at My feet

I do not disclose the secret of Maya

By this, the soul always surrenders to Me

Otherwise, he will claim himself as the Lord.

 

Through Maya only I created this world

I enjoy by seeing this everlasting cinema

For enjoyment I created ignorance

Which covers Me and I forget Myself

 

I am not sleeping and not caught by dream

I am dreaming in the day opening My eyes

The ignorance is at My will to stay or not

Unlike the ignorance of a night dreamer

 

My awareness is not your awareness

If it is so, when you weep I should weep

All should also weep at the same time

Your awareness is negligible part of Mine.

 

All the souls put together along with this world

Form a pinhead drop in Me, almost nil

I am the mightiest ocean of knowledge, love and bliss

Which are the characteristics of consciousness

 

Even all the souls weep together at a time

I cannot be touched, all those being negligible

Awareness of awareness is consciousness, no doubt

You are seeing only the qualitative similarity

 

Drop and ocean are qualitatively water, may be

Can the drop become the ocean by this equality?

Water is Brahman but ocean is Ishwara

You are already Brahman but not Ishwara

 

Shankara touched this qualitative aspect only

To attract Bhuddists who were atheists then,

He told “Oh drop! You are already water”

But the drop thought that is was ocean

 

Bhuddist was fooled like this by Shankara

He has to accept his existence and If He is Brahman

Qualitative realization was brought like this

That is the beginning stage, which should be so

 

Slowly when he analyzes the qualitative aspect

And goes into quantitative angle, truth is seen

He realizes that He is only water and not ocean

Then he surrenders to ocean to become devotee

 

Knowledge by analysis leads to devotion

Devotion needs the ocean to be present before eyes

For this purpose the ocean enters a human body drop

Through His power of Maya, called human incarnation.

 

Anoraneeyan mahato maheeyan” the Veda says so

This means that the ocean has entered the drop

In the same time it is ocean and also the drop

That is the human incarnation, which is God and man.

 

This human incarnation is called Parabrahman

Which is greater than Brahman, soul, and Ishwara

Brahman is water, Ishwara is ocean and drop is soul

All these are quite logical terms to grasp.

 

Parabrahman is greater than all these

The word “Para” means “greater” actually

It is greater than the drop, ocean and water

Since it is the ocean hiding in a drop by Maya

 

You cannot face Ishwara directly at any cost

By that force, you will disappear along with this world

You can face Parabrahman, which is the ocean

That speaks with you hidden in a drop like you

 

As the ocean is hidden in the drop by Maya

The ocean can enter you also by the same Maya

But the ocean independently cannot hear you

The voice of the drop is nowhere in the voice of ocean

 

Therefore, approach Parabrahman and serve Him,

As a servant without aspiring anything from Him

If He wishes, you can get the samadhi

In which the Ocean enters you as a shadow.

 

Shankara never told that you are Ishwara

He told that you are only Brahman

Awareness of a drop-like awareness is useless

Awareness of an ocean-like awareness is greatest

 

You cannot achieve this samadhi by your effort

Your effort is not heard by the roaring ocean

The ocean comes down to hear you in this way

If you do not use this opportunity, you are lost

 

When the king comes to hear the public

Your are keeping silent staying in your home

When the king is busy in a battlefield

You go there and submit your complaint!

 

This is the state of Advaita philosopher

He is the foolish disciple of Shankara

Egoism and jealousy cover his eyes

He cannot see the ocean in a drop

 

But he, a drop, wants to contain the ocean

How can the ocean enter him who is a drop?

He discards the technique and the example

How can he become the example by the same technique?

 

Therefore, follow Satguru who is the ocean in a drop

If you follow another drop what is the use?

You are a rabbit and If you see the Lion

You will vanish on the spot with fear.

 

Therefore, the Lion came as a rabbit

Remember, the Lion is covered by the skin of rabbit

It is not at all a rabbit, it speaks “I am Lion”

You rabbit! Don’t imitate that rabbit like Lion.

 

Recognize and serve that rabbit like Lion with love

Because it looks like a rabbit, it is your friend only

There is no need of fear since the Lion is not exposed

It behaves like a rabbit in all its activities.

 

A human incarnation also behaves like a man

With all the qualities of nature only

This will generate love and nearness in your heart

For you to approach and love, this technique is adopted.

 

When your service that is the proof of your love is full

Then the Lion enters your body as a shadow for sometime

Through His Maya to give you His experience

The Lion cannot enter you unless you die.

