04 Nov 2010
Recognition of contemporary human incarnation is the most crucial point since we can worship God directly through contemporary human incarnation only. The recognition is to be done by examining various messages of divine knowledge rendered by the spiritual preachers and you have to recognize the contemporary human incarnation through the true and excellent spiritual knowledge only. If you want to give gold medal to the top most meritorious student in the class, you have to examine the answer scripts written by all the students of the class and depending on the highest marks, you have to select the gold medalist. Similarly, you have to examine the messages of all the preachers and then recognize the incarnation through the merit of the message. You should not fix some student as the gold medalist in the beginning itself and then allot highest marks to his answer script. Today, people do exactly the same mistake. They enquire and examine the preacher through various other aspects and decide some preacher as the incarnation and then treat his knowledge as the true knowledge.
The Veda says that true (Satyam Jnanam…) and excellent (Prajnanam…) spiritual knowledge alone is the real identification of God. Therefore, you have to examine the knowledge first and not the preacher. While you examine the answer scripts of the students, you are unaware of any student. You give highest marks simply based on the merit of the answer without knowing the student of that script. You are not aware of the personal merits and personal defects of the student while giving the highest marks to a particular script. You do not judge the student by his character and conduct. The knowledge of the student alone is relevant basis for giving the gold medal. Similarly, the true and excellent spiritual knowledge alone is the deciding factor because you are going to get the right direction in your spiritual journey through the true knowledge only.
The examination of the Gita gives the identification of God. You are concerned only about the Gita since it gives the right direction for your spiritual uplift. Based on this only, you should conclude that the Author of the Gita must be God. You are not concerned about the merits and defects of the Author of the Gita, which are not relevant to your spiritual progress. He might have stolen butter or might have danced with girls since those factors do not help you in any way in your spiritual journey. The advice given by Him to you alone is relevant to you. There may be many unknown reasons for His behavior about which, your capacity is not sufficient to analyze. Such analysis is unnecessary for your spiritual journey. What you require is only the correct advice about the correct spiritual path. Therefore, you have to recognize God through such correct advice, which is called as true spiritual knowledge. After recognition, you should not analyze the other aspects of God. After giving highest marks to the answer script, you should give the gold medal to the writer. You should not stop the gold medal since the student is a smoker. You have read the Bible and concluded that the Speaker of the Bible should be God. The Author of the Bible might have taken the wine of grapes or might have taken the non-vegetarian dish. You may search for the reasons of such specific behavior of the incarnation. But, your faith on Him as God should not be disturbed if you have not got the answer in your analysis. You may find out the reason for the smoking of the gold medalist. But, you should not keep the gold medal in suspension till you find out the reason. Whether you find out the reason or not, the gold medalist is a gold medalist.
Therefore, it is the climax of the foolishness of ignorance to decide some person as God first and then believe his knowledge as the true knowledge. You have to impartially examine the knowledge of various preachers and the best selected knowledge must lead you to its author as God. Such God may belong to your caste or not, may belong to your religion or not, may belong to your nation or not since God is always universal and His preaching is also universal since He is the creator of the entire humanity. The Gita also says that the Preacher of the true knowledge is God (Jnanitvaatmaiva…). This means that the merit of the knowledge alone should be the deciding factor in recognizing God.
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