15 Sep 2006
Today even a mosquito is killing the man by giving dangerous fever. The man used to say, “I will quash you like a mosquito.” This means that mosquito is the most negligible creature. But today the mosquito has become an instrument of Yama to kill the people! What is the reason for this? The situation is reversed. The souls must realize now about their own real strength. It has become zero. If the zero has a number behind it, it gets value of ten, hundred, thousand etc. But when the number becomes absent, any number of zeros is zero only. The soul becomes hero when it is backed by God. Arjuna realized this after the exit of Krishna. He could not save Gopikas from hunters in a forest and then he realized that he has become zero, since Krishna who is like the back number disappeared. He was thinking that he was a hero when he killed all the Kauravas in the battlefield. Then he was backed by the Lord. The real worship of God disappeared.
What do you mean by the real worship? Worship means service and sacrifice of every body and every thing for the sake of the Lord so that the Lord is pleased by such real love to Him. Worship means practical expression of the divine love or devotion towards God. The main essence of such divine love is the sole aim to please the Lord and not to please himself or any other related soul. This means that the essence of worship is sacrifice for the sake of God and not sacrifice to please yourself or any other related soul. Such divine sacrifice is like the light. When the light disappears, the darkness enters. The darkness is the selfishness which is extended towards ones own family or relatives or caste or nationality or religion etc. These are the grades in the darkness only because all this is related to souls only and not to God. The darkness is getting diluted as you proceed from yourself to the society. The weakest darkness is still not light. But since concentration of darkness is decreasing by such dilution, it is appreciable. But you should not forget that you are still within the boundaries of darkness only. Thus, the power in your social service cannot save the society. A spoon of sugar cannot change the taste of the ocean. Only the Lord can change this ocean of salt-water in to the ocean of nectar.
The Concept of God Alone Controls Sins
Today the sins are within the limits of certain control. What is the reason for this? Do you think that these courts and police system are controlling sins? People always have discovered loop holes in every system. The only control of the sins is the concept of God that was established since several generations by the valuable ancient tradition. People are controlled to some extent only due to fear of God and the hell created by God. People know that God knows everything and does not require any witness. Therefore, there is no argument of any case in the hell. There is no need of any advocate in the hell. The sin is shown to you through the divine television which is protected as picture. This is the meaning of word Chitra Gupta. Such divine concepts are only controlling the sins. Do not think that such concepts are really unreal but they are useful to control the sins and so should be retained. I assuredly tell you that such concepts are really real. Your ignorance of the truth cannot make it unreal. If you are unaware of the snake in the darkness, it does not mean that the snake is unreal. You will know the reality of snake, when it bites you. Therefore, the propagation of divine knowledge and devotion can alone change the society. When all the human beings become the real devotees of the Lord doing the real worship, God is pleased with such divine society. His grace will fall on such society. There will be no problem for any soul. One has to search for the trace of some problem in such society. The only problem in such society will be the absence of any problem! This is the permanent solution. This was the dream of Jesus which is the meaning of His word “Kingdom of God.” Leaving this, if you put any amount of effort, it will be only thronging spoons of sugar in to the ocean to turn it sweet.
Two Main Defects in Hinduism
The main defects in the Hinduism are the concepts of human rebirth and performing the rituals without the true spirit. These two defects must be rectified so that Hinduism will shine like the summer Sun without any black cloud covering it. Due to the concept of re-human birth, Hindus are not caring for the emergency of spiritual effort in this very human birth. They think that they can postpone the spiritual path to the old age and then in the old age they think that they can postpone to the next human re-birth. The student postpones studies to the March. In March he postpones the studies to next September, because there will be another examination in September. Again March and again September! Similarly, again old age and again human re-birth! But, the Christians and Muslims give lot of importance to spiritual line because for them there is only one human life, which is the present one. Therefore, they are giving lot of importance to the studies even before the March or at least in the March. Since, there is only one God and His system cannot differ from one religion to other religion, there must be universality in this concept. Based on this truth, the Hindu must think about the interpretation of human re-birth. In Hinduism it is told that the human birth itself is very rare (Narajanma Durlabhamidam...). Then what about the human re-birth? It is very very very rare.
Therefore, Hinduism is more serious in this aspect. Hence, Hindus should be more sincere than others. But why this is reverse? It is due to lack of the right interpretation of the scripture. God can sanction the human re-birth to a soul in a deserving case. The other religions also should not object to the omnipotency of God in such special sanction. If you say that God is also bound by a rule, then God is not the real ruler. The rule becomes the real ruler. Hence, exceptional sanction has to be accepted by other religions also. God sanctions the re-human birth if you are sincere in the spiritual effort through out your life and if you are unable to complete the journey in spiritual path in one human life. The September examination is only for a sincere student who failed in March due to some inevitable problems. The September examination is not meant for a student who failed in March due to inevitable attractions like cinemas etc. The inevitable problem cannot be equalized with the inevitable attraction. Therefore, you should analyze that whether the hurdle in your spiritual journey is inevitable problem or inevitable attraction. If it is inevitable problem, God will certainly help you and solve it even without your request. But if it is inevitable attraction God will leave you to dogs. The Hindu should not take the risk of such rare sanction from God. The President has the power to excuse the killer in a very rare case. Based on this you should not start killing everybody because the President has the power to excuse a killer! Even if there is a chance of other re-human births, they are only degraded births which are equal to animals with a very rare possibility of spiritual upliftment. The other six re-human births are the descending steps, which were revealed by Shri Nrusimha Saraswati in the Guru Charithra. At the end you will certainly enter into the endless cycle of animals.