 

Death does not mean the physical death of the body

By which the egoism of the soul is not lost

Spiritual death is crossing ‘I’ for ever

‘I’ disappears only in the selfless service

 

The service should be to the drop containing the ocean

You can never approach that mightiest ocean directly

Therefore, the ocean and the drop is the only alternative

When ‘I’ is removed, ‘My’ also gets removed.

 

If ‘My’ is lost all the desires are lost

The desires are the branches of ‘My’

‘My’ is the trunk and ‘I’ is the root

Removal of trunk with branches is the spiritual death.

 

If you remove the root also along with the trunk

You have become just the inert skin of rabbit

The Lion can wear this shirt of rabbit skin

Ofcourse, the Lion should also wish to accept that shirt

 

Therefore, your effort should not be only for spiritual death

You should also try to please the Lion always

The Lion can never enter the living rabbit

What is the use of this? You have become inert.

 

You cannot experience anything as you are not alive

Is it not the greatest foolishness for you?

It is like getting an award after death

Which you cannot receive and you cannot enjoy your fame

 

Therefore, live like a rabbit and do not cross your ‘I’

Let the root be there even if the trunk and branches are cut

You can experience the love of the Lion through your ‘I’

The Lion becomes your servant in this world and also there.

 

Hanuman crossed both ‘I’ and ‘My’

He became the inert skin, which is the shirt of the Lion

Hanuman creates, rules and destroys the world

But Hanuman is only inert and the Lion does everything.

 

In this state the soul of Hanuman does not exist

The inner Lion speaks that He is the Lion

For you it appears as if Hanuman is speaking

But it is the monkey incarnation of the Lion.

 

Radha did not cross her ‘I’

She retained her ‘I’ limiting to her body

Her awareness is the awareness of her body

Let the Lion be with its own rabbit skin cover.

 

She does not want to die spiritually

To become a new skin shirt for the Lion

She wants to live like a rabbit with its own skin

To experience the love of Lion which exists separately.

 

But for this experience, Radha has no other desire

All the branches and the trunk were cut

Only the root ‘I’ is retained and there is no ‘My’

Hanuman cuts both his ‘I’ and ‘My’

 

Hanuman cannot experience the love of the Lion

Because he is only the inert shirt of the Lion

Hanuman is not hearing his own fame

The Lion is only hearing the fame of Hanuman.

 

Hanuman becomes the Lord of the fourteen worlds

But what is the use? Hanuman is not existing

Radha is limited to one world only

Which is called ‘Goloka’ that is the top most world

 

Limiting to one world means

Radha retained ‘I’ with limited feeling of body

Hanuman spreads into all the fourteen worlds

Meaning that he crossed ‘I’ and became infinite.

 

If you become infinite, you become inert

If you remain finite, you are alive

‘Goloka’ is above the fourteen worlds

Radha is cleverer than innocent Hanuman

 

Remember that both Radha and Hanuman cut

The ‘My’ with all the worldly desires

Both served the Lord with real infinite love

For the Lord Hanuman tore his heart and Radha died

 

Remember that Hanuman is not innocent

Because Hanuman is the monkey incarnation of the Lion

Rama was the human incarnation of the Lion

Lion is the Master and the same Lion is the servant.

 

Radha is a rabbit with its own skin

Radha never desired the Lion to enter her

She does not want to become inert skin

Lion remained as Lion and rabbit as rabbit

 

But the Lion became the servant of the rabbit

The Lion is doing everything by the wish of Radha

Radha is sitting on the head of the Lion

Served by ‘Krishna Lion’ as ‘Srimat simhasanesvaree

 

When Radha was left in ‘Brindavanam’

Krishna spoke to Radha through ‘Uddhava’

All the above message in the name of ‘Parabrahma jnana

And gave the following letter written by Himself.

 

“I am the Lion covered by the rabbit skin

You are the rabbit covered by your own skin

But due to your love and sacrifice, you act as the Lion

I am acting as the rabbit catching your feet.

 

Oh rabbit! Remaining as a real rabbit

Both internally as well as externally

You converted me as a rabbit internally also

Just I remain as a Lion in the visible form.

 

I am the ocean contained in a drop

You are only a drop in a drop

How miraculous is your love

Practically you are the ocean and I am the drop.

