MESSAGE ON CHRISTMAS (2006)

 

Jesus asked Peter about the opinion of public on Him. Peter told that some are looking Jesus as the Messenger and some are looking Jesus as Son of God. He told that he is looking Jesus as the God Himself. Three views about the human incarnation are always available and these are Dvaita, Vishishtaadvaita and Advaita. According to these three views, Jesus gave the three statements that He is the Messenger, that He is the Son of God and that He is not different from God. This does not mean that He is changing His state from one to the other in these three positions. His three statements about Himself are given to the devotees of corresponding levels of ego and jealousy. As the ego and jealousy decrease, these three states change according to the devotee. Through out the Gita, Krishna told Arjuna that He is God and remained in the state of Advaita only. The reason for this is that Arjuna was in the lower state of Vishishtaadvaita thinking that Krishna is a partial incarnation of God Narayana. For him, the higher state of Advaita is preached. This does not mean that Krishna is always in the highest state of Advaita and Jesus is changing between these three states. The difference in the statements of Jesus and Krishna is to be understood from the point of the other side. The other side in the case of Jesus is various devotees at different levels in different times. The other side in the case of Krishna is a single devotee, Arjuna, in a particular time only. The Bible is a collection of statements of Jesus given to various devotees in various times. The Gita is a single statement given to a particular devotee only in a particular time or situation only. Therefore, Jesus and Krishna are not different from each other in the state of human incarnation.

Krishna was looked by Gopikas as God and hence, there is no necessity to preach Advaita to Gopikas, who were already in the highest state. Pandavas looked Krishna as incarnation of Narayana or as Son of God, which is lower state than that of Gopikas. Pandavas thought that justice is above the visible Krishna and only the absolute invisible God Narayana is above the justice. Hence, they could not cross the justice for the sake of Krishna. Dharma Raja refused to tell a lie even on the request from Krishna. Arjuna did not leave Gaya in spite of repeated requests from Krishna. Dhrutarashtra looked Krishna as a divine messenger only and did not grant even five villages to Pandavas in spite of repeated requests from Krishna. As the king, he had the power to grant anything. In the Gita, since there is only the reference of Arjuna, all the three views could not be given. Therefore, Hindus should not say that Krishna alone is God always and that Jesus is a changing God.

Apart from these three angles of devotees, there is a fourth angle of ordinary human beings who do not recognize the human incarnation even as a messenger. The priests of the church looked Jesus through this fourth angle in which, they thought that Jesus is a fraud person cheating the public to get fame. Due to this fourth angle, Jesus was crucified. Mohammad, the next Prophet kept Himself always in the position of Messenger only to avoid this fourth angle. But some ignorant human beings fought with Him also in the fourth angle, who did not believe Him even as the Messenger. Yohon claimed Himself as a Prophet only but His head was also cut due to this fourth angle. Buddha, kept silent about the unimaginable absolute God and therefore, there is no point of looking Buddha even as the Messenger of God. He was viewed as a learned human being since Buddhists misunderstood Buddha as an atheist. Buddha was concentrating on the removal of desire, which is the life of spiritual effort. This does not mean that He denied God. Suppose, you are going to a foreign country and you require the woolen clothes there. Suppose a friend concentrates on the point of purchase of the woolen clothes only. Does it mean that he does not believe in the existence of the foreign country? Kauravas looked Krishna in this fourth angle and tried to tie Krishna with a rope. Their mother, Gandhari also viewed Krishna in the same fourth angle and cursed Krishna with cruel death. Accordingly, Krishna was shot dead and died with profuse bleeding from the foot. There is no difference between Jesus and Krishna even in this cruel death.

