31 Dec 2015
[Remaining Questions of the Message on December 27, 2015] Dr. Nikhil asked:
3) How can the black nature (ignorance) be helpful in the spiritual path?
Shri Swami Replied: The black nature (Tamas) is very important in the spiritual field like the black hole in the process of creation. The importance of this quality comes in the final stage of spiritual effort. This creation including the three qualities is created by God only, which cannot have obviously negative sense that leads to rejection. Entire creation coming from God has always positive sense that is useful in the spiritual effort. The negative sense to the qualities comes only due to the wrong direction created by souls. The rejection is regarding the wrong direction only and not regarding the quality created by God in the right direction. These qualities are applicable not only to Nivrutti but also equally to Pravrutti.
These three qualities are divine being the creations of God. Brahma represents the Rajas. Vishnu represents the Sattvam and Shiva represents the Tamas. These three stand for beginning, middle and end areas of any process including the creation of this world.
The first quality is Rajas, which represents the starting stage. Rajas in right direction is the knowledge of the real status of the soul. It is the individuality of the soul. The same in wrong direction is ego. The knowledge of the soul is very essential and is the fundamental step in spiritual path. The soul should recognize itself that it is a part of the creation only and not the creator. The soul is a drop of awareness. Awareness is the specific work form of inert energy functioning in a specific system called nervous system. Thus, awareness is not even the direct part of creation since it is the creation of an assembly of created items like inert energy and nervous system. It has birth when the awaken state appears and death in deep sleep. It takes birth daily and dies daily (Nityajatam... Gita). Of course, it is eternal with respect to the perishing body and such eternality is not absolute but only relative (Hanyamane sharire… Gita). By such knowledge, the soul should recognize that it is only the creation of creation and never can be the creator. Based on this reason, the spiritual effort is necessary for the soul. If the soul is God, there is no necessity of spiritual effort. Any soul can become God by getting the chance of becoming human incarnation by the will of God only. The spiritual effort brings the deservingness of the soul and the main deserving quality is not to aspire to become God. Therefore, the basic step is to recognize itself as a part of the creation and not the creator. Such knowledge of recognition of the individuality of the soul is Rajas.
The second subsequent step after recognizing itself as a part of the creation and not the creator is deep analysis of the soul, the spiritual path and final spiritual goal. This analytical knowledge following the recognition of actual status of soul represents the middle quality called as Sattvam, which is the source of analytical knowledge. This stage is very important because this middle spiritual analysis results in the final correct conclusion. Lot of patience is required, which is also the aspect of Sattvam represented by Vishnu.
Tamas in Wrong Direction is Dangerous
The third final step is the firm determination and fixation in the final right conclusion arrived at the end of the second step. This is done by Tamas representing Shiva. The ignorance of Tamas is required in this stage, which is not to hear any more, entering in to the stage of total ignorance of any other point through rigidity to the fixed right conclusion. This stage is Samadhi, which is the firmness about the arrived right conclusion after deep analysis performed by the intelligence for a long time in all the directions. This is not the total unconscious state attained by use of drugs, in which there is no awareness of any conclusion. Gopikas refused the Advaita philosophy preached by Uddhava by saying bluntly that it cannot enter their minds. This does not mean that they did not hear what Uddhava said. They already discussed this Advaita in several previous births as sages and the right conclusion was already drawn about it. In fact, Uddhava preached pseudo-Advaita, which says that every soul is God. The real Advaita is to recognize the contemporary human incarnation, Krishna, as God. Uddhava came from Krishna without recognizing Krishna as God. Gopikas taught him the real Advaita saying that Krishna alone is God. In between the real Advaita and pseudo-advaita, there is an intermediate state of assumed Advaita pertaining to Yogi (a person enjoying both happy and unhappy scenes of this world with continuous bliss like God). In this assumed Advaita, the soul is not God in the real sense, but, he is like God in the confined concept of continuous enjoyment of the creation. What Uddhava said was not real Advaita and was not even assumed Advaita. It was only pseudo-Advaita and deserves total rejection. Uddhava realized that Gopikas worshipping Krishna as God are the real scholars of real Advaita and changed from pseudo-Advaita to real Advaita. He recognized that Krishna alone was God and returned to Krishna. Krishna sent him to Gopikas for this change only.
Therefore, Tamas or the black nature is the required final quality at the end of the spiritual path to get the divine fruit. Even in Pravrutti you require Tamas once you arrive at the right conclusion after long and sharp analysis. This final stage or the full stop is given by Tamas only. Otherwise, even in Pravrutti, you constantly change throughout your lifetime without any final conclusion. The same Tamas in wrong direction is most dangerous, which is the rigidity regarding your own wrong decision arrived without analysis. Ravana and Duryodhana never analysed the truth and did not listen even other well-wishers in Pravrutti. All the devotees in the spiritual path fixing themselves in wrong decisions without the initial stage of analysis of spiritual knowledge are the wrong examples in Nivrutti. I quote a devotee, who said “Let God be partial” fixing himself to the conservatism of his selected form of God only and rejecting all the other forms of God without understanding the concept of Universality that alone brings impartiality of God. This is the Tamas in negative direction. The knife used in the positive direction will cut the vegetables and the same knife used in wrong direction cuts your finger. The direction is important and not the item used in the direction.