 

I create rule and destroy this world

As your eyebrow moves and orders Me

The twelve-hour night passed like twelve seconds

While I was pressing your tender feet in ‘Brindavanam’.

 

Now the twelve-hour night is passing as

Twelve hundred hours in Dwaraka without you

The same blue water is Yamuna as a small river there

And also is the mighty ocean here in Dwaraka”

 

The word Radha came from the word Dhara

Radha represents Dhara, which means

The continuous stream of love without any break

Such a devotee can be Radha whether male or female.

 

In this Kali age Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Is considered as Radha for His continuous love

He liked to be a limited ant, which is alive

Grasping the inert sugar, which is infinite.

 

LAKSHMANA GITA– II

 

Lakshman:

Oh! Datta Swami! You are Lord Datta

Kindly open my eye of knowledge

Shankara told that Jeeva is Ishwara

If Avidya of Jeeva is removed.

 

Swami:

Avidya means ignorance of the soul

When Avidya is removed, the soul realizes

That it is water, which is common with Ishwara

Water is common in the drop and in the ocean

 

Avidya means the ignorance of qualitative aspect

Maya means the ignorance of quantitative aspect

Maya exists as long as the space exists

Quantity is based on the space

 

A drop occupies little space

The ocean occupies large space

As long as space is existing

Both drop and ocean exist

 

When the Advaita philosopher is alive

Space exists and so the quantitative difference

When he dies also, space still exists

Since his son here is seeing the space

 

The son cannot say that the space disappeared

For his father who died

Did the dead father tell his son about the space?

How can the son tell that unless he dies?

 

Space never disappears, be sure

Maya never disappears, Ishwara is eternal

This means, the ocean will never vanish

Ishwara called Mayi always exists

 

Mayi means Brahman possessing Maya

Maya means Prakriti as per the Gita

Three qualities and five elements are Prakriti

Space is one of the five elements

 

Ishwara can never disappear

Therefore space also can never disappear

Maya is eternal and so Mayi is eternal

Jeeva is also eternal as quantity is eternal

 

What is the proof for the awareness also

To be present when space disappears?

Nobody and nothing exists in absence of space

So, the awareness also disappears

 

Awareness is the characteristic of a living being

Do you have awareness existing independently?

Awareness of awareness cannot exist

When awareness itself disappears

 

Therefore, Brahman is not awareness

Because Brahman is beyond space

Shankara called awareness as Brahman

And told that you are Brahman

 

This is like a person be called a dog

And beat him as you can beat a dog

The word Brahman means only ‘Great’

Awareness is great, let it be called Brahman

 

All this was done by Shankara at that time

To turn Bhuddists who say everything is nothing

Shankara asked ‘Do you exist to grasp that nothing’?

Bhuddist replied ‘Yes, I exist to grasp that nothing’

 

Shankara asked ‘When you exist, how everything is nothing?

You are the awareness called as Brahman

Therefore accept that Brahman which exists’

Bhuddist thought that He is Ishwara and accepted

 

Yes, Bhuddist now says that Brahman exists

That was sufficient for Shankara in those days

And atheist says that Brahman exists!

He thinks that Brahman is Ishwara or God

 

Shankara told that when Maya is removed

Both Jeeva and Ishwara disappear, Brahman remains

When space disappears, drop and ocean disappear

For your information water, the Brahman also disappears

 

Let Brahman also disappear with Maya

Because we called awareness by the name Brahman

Actually awareness is not at all Brahman

Since Brahman is beyond space and imagination

 

Awareness and awareness of awareness

Both are imaginable words

So both are not Brahman

Brahman is beyond imagination

 

All this Maya is a play of Shankara

To bring the Bhuddist to the right path

For a Bhuddist everything is nothing

And so God is also nothing for him

 

Shankara Himself knows the truth

When He took bath in the sea at Puri

He says ‘Oh! Lord! Qualitative difference

Does not exist between You and me

 

But the quantitative difference exists between us

I belong to You, You do not belong to me

A wave is contained in the sea, no doubt

But the sea is not contained in a wave’.

