16 Dec 2018

Shri Dattaguru Bhagavat Gita: Kaalabhairava Khanda: Chapter-16 Part-1

(Song of Preacher – God Shri Datta)

(Song of Preacher – God Shri Datta)

Part-4: Kaalabhairava Khanda (Part of Kaalabhairava)

Chapter 16: DATTA MATASAMANVAYA YOGAḤ (Divine Vision of Correlation of Datta-Religions)

God-Preacher Shri Datta spoke:-

While preaching the spiritual knowledge, one preacher gives a simile to a point so that effective understanding comes into the brain of the receiver. The disciple of another preacher coming later on, criticizes that point taking the inapplicable side of the simile. Whenever, a simile is given, one should take only the applicable side of the simile. This aspect brings misunderstanding and leads to confusions, differences and quarrels.
Every divine preacher in this world belonging to any religion is My incarnation only. I incarnate in every generation to remove misinterpretation and misunderstanding of the concepts of the spiritual knowledge by the followers of previous religion. As I remove the misinterpretations through correlations, the followers of every religion investigate some new misinterpretations of other religions and this makes Me to come again and again to this world as incarnation.
There are two levels, which are the level of God (Paramaartha dashaa) and the level of the soul (Vyavahaara dashaa). Both these two levels shall be studied independently and shall not be mixed since the imaginable soul is not the unimaginable God. My incarnation means that the unimaginable God becomes the imaginable soul for the purpose of expression to the imaginable souls to serve the purpose of preaching the true spiritual knowledge to them especially in the state of misunderstanding due to misinterpretations.
The spiritual knowledge preached by Shankara was misunderstood by some followers, who gave misinterpretations spoiling the other large number of followers. Hence, Shankara Himself, came as other incarnation called Ramanuja and rectified the confusion. Again, misinterpretation and confusion came. Then, Ramanuja came as other incarnation called Madhva and rectified the confusion. Again, misinterpretation and confusion appeared. Now, I have come as other incarnation called Dattaswami, Yourself, and rectification of the confusions is expressed from the beginning to bring final conclusion. I have appeared here coming out from Yourself only.
I am the God-component, the pure gold and You are the human being-component in the incarnation-alloy. The incarnation and the alloy are homogeneous mixtures due to perfect merge in single phase formed by the two components. Pure gold can’t be used to prepare the jewel since it is not malleable (stretched as plates) and ductile (drawn in to wires) unless it is merged with copper. Similarly, the original God is invisible and unimaginable and needs merge (Saayujya) with a selected devotee for expression to human beings, which are unable to imagine God being beyond space. This is not the inability of omnipotent God to appear before devotees since it is the defect of human beings to grasp the original God. The simile of alloy to incarnation is applicable up to this point. In the alloy gold and copper are visible whereas in the incarnation God is invisible and even unimaginable.
The human incarnation (alloy) appears as the human being (copper) only to all human beings and this is dualism of Madhva (whereas the alloy appears as gold). The climax devotees see it as pure gold only and this is monism of Shankara. For the average devotees, the incarnation appears as a mixture of the two components in various ratios depending on the intensity of their devotion and this is the middle special monism of Ramanuja. These aspects differ from the simile of alloy.
I select the human incarnations and their disciples from My devotees only, who become My external media to prepare and propagate the true spiritual knowledge that is adulterated by false concepts. In these devotees, who wish always to be My servants, some are selected by Me as incarnations through Monism and some are selected as their disciples. All these devotees have very strong desire to enjoy the fruit of dualism with Me by remaining as servants only forever. These dualistic devotees like to become ants to enjoy the sugar (God) by existing separately from Me and not to become sugar to be enjoyed! In fact, in dualism, I become their servant since they always wish very much to be My servants only and not to become Myself.
Whether the fruit is monism or dualism, all these devotees are very dear to Me always, who prepare and propagate knowledge and devotion respectively in the world as said in the Gita (Priyo hi jñāninotyartham..., Bhaktāstetīva Me priyāḥ...—Gita). Knowledge generates devotion and devotion generates service and sacrifice. Knowledge and devotion form theory whereas service and sacrifice form practical. Theory is the source of practical and practical is the proof of theory. Hence, both are holy and equally important. Theory without practice is useless since theory can’t generate any practical fruit. Practice without theory is impure since the fruit generated by practice only is rotten, which a beggar accepts and enjoys. To please God, the practical must be with theory since God is actually not in need of Your theoretical prayers, practical service and practical sacrifice of fruit of Your work. All this drama of God to get work done through You is only to uplift You and the hidden fact is that God is doing His work through You and is giving fame to You.
