07 Nov 2013
There is a famous song ‘Khelati Brahmande Yo Ramah Sa eva Khelati Pindande’. This means that the same Rama, who is playing in this world, is also playing in this human body. The Advaita Philosophers immediately jump often to interpret this to conclude that the same Lord entertained by this world is present in the human body of everybody as soul. This is wrong interpretation based on the ambition to become God without any effort. The only effort they like is to know that they are God since they are already God. They like that they have already won the jackpot lottery and the amount is already transferred to their bank account and the only effort is to know all this information. First of all, they should know that they cannot become God by any effort because one becomes God by the will of God only. By the effort, you can make yourself eligible to become God by falling in the looks of God. Whenever there is necessity to do something on the earth, God prefers an eligible devotee as His medium to incarnate on the earth instead of creating a fresh human form. The effort will certainly bring eligibility in you, but, there is no guarantee of your selection. If you do not wish to become God, you will have the possibility of selection.
In the above song, the word Rama is used instead of ‘Deva’, which means the Lord in general sense. If the word Deva is used, there is a chance for Advaita Philosophers. Then, the meaning of the song will be that the Lord entertained by this entire world is also present in the human body.
Devotee: The word Rama also means the Lord in general sense only because Rama means He, Who is getting entertained.
Shri Swami: The word Rama belongs to the type Yogarudha, which means that the word should be taken as per its meaning (Yoga) and also should be taken as the person in whom it is fixed (Rudha). The reason is the person fixed is also the person entertained by this world. We should not take only the Yoga since there is powerful possibility of Rudha. If the word Deva is used, the possibility of Yoga only can be maintained without confusion.
This song means that the same Lord entertained by the world is present in the human body of Rama, a specific Human being called as Human incarnation. Hence, this song cannot be extended to every human being. You should not say that Advaita Philosophy preached by Shankara is waste, since it is not useful in your case. The Advaita Philosophy is useful to you in the sense that you should recognize the human incarnation in your generation and serve Him to get His grace. By His grace, you can become the human incarnation. Thus, Advaita Philosophy shows the way to become Human incarnation and it should not be taken as information of your already existing state. Such ambition without effort results in unimaginable quantity of ego. By this, you feel that you have reached the sky. You should be brought down to the earth and this was done by the second Preacher Ramanuja. Actually, your place of the present status is in the lowest layer of the earth (Patala). The third Preacher, Madhva brings you down from the upper layer of the earth to the lowest layer. Suppression of ‘Bali’ from surface of the earth to Patala indicates this. The various layers of earth indicate the various levels of the human souls. This means that you are not only lower to God, but also lower to several human souls. You are thinking that you are already Lord Narasimha, who saved Prahlada, a devoted soul. You are neither Narasimha nor even Prahlada.
Madhva preached that the soul is different from God and also there is difference between the souls. The concept of high and low levels exists not only between God and soul but also among the souls. This is established by the analysis of the meaning of the word Purushottama. Purushottama is the word based on superlative degree meaning that the Lord in human form is highest among all the human beings. If all the human beings are one and the same, there should be two categories only i.e., 1) the Lord and 2) the human being in general. In such case, the Lord should be said as higher than the general human being. Then, the comparative degree should be used and the Lord should be said as Purushottara. Since the human beings are different from each other, the possibility of superlative degree arises and the word Purushottama becomes valid. Thus, the word Purushottama supports the final Philosophy of Madhva, which states that all the souls are lower to God and the souls are also different from each other in their levels. Ramanuja is an intermediate state between Shankara and Madhva to bring you down from the sky to the lowest layer of the earth. Otherwise, such steep fall may discourage you. Ramanuja consoled that the soul is a part of God like a spark of the fire (Shesha Sheshi Sambandha). Actually, the soul is a part of imaginable creation and God is unimaginable. Hence, this relationship is not basically true, but created for consolation. Madhva stated that the imaginable soul is totally different from unimaginable God and the relationship of soul to God is employee-employer relationship (Sevyasevaka Sambandha). Therefore, you should first serve the devotees higher than you and by their grace; you can reach the level of Prahlada, the top most layer of the earth. If you think that you are already Prahlada, it is madness. If you think that you are already the Lord Narasimha, it is the climax of madness! When God wanted to take Human incarnation on this earth to propagate this final fact of spiritual knowledge, He has chosen the soul of Prahlada as a medium and was born as Swami Raghavendra, a human incarnation.
Shankara preached Advaita Philosophy not only to show Himself as God, but also to show the possibility of becoming human incarnation to every human being keeping Himself as a practical example. His intention was not to show Himself as God only and make others suffer mentally as in the case of a sadist, but also to show the way for Advaita to everybody. The Advaita Philosophy is not selfish capitalism, but, is a social capitalism to show the path to every poor man to become the rich man. In the selfish capitalism, a rich man claims himself as the only rich man wishing all others to be poor people forever. Such policy brings revolution either in Pravritti or Nivritti because the human psychology blended with ego and jealousy is always the same. One day or other, the patience will burst out. Therefore, Advaita Philosophy applied to the alive Human Incarnation is only to encourage every human soul to become God. But, the highest tragedy in this concept is that we should not aspire to become human incarnation in case we want to become the human incarnation! Thus, the entire spiritual knowledge is based on the preaching of these three sacred Preachers simultaneously at every stage. Even the human incarnation is again in the process of some steps only. The first step is Kalavatara, in which a ray of His power enters you. You will be initially tested about your ambition and ego. The next step is Amshavatara, in which a part of the power enters you. In the next step, Aveshaavatara results, in which God enters you fully but for sometime only. Next is Purnaavatara, in which God enters you, staying throughout your life, but exhibits 3/4th of His power only (12 kalaas). In the final step, God enters and stays in you throughout your life expressing all the power (16 kalaas) and this is Paripurna Tama Avatara. The testing is done till the final stage. Kapila belong to the first type. Vyasa belongs to the second type. Parashurama is an example of third type. Fourth is Rama and fifth is Krishna. Only Lord Krishna declared that He is God. Similarly, Shankara declared. Even in the fourth stage, Rama was tested by sages. When the sages told that Rama is God, Rama humbly replied that He is only a human being as the son of Dasharatha (Aatmaanam Maanusham…). Thus, this is a very long journey, which requires lot of concentration in the effort and lot of patience (Nishta and Saburi as said by Shri Shirdi Sai Baba).
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