09 Aug 2010
Parashurama was human incarnation of God. Human incarnation means a human being possessed by God. The human being may be of lower type or of higher type. Parashurama is a lower type of human being and Rama, a higher type of human being was also the human incarnation. The unimaginable God charging both the human beings is one and the same. Rama is an alloy of Gold and silver. Parashurama is an alloy of gold and copper. Gold is one and the same in both the alloys, but silver is a higher metal than copper. Dasharatha and Janaka were higher types of human beings, analogous to pure silver metal[1]. Rama, Dasharatha and Janaka requested Parashurama not to be furious and the reason for such humble nature of these three people was that these three people were noble persons. God existing in Rama and Parashurama has nothing to do with their individual human natures. God is confined to His specific program only. God will not interfere with the nature and properties of the medium in which He exists. If the nature of the medium changes by the interaction of God, devotees will not freely mix with the human incarnation. The normal nature of the medium always gives a strong impression on the minds of the observers that the human incarnation is a human being only and not God. This impression makes the devotees feel free to interact with the human incarnation with free access to clarify their doubts and get correct direction in the spiritual path. Thus, when Parashurama shouted with anger on Rama, it is the nature of the human being that exhibited the anger. The human being in this human incarnation was full of Rajas, which is the source of ego. The human being in the human incarnation of Rama was full of Sattvam, which is the source of humility and humbleness.
The difference between Rama and Parashurama is the difference between silver and copper and the similarity between them is about the gold. From the point of gold, both are the same human incarnation. The behavior is different from the point of silver and copper. Even Dasharatha and Janaka were pious and humble compared to Parashurama. The human nature of both Dasharatha and Janaka was of higher type than that of Parashurama. As far as the Pravritti or the human dealing is concerned, it is only the nature of copper and silver that is to be analyzed and the gold is silent. You may get a doubt that why the gold selects copper for alloying in such case. God selects a particular type of human being for a particular program. God wanted to kill all the kings, who showed extreme ego and for this program, the human being with full of Rajas []anger and aggression] was needed. Hence, Parashurama was selected. God wanted to preach the ideal behavior of a perfect human being to humanity and for this purpose, Rama, with full of Sattvam was selected to suit the program. Therefore, a devotee can be higher than the human incarnation with reference to the human nature.
One day, I told Surya that he is far superior to Myself. He immediately denied this and said that I am God. He believes Me to be the human incarnation of God. Assuming that I am the human incarnation, My statement was with reference to the human nature and not with reference to the God existing in Me. I told him that I am copper and he is silver. Therefore, you have to analyze the human incarnation with reference to the medium and God separately. The prayers of Jesus, a human incarnation, are to be attributed to the human nature of the medium and the statements that He is the savior etc. must be attributed to God present in Him. All the defects of the human incarnation are to be attributed to the human nature of the medium and not to God. Rama went after the golden deer in spite of the advice of Lakshmana. It is the human nature of the medium that made Rama go after the golden deer due to the blind bond to his wife. You should not think that the human incarnation is either completely God or completely a human being. It is a single phase system with two components homogeneously mixed. In certain contexts, it behaves as God and in certain other contexts it behaves as a human being. But, the nature of the human being in the human incarnation is as per the direction of the God only. The God component in Parashurama and Rama is one and the same, which wanted to project the budding Rama and suppress the retiring Parashurama. As per the will of God only, the entire scene took place. The aim of this scene was to show that any human being, including the human being present in human incarnation, should not take the credit for the power of God on to it. Parashurama thought that he killed all the kings and therefore, he was taught about the truth.
Rigid People Will Not Change
[Nikhil asked if a miracle can be treated as an unknown event, which may be known in the future and it need not be unimaginable. As long as it is unknown, it can be treated as unimaginable, which serves the purpose of establishing the unimaginable God. Following is Swami’s reply.]