The devoted soul selected to become incarnation is also reluctant to monism with Me. But, I force it for monism to become human incarnation representing Me directly since somebody is needed for that role. If the soul wishes for monism with Me, it is very strong disqualification to get monism with Me. The human being-component in the incarnation is with high risk of infection of ego and may fall down due to such ego resulting from monism. Of course, if the incarnation is real, I will protect the human being-component from ego since such soul did not become incarnation by its effort or wish and My force alone is the reason.
Only Parashurama in the incarnations expressed ego since I did not protect him. I did like this only to express the concept that the human being-component shall be very careful about ego resulting due to monism. He is also perfect incarnation, but, used by Me to express this important concept of ego resulting from monism. There is no fault of the human being-component in this incarnation. He only sacrificed the truth of his merit to express this concept useful to warn human being-components in the incarnations about ego. Many human incarnations are false because they are just human beings only expressing themselves as God due to the false effect of monism preached by Shankara without understanding His background of the program to convert atheists in to theists. Shankara warned His close disciples about such misunderstanding by saying that He alone is God (Śivaḥ kevalo'ham).
The disciples of the human incarnation are also My indirect human incarnations only because I do My work of propagation of knowledge through them existing very close (Saamiipya) to them. There is no difference between direct and indirect human incarnations. Balarama is a devoted soul not at all wishing to become human incarnation since Adishesha, the source of Balarama, is a devoted servant of God. He was kept at par with My human incarnations between Rama and Krishna disclosing his identity as Adishesha. Sometimes, I merge with the disciples also to become direct human incarnations as per the need of program. Padmapaada, the disciple of Shankara became direct incarnation when God Narasimha merged with him to protect the life of Shankara from a cheating Kaapaalika.
Sureshvara (Mandanamishra, who became disciple of Shankara) was the incarnation of Myself as God Brahma. Rama and Krishna were incarnations of Myself as God Vishnu whereas their servants Hanuman and Radha were incarnations of Myself as God Shiva respectively. Paramahamsa and Vivekaananda were incarnations of Myself as Shiva-Shakti (like Satya Sai) and God Vishnu respectively. Hence, the generator of knowledge in the name of incarnation and its disciple propagating the knowledge are My direct and indirect incarnations respectively and both are equal. The preacher and disciple are only the different roles of My program and I am the single actor acting in both roles doing My work for the welfare of My creation. Hence, the human-component of the incarnation shall be without ego based difference between preacher and disciple.
When I merged with the human being component to become incarnation, the disciples identifying Me as the ultimate God Datta or Father of heaven will impress on the minds of others also about this truth. Seeing the normal properties of My external medium like hunger, thirst, sleep etc., and internal properties of the soul like anger, happiness in gains, misery in losses etc., others will not believe this truth. Even these devotees believing this truth also get doubt about this truth on seeing these properties of the visible medium (both body and soul since God merges with the human being, which is both body and soul). This helps Me to mix with the souls in their normal moods without any excitation of this truth to encourage them in asking Me the doubts with full freedom.
As incarnation, I behave like a devotee and this role helps My devoted disciples to learn the behaviour of an ideal devotee of God. In fact, even though I merged with the selected human being as God, I exist separately in My own state as unimaginable God (Parabrahma), as separate energetic incarnations and other human incarnations simultaneously. God Krishna did penance for God Shiva to get a boon for an issue for His principle wife, Rukmini. God Shiva (energetic incarnation) appeared and granted the boon. Sage Vyaasa existed as His contemporary human incarnation simultaneously on the earth. God in Krishna, Shiva and Vyaasa is the same full God without any reduction by this division due to My unimaginable power and this must be realized to get rid of the confusion.
A demon performs miracles (obtained through rigid penance for God) just to project himself and tries for fame and his final aim is to become God through exhibiting miracles denying separate existence of God. This demon gets miracles by praying the same God only in the initial stage and this is the most fantastic fun! An Advaita philosopher-soul tries to become God through constant thinking that it is God feeling that it was already God and that it forgotten that it is God. If it is already God, can God become so much ignorant that it doesn’t remember self identity there by fixing God totally as a mad person! It also worships God initially like demon to purify its mind as the path to recollect its divinity. Both these types don’t accept separate existence of God in the final stage.