 

(Satyapi Bhedapa gamee Natha Taavakeenoham Na Mamakastvam

Saamudrohi Tarangah Kvachidapi Nahi Samudrah Taarangah -Shankara)

 

The disciple of Shankara thought that he is Ishwara the ocean

The disciple is only Brahma, the water as per Shankara

Brahman is confused as Ishwara also

Brahman is both Ishwara and jeeva

As the water can be both ocean and the drop

 

Shankara swallowed the molten lead

To show that He is the Ishwara also

Who swallowed that Haala Hala poison

The disciple could not touch the molten lead

 

The advaita philosophers never touch

Shankara’s prayer at Puri and about the molten lead

They simply leave these two incidents

Because they are very inconvenient for them

 

Shankara is the ocean contained in the drop

He is the human incarnation of Siva by the power of Maya

He is both water and the ocean

He can say ‘I am Brahma’ and ‘I am Ishwara’

He appears as a drop like jeeva externally

 

A jeeva can say ‘I am Brahma’ and ‘I am jeeva’

Since he is water qualitatively and drop quantitatively

He can never say that he is Ishwara

Since he is only a human being and not human incarnation

Shankara told ‘Sivoham’ which means that He is Ishwara

 

Ajay: Like this, Swami preached Lakshman

And asked him whether he wants a vision

 

Lakshman:

Oh! Datta! You have cleared all my doubts perfectly

I am memorizing your gospel again and again

I am swimming in the infinite ocean of the bliss

I have no desire to have any vision

The divine knowledge itself is divine vision

 

I am pleased more for your thirst of knowledge

Knowledge is the true form of Brahman

Narayana means the abode of knowledge

He is ‘Ananta Padmanabha’, Ananta means infinite

The Veda says that the true infinite knowledge is Brahman

 

Ajay:

Swami said like this and blessed Lakshman

With a wonderful vision of Ananta Padmanabha

Lying in a horizontal position as Brahman

Then, Swami stood vertically and appeared as

Ishwara called ‘Vishwaroopa’ with huge personality

 

Lakshman was immersed in the bliss

For several days he was remembering this

He was narrating about the vision several times

With pious tears and vibrating voice

 

LAKSHMANA GITA– III

 

Swami:

Oh! Lakshman! What a diamond you are

How sharp your spiritual question is!

Brahman is beyond space and time

You can never imagine Brahman.

 

The meaning of Brahman being ‘Great’

The word Brahman is used for many

The Gita calls the Veda as Brahman

Because the Veda is a great scripture

 

Similarly consciousness is great

Among all the forms of energy

Like light, heat etc., which are inert

Consciousness is living force, the awareness.

 

Energy is greater than matter

Among the forms of energy also

Consciousness is the greatest form

Since living is greater than non-living.

 

Hence, consciousness is also called as

Brahman, the great among energy forms

The Veda is greatest among all scriptures

So the Veda is also called as Brahman

 

Lion is the king of animals

Here the king means great

King does not mean the real king

Who sits on the thrown and rules.

 

Among a group of items

The greatest is called as Brahman

Man is also Brahman among living beings

Man is the greatest creation among them

 

Every man can be called as Brahman

A great Scholar in the logic is called as

‘Tarkasastra Brahma’, which means that

He is the greatest Scholar in logic.

 

Man is greatest among the living beings

Lion is greatest among the animals

Both man and lion are called Brahman

Each confined to its category only

 

As the king means the real king

Brahman means that which is greatest

Greatest is greater than every great

It is not confined to one category

 

Brahman is greatest of all the categories

It is beyond words, mind and imagination

Greatest among one category cannot be Brahman

For, greatest is greatest among all the categories

 

Therefore, the soul is not the real Brahman also

Real Brahman means Brahman in the real sense

A member of the lion’s club is called lion

Can he kill the elephant as a real lion?

 

The word Brahman is used in apparent sense

Awareness is greatest among the items of creation

But Brahman in real sense is greater than awareness

Therefore Brahman is the greatest

 

You cannot see Arundhati star in the sky

But Vasishtha star is clearly seen

Arundhati is very near to Vasishtha

So Vasishtha is shown as Arundhati

 

Similarly Brahman is beyond imagination like Arundhati

Consciousness can be understood like Vasishtha

Consciousness is very near to Brahman

Since Consciousness is the greatest in the creation.

 

As you show Vasishtha as Arundhati

Consciousness is shown as Brahman

Vasishtha and Arundhati are different stars

Consciousness is creation and Brahman is creator.

 

Since Arundhati can never be seen by you

You can never imagine Brahman

The only way is to show Vasishtha as Arundhati

Consciousness can be imagined as Brahman

 

The soul is neither Brahman nor Ishwara

The drop is neither water nor the ocean

Water is present in the ocean only

Ishwara is only the real Brahman

 

The entire creation is only water vapour

Jeeva is only a particle of that vapour

Jeeva is different from Ishwara

Both qualitatively and quantitatively.