The Responsibility Borne by the Human Incarnation

 

Everybody wants to become Jesus or Krishna to get the divine fame in the society in a similar way without such cruel death at the end. Such desire is hidden in the subconscious state of all the devotees even without their knowledge. Today there is freedom of expression of spiritual thought and there is the constitutional protection and hence a preacher need not fear for the crucifixion. Hence, now, the above desire is very strong. But one must remember that Jesus allowed the crucifixion from the view of a single point that is to suffer for the sins of His people (Refer to the meaning of the word Emmanuel), who are deserving and to save them from sins. In Bible it is clearly said that He came to save His people and not all the people. Now, can you suffer like Jesus for the sake of sins of your closest deserving devotees? Perhaps, now, your above desire is subsided! Powers are always associated with responsibilities. However, if any devotee wants the position of human incarnation in spite of the awareness of responsibilities, there is an open chance for every human being to become the human incarnation.

 

First you must concentrate on the correct divine knowledge, through which you must receive a clear-cut picture of the whole procedure. You must know that you are not already the God since God is not the ancestral property that is already given to you without any effort as felt by Advaitin. You must know that practical service to God alone can give any divine fruit. The correct spiritual knowledge and the theoretical devotion are only like water and fertilizer for the service-plant, which alone can yield the fruit. Through such selfless sacrifice of service in terms of sacrifice of work and fruit of work, you will be selected as a servant by God provided your service is not aspiring any fruit including the above fruit of becoming human incarnation. Now you have entered the inner circle of God and this is the first step called as Dvaita. People often misunderstand that Dvaita is the relationship between God and an ordinary human being. Such relationship is only the creator-created relationship. In Dvaita, Madhva says that the relationship between God and the soul is the relationship of Master-servant. Madhva Himself kept in the position of the servant of God. Every human being cannot claim such position of Madhva, without reaching that state by spiritual effort as explained above ( Correct Spiritual Knowledge – Theoretical Devotion – Service). If you see Hanuman, He straightly jumped from the knowledge to the service and never expressed His love on God through songs and tears as per Valmiki Ramayana. Some plants yield fruits just with supply of water without fertilizer. Therefore, sometimes knowledge and service are sufficient without the intermediate theoretical devotion. But here the soil acts as a hidden fertilizer. Similarly, the theoretical devotion of Hanuman was kept hidden in the mind only. Hence this intermediate state exists in a hidden way in such cases.

Now one of the closest servants, excels other servants in service and becomes the Son of God and sits on the right side of God as told by Jesus. Ramanuja also says that one of the most fortunate devotees sits on the lap of Lord Narayana and talks with Him and this is exactly coinciding with the above point of Bible. This is the second state of Vishishtaadvaita. Now such Son of God comes down to the earth with a gross body (as usual like any other human being) and God enters him and pervades all over the soul and body. Now, this Son of God is the human incarnation and is treated as God by the devotees for hearing the knowledge and serving the God. This Son of God gets the credit of all the wonderful works done by God, who is hidden in him. This is the third final state of Advaita. God entered the devotee, stays for his lifetime and exits at the end. The entry of God is mentioned in the Veda (Tadevanupravishat…). The exit of God is mentioned in the Bible, when Jesus cried stating ‘Oh! God! Why did You leave me?’

Jesus told these three statements to different devotees in different times, but one should understand that Jesus remained in all the three states simultaneously because these states are only the simultaneous angles. In the third (Advaita) state, the other two lower states co-exist. This means that the lower state is always in the higher state but not reverse. In the human incarnation, which is the state of Advaita, Vishishtaadvaita also exists because the Son of God treated as God is the Son of God by himself simultaneously even in that state of Advaita. The live wire is a wire always. Similarly in the state of Vishishtaadvaita, Dvaita exists because the Son of God was selected from the closest servants and therefore, the Son of God is also a servant by himself even in the state of Vishishtaadvaita. Hence, the human incarnation can mention itself to be in the two lower states also simultaneously, which is also the truth. The human incarnation always says the truth only. The reverse of these three states is not true. Every servant is not the Son of God and hence, Vishishtaadvaita cannot exist in Dvaita. The Son of God is God only in the time of human incarnation and he is not God always. Therefore, Advaita cannot exist in Vishishtaadvaita. Adishesha was one of the closest servants of God. When he was born as Lakshmana, he became the Son of God by his exceptional service. Then in the next birth, Lakshmana became the human incarnation called as Balarama, who is placed in the ten incarnations of God. In this incarnation, God pervaded all over Balarama. Even the God Krishna served this incarnation as younger brother to prove that He will become the servant of His servants. Even Jesus served His devotees by washing and kissing their feet.

