08 Feb 2005
Nikhil:
Oh Swami! I like to enter the mission of the Lord that is proposed by you
The Universal spirituality started by you will certainly change this world
I like to do your work on full time basis because this is a rare opportunity
I have passed through millions of births and enjoyed this routine family life
But this birth is very precious because I have met the Lord who has come down
To establish the spirituality and world peace, this work is most important
Arjuna fought for the sake of his wealth and that is personal work or swakaryam
At the same time the same work happened to be the assistance to the Lord
In establishing the justice and destroying the injustice on this earth
But in my case, my work is completely different from assisting your work
The assistance to the Lord is called as Swamikaryam or the work of the Lord
Therefore, I like to leave my personal work and attend only the work of the Lord
Swami:
I am very much pleased with you for such divine thought moving in your heart
Once a thought came in mind, it is considered as the supreme level always
Mind is the king and action is the army but between these two, minister exists
Minister is the intelligence or discrimination which analyses deeply and
Advises the king to give a proper direction to the army, which is simple practice
Arjuna wanted to sacrifice the kingdom to avoid killing his grandfather
The aim of this sacrifice was more ignorant than the sacrifice itself
Bhishma the grandfather of Arjuna was not showing any love to Arjuna
Bhishma was ready to fight with Arjuna and so does not deserve the love
Bhishma was supporting the injustice and he is not correct even in Pravritti
He was also ready to wound the Lord with arrows, infact he wounded the Lord
Thus he is a total failure in Pravritti and in Nivritti also, he should know that
The Lord is above even the justice, but Bhishma fought with the Lord
Not for justice since he fought against the justice, Arjuna still loves him
If Krishna was in the side of Kauravas which is the side of injustice and
If it happened so that Bhishma came to the side of Pandavas, the justice
Even then Bhishma should not wound Krishna as Lord is more than justice.
The love of Arjuna on his grandfather is not justified and irrational too
At the very first outset, the Lord did not like the blind love of Arjuna
The Lord asked Arjuna to fight in the war from several diversified angles
He condemned the blind love of Arjuna on Bhishma, which is called as Moha
Love is based on analysis but Moha or blind love is based on ignorance
Another angle is that Arjuna being born as a prince in a royal family
He should not live by begging and should not live in a forest for food
Duryodhana refused to give even normal maintaining expenses to Pandavas
Infact the entire kingdom was conquered by the father of Pandavas only
Dhritharashtra, a blind fellow is not eligible at all to rule the kingdom
When king Pandu was going to the forest for a few days for entertainment
Dhritharashtra was made as a representative of the king and not the king
Therefore, the sons of Dhritharashtra cannot claim the kingdom even legally
Thus illegal and unethical force is succeeding and therefore Lord wanted
To establish the justice and destroy the illegal and unethical forces
Therefore Arjuna was not correct in his sacrifice because in that case
Arjuna will be also another Bhishma to support the success of injustice
If you analyse this in the light of Nivritti, then also it is not correct
Arjuna is not sacrificing the war for the sake of the mission of the Lord
He was sacrificing the war only for his blind love on his grandfather
He loved his grandfather more than Dharmaraja, his elder brother
He did not even mind his elder brother to loose his justified throne
He was more wishing the happy life of his grandfather,
Thus this is not for the sake of the Lord and so it is not Nivritti
Even Bhishma was not a devotee of highest order because
Bhishma wounded the Lord and gave more importance to the duty
The highest devotee gives highest importance to the Lord only
First Lord and then only duty or justice or anybody or anything
The main point in the mind of Arjuna was that killing his grandfather
Shall be the greatest sin especially when Bhishma nourished Pandavas
Like their own father, since they lost their father in the childhood
Moreover Bhishma had special affection on Arjuna out of all grandsons
The entire basis is only the blood relationship and blind love out of it
The basis is not any divine point, it is undivine and totally unjust
The main point of Arjuna was the fear for the sin in killing Bhishma
The Lord showed a new angle so that he can escape that sin
The new angle was to treat the war as the work of the Lord
The new angle was that Arjuna should become the highest devotee
For a highest devotee whoever is the enemy of the Lord will be his enemy
Prahlada got his father killed since he treated his father as his enemy
Therefore, let Arjuna fight the war not as the grandson of Bhishma
But as the devotee of Lord Krishna and kill Bhishma in the war because
Krishna treated Bhishma as his enemy standing on the side of injustice.