 

Just a drop from the ocean evaporated

Became the creation and you the soul

Just a drop in that vapour only

Ofcourse water vapour can be treated as water

Like this Jeeva may be Brahman qualitatively

 

Padosya Viswaa Bhootani’ the Veda says

Out of millions of rays of Brahman-Sun

One ray is modified as the world

Ramanuja says this as real modification.

 

Water molecules are seen in water and vapour

It is only ‘Aabhasa’, apparent modification

Shankara says so; both theories are same

If you analyze both differ in experience.

 

Infinite dilution of water drop is vapour

Both differ as image and its reflection

Image is matter and reflection is light

Matter and light energy are inter convertible

 

 

You are water drop and ocean also

This is the pseudo-Advaita

You are water only but not ocean

This is the Advaita of Shankara.

 

You are a water drop, a small part of

The Ocean, is the concept of Ramanuja

The whole sum is Ishwara

His small limb is the Jeeva or soul.

 

You are a drop of vapour only

Which is not in the ocean

Neither you are in the ocean nor you have water

This is the theory of Madhva

 

The Bhuddist Atheist is attracted

By the pseudo-Advaita at the outset

Slowly he realized that he is not ocean, only water

At last he realized that he is only vapour not even water.

 

Slowly the soul descends down by the ladder

As the egoism and jealousy vanish

Water vapour is also water by essence

There is a continuity of water from drop to ocean.

 

Water or water vapour is not Brahman

We called water by the name Brahman

Water is the real consciousness, the object

Water vapour is only apparent consciousness, the reflection

 

Now Ishwara also is not Brahman, it means

Since even water is not the Brahman

But Ishwara is always Brahman, because

Brahman is always hidden in Ishwara.

 

No doubt first only Brahman existed

It wanted entertainment and it created the world

But, how the second came from one?

If second is not there how Brahman was entertained?

 

This is the secret of creation, called as Maya

Which is inexplicable like Brahman

Certain middle aspects of creation are only known

Beginning and end of creation are unknown

 

Unless you cross the space Brahman cannot be realized

The Veda says “Brahman created the space”

Before creation of space Brahman existed

In the absence of space only Brahman can be seen.

(“Aatmana Aakasah Sambhutah” – Veda)

 

You break your head for hundred years

Absence of space can never be imagined

Then how can you imagine the Brahman?

It exists before the creation of space.

 

“Consciousness creates space in dream

The dream space disappears with dream

The consciousness remains after dream

Consciousness beyond dream space is Brahman”

 

If Advaitin says the above argument, My Friend!

The consciousness after the vanished dream space

Exists only based on this real space only

It means consciousness requires space base.

 

This real space may disappear, then

The consciousness remains, but there should be

Another more real space for that, since

No proof for the consciousness without space.

The Veda calls more real space “Parama Vyoman”.

 

When all types of spaces disappear, then only

Space disappeared, for, there was no any space

Before the creation of the space by Brahman

Brahman is not space based as it is beyond space.

 

Brahman without any type of space

Can never be imagined by any one

Any body is in the space only

Who can cross this space?

 

Even Devas and Rishis are in the space only

Even they cannot imagine Brahman, not to speak of men

“I am a Deva, how can I tell about Brahman?”

Yama told Nachiketa in the Upanishat.

 

No example can be given to Brahman

Every example in the world is space based

No example in this world is the actual Brahman

When it cannot be even the example for Brahman

“The final conclusion of many seminars

Conducted by Devas and Rishis concluded

That Brahman cannot be known by any means

At least this, if one knows, he knows Brahman a little.

 

If any one tells that he knows Brahman

He does not know even a little of Brahman

This is the knowledge of Brahman, Brahma Jnana

That I can give to you,” told Yama to Nachiketa

 

Therefore by your analysis, you can never

Even imagine Brahman, how can you see it?

If you leave the self effort, egoistic path

And cry for Brahman, surrender as a devotee.

Brahman appears, talks, touches and lives with you.

 

‘Brahman alone knows Brahman’ the Veda says

Brahman preaches you about itself

The Veda told, “Brahman reveals its body

If you love Brahman with selfless service”.

