12 Jun 2018
83) Deep Sleep of Human Incarnation:-
Deep sleep of human incarnation exists as in the case of any ordinary human being. There is no difference between the human being and human being component of human incarnation. For a human being, in deep sleep, awareness doesn’t exist since awareness is absent, in which the soul is only inert energy called as Praajna (means pra=totally, Ajna=ignorant). In the dream state, the soul (awareness) exists in touch with inert energy mixed with awareness used for construction of dream as per the thoughts of subconscious state (which is made of strong thoughts of present birth and past births). In awaken state, the soul exists as awareness in touch with this external world made of awareness (souls), inert energy and matter. In the human incarnation, the three states of its human being component are also just the same as those three states of human being. The difference is that unimaginable God mediated as Datta exists in all the three states of human incarnation. In deep sleep state of human incarnation, the unimaginable God or unimaginable awareness merged with the awareness of Datta is leftover and hence, the Veda says that the leftover unimaginable awareness is the source of entire creation (Sarvasya yonih). Of course, if you believe that every soul is already God, in such case, in the deep sleep of every human being, the soul (relative awareness taken as absolute unimaginable awareness), which is the source of this creation exists. This concept is based on your illusion that any soul is already God. In the deep sleep of human incarnation, the soul of human being component disappears since rest is needed for the nervous system of the medium, which is as good as the nervous system existing in any human being. When nervous system takes rest, the soul or awareness can’t exist.
84) Festivals and Rituals:-
Festivals and rituals are meant for improvement of spiritual knowledge and devotion to God. It is the responsibility of the priest to improve both these in the souls present in a festival or any ritual like marriage etc. The performer of the ritual is expected to give food to the priest and to other co-devotees attending the function. The performer must give some Dakshinaa (offering of money) to the priest. Donation of food to all participants and donation of Dakshinaa to the priest is the essence of festival or ritual. The Veda says that such priest must have two qualifications:- i) he must have the spiritual knowledge of the Veda and ii) he must not aspire anything from the performer. The quantity of Dakshinaa is based on the capacity (Shakti) and devotion (Bhakti) of the performer, whichever is least. Even in the rituals done for departed souls, the deservingness of the priest is very important. If the performer is benefited in knowledge and devotion, the priest is deserving. Donation to undeserving priest results in sin. Even the participants invited must be devotees. But, today, the entire essence of the ritual has totally disappeared. When we invite people for the ritual, we are just seeing our relationship with them only and not their devotion to God! This means that we have not understood even the first chapter of the Gita, in which God said even to kill the relatives supporting injustice without devotion. We select a candidate related to us blindly whenever we sit in the board of selection committee! In no ritual or festival, we understand anything (no question of devotion) and we spend unnecessarily for such rituals, in which we just enjoy dining with our friends and relatives only! We are also not feeding beggars, which is the basic emergent justice (aapat dharma) by which also God is pleased with us. We are just overfeeding our relatives and enjoying without any improvement in our spiritual knowledge and in our devotion to God. All the huge money spent for such meaningless and useless rituals is sheer wastage, sheer wastage and sheer wastage.
Our priests become deserving for our donation of Guru Dakshina provided i) they spend all their time in studying the knowledge of scriptures without wasting time in blind recitation so that they can develop the spiritual knowledge of us (through preaching) in the ritual to develop our devotion and ii) they don’t ask Guru Dakshina as a fixed rate for the ritual by leaving to our decision based on our capacity to pay and our impression on the priest, whichever is least (this means that if our capacity is 100 and our impression about the priest is 10 only, 10 shall be paid and if our capacity and impression are vice-versa, then also only 10 shall be paid. Due to any reason, if we are unable to pay anything, the priest shall not aspire for anything from us believing that God will take care of him).
85) Sixteen Modes of Worship:-
Sixteen modes of worship like invitation (avaahana), offering seat (aasana) etc., are meant for worship of human incarnation only. In absence of human incarnation (direct service), a human devotee can be worshipped keeping him as representative model of God (indirect service) by which also God is equally pleased. While worshipping the devotee, we pour a spoon of water in his hand saying that we are worshipping him as God. In any case, all the sixteen steps of worship are meant for a living being only and not for inert statue or photo. Statues of God must be limited to a few modes of worship only, like bathing, decorating with flowers etc., which improve our theoretical devotion at least. If deserving priest or devotee is not available, at least feed the beggars with the food offered to God by which God is pleased. If you save a human being or even an animal or bird from hunger death, God is immensely pleased with you. It is total wastage of your money if you offer the food offered to God to your friends and relatives, who have sufficient food in their houses! You must serve always the needy.