Absence of the Real Spirit in Rituals
The second main defect in Hinduism is about the absence of real spirit in the rituals. The Hindu should perform the ritual and I am not asking you to leave the ritual. It should be performed with right spirit in right manner to achieve the right fruit. You must understand that the ritual is not a luxurious function to express your blind love on your relatives and friends. It is not a business of exchange of gifts. Today the Hindu rituals have become such functions of exactly opposite point. The very essence of the ritual is the worship of the Lord. In the worship the essence is devotion. Devotion requires feelings. Feelings require the understanding of words. In the Vedic hymns uttered, the meaning does not come out. By this the root itself is cut. Therefore, such ritual has lost its life from top to bottom. Therefore, the ritual has taken another wrong dimension. The wrong dimension is that the ritual has become a function of mutual business only. Even the theoretical worship of God by words and mind has disappeared. There is no Satsanga in the ritual so that at least the intellectual worship (which is also theoretical) can exist. The total theoretical devotion is lost. The practical devotion is the sacrifice of food and gifts to the deserving devotees. But you are inviting all your relatives and friends only based on your blind love towards them. The only criterion is your blood relationship or friendship. When you analyze them, sometimes they happen to be the greatest sinners and thus they may be demons or ghosts. You do practical sacrifice to such demons and ghosts by feeding them and giving gifts to them. The main reason for such sinful sacrifice is only business. Since you have given a gift in their function to them, you are inviting them expecting a gift with accumulated interest! Therefore, invite the devotees and spend the day in the real worship of the Lord by singing devotional songs in your mother tongue.
No need of these bloody priests who do not serve the trace of any purpose. They are just like tape recorders who have recited the Vedas but not understood anything in the Vedas. They call themselves as the Vedic Pandits! Pandit means the scholar. The root word Panda is in fact limited to the spiritual knowledge. The Hindu system should be modified in this direction. You should discourage the blind recitation of the Vedas and encourage the scholarship in the Vedas. In any ritual, you should spend sometime in the Satsanga, which is the intellectual worship of God. Then you feed the devotees and give gifts to them. Then get blessings to your newborn child from them so that your child will flourish in all aspects by the grace of God. Such function becomes meaningful and fruitful because your money is properly utilized in proper direction. Otherwise every thing becomes waste and sometimes if the demons and ghosts are present in your relatives, the sin is showered on your child for feeding them. The child will suffer in several ways. Of course if you are determined to call the ghosts and demons only, it is better to call the ghosts and demons from your kith and kin than from outsiders, because the family is always more important than the society. There is only one possibility to justify such blind function. The scripture says that the enemy in your previous birth is born as your child to collect the wealth you have stolen from him or her. Now you are calling the ghosts and demons and making the child cursed in order to pacify your old enmity!
Society Should Celebrate Your Child’s Birthday
The birthday celebration of your child should be later on and should be done by others and not by the parents and relatives. When this child grows and does some permanent benefit to the society, its birthday is celebrated by the society. Shri Rama Navami, Shri Krishna Ashtami, Shankara Jayanthi, Buddha Purnima etc. are performed by the society. You should not celebrate your own birthday, which will be like self-praise. Similarly you should not celebrate the birthday of your child which is like praising your own child. I do not understand why the parents celebrate the birthday of their child. What is the greatness of the child that is expressed in the childhood itself? Or, is it for the great act of producing a child? Even animals and birds are producing children. The parents should get the real happiness of the celebration of the birthday of their child by the society in future. If this angle does not exist, you can celebrate the birthday of the child in the angle of real worship to God and getting blessings from the real devotees. One of these two angles should be present in the birthday celebrations.
If these two defects are rectified, Hinduism will shine in the top most place in the world. Do not misunderstand Me immediately because I am born in the Hinduism. If a country is giving the noble prize to the greatest scholar in the world and in one year if that greatest scholar happens to be the citizen of that country, should you reject the prize to him? Similarly, if I am in Hindu religion, should I not speak the merit of Hinduism also? I belong to every religion. I am Universal. I am taking birth in every religion and in every country. This time it happened that I have taken birth in India in Hinduism. This does not mean that I am fanatic of India or Hinduism.
Merit in Hinduism
The merit in Hinduism is the acceptance of any number of human incarnations according the requirement. The Christianity believes only in one human incarnation. The Islam does not believe any human incarnation. Buddhism keeps silent even about the very basic existence of God. Thus, in this aspect, the other religions should learn from Hinduism. At the same time Hinduism should learn from other religions about the impossibility of re-human birth and the performance of rituals in right direction. Our Universal Spirituality consists of all the merits of the all the religion and rejects all the defects of all the religions.
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