14 Dec 2006
The Gita says that a realized soul, who uses the analysis by intelligence, leaves the concepts of both happiness obtained by doing good deeds and misery obtained by doing bad deeds (Buddhi Yukto Jahatiha Ubhe Sukruta Dushkrute). This means that you are trying for the temporary happiness of heaven and trying to avoid the temporary misery of hell here as well as in the upper world. This means that if you are analyzing the scriptures with sharp logic to realize the ultimate goal of the human life, you will not be interested neither in happiness nor in misery during the life as well as after death. The ultimate goal of life is not anything related to yourself, because it is aimed at pleasing the creator since the original aim of this creation is only the pleasure of the Lord through entertainment. Therefore, the original aim of yourself, other selves and the entire universe is only to serve the Lord and please Him. Then, you will be blessed by the Lord with His eternal divine grace and your life is fulfilled. Therefore, the human life is neither for doing good deeds nor for doing bad deeds and it is also not for enjoying the good fruits or bad fruits. You are wasting the human life in doing good works and sometimes doing bad works due to the force of your ignorance. By this, very little time is leftover here to serve the Lord. If this little time is also used for enjoying good and bad fruits, no time is left for you to do the service to God and get His blessings. Hence, to save atleast this little time for realization of spiritual knowledge and subsequent involvement in the divine service, atleast the enjoyment of good and bad deeds is postponed to a latter time and at a latter place. The latter time is after death and latter places are hell and heaven.
This is the reason for creation of hell and heaven separately to enjoy the results after death. Ofcourse, very serious and urgent results are enjoyed here itself immediately (Atyutkataih…). This enjoyment of results here itself serves another purpose also by standing as a proof for others regarding the inevitable enjoyment of results. Without realizing this divine administration, some are proposing the enjoyment of all good and bad results here itself so that the souls can fully realize. Suppose a student is in the preparation holidays to study for the examinations. He should not be disturbed by extra curricular activities to reward or by punishments of disciplinary action. Both these should be postponed to a latter date after the examinations. Ofcourse, urgent activities and actions are exceptional. A good principal of the college behaves in this way only. When the human life is not used for the ultimate purpose, it ends and the soul takes an energetic body (Yatana Shariram for bad results and Bhoga Shariram for good results), which is more sensitive to enjoy the results in the hell and heaven. If the human life is made fruitful by realizing its ultimate aim, the soul reaches the abode of God by taking a bright energetic body (Divya Shariram). Therefore, My dear devotees! Do not fall in the illusion of solving problems here and avoiding hell there. Do not fall in the illusion of materialistic happiness here and happiness of heaven there. Realize the real aim of this human life and serve the Lord in His divine mission and please Him.
Misery in the Love and Service of Lord is the Highest
If you are loved by the Lord, you will be a liberated soul belonging to His inner circle and you will attain eternal bliss by being close to the Lord. Ananda (Bliss) means continuous happiness without any break by misery. Brahmaananda means the continuous happiness of God, which is several times intensive than the continuous happiness of a realized soul here (Manushaananda). Bliss of God is not only continuous but also has the highest intensity. Suppose a person got one lakh rupees and another person got one crore rupees by lottery. Both celebrate their happiness on that day continuously. Since their happiness is continuous, it is bliss (Ananda). But, there is difference in the intensities of bliss of these two persons. By self-realization, you can get the bliss of the soul (Atmaananda) but that is not the bliss of God (Brahmaananda), which is millions and millions times more intensive. Mere continuity of happiness, which is common in both, cannot be misunderstood to unite both these as one. Actually you are attaining the peace only by self-realization because by this you are detached from the body and the external world for sometime by limiting yourself to the soul. By this you are avoiding misery and absence of misery is not happiness. Moreover, when you avoid misery, you have to avoid the happiness also in the detachment. In such case you are assuming the peace as happiness relatively with reference to misery. Zero is plus with reference to minus. Such assumed plus cannot be the real plus. Therefore, the peace assumed as happiness in the self-realization is not even the real worldly happiness (Manushaananda) and you cannot think it as Brahmaananda even in dream. Even a saint sitting in the meditation with self-realization enjoying the peace as assumed happiness will suddenly leave that state if you tell him that he got a noble prize for his spiritual knowledge and he starts enjoying the real happiness from that worldly affair! When Uddhava started preaching Gopikas about self-realization to attain constant peace and get rid of the misery caused by separation from Krishna, one Gopika asked him whether such peace is not the silence of a dead body! She told him that even in the misery due to separation from Krishna, bliss is enjoyed by her in the love of the Lord! She concluded that even misery in the love and service of the Lord is the highest bliss, which is far better than the peace of self-realization. Therefore, your aim should not be to attain the bliss from the Lord but it should be your service and love (even if it ends in misery) that gives bliss to the Lord. Then, in turn you will receive the infinite divine bliss since you are not selfish at all in the Nivrutti.