 

Jesus neglected His mother through out His life. When a devotee stated that His mother is really blessed soul, He denied it and told that the servants of God are really blessed. Once, He refused to see His mother, who was waiting for Him since He was busy with His devotees. Jesus was stating that one should cut all the family bonds including life to become His dearest disciple. Shankara, who left His mother for the sake of God; Buddha, who left His wife and son for the sake of God; Ramanuja, who left His wife even for the sake of devotees; Radha and Meera, who left their husbands for the sake of God; Gopikas, who jumped into the fire for the sake of Krishna; Prahlada, who underwent torture and Hanuman, who tore His chest for Rama can be understood as the direct or indirect human incarnations of God to demonstrate this point practically. The negligence of Jesus towards His mother, had another point also. He was reducing her bond to son to divert it to God. Apart from this, He was also preparing her to withstand the last scene of His crucifixion. In fact, in the world God created disease for this purpose only. Whenever your close related soul like wife, child etc. falls ill, you are expected to decrease your love on them slowly by such repeating illness. The illness is a temporary warning about the inevitable death on some day or the other to show that your relationship with that particular soul is not permanent and can be cut at anytime. But in such situation, one is becoming more and more anxious about the soul and takes more and more care thereby increasing the love more and more on that bond. When that soul departs suddenly or at the end of the life, this accumulated love will blast you suddenly due to increased power in the bond. But if one decreases the intensity of love by such situations, he or she will be able to withstand the shock quite efficiently. Like this Jesus was preparing His mother for the last scene, which is common to any mother, who has the probability of an accidental death of her child.

 

Devotees, who detect the hidden God in human incarnation, are really blessed because they are going to be infinitely benefited by their service to the Lord in human form in His divine mission. But they should not aspire for any fruit for their service. If they aspire for the fruit, it shall be given by God based on the quality and quantity of the service here itself. In such case, God has no obligation for the devotee in his cycle of deeds. The reward here is unnecessary because any fruit in this world is not eternal and there is alternative way of self-effort to achieve the fruit here. Moreover, when you ask God for the fruit, it is accounted and paid according to the standards and extent of your service. But if you do not aspire for the fruit, God will use His grace to save you in the upper world where there is no alternative. Moreover, in such case, there is no account and the grace of God becomes infinite to be used for any requirement to any extent. Hence, the devotee who serves the Lord without aspiring anything in return is very fortunate. Jesus tells that a person purchased a land by selling all his property and he found lot of treasure in the land while cultivating it. He is the devotee who sacrificed his entire worldly work and wealth for God. A person who refused to purchase the land beyond certain rate lost the treasure because he mistook the human incarnation as an ordinary human being. A blind beggar recognized Jesus as God whereas the priests who are not blind could not recognize Jesus. Jesus tells that blind see and those who are not blind are not seeing. Jesus compares the fortunate devotees who recognize Him to the seeds thrown in the field because such seeds (devotees) are covered by soil (God) and are protected. The seeds, which have fallen outside the field, are eaten away by the crows. This means that the people, who did not recognize the Lord and went away, are punished by the messengers of the hell.