Now Arjuna will not acquire any sin because he was only assistant to the Lord
As a devotee of Krishna he should not have any family bond and should have
The only bond with the Lord, this is the reason why Krishna taught
Devotion or bhakti yoga also in the Gita apart from analysis or Jnana Yoga
Now when your situation is analysed, at the very first outset,
Your wife Devi is not like Bhishma because she is the highest devotee.
I have seen mothers who obstruct their children participating in mission
I have seen a few mothers who did not object to their children for God
For the first time in this world I have seen a mother asking Swami
About the future procedure to be adopted to send out her child
In the divine mission of the Lord, do you remember that your wife Devi
In the past asked Swami for the training that she should give to her child
So that the child will completely sacrifice her life in the divine mission?
She is an exceptional devotee of the Lord and she cannot be compared
To Bhishma and therefore your bond with her need not be condemned.
She never opposed your spiritual effort like Hirnyakasipu, who always
Opposed Prahlada, moreover she always supported your spiritual path.
Shankara left his mother because she was always fond of her son
Not based on the divine angle, but based on the blind love on her son
Such blind love will not only spoil the spiritual effort of Shankara
But also it will spoil the spiritual effort of his mother permanently.
Ramanuja left his wife because she opposed thrice his spiritual rules,
Buddha left his wife who was very fond of her husband and luxuries.
When the family is completely turned into devotees, it is real luck
Because you are supposed to be in the association of devotees only
Throughout your spiritual effort and so you can be in your home only.
Then you can serve your family members with full respect and love
Not because they are related to you by the bonds of the family
The family is only a drama and the bonds are unreal and dramatic.
You love them as devotees of the Lord, not as family members.
God has two addresses, one is the human incarnation and the other is
The highest devotee, in the human incarnation Lord pervades all the body
In the case of the highest devotee, the Lord dwells in the heart, therefore
Serving the Lord and serving the highest devotee are equal in every angle.
The inside Lord will receive all your service and becomes pleased.
You married Devi and also got a child which is one and half year old
If Devi is opposing your spiritual journey, yes, no mercy at all,
You have to throw her away because the Lord is highest as per Veda
The Veda says “Isheeka tulavat” which means that you must throw your family
Like the husk from the paddy grain, but when you should throw?
Only when your family opposes you in your spiritual trials to serve the Lord
Ramakrishna Paramhansa retained his wife with him since she co-operated.
She became his spiritual associate, in fact one should put up the spiritual effort
In the association of two or three spiritual devotees only and not alone.
Doing spiritual work alone is one extremity like draught and at the same time
Doing it in the association of several people is also the other extremity like floods.
Jesus told that if two or three devotees associate, He will be present there.
In the Gita Krishna told “Aratih Jana samsadi” which means that mass is not good
In the spiritual trials because some useless fellow will pollute the whole thing.
When all of you are immersed in the discussion of God, fully immersed,
That fellow stands and says “I have some urgent work, hence let me leave”
This pollutes the minds of the real devotees also, they think that perhaps
They are also having some urgent work in the home and perhaps
They are sitting there forgetting that work and then they start thinking that.
They will be searching the forgotten work in their brains and the whole time
Is spoilt by this drop of poison present in the pot of the milk.
Yes, the whole milk becomes poisonous by the single drop of poison.
Therefore you must select the devotees of your standard and likeminded.
Let them be a few diamonds, what is the use of mass gravel stones?
At the same time loneliness will not encourage the spiritual progress because
The human being is always accustomed to the association of fellow beings.
Shankara always discussed with his four disciples and always argued
With a small group of scholars in debates which are qualitatively rich.
