03 Oct 2010
The concept of human incarnation is most perfect truth. At the same time, it is most complicated and most dangerous also. It is truth because God interacts with the human beings in human form only. If God enters an inert statue, the purpose of preaching right knowledge to the humanity is not accomplished. If you say that the God in statue also has awareness by virtue of His omnipotence, such awareness cannot be used to give the right knowledge to the devotees. The statue is made of inert matter and if awareness also exists in it, it just becomes the human being. The human being is nothing but the human body made of inert matter associated with awareness. If the statue starts preaching knowledge, there will be excitation and the freedom to interact for clarification is not possible. The energetic form has inert energy as the material of body associated with awareness in which God may exist. Such energetic incarnation is not freely available to the humanity for preaching the right knowledge and it is relevant to the angels only, which are souls in energetic bodies. Good human beings only become angels after death. Sinners become devils after death. Angels and devils are the souls in energetic bodies after death. The souls in the materialized human bodies can be also treated as angels and devils. A human being is a mixture of both angel and devil and becomes a ghost after death. Thus, death does not differentiate the classification. Therefore, the human incarnation is the most relevant for humanity and this logic is the basis of the truth. At the same time, this aspect of human incarnation becomes very dangerous because several human beings claim themselves as incarnations and exploit the people. Some exploit to satisfy their ego or jealousy developed over the human incarnations seen by them. Some exploit to earn money and some exploit to enjoy sex in illegal way. Thus, the real human incarnation is one in thousands of false human incarnations and its isolation is very critical.
The above problem is to be avoided since there is no other alternative than getting the right direction from the knowledge of the right human incarnation. The right knowledge is very essential without which the correct direction in the spiritual effort is lost. All the doubts about the right knowledge can be efficiently clarified from the right human incarnation only. Unless the doubts are perfectly clarified, the knowledge cannot be implemented by the human being. If the direction is wrong, all the efforts go waste and hence, the right knowledge plays a very important role in any effort. Since, there is no other way than the human incarnation (Nanyahpanthah… Shruti), you have to avoid all the exploitations and stick to the concept. The clue to identify the right human incarnation becomes very important point. The only clue is to recognize the right knowledge, since the right incarnation alone gives the right knowledge. What is the way to recognize the right knowledge? The inner conscience alone can recognize the right knowledge. As long as the knowledge is not right, doubts will come in your mind continuously. You should not fear to implement the right knowledge because the first stage is to accept the right knowledge in theory only. In course of time only, you will gain the courage to implement the right knowledge.
The Fear of Implementation
The fear in implementation of right knowledge forces you to treat the right knowledge as the wrong knowledge. In such state also, your inner conscience pricks you always suggesting it as right. You will neglect the suggestion since you suffer for your lack of efficiency in getting the right fruit by implementation of right knowledge. You are ambitious of the fruit and your inefficiency in implementation of the right knowledge removes the possibility of getting the desired fruit. In such state of confusion, the best solution invented by your mind is to treat the right knowledge as wrong and to think that the desired fruit cannot be achieved by such assumed wrong knowledge. The final result is to treat the right knowledge as wrong. For the same reason, your mind treats the wrong knowledge as right since it is very convenient to implement the wrong knowledge. Your mind links the right fruit to the wrong knowledge and thus, makes you feel to get the right fruit through the implementation of wrong knowledge assumed as right. This is the analysis of the instantaneous psychological process, unaware of which, people like the implementation of wrong knowledge assuming as right and assume the achievement of right fruit. When all your doubts are cleared, the courage to implement the right knowledge is spontaneously generated. Some doubt existing in your mind unconsciously is responsible for your fear in the implementation.