(‘Brahma vit Brahma’, ‘YameVaisha Vrunute’ – Veda)

 

Body means human body, the Gita says

It is ‘Sthula’ body, which is the external

The internal body, Ishwara is ‘Sukshma’, in it

Brahman the ‘Karana’ body is always hidden.

(Maanusheem tanu Maashritam – Gita)

 

In Purna and Paripurna human incarnations

Brahman, Ishwara and human body exist, no Jeeva

In Purna, Brahman exhibits itself to some extent

In Paripurna Brahman exhibits itself to the full extent.

 

Purna is Rama and Paripurna is Krishna

Other incarnations are Kala, Amsa and Avesa

Kala means a ray of power of Ishwara enters

Amsa means a part of power of Ishwara enters

 

In Kala and Amsa human body and Jeeva exist

Vyasa is Kala and Kapila is Amsa incarnation

In Avesa, Ishwara enters human body and its Jeeva

For some time for a purpose as in Parusurama

Ishwara is always with Brahman, remember it always

 

Incarnation as fish, tortoise etc., are temporary

They came for killing demons, then vanished

Never Ishwara enters the inert statue

The Veda says, “For Ishwara there is no statue”.

(Natasya Pratima Asti – Veda)

 

The Gita says that if you worship inert statue

You will be born as inert object only

Inert statue is only just to have a vision

Like seeing the photo of your son, who is away.

(Bhootani Yanti Bhoote jyah – Gita)

 

The statues and photos are imaginary forms

Nobody has taken the direct photos

No doubt, Devas exist in the bodies of light

Which can be seen by penance and they talk.

 

But, you cannot touch and live with them

Devas are also Jeevas in divine light bodies

Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are the three light bodies

In which Ishwara is hidden in whom Brahman is hidden

 

The only difference between Vishnu and Krishna is

In Vishnu the body is light, in Krishna the body is five elements

You cannot touch and live with Vishnu

You can touch and live with Krishna

 

You do lot of penance to approach and see Vishnu

Without any effort Krishna came to you

You respect a copper coin when you earn it

You neglect even a gold coin when some one gives it

 

Krishna looks like you exactly with same body

Vishnu looks different with a body of light energy

Man always likes a different one

And repels with a similar one.

 

Egoism and jealousy are the two layers

That covers the two eyes of every man

Man can never accept the man

But God in man is the gold coin.

 

The external clothes only differ

In Krishna and Vishnu

Krishna is the only shirt

That gives full bliss and satisfaction to you.

 

The same person is present

In both the clothes

The person is Ishwara

In whom Brahman is hidden.

 

The essence in one sentence is that

You should worship Narayana in the Nara form

That one sentence alone if taught

It falls like arrow, which is stem of grass.

 

The same sentence when taught

With the Veda, Shastra and logic authoritatively

It inserts in you like the fire arrow

The Gita says that Knowledge is fire.

 

LAKSHMANA GITA– IV

Swami:

True, Maya has beginning, since

Brahman existed alone before creation

But, once the cinema started, it never ends

If it ends, Brahman gets again bored

 

The word Maya means wonderful as per its root word

The power of Brahman and product of power, the world

Both are wonderful, it means both power and world,

See the building and imagine the wonderful architect

 

Some say that Maya means that which does not exist

Maya reversed is Yaama, meaning that which is not true

A drop of ocean evaporated is the world, so minute

So negligible before Brahman, almost nil

 

World is almost nil only for that Brahman

Not for Jeeva , who is a drop in the world-sea

The world is a drop in the ocean of Ishwara

Brahman hides always in Ishwara

 

Brahman, beyond imagination, existed and exists always

For entertainment, bored Brahman created space

Now the space based ocean of consciousness is created

Such ocean is Ishwara in whom Brahman was hidden

 

Ishwara also becomes beyond space by His power

Power belongs to the internal Brahman only

The consciousness is space based and is external body

A drop of this ocean vaporized to become world

This vaporization is due to power of Brahman only

 

You can’t say that consciousness beyond space

Since you cannot imagine anything beyond space

How can you call that by a name like consciousness?