You may say that you are serving the Lord in human form without any aspiration of fruit in return. You have reached this state after hearing the story of Hanuman, who served the Lord without aspiring any fruit in return and due to such selfless service, Hanuman became God. Now, your selfless service is based on this story of Hanuman so that you can also become God like Hanuman. Have you learnt only selfless service from Hanuman or have you learnt the selfless service in view of its fruit? If you analyze your sub-consciousness, you will know the truth. The sub-consciousness stores certain secrets, which are not known even to you. But, on deep analysis, you can find those hidden secrets also. In nutshell, the main point is that whether you have simply taken the word ‘selfless service to Lord’ from the story of Hanuman by cut and paste method into your sub-consciousness or copied the whole story into your sub-consciousness? If the case is former, your service will yield the fruit. If it is latter, the fruit is lost. In order to avoid this danger, Buddha adopted only selfless service without any reference to God. When God is not in the picture, there is no point of fruit of becoming God. Then you are adopting only selfless service without any fruit and in such case, the fruit is sure. Buddha asked people simply to cut the desire and kept silent about God so that the fruit of becoming God will never arise. Without understanding this great aim of Buddha, people have misunderstood Him as an atheist and the joke here is that He is one of the incarnations of God Narayana. This means that He denied Himself! Buddhists have taken the silence on God as the indication for absence of God. Silence means that God is unimaginable and this is the absolute truth of the absolute God. Even Shankara said that God could be explained only through silence. People have rubbed the title of atheist even on Shankara (Prachchanna Bauddha).

 

When God enters the soul and body of His most beloved devotee (son of God), such devotee is called as the human incarnation. In the human incarnation, we find both God and Son of God mixed with each other in a perfect homogeneous state so that both are inseparable like the wire and the current in the live wire. The wire is the Son of God and current is God. The live wire is the human incarnation. The live wire must be treated as the current and there is no alternative way to experience the existence of current. In this context, the misunderstanding arises. The live wire says that it is moving the fan. In fact, the current is speaking this through the wire. People misunderstand that the bloody wire is boasting about itself as itself moving the fan. The live wire looks like any other wire as far as the properties of the wire (metallic nature, leanness, etc.,) are concerned. This makes other wires to think that the live wire is also an ordinary wire without current, which is boasting about itself. This confusion lead to the crucifixion of Jesus by the public. When Jesus claimed that He is the truth, the light and the Father of the heaven, this claim was not from the Son of God, but it was from God Himself. But, the observers have misunderstood this statement as that of Jesus. When the speaker is invisible, the mike looks as if it is speaking by itself. Here, at any time the speaker is not converted into mike or the current is not converted into wire. The two units exist separately even during the time of the human incarnation in which, both are homogeneously mixed to form a single phase. If this point is realized, Jesus might have escaped the crucifixion. It is this point, which is stressed by Mohammed. He said that God would never become human being or the vice-versa. This does not mean that the Son of God should not be treated as God in the human incarnation by the devotees. If you deny this assumption of treating the Son of God as God, the devotees become dissatisfied because they prayed God for the experience of God and service to God. Then the very purpose of the human incarnation is lost. Mohammed clarified this concept to avoid the danger. But, His followers misunderstood that He denied the very concept of human incarnation.

Thus Buddha and Mohammed should be taken as the preachers who warned about the reality of the concept to avoid the danger of loosing the highest fruit and punishing the human incarnation respectively. The followers have extrapolated the preaching and as a result, Buddhists thought that God does not exist and Muslims thought that the human incarnation does not exist. The concept of human incarnation is introduced and explained well by Krishna in the Gita and Jesus in the Bible. Krishna says that God enters the human being and Jesus says that God is in flesh. This clearly means that God is neither the human being nor the flesh at any time. Buddha and Mohammed clarified the misunderstandings of the human beings about this concept. Buddha indicated God as unimaginable through silence and Mohammed indicated God as invisible. The desire to become God comes generally, when God is seen by eyes in human form. Generally, the concept of human incarnation is avoided only to avoid the birth of this desire to become God. When God is invisible, generally the human tendency is to get some benefit from the invisible God and not to become God. But, Alas! The Advaitin has not left even the invisible God! He wants to become even that invisible God! Why becoming God? He claims that he is already God. For this, he proposed that God is the invisible awareness (soul), which exists in his body mixed with qualities, which is called as the individual soul (jeeva). He proposed that simple filtration of qualities from the soul will yield the absolute God because according to him God is pure awareness without qualities. The Advaitin gave his own false concept of God and also his own false way to become God.

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