02 Dec 2013
[Shri Anil asked: “You say that Shankara gave a twist to make the atheists become the theists. But, the same conversion could have been done with the help of true knowledge without any twist”. Given below is Shri Swami’s response.]
A Scholar is always like a guest speaker, who delivers the entire true knowledge without bothering about the level of the students. But, the class teacher is not so. The class teacher delivers the true knowledge in different stages observing the assimilation of the knowledge given. If necessary the twists are introduced, which are the different models set up in order to inject the total true knowledge in different phases. The guest speaker does not bother about the assimilation and side reactions of different aspects. Such a speaker is like the owner of a medical shop selling the required medicines and does not bother about the study of side reaction in the case of an allergic patient. The doctor is not like that. The doctor studies the constitution of the patient and gives the necessary medicine to cure the allergy before introducing the actual antibiotic injection. Guru is like the guest speaker or like the owner of the medical shop. Satguru is like the class teacher or like the doctor. Guru is interested in expressing the true knowledge in sequential steps. Satguru gives the same true knowledge in a different style of sequence introducing some twists required as per the ignorance. Guru is not bothered about the progress of the student. He feels that he has finished the job on completing the expression of total true knowledge. The job of Satguru is not mere completion of the expression of the true knowledge. His job is to test the assimilation power of the student and give the true knowledge partially giving gap for assimilation. After sometime only, the other part of knowledge is introduced.
Let us assume that there is darkness in a closed room having no opening at all. You have brought the torch light and go on focusing the light on that room. It is true that the light will destroy the darkness. But, there is no opening through which the light can pass into the room. There is no use in focusing the torch light any number of times. You must drill the wall to create an opening and then only focus the torch light. Similarly, there is no use in preaching the true knowledge to an ignorant person without breaking the ignorance. Ignorance in general is the darkness. The solidified ignorance is like the walls of the closed room. The torch light cannot send the light into the room. Hence, first, you have to use drilling machine and then only use the torch light. The Guru simply throws the light on the room and goes away without bothering about the result. The Satguru uses a different drilling machine to create opening and then only uses the torch light. The true knowledge is the torch light and the drilling machine is the twist.
A person, who is very rigid in his ignorance, developed really a little headache due to change in the atmosphere. But, he thinks that a squirrel entered the head through the ear and the headache is due to the squirrel in his head. This tension increased the headache to such extent that he is unable to understand any logical argument. Several doctors said that the size of the squirrel is much larger than the hole of the ear. But, he is unable to digest this logic due to the strenuous headache. First, the psychological headache added to the original headache must be removed. Even if the original headache subsides by the use of some medicine, the false psychological headache continues. The false headache must be removed by a false trick and then the small original headache can be removed by applying medicine on the forehead. The false trick is like the drilling machine and the true knowledge is like the torch light. The torch light cannot be used to drill the wall and the drilling machine cannot be used to throw the darkness from the room. Therefore, a wise doctor threw a squirrel with the hand kept near his ear and successfully made an impression that the squirrel came out from the head through the ear. By this twist, ninety percent (psychological) of headache was removed. The remaining ten percent original headache was removed by applying some mild ointment. Here, you must note that the false psychological headache was removed by false trick and the true original headache was removed by true medicine. If you take the case of Shankara, He never used a lie but the truth is just twisted. The final concept of the true knowledge was brought down in the beginning to break the outer shell of rigid ignorance. Hence, He made only a twist but not created any lie.
The atheist in the time of Shankara stated that God does not exist. Then, Shankara told that the atheist himself is God and hence, God exists since the atheist exists. Shankara told that he is already God and no effort need be done to become God. Only the ignorance that he is not God must be removed, which is the minimum most effort. The atheist accepted this due to attraction to effortless gift and consequently agreed to the existence of God. Here, there is no lie because any human being has the golden chance of becoming God. God can enter any human being and such human being is God like the electrified wire. In fact, Shankara, the human incarnation, is a standing alive example of this concept. Hence, nothing is false since the conversion of the human being into God is totally possible. The place of this concept is in the end of the spiritual journey. Shankara brought down this top most result to the beginning itself and hence, this is called as twist but not lie. In the example of squirrel, throwing out the squirrel is totally a lie. When a lie could be used to uplift a patient, why not truth can be brought down to uplift a person? This twist made the atheist to become theist and to do deep analysis about God. After sometime, the atheist asked Shankara that the soul is not Omnipotent where as God is Omnipotent. Shankara replied that the power has no meaning since the whole creation is not true. Again, here, Shankara made a twist and did not tell a lie. This whole creation is not true with respect to the angle of God. But, this is true with respect to the angle of soul. Since soul is God, the creation cannot be true to the soul also. In course of time, the atheist converted into theist and realized that the creation is true for the soul. Shankara could pass through the bolted door but this fellow could not do so. Now, Shankara opened the final truth that God entered Him and not every human being but every human being has this chance. Then, this fellow asked for the procedure to become God. The procedure is revealed and now this fellow followed the procedure, becoming a strong devotee eligible to become human incarnation. In this way, a person developed and reached the goal with the help of these twists. Shankara is Satguru and hence, cared for the spiritual progress of the student using twists. Twist means only the displacement of a true concept from one place to the other, which helps the practical progress of a spiritual aspirant. Such tremendous plan could be done by God only and Shankara was God in human form. No human being can plan like this.
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