Which we understand here as a property of living beings

 

Understood is always space based

Not understood means beyond space

Brahman means greatest, by this word

Nothing is understood, what is that greatest

 

But by the world consciousness we understand

That it is a quality of living beings

That does not exist in non-living things

We say that it is here and it is not there

Awareness of awareness is only awareness

Light of light is only light

Everyone easily understands awareness

Brahman cannot be understood by anyone

 

Ishwara creates rules and destroys this world

Again and again I say that Ishwara is Brahman

Ishwara is huge iron structure electrify

Electricity pervading all the iron is Brahman

 

An iron wire electrified is human incarnation

Ishwara and incarnation are one and the same

In both the pervading Brahman is common

Don’t forget that Brahman is beyond space

And so it is not affected by the special size

 

Space creates small and big sizes

Brahman is beyond these two sizes

Hence Brahman is same in both

The external bodies only defer in sizes

 

Same person wears a small shirt

Or covered by a big shirt, person is same

Person is not small in small shirt

Person is not big in big shirt

 

The human incarnation is Ishwara

Every human being is not Ishwara

Krishna alone became huge Vishwaroopa

Same Brahman in small Krishna and in big Vishwaroopa

 

Every Jeeva cannot show Vishwaroopa

The Veda says that Brahman entered this world

As a Jeeva but not as every Jeeva

As Krishna but not as every Yadava

 

Brahman is not in any Jeeva

Brahman is only the base of Jeevas and world

That too Brahman is not touching the world

For, the changes in the world cannot touched Brahman

 

As a day dreamer imagines a city

Brahman imagines this entire world

He is the base of the city, not touching it

Even if the city burns the dreamer is not burnt

 

World means inert objects and living Jeevas

Even if the Jeeva weeps, Brahman is not pained

The city of the daydreamer has men moving

The men may be cut the dreamer is not pained

 

Brahman is not anything or anybody in the world

Brahman is not in anything or in anybody in world

Brahman is not touching anything or anybody in world

Nothing and nobody can affect Brahman in any way

 

The ordinary wire is neither electricity

Nor electricity flows in that wire

Not that wire even touches the electricity

“I am the electricity” the wire claims!

 

“I am the electricity” the electric wire can say

since electric shock is given throughout the wire

same can be send by the electric iron structure

Therefore, only Avatara and Ishwara can say

“I am Brahman”, not every Tom, Dick and Hary

 

Hundred water molecules in small space is water

Hundred water molecules in large space is vapor

Water and water vapor are one and the same but due to space

Water is water and vapor is vapor

 

Can you drink a cup of water vapor?

Can water defuse by itself as vapor

Both are different due to this space

You have to talk anything standing in the space

 

You are in space and you will be in space

Even if the creation is destroys, space exists

All the creation also is condensed as a pulls

And is hidden in the mind of Ishwara

 

Just like in a computer, the pulls chip

Comes out exhibited, the world goes

As Avyakta into the mind of Ishwara

The Veda says “He created again as it existed”

(“Dhata yatha poorva maklpayat”--Veda)

 

Unless this space disappears, how can you say

That world made of five elements is destroyed?

How do you say that Narayana sleeps

On the banana leaf after destruction?

 

The show may be stopped the film exists

In destruction world goes from Vyakta to Avyakta

Yes, the cinema was not there before production

But once produced, it is eternal in the film

 

Water vapor is nil for the ocean

It is not nil for the particle of the vapor

World is almost nil for Ishwara only

And also for the incarnation, since both are same

 

You are a drop in the ocean of the world

The world is a drop in the ocean-Ishwara

You and the world are in one vapor phase

Ishwara is in a different water-phase

 

All the matter is energy, no doubt then

Excretory product and food are same energy

Pig eats the former and man eats the latter

Pig and man are also forms of same matter

But pig and man are quiet different

 

The king and peon are the same one man

What is the use of this similarity?

What is that peon has achieved by this?

It makes the peon become lazy

 

Lakshman:

In deep sleep the happiness is experienced

By the “I”, when all disappear which is Brahman

 

Swami:

This advaita ghost catches innocent

Let them remember that great Hanuman

Ghosts run away by His name

Even He never told that He is Brahman

 

He is all the eight powers, greatest yogi

A scholar in nine grammars of Sanskrit

No one on this earth can have more knowledge

No one is a better devotee, He is the greatest Jeeva

 

Common tell Me, Is there any advaita scholar

Greater than the greatest Hanuman?

He has all the miraculous powers

His Master Rama never showed any miracle

 

Hanuman never told that He is Brahman

He always told Himself as servant of Rama

Rama was an ordinary human being

Whom Hanuman worshipped as Ishwara

 

In deep sleep you are not aware

Does it mean your body disappeared?

Your friend who awoke is seeing your body

If you are not aware does it mean your body is absent?

