07 Aug 2022
[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]
Swami Replied: Hanuman reached Brahma Loka and is given the boon that He will become the future Brahma (this means that God Brahma will merge with Him in the future since God Brahma or God Datta is the Eternal first energetic incarnation). Hanuman got monistic salvation because He is to become one with God. This is the highest fruit and Hanuman got this highest fruit by doing practical service to Rama, who was His contemporary Human Incarnation. Similarly, Gopikas worshipped their contemporary Human incarnation called Krishna and achieved Goloka, which is Higher than Brahma Loka or Vaikuntha or Shiva Loka, which is the abode of God. God became the servant of Gopikas and this is the dualistic salvation in which the devotee becomes greater than God. When we read the Holy epics of Hinduism like Ramayanam, Mahabhaaratam and Bhaagavatam, we are made to focus on Rama or Krishna, who are the Human Incarnations alone. Even when we read the Gita, we feel that Gita is the Holy scripture of topmost authority because it is spoken by Krishna, who is the Human Incarnation only. The first point that we must know while starting the study of Gita is that Krishna is God in Human form. Krishna Himself says that He is the Lord (Maheshwara), who has taken the human medium as His form (Mānuṣīṃ Tanumāśritam…Maheśvaram).
There are already Holy scriptures like the Vedas spoken by God Brahma, the energetic Incarnation of God Datta. But the meaning of the Veda is very deep and people are often confused. The human preachers are confused and hence they confuse their disciples. Hence God wants to come to earth in Human form to preach the true spiritual knowledge whenever such confusions prevail. Only the Divine preacher called Sadguru, who is the Human Incarnation of God, has no confusion and is very clear about the meanings of the Veda. Such a Divine preacher with full clarity can alone clarify all doubts. Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhwa etc. were such Sadgurus or Divine Preachers. There is no fundamental difference between the philosophies of these three Divine preachers. These three philosophies appear to be different due to the different levels of the receivers of knowledge in their respective times. When Shankara came, all (Purvamimamsakas and Buddhists) were atheists denying the existence of God. Shankara had no other alternative than to say that they were God by themselves. He turned them into theists through a three-step formula. i) The soul is God, ii) The soul exists, iii) Hence God exists. The atheists-turned theists asked Shankara that if they were God, why the miraculous powers of God was not seen in them. Shankara replied to them saying that even though they had realised theoretically that they were God, the Godliness did not come to them practically because of their impure minds and to purify the mind, God was to be worshipped. He turned, not only atheists into theists, but also turned theists into devotees of God! Then Ramanuja came and found these devotees with decreased ego and advised them to continue as devotees by increasing devotion. He told them that the soul is never God, but is an inseparable part of God. These devotees continued to be devotees developing their devotion more and more, at least to become an inseparable part of God. Their ego came to minimum level and then Madhva appeared telling them that they were not inseparable parts of God, but servants, separate from God. In this way, Madhva developed the third step of practical devotion or Karma Yoga showing the example of Hanuman. Knowledge, Theoretical Devotion and Practical Devotion are the three correct steps in sequence for the soul to attain (Yoga) God.
Apart from preaching true spiritual knowledge, devotees prayed to God to come down to earth so that they can serve Him directly. This is another angle of the purpose of the Human Incarnation. But, the ego based jealousy towards a co-human form makes the devotees to be confused in treating the human incarnation as an ordinary human being. God (Parabrahman or Unimaginable God) comes as Human Incarnation without disturbing the natural properties of the human medium so that He can mix freely with humanity without causing any excitation. These unaffected properties of the human medium like birth, death, disease etc., confuse the devotees and make them feel that the human incarnation is an ordinary human being. The Unimaginable God merges with a selected human devotee to become Human Incarnation, existing in the human being in invisible state. The unchanged properties of the human medium facilitate God to freely mix with human beings and this is merit on one side. On the other side, the same concept becomes a defect by which human beings misunderstand the human incarnation as an ordinary human being. Due to this misunderstanding sometimes, human devotees even insult the human incarnation going to the extremity of even crucifixion (Avajānanti Māṃ mūḍhāḥ – Gita).
The spiritual line of a soul consists of two parts: i) to know the true spiritual knowledge so that right direction is obtained to reach the right goal, ii) to implement the knowledge in the practical efforts so that the right goal is reached (Sādhanā). If Human Incarnation, which is the God in human form is available here itself, half of the total time is saved because to visualise an energetic incarnation for knowledge, sometimes, penance for the whole life is not sufficient. If that is the case, where is the time for the second part or Sādhanā? In order to help the spiritual aspirants on this earth, God appears as Human Incarnation in the form of Sadguru to give true spiritual knowledge for the right direction. This is the most important significance of the Human Incarnation. In order to recognize the Human Incarnation of God, first, the ego based jealousy towards a co-human form must be conquered without which even the first step becomes impossible. As initial training, scholars advise us to treat every human being as God and serve humanity so that the human incarnation can be easily identified in the absence of ego-based jealousy towards co-human forms. The ultimate aim of this training must be kept in mind. Otherwise, some devotees are immersed in the service of humanity and continue to be the social workers forgetting the final aim of God. Such social workers are awarded temporary heaven (because the served souls are temporary) to return back to the earth after sometime (Kṣīṇe puṇye martya lokaṃ viśanti – Gita).
One point is sufficient to stress the significance of contemporary Human Incarnation and such point is that Hanuman and Gopikas attained the Highest Divine fruit by serving their contemporary Human Incarnations only. If anybody feels something is greater other than the contemporary Human Incarnation, he must be greater than Hanuman and Gopikas and we must leave him by doing salutations to his feet! The chance of contemporary Human Incarnation is also available for every soul born on this earth. Otherwise, God becomes partial for only giving chance to a few generations only. If you say that the generations blessed by God in human form contained good people only, it is not correct because how many bad people were not there in the time of Rama, Krishna, Jesus etc? God comes in Human form in every generation to preach the true spiritual knowledge because by the end of every generation, some ignorant preachers introduce confusions for the next generation. The only problem is the difficulty to recognise the contemporary Human Incarnation that is present before our naked eyes, due to ego based jealousy towards co-human forms appearing to our eyes. People believe in the past human incarnations and worship them in the form of photos and statues because their economics is not affected by the photos and statues! The only hurdle is ego based jealousy in this concept and it is sufficient if that alone is conquered. If you don’t recognise your contemporary Human Incarnation here due to repulsion between common human media, you will not recognise the energetic incarnations of God in the upper worlds also. The reason is that when you leave this gross body after death, you will enter an energetic body to go the upper worlds and when you find the energetic incarnation in energetic body there, the same repulsion between common energetic media comes into effect so that you will not recognise God in energetic form there also. If you lose God here, you are losing God there also and hence you are losing God everywhere and always as said in the Veda (Iha cet…Mahatī vinaṣṭiḥ).
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