Logic Means Justice
4) Our intelligence and analysis are very much limited. The scripture given by God is beyond the limits of our petty analytical brains. Is it possible for us to refuse the divine scripture through analysis at any time?
Shri Swami replied: First of all, you must recognise the fact that we do not reject the scripture of God by our analysis and that we reject only the parts of the scripture inserted by certain intellectual crooked scholars with highly selfish motives and plans to exploit the innocent public in the name of the sacred scripture given by God. The argument given by you is exactly used by them to succeed in their dirty plan. Moreover, we must also note one important point in this context, which is, that the unimaginable domain is restricted to the concept of the substance and form of God so that we say that God is unimaginable, being beyond the spatial dimensions. Of course, the power through which omnipotent God can do anything is also unimaginable and cannot be isolated from God. By this, the way in which the unimaginable God does an unimaginable action is said to be unimaginable. But, the result of the way, which is the action to be preached to humanity, is imaginable. This does not mean that God does all things which are both logical and illogical since the omnipotent God can do everything. There is no need of the exposure of His omnipotence to get a certificate from the humanity. Everything can be done due to omnipotence and this does not mean that everything is done whether it is logical or not. The conclusion is that God can do anything, but does only logically admitted things and does not do things not admitted by logic. Logic means justice because the basis of justice is logic only. This is the reason for the stage of arguments done in hearing before the judgement is given by the judge, the embodiment of justice. The exploiters take this opportunity to misuse it in framing their own judgements that allow the exploitation of the innocent public and such cheaters pass on their false judgements in the name of the judge (God). Such false judgements given in print with the forged signature of the judge are claimed to be beyond the criticism since the ultimate judge has signed it. Even the actual judgements given by judges are criticised by the analytical lawyers to appeal to the higher courts. Of course, the scripture said by God cannot be criticised because it is the judgement given by the full bench of Supreme Court without further appeal. But, even in this level, the forging of signatures of judges of full bench is possible in creating false judgements to appear as genuine and undisputable final judgements. Rejection of such a forged judgement given by the office of the Supreme Court (false exploiters in divine dress) also should be challenged through sharp analysis. The aim of the analytical challenge is not to dispute the final genuine judgement of the Supreme Court, but, to challenge and prove it to be a false judgement attested by forged signatures of judges. The sharp analysis proves that such worst judgement can never come from the full bench of Supreme Court and hence it is forged. You cannot blame such analysis as the futile dispute against the genuine judgement of the Supreme Court. We are only telling that such illogical judgement cannot come from Supreme Court and hence it is a false and forged judgement. We do not remove the skin of the body by using the best soap in the bath and we only remove the accumulated dirt on the skin. A very fair man looks black by such black dirt and hence we say since the person is not originally black, a thorough soap-wash-bath should be done to expose the original gold coloured person. The attack is not on God and the original divine scripture, but it is only on the accumulated dirty insertions done by mischievous intellectuals. We only say that God will not say so since it is illogical and hence unjust. We do not say that God said this illogical and unjust concept and therefore we should follow it due to the limits of our petty brains. If we say so, we are doing exploitation or allowing exploitation by others.
Analysis clears several subtle doubts in any concept of Pravrutti or Nivrutti. Everything is subjected to logical analysis except the substance with which God is made-up, the form in which God exists and the power through which God does even an unimaginable action. For example, you expressed that the cycle of deeds implementing fruits in strict manner is contradicted by the knowledge of astrology in this world. This doubt comes to any intellectual brain since the subtle basic point slips here. That is, the cycle of deeds rigidly implementing the fruits is applicable to the upper worlds only (heaven and hell) called as Bhoga lokas in which there is no trace of freedom to the soul. In this world called as karma loka, full freedom exits for the soul and here there is no implementation of cycle of deeds and fruits at all. In this world, the soul is under the careful diagnosis and treatment of God in which God may use a specific fruit from the list of the cycle, if felt necessary. In such special case also, the fruit cannot be contradicted by the knowledge of astrology due to several divine forces working between cup and lip. In general, to large extent, the contradiction between the cycle and astrology can never take place here since this world is not the place of the implementation of cycle that restricts the freedom of the soul. You see, now, how the sharp analysis exposing the slipped point clarified even the most powerful doubt.
In the Brahma sutras, the opponent says that logic should be refused because of its endless nature, for which the reply is that since this very reason itself is logic, it should be also rejected! (Tarkaapratishthaa naat...). Shankara says that the necessary logic to reveal the truth of the original divine scripture must be always used (shrutimatah tarkonusandhiyataam). He also said that the logical analysis to discriminate the truth (the original scripture of God) from falsehood (the exploiting insertions done by selfish scholars in the scriptures) is the only required authoritative quality (selected from the four authorities i.e., shruti (spoken by God), smruti (spoken by scholars), yukti (logical analysis) and anubhava (experience)), which is one of the four pre-requisites (sadasat vivekah).
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