He never addressed public meetings like the speeches in the elections.
Therefore a family always consists of a few members only and is suitable
To form a small qualitative seminar circle, in which the level is very high.
You find the research seminars always with a few scholars only.
The family if turned into best devotees, you are the luckiest devotee because
You need not go out in the search of this highly qualitative conference.
Therefore, you are justified to keep Devi and her child happiest
Not only from the point of Pravritti but also in the context of Nivritti.
In Pravritti there is no mention of the Lord, only social justice, since
You have married her, you are justified to keep her always happy.
This you should have thought before marriage, but any way
Nothing is lost because in your case Nivritti is synchronising with Pravritti.
She is the highest devotee of the Lord and if she is displeased
The Lord is displeased spontaneously, in fact the Lord is more worried
If His devotee is displeased and He will not mind even if He is displeased.
He keeps His devotees on His head, He becomes servant to His servants.
If Pravritti is contradicting Nivritti, you will have to crush Pravritti.
Once Ramakrishna Paramhansa was killing bed bugs present in his cot,
A devotee came and was hesitant to this action of such a preacher,
Immediately Paramhansa told “These bugs are disturbing Me when I sit
On this cot and do meditation, I do not mind to remove any hurdle
If it comes in the way to the Lord, I will cross the justice also for Him”
In fact, killing a small creature is the highest sin according to justice,
But the Lord is greater than the justice, which is the highest in Pravritti.
Oh Nikhil! In your case even this situation does not arise because
Devi is supporting you in all your spiritual efforts in the mission
I consider you as the embodiment of divine knowledge or Jnana yoga
She is an embodiment of devotion or Bhakti yoga, it is very clear, her sacrifice
Proves the devotion and your sacrifice proves your love for knowledge.
You know that knowledge generates devotion and devotion leads to the Lord
Therefore she is higher than you and so you must serve her sincerely.
Whatever I say is not a blind statement, it is based on complete logic therefore
It is truth and I don’t mind either you or anyone else for speaking the truth.
Devi:
I prefer my husband to please the Lord than pleasing me.
Swami:
Oh Nikhil! See her, again her devotion excels any level in this world
Swami speaks the theory whenever there is a real brilliant point.
At one place I condemn the bond and at another place I support it.
All cases will not have the same judgement since merits differ.
In one place I don’t find enemies and friends in another place
All are equal to me but I show the difference based on the difference
Present in the devotees, the difference comes in their mental set up
Which comes along with the soul in the form of subtle body
From millions of births, the difference is not in me at all.
Some devotees misunderstand me that Swami is favoring Nikhil,
They think that Swami is blessing the matrimonial bond of Nikhil
And Swami is cutting the matrimonial bond of some other devotee.
They think that I am blind and partial because they are blind and partial.
I have supported your bond with your wife not as a matrimonial bond
But as a bond between two pure devotees, this bond is more valid.
The Lord likes the bonds between devotees than the bond to Himself.
The father will be happy if his children are loving each other,
He will not be so happy with a child who loves him but quarrels with his brother.
The universal spirituality is aimed at this point only.
The Lord wants to see all His children to live in harmony, they should
Love each other and respect the religions with mutual understanding.
They are the children of one Godfather and they should understand
That they are students of one God preacher only in this world.
It is shameful on the part of the children in not believing a single Father.
Each religion says that their Father created the entire world and that
Their Father only created all the human beings on this earth.
When they say that their God Father created all the human beings,
How can they deny that there is only one God Father to all the human beings?
How there can be several God Fathers as represented by the religions?
They do not analyze even an inch deep with at least minimum common sense.
When there is only one God Father, there should be only one word of God.
But religions claim their scriptures only as word of God exclusively.
There need not be deep logic in this matter, just an iota of common sense
Just a square inch of open mind and just an inch of deep analysis will solve
All the quarrels and all the rigid exclusive conservative limitations.
One day this entire world is going to follow this universal spirituality.
In the name of the Lord I declare this without any fear and hesitation.
