26 Oct 2011
[Deepaavali Evening Message] The Advaita philosophers believe that this world is unreal for them also and that God alone is real. This is absolutely correct with respect to the angle of God. In the angle of the souls, the world is absolutely reality because the soul is always absolutely real for itself since the soul is part and parcel of the world. The soul cannot grasp God, who is beyond this world since God is the ultimate absolute reality. However, in the view of advaita philosopher, the soul itself is God and hence, the world is unreal from the angle of the soul also. In such case, what is the necessity for doing the hectic effort to become God? God may be immersed in the ignorance for a very short span of time to entertain Himself in the world. Such omnipotent God can regain His original nature in a fraction of second with single thought. The omnipotent God does not require hectic effort to realize Himself as God. The soul does not become God in spite of hectic effort. Does this mean that the strength of ignorance is more than the strength of the omnipotent God?
Therefore, the logical conclusion is that the soul is not the God and hence, there is no use of any extent of hectic effort [to become God]. In such case, the soul should not treat this world as unreal. But, the Advaita philosopher is rigid that the world is unreal for him. He wants to please the real God by sacrificing the unreal items of this unreal world. He wants to be benefitted by catching the grace of the real God through the sacrifice of this unreal world. Such sacrifice is not real. The sacrifice becomes real only if the soul sacrifices the real items of this real world for the sake of God. The detachment of the Advaita philosopher is based on cheating business since unreal world is sacrificed to get the grace of real God by which he wants to become God. Shri Totapuri came to Paramahamsa shouting that the Divine Mother, who represents this world, must be neglected since the world is unreal. He suffered with severe stomach pain and failed even to commit suicide in Ganges. Then, he realized that Divine Mother, representing the world, is real for all the souls.
You can realize the reality of the world through analysis only. You should not give value to anything except analysis. You should not try to give value to a statement in the scripture because it is in the scripture. The concept of the statement of the scripture is always true and the truth stands always in any extent of intensive analysis. Truth never fears to stand before the verification by any extent of analysis. If the statement in the scripture fails in analysis, it means you have taken the statement in the angle of some wrong interpretation. If the statement of scripture is taken in its original correct angle, it never fails in analysis. The Gita starts with the praise of analysis (Sankhya Yoga or Buddhi Yoga). The last verse of the Gita says that Arjuna should analyze everything said in the Gita and accept only after analysis. Shankara condemned the atheistic Sankhya Yoga of Kapila. Then the opponent said that Kapila is said to be omniscient. Shankara refused the validity of such statement stating that tomorrow somebody may say that some Tom, Dick and Harry are also omniscient. The validity of the truth comes only from the analysis and not by any other undue consideration. Actually the omniscient Kapila, who was the human incarnation of God, is different from the Kapila, who is the author of the atheistic Sankhya Yoga. This confusion is exploited by the opponent.
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