10 Jan 2016
Reply From Shri Datta Swami to Questions from Mr. Anil:
[2016-01-10] 11) Prophet Mohammed is considered as seal by Muslims. From the study of Your knowledge, it is certain that You are the actual ‘seal’. Kindly give Your response to it.
Seal means the finalization of the knowledge. The point of finalization depends on completion of the program allotted to the specific circumstances and the specific context in the society. A teacher of a subject finishes the syllabus and says that the last topic is sealed indicating the end of the subject. This is done by the teacher of every subject in every class of the school. Therefore, the word seal, which means the end, can be used by any teacher in the context of finishing the syllabus of his subject for any class. There are several classes in the school and each class has several teachers teaching several subjects. You can count the huge number of seals making a calculation in a school and all the seals are one and the same indicating the end of all subjects. When all the subjects of all the classes are sealed, the headmaster will say that the teaching for the academic year is sealed. Thus, the word seal denotes the end of each subject and does not denote that a specific subject alone is the end or final of all subjects. This type of interpretation brings split in the teachers since one teacher alone is lifted up to the sky. All the subjects are parts of knowledge and are equal only. Hence, finishing the syllabus of a subject in every class is the seal. Thus, the word seal can be used for the end of any work. A house is sealed by court, which means that it is closed. A cover containing a letter is sealed, which means that the cover is closed. In the end of any letter, signature is put below which the seal is stamped. It means that the letter is closed with respect to all formalities. Therefore, one need not give much significance to such controversial aspects. This will lead to the splits of religions. God did some programme suitable to a specific atmosphere through Mohammed and some other programme through some other human incarnation. When both finished their assigned programmes, each one can say that the programme is sealed. Mohammed, a human incarnation of God, arrived here in the context of a specific time in a specified area for a specific programme designed for a specific lot of people. The main aspect of His program is to remove the concept of human incarnation in that area since it is not properly received there. The human incarnation, Jesus was just crucified in that area. Mohammed, Himself being the human incarnation has to contradict the concept of His own status and I feel that such situation is most unfortunate in the life of Mohammed. Yet, He did His duty assigned by God coming out of the natural attraction to self.
The happiest moment of a devotee will be to become the human incarnation and to hear his recognition as the human incarnation in the circle of his co-devotees. A student, after getting gold medal, will be very happy to move in his friends hearing the praise from the classmates about his gold medal. Here is the most unfortunate situation in which even though Mohammed is the gold medalist, He has to condemn the concept of gold medal and make the classmates feel that the concept of gold medal does not exist at all in the University! I think, this is more serious suffering than crucifixion itself since it is the crucifixion of His genuine and eternal fame and not of the temporary body. The sacrifice of Mohammed is the greatest of all the human incarnations. Similarly, Dayananda Saraswati is human incarnation of God, but, He contradicted the concept because of the exploitations done by false human incarnations. Mohammed finished the specific syllabus to be preached to the specific community of the people and the seal of such knowledge as His word means the closure of the concept of human incarnation, which is the main topic. The last statement of Jesus was also that ‘everything ended’. That also means the seal of His mission assigned by God. Thus, every human incarnation has to announce the seal like every teacher has to announce the end of the syllabus in a subject prescribed to a standard in a class for that academic year. The word seal not only denotes the total knowledge prescribed to the world as well as a specific concept meant for a sect of people is also ended. The word seal should not be misinterpreted that the preaching of a specific human incarnation alone is the final and no further need of any human incarnation in future. This interpretation given by the conservative devotees of that specific human incarnation kindles fire in the devotees of other human incarnations leading to split, jealousy, quarrel and finally even terrorism. The ego of a particular sect of devotees results in the jealousy of other sects of devotees. Such ego suggests the invitation for other devotees into their religion in the name of conversion. Innocent people follow the conversion. The ego and jealousy in some devotees of other religions grow leading to the final chaos. Hence, the correct interpretation should be given to remove the wrong interpretations. Such wrong interpretations come only to the minds of devotees, which do not exist at all in the mind of any human incarnation. The human incarnation is a diamond-human being and the devotees are charcoal-human beings. Both diamond and charcoal are carbon only with different crystal structures. Similarly, the mental set-up is different between the human incarnation and its human devotees.
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