Preachers of Advaita often mislead the devotees by stating that the soul, which is made of pure awareness (Chit) is simultaneously bliss (Ananda). This is an utter lie in practice. If the soul is simultaneously bliss, no soul should receive misery. Hence, the fire is hot everywhere and should not be cool anywhere. Similarly, they say that the soul is simultaneously knowledge. They have taken the meaning of knowledge (Jnanam) as chit (pure awareness)! If this is true, the awareness is present in every living being and hence, every living being should have simultaneously the knowledge. We are calling even a human being (supposed to be the highest living being) as ignorant and such usage should not exist as there should be no ignorant living being.
Means of Achieving World Peace
Leaving the concept of the central Lord, who is the ruler of the souls, breathing exercises (Pranayama), meditation upon the soul, self-realization etc., are only beating around the bush. Without the logical establishment of the concept of one God in all the religions, Universal Spirituality, one family of all the human beings, world peace etc., are only the illusory castles or the real castles built upon the ground without the foundation. All such aims will be either unreal or temporary realities only in practice. One may achieve the oneness of the human beings temporarily during the time of his preaching the audience. Such oneness is like the oneness of human beings achieved during the deep sleep of all the human beings for which, no trace of preaching is required. When you ask all to love each other without hatred, it is impractical in the practical life of ordinary human beings. The preacher is a saint and has no interaction with society that can lead to anger and hatred. But I am an employee doing My duties sincerely without any trace of corruption. But, several ignorant people are angry with Me for not favoring them and become My enemies in spite of My several appeals. It is easy to preach the Universal Brotherhood for a saint, but it is impossible to practice it for an ordinary employee in the world. What is the solution for this? The only solution is to attack this issue at the level of intelligence by analysis and there is no use of attempting at the level of mind with love and appeal. The intelligence (Buddhi) is the driver of the body (Vehicle) and leads the soul (Owner). You have to guide the driver and not the inert vehicle or the incapable owner. If you can establish the concept of one God in all religions and convince all the drivers of the human bodies, the unity and peace is sure to come forever. You can realize this point with the help of a small example. You take a group of devotees having the common form of God like Krishna or Jesus. All of them get strongly united and all of them fear to harm any other devotee because their common God will punish them for the sin. A Christian will fear deeply to harm another Christian but will not care so much to harm a follower of other religion. The reason is that in harming another Christian, he is sure of the punishment from Jesus. But, when he harms a person of other religion, he does not fear so much since he has no faith in that form of God of other religion. He believes only Jesus as the only absolute God. Laden tried to kill Christians and Hindus in America because, he believes in Allah only as the God. For this basic reason only he never attempted to kill people in any Muslim country. I am not referring to anyone particularly. This is a common disease of all the ignorant people present in any religion. Suppose Laden believed in the Universal Spirituality and realized that Jesus and Krishna are also other forms of the same Allah, will he do such crime to the people of other religions? This question applies not only to Laden but also applies to all fanatic Ladens present in all religions.
Some preachers want to bring world peace by expressing love through embracing devotees similar to the embracing of people on holy festival. Any one can do such things and the problems opposing Universal Spirituality are not so simple since they are at the deep intellectual level. Some preachers ask the devotees to close the eyes and slowly give some statements so that they can get rid off the strenuous thoughts. All these are psychological treatments of medical science and have no divinity. The feeling of God and love to Him is the most powerful healer of all the stress and also will solve the causes of problems in the world. People say that they should ask God only for anything, since there is no alternative for them. This is a sugar-coated mischief. If you have so much love and respect to God, why are you not following the instructions given by God and avoid the sins? Even if the atmosphere drags you, you must control yourself at the end. Krishna promised that He would not use any weapon in the war. But, when Bhishma wounded Him, He took His chakra and ran to kill Bhishma. This shows the effect of the practical situation but finally Krishna controlled Himself and returned back. Similarly, Jesus was ready for the arrest but His body started shaking and He prayed God to stop the arrest if possible. This shows the effect of the practical situation. But finally He controlled Himself and told God to do as per His will only. Hanuman tore His heart with His own nails to show Rama. This shows the absence of any disturbance in practical implementation. Either you should resist the effect of practical situation in the beginning itself like Hanuman or resist its effect atleast after sometime like Krishna and Jesus. This is the message of these three incidents. Either the firm determination without any disturbance or atleast the firm determination after some disturbance should come either in Pravrutti or Nivrutti. If the determination is defeated by disturbance as in the case of Arjuna, who wanted to withdraw from the war, only the complete analysis of spiritual knowledge (the Gita) can give the firm determination and no other method like breathing exercise or embracing Arjuna or singing songs can remove the ignorance that is covering the intelligence.
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