If every miracle is only unknown, it may serve the purpose of establishing unimaginable God for the time being, but in future, when it is proven that it is knowable unknown only, people will conclude that there is no unimaginable event at all and hence, there is no unimaginable God. In this context, another danger also appears which is that even the real unimaginable miracle will be treated as unknown event that can be known after sometime in the future. By this, the human being will not accept any genuine miracle throughout his life thinking that the unimaginable event will be solved in sometime after its death also. A genuine miracle, which is really an unimaginable event, must also be projected and this can never be analyzed even in the future. You may argue that the genuine miracle has the probability of its analysis in the future and that it cannot be completely confirmed as unimaginable today. But, your probability is only fifty percent and there is equal probability of it being unimaginable forever. At least, based on this equal probability of being unimaginable forever, the devotee will have faith in the unimaginable God and in His unimaginable power. In the case of a genuine miracle, the analysis rejects your equal probability of being unknown today becoming known in the future.
Let us take a case of a tender boy called as Krishna lifting the huge mountain. You may argue that in future there may be a way developed by science to introduce in to the boy the huge power to lift the huge mountain. But, such way is impossible because if such huge power is introduced in to the body of a human being, the body will be burnt to ash. Hence, such probability is ruled out today itself. The unknown, which is knowable in future, will always have its boundaries within the limits of the knowledge of knowable creation only and cannot cross these limits. The unimaginable event forever will have its placement always beyond the limits of the logic of the items of creation. Your limits can never extend and enter the place of unimaginable events. You may touch the top rod of the door today and you may touch the roof of the house tomorrow by practice of high jump. The door and the house are within the limits of the possibility of human power. You may say that yesterday the roof of the house was an impossible item, but the house and door are within the limits of human power. The roof of the house was relatively impossible with reference to the door within the possible limits of human being. Based on this, you should not say that you will touch the sky day after tomorrow by high jump. The sky is absolutely impossible, since it is beyond the limits of human beings on any day. There is difference between the absolute and relative impossibilities.
I will tell a recent incident also because you may say that Krishna lifting the mountain may be a created story since there is no authority of perception. God existing in Me performed a miracle by which there was fragrance of lotus flowers in the house of a devotee visiting Me. The husband of that devotee never believes the concept of human incarnation. He commented that some chemical might have been dropped by Me in his house. He removed all the articles from the house. Still the fragrance came. Then he told that I, being a professor of Chemistry, might have applied some liquid chemical on the wall. Then, he started getting the fragrance wherever he went. He left the town and traveled up to 200 kilometers. Still the fragrance came to him and it was so strong that he was unable to eat and sleep. This happened continuously for a month and his life was in danger. Even then, he does not believe in the human incarnation! The devotee requested Swami to stop the miracle and Swami prayed God. The fragrance was stopped. Then, Swami told that miracles cannot change such rigid persons. Duryodhana did not change even though Lord Krishna showed the cosmic vision (Vishwarupam). Therefore, there is no use of arguing with such rigid people. He may say that the science will develop some technique in future so that the human body may withstand such huge power to lift the mountain! This means that the fellow will not accept the genuine miracle at any cost. You should not entertain him any more with any further discussion. Salute him and leave him with folded hands saying that he is stronger than the king of this country. The king, having great powers, also may accept the logic in your discussion, but such fellow will never accept you and hence, he is stronger than the king. Such fellow deserves highest regards, being more powerful than the king and hence, you should salute him before you leave him.
[1]Parashurama was furious that the sacred bow of Lord Shiva broke at the hands of Lord Rama. He attacked Rama to punish Him since Parashurama had become proud that He was God. God had entered Parashurama only to carry out the mission of the destruction of unjust kings. After that mission was over, God had left his body. But Parashurama still carried the pride of his powers and divinity in him. When Parashurama’s attack on Rama did not affect Rama and Rama showed him a vision indicating that Rama was actually a complete incarnation of God (in whom God resides from birth to death of that human body), Parashurama could give up his pride.
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