Miracles are essential for human incarnation in the beginning stage of the divine program to overcome the starting trouble for picking up the initial momentum. If the miracles exhibited are used by the devotees of normal level to identify the human incarnation initially, it is good. But, this identification immediately leads to kindle hidden selfishness to use miraculous powers for solving their selfish problems and thus selfishness increases due to miracles. Selfishness in climax leads to sins for hell, which is the level of animals existing below Pravrutti. Selfishness is the fascination towards self and members of own family, in which there is no trace of fascination to God (lower Pravrutti). My spiritual knowledge develops service and sacrifice for God reducing the selfishness. Some souls have fascination towards society or souls (social service) only, praying God to solve problems of society (higher Pravrutti) there by attaining heavenly pleasures and this also has no trace of fascination to God (Nivrutti). The same social service done by the will and guidance of God becomes divine service.
The demon is able to do miracles granted by God for his rigid penance and at least for sometime (during penance) he accepted the separate existence of God. The Advaita philosopher never accepted separate existence of God and his inability to do miracles is covered since he believes that this world is non-existent and therefore miracles in this world are also non-existent! He has not understood the meaning of the word ‘Midhyaa’ said by Shankara, which means that the world is non-existent for God and existent for the soul (which is a part of the world) resulting in the definition that Midhyaa can’t be told as only existent or only non-existent (Sadasat Vilakṣaṇā). God Shankara could pass through the bolted doors, but not the disciple-souls. Doors are existent to souls and non-existent to God.
Miracles are associated jewels of God, which are performed by the inherent unimaginable power of God. Demon appears to be performing miracles, but, actually God performs those miracles in hidden state through the demon. Even in the case of incarnation, the same truth holds good. Demon says that he performed the miracle and incarnation says that God performed the miracle through it. A scholar-devotee recognizes incarnation through its unimaginable knowledge, which is the inseparable beauty and not by miracles, which are the associated jewels. The queen recognizes the king by his inherent features of face and body and not by associated jewels. Ignorant devotees identify God through miracles only and thus are sometimes misled to think demon as God. The ignorant mad queen identifies an actor in drama as the king by his crown and jewels!
Either knowledge or miracle is exhibited by the incarnation based on the requirement of the divine program. Rama never did miracles (except one miracle in the presence of the sage Vishvaamitra and His brother Lakshmana, which is turning the stone in to lady) because His divine program is to act like an ideal human being in Pravrutti after rising from the basic animal level. He did not show miracles and the message here is that a human devotee shall not be attracted by the harming miracles. Krishna showed the upper Nivrutti level, which is the state of human incarnation by performing several miracles. This is the reason for the appearance of Rama first and Krishna next.
The Advaita philosophers need not say that Shankara Himself told that the soul is already God and that the soul shall worship God to purify the mind before becoming God by self identification. It is true, but, one shall understand the background of the atheistic atmosphere existing at the time of Shankara. Rigid atheists don’t believe in separate existence of God. The preacher has right to change the concept suitably to the context of receivers so that the then existing receiver can climb the next step. Progress of the receiver is important to preacher (Guru) and truth is important for a mere scholar. This justified right of the preachers to change the concepts suitable to the then existing stage of receiver brought differences in the concepts of divine preachers, which shall be understood by us in view of their backgrounds. You can understand the truth (unity) by observing the gradual trend of their preaching.
The preacher follows the wrong path of strong ignorance of the receiver for sometime in the initial stage and then diverts him to the right path slowly. If one talks wrong, the diplomat agrees with him at the outset by saying “Of course, you are perfectly correct, but...”. One runs along with the strong running bull for sometime before controlling it. This initial acceptance satisfies the rigid fellow to become soft to understand the argument of the other side. The atheist asked Shankara “I realized myself as God. Why I am unable to do miracles like the incarnation or a climax devotee? Why I am unable to preach excellent spiritual knowledge like Krishna or Shankara?” Shankara replied “you are already God, but, ignorance of your mind is very strong. You have to purify your mind by worshipping God and then only your divine nature is expressed like the Sun on clearance of cloud.” The atheist trapped by the strong attraction to become God was unable to put questions like:- Will God get ignorance? Why God (soul) shall worship God to become God?

(To be continued…)

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