 

You are a scholar in an Indian language

You are not aware of even the existence of a foreign language

Does it mean that the foreign language does not exist?

You are not aware but everything exists

 

You gained happiness in the deep sleep

Because you seized to work by body and mind

You took food, energy is released from food

Which is stored and you feel energetic, as it is not spent

 

This energetic state is the happiness you have

That happiness is the characteristic of Jeeva

Happiness and sorrow are the two wings of Jeeva

Hapiness is not the bliss, bliss is eternal

 

After deep sleep you are happy for a minute

Shocking news comes to you, you weep

Bliss cannot be shaken by anything

Even animal gets happiness after deep sleep

 

In deep sleep the awareness exists

Awareness itself is the work, which receives happiness

It stores all that happiness, a form of energy

You awake and feel the concentrated happiness

 

Your “I” is only your soul that is Jeevatma

The life energy that is consciousness is happy

Your self-knowledge remains in deep sleep

You get knowledge of yourself

That is not the knowledge of Brahman

 

Self-knowledge of a dog is that

It knows that it is a dog

Self-knowledge of a lion is that

It knows that it is a lion

This is the awareness in awakening stage

 

Since the word self-knowledge is common in both

Dog is not lion and lion is not dog

District collector and Bill Collector are not same

For, the word “Collector” is common

 

A small shirt and a big shirt are there

In the big shirt the person is present

Even if the small shirt equates with big shirt

Neglecting the quantitative aspect

What is the use? In the small shirt person is not present

 

Even if Jeeva, a drop of awareness

Becomes equal to Ishwara, ocean of awareness

What is the use? Ishwara contains Brahman

Jeeva is not having Brahman internally

 

An ocean of milk with dissolved sugar is Ishwara

A cup of milk with dissolved sugar is human incarnation

A cup of milk without sugar is Jeeva

Milk is awareness, cup is body and sugar is Brahman

 

Since Brahman is beyond space with all miraculous powers

Ishwara is pervading all over world though not seen

For such miraculous state of Ishwara Brahman is the cause

Ishwara is also embedded in incarnation, ocean in cup

Awareness by itself is not all pervading

Due to Brahman only it pervades all world as Ishwara

 

Living beings are discontinuous items

Awareness is limited to the limited living being

Hence, awareness without Brahman in it

Can be a limited part of the creation only

 

Drop of awareness is Zero, common in you and Krishna

But in Krishna the number one is behind the zero

Krishna is ten, you are only zero

Due to common zero, zero is not ten

That number one is Brahman

 

Awareness in both the bodies is one and the same

The same three qualities are existing in both

Dead bodies of both are equal

Thus these three zeros are common in both Krishna and a man

 

In Krishna the number one that is Brahman

Stands behind the three zeros associated

Krishna is thousand and the man is zero only

The three common zeros are equal to a big zero

 

What is the use of searching a common item?

You have to search for the differentiating item

It you want to become equal to Krishna

Achieve that number one by effort

Without any effort the Advaitin sits silent, satisfied

Seeing the common item zero

The entire world including awareness is zero

Before Brahman, since it is negligible

 

It is like a lazy student seeing

The common human body in a merit student

Stops studying, thinking that he is also meritorious

Yes, he can be meritorious if he recognizes

That very merit which is the differentiating item

 

When the lazy student says with jealousy

That the merit and merit student do not exist

Shankara wanted this lazy student accept the merit

He told, “You are that merit student”

 

Similarly, Buddhist was that jealous student

Who denied the very existence of Brahman?

Shankara told him “You are that Brahman”

He accepted and said “Brahman exists, since He exists”

He mistook Brahman for Ishwara

And told “I am Ishwara”

 

Don’t behave like that Buddhist kid, an atheist

You are a grown up student, the theist

You should concentrate on that differentiating item only

Which is the miraculous Brahman

 

Awareness of body is awakened state

Awareness of dream is dream state

Only awareness is the state of deep sleep

Awareness is the life energy

 

Awareness is work and always is in working state

Energy, a radiation is always vibrating in brain

In deep sleep this awareness alone exists

As the body and outer world exists

 

The miraculous Brahman has come to you

In Human form to preach you everything

Listen and follow Him with full devotion

Prove your devotion by your selfless service

 

Then only that differentiating item, the Brahman

Pleased with your practical selfless service

Blesses you with all things you need here and there

It can even enter you to make you the incarnation

 

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