Of course people will be converted into this universal spirituality slowly
And step-by-step based on the levels of their present existence.
For an LKG student it will take fifteen years to come to the PG class,
For a student who passed the school, it will take five years,
For a student who is in the final year of the bachelor degree
It will take just one year. Therefore do not worry about the speeds of realization.
People will come in batches according to their own time schedule.
The Lord has His divine plan, well established from the beginning itself.
Change of one state to the other is quite essential even for the Lord.
Even the Lord comes down from His divine abode frequently to the earth.
Deep sleep in the night is created as a change from day-activity, the change is
Not opposition to any state, it is only an interval between similar states.
The crest between two troughs and the trough between two crests
Makes the wave to propagate the energy as per science, as you know.
Similarly the gap in the spiritual effort constituted by Maya is essential.
Maya acts like the deep sleep between the two consecutive days,
When you roam in the sunlight continuously and then reach shade,
You will really enjoy the shade intensively and with full vigour.
This is the very essence of Nature, which is created by the Lord.
This is the hard and fast rule inevitable even to the Lord.
He is in the full state of awareness when He is in His divine abode,
Where angels and sages receive divine knowledge from the Lord.
After some time He comes to the earth for a change from that state,
This is called as the entertainment, the reason for the creation.
Therefore you concentrate all your intelligence on your research work.
While doing your research work you forget the spiritual work.
It should be like concentrated deep sleep after hectic day.
It should be like the ignorance of the Lord when He comes down to the earth.
The Lord is deeply immersed in the ignorance in the human incarnation.
He wants to really isolate Himself from the divinity, which was the state
He left in the upper world and wants to immerse in the ignorance of Himself.
It is like for an officer who was strained by continuous work to go to a picnic
For a change and entertainment and he wants to forget all his office matters.
Similarly the Lord comes to the earth to forget all His divinity for some time.
This is the main reason why the human incarnation is reluctant to expose
His inherent divinity, unless an emergency is developed in which case
The office file comes even to the picnic spot and he signs the file.
Those who are not divine inherently try to expose their imposed divinity.
Such souls are demons, who perform miracles frequently to expose themselves.
Therefore treat the research work also as a part of the yoga, because
It is a good gap of interval diverting you completely for some time.
That gives you rejuvenated vigour to work with all freshness in the mission.
At the same time the concentration in your research to build career
Supports simultaneously your effort required to please your devoted wife.
Change of state is essential for any body unless he is mad continuously.
Madness is the ninth stage in the ten stages of the devotion.
Mad people live continuously in their own world and do not return.
You can take Me as an example, I did lot of research work in science.
I published several original research papers in international journals.
Just two months back also I communicated a research paper
On corrosion of concrete leading to premature failure of concrete works.
While doing research work I have written hundreds of books on spirituality
And I carried on several spiritual debates with several scholars in Sanskrit.
Therefore take myself as an example for what I preach you here.
Nikhil:
Oh Swami! All my ignorance vanished by your preaching now,
Which is the Gita or devotional song and I shall act as per your guidance.
I convey my salutations along with my wife to your divine lotus feet.
Swami:
Now it is midnight in America and therefore have a deep sleep
Which is strong ignorance of the entire awakening state of day
Have a nice sleep, the ignorance about the ignorance is gone.
Therefore enter into the state of perfect ignorance, which is deep sleep.
Now you have understood that ignorance has positive utility.
My dear Nikhil! Nothing in this creation is negative.
Even these family bonds obstructing the bond with the Lord
Are also created to test your love with the Lord and act as examiners.
The villain is essential in the cinema to glorify the hero.
In the Gita the Lord says that He alone created both knowledge and ignorance.
While enjoying the cinema, when you are ignorant of the screen and figures
You think that the scenes are real under ignorance and then only you enjoy.
But when you are trapped with those unreal dramatic bonds in the cinema,
Then you require the knowledge to come out of that trap of that net
And to unite with the Lord to please Him by selfless sacrifice in service.
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