The Veda says that God is the infinite right knowledge and that God is the excellent knowledge (Satyam Jnanam…, Prajnanam…). This does not mean that God is the knowledge itself. It only means that the possessor of right and excellent knowledge is God and such knowledge is His correct identification mark since it is His inseparable characteristic. If somebody wears a red shirt always, the red shirt becomes his identity mark and you can call him as the red shirt like calling “Oh! Red shirt! Come here”. The Gita gives clarification on this point, which says that the possessor of knowledge is God (Jnaanitvaatmaiava…). Since God enters the human being only, such identification is mentioned. The human being is always characterized by the knowledge. Knowledge is one sided characteristic of awareness. It means knowledge is always associated with awareness and awareness need not be associated always with knowledge. An animal or bird has awareness but no knowledge. Therefore, you should not take awareness as the meaning of the words indicating knowledge in the Veda like Jnanam and Prajnanam. This clarification is given in the Gita, which says that God enters a human body (Manusheem…). Hence, the Gita always gives clarifications on the Veda. Such correct clarification can be correctly clarified by the human incarnation only since the same God, who said the Gita, can alone give the original sense of the text. The Author Himself can alone give the correct sense of His own statement. Since, God is one and the same in all the human incarnations, any human incarnation can clarify the text said by any other human incarnation.
No Exemption From Sin Due to Proximity to God
You should not be tempted to become human incarnation since no extra undue advantage can be obtained by you by becoming human incarnation. The service rendered by you to God in the human incarnation gets the same fruit, whether you internally serve God as human incarnation or externally serve as a devoted servant. No extra advantage will be shown on you since you serve internally [in case of human incarnation]. Similarly, your sin will be punished equally whether you serve Him internally or externally. Your sin will not be neglected since you are the human incarnation and your merit will not be also neglected since you exist outside as a devoted servant. The human incarnation means the existence of God in the human being. The human being means the inert human body as the tree with the individual soul as its owner-bird. The God, the ultimate owner of all birds and all trees, lives on the same tree along with its owner-bird as said in the Veda (Dvaasuparnaa…). The sin of the individual soul, which is the owner-bird of the body-tree, will be equally punished as the sin of the bird of any other tree. The merit of bird of any other tree will be rewarded in the same way. Rama is the human incarnation in which the individual soul exists merged with God. Rama killed Vali hiding Himself and this sin belongs to individual soul and Rama received the punishment of this sin in the next birth, born as Krishna. Hanuman is an individual soul existing outside as the servant of Rama and Hanuman was rewarded with the post of God [Future Creator]. Therefore, there is no discrimination between the souls regarding punishment or reward.
The soul in which God exists by merging, punishes the same soul for its sin. The teacher takes disciplinary action against his own son in the school even though his son lives with him only in the same house. The teacher gives first mark to any deserving boy even though such boy stays outside his house. Therefore, you will not get any advantage by becoming human incarnation and will not get any disadvantage by remaining as its humble servant. In such case, your jealousy on human incarnation is also meaningless. Hence, you should concentrate on the merits of your sacrifice and service only, avoiding the aspirations regarding all the fruits including the fruit of becoming human incarnation. Hanuman served His contemporary human incarnation without any aspiration and finally God merged with Him to make Him incarnation[1]. The fruit depends on the quality of your practical sacrifice only and does not depend on the distance between you and God. It makes no difference whether you are closest to God by becoming human incarnation or far from God by remaining a devoted servant. In fact, there is higher fruit than becoming the human incarnation. You can become equal to God through human incarnation. But there is a higher state than this, which is to make God as your servant. Gopikas remained always very far from their contemporary human incarnation, Krishna, since Krishna left Brundavanam as a boy and never returned to see Gopikas staying in Brundavanam. But, they received the unique fruit since God created a separate world called as Goloka above His head. The quality of their sacrifice is unimaginable since they sacrificed everything for the sake of Krishna. Such sacrifice is possible only to sages and is impossible to any human being or any angel also. They sacrificed all their wealth, which is the stored butter through which only their livelihood is maintained. Sages are highest souls in the entire creation. Datta, the sage incarnation of God, is highest for the same reason. They sacrificed their sacred character, even though such sacrifice leads to intensive punishment in the hell. They jumped in to the fire when they heard that Krishna was no more and thus, they sacrificed their life for God. Therefore, the quality of your practical attitude brings the fruit and not the distance between yourself and God.
[1] In the sense of Hanuman being made the next Creator
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