86) Quality and Quantity of Devotion:-
Even little devotion (theoretical or practical) having quality is valuable than lot of devotion having much quantity without quality. A spoon of divine nectar is far better than a tank of urine of donkey! The only quality that is required in the devotion is to love God without aspiring any fruit in return from Him. Such devotion, even a spoon is eternal like divine nectar making you eternal. When we love God theoretically as well as practically for the sake of fulfillment of our desire, such devotion, even a tank is to be rejected like donkey-urine that spoils your spiritual health. The selfish desire spoils the whole devotion like a drop of poison mixed with a pot of milk. Even in worldly life, this principle exists. A father is happy when his son is pressing his feet with love. After pressing the feet, if the son asks the father about the details of his bank account, the father will look at the son with climax of hatred! Any path, even if impure, in the divine service is holy if the selfish desire is absent. Any path, even if pure in the divine service is unholy if the selfish desire is present. This is the very basic fundamental foundation of all our spiritual efforts and this defect in the foundation will lead to cracks in the entire building of spiritual life or Nivrutti.
87) Journey of Soul as per Deeds:-
The journey of the soul in this world while alive or its journey in the upper worlds after death depends on its actions based on its true or wrong knowledge. For example, donation is praised to be the top most practical service. The same deed in right direction (donating to deserving receiver) or in wrong direction (donating to undeserving receiver) decides the journey of the soul is whether in the upward direction or in the downward direction from this earth respectively. The same deed in right direction is merit (punyam) and the same deed in wrong direction is sin (paapam). Unless you fix your knowledge about deservingness and undeservingness of receivers, you shall not enter into practice. Hence, the Veda says that you shall do the donation after gaining the knowledge of deserving and undeserving receivers only and such knowledge is called as samvit (samvidaa deyam). Donation to undeserving is not to be treated as mere waste (zero), but, is to be treated as sin (negative sign). Hence, true knowledge is the foundation for devotion in correct direction and subsequent practice in correct direction. A blind driver is driving a chariot tied with blind horses. The owner of chariot is not blind. The owner is knowledge or intellectual analysis. The driver is devotion and the horses are practice. In this case, the owner can guide the driver, who guides the horses. If the owner is also blind (wrong knowledge), what will be the fate of all the three (owner, driver and horses)? All the three will fall in a pond of mud! The three upper worlds from Bhuuloka (earth) to Svarloka (heaven) are related to the social service done to the society even without spiritual side. The soul has to return to earth after enjoying temporary heaven. The four upper worlds further from heaven to Brahmaloka (abode of God) are related to social service mixed with spiritual service and such soul also returns to the earth for doing same service as servant of God and this is the permanent fruit. The lower seven worlds from earth are related to the deeds (sins) done in wrong direction due to wrong spiritual knowledge. These deeds not only influence the life of the soul after death, but also, the life of the soul before death on this earth. Both intensive good and bad deeds yield corresponding fruits in this very life itself.
88) Satguru and Guru:-
The overall conclusion of the analysis of deeds and fruits is that you must be very very careful regarding the first step, which is whether the true spiritual knowledge is gained from Satguru or human incarnation or divine preacher or whether false spiritual knowledge is gained from human Guru or ordinary soul. If the human Guru follows the Satguru in the concepts, the human Guru is also like Satguru only. The human Guru following Satguru is like the teacher attending the study hours of students, who come after hearing the lecture of the class teacher, to guide them in the lecture already heard from class teacher. If the student is alert, even if the study hour-teacher goes wrong, the student will rectify him and will not feel to rectify his own teacher since the concept is very important. The human incarnation or Satguru comes in every generation. The spiritual knowledge of Satguru is recorded already and hence, the disciple need not worry about the point that whether a preacher is Satguru or guru. The ability of analysis is the top most faculty of any human being, which is done by intelligence existing in the top most part of head. This is the reason why the Satguru, Krishna, preached the Gita starting with Jnaanayoga or Buddhi yoga or Saamkhya Yoga (which is the talent of sharp analysis) as the very beginning chapter.
89) Incarnation and Divine Servants:-
When God comes in human form to this earth, the devotees of the inner circle of God always accompany Him in human forms. The divine program decides the roles of various devotees of His inner circle. God Shiva came down as Shankara to convert atheists (Purvamiimaamsakas and Buddhists) in to theists. God Brahma came down as incarnation of Mandanamishra and His wife Goddess Saraswati came as Ubhayabharati, the wife of Mandanamishra. Their debate was very deep so that all the points of Purvamiimaamsaa were perfectly projected by Mandanamishra so that it is perfectly condemned from the root. Mandanamishra was only acting as opponent of Shankara. After the exit of Shankara, the followers started thinking that each one is already God forgetting the subsequent step given by Shankara that the soul must worship God for purity of mind before becoming God. To remind this forgotten step, God Shiva sent Adi Shesha, the Lord of serpents, acting as His garland, in the form of Ramanuja to remind this forgotten step. After some time, God Shiva sent Vaayu (air), the divine servant, in the form of Madhva to advise that the devotee shall forget becoming God and shall remain in dualism only forever serving the God. While remaining as the devoted servant, such soul can become God when God selects him as His medium to become God (human incarnation). When the professor teaches the class, he will give total concept in his lecture. For the next class, to clarify doubts and to remind the forgotten points, the research student of the professor comes to take the class. Similarly, Shankara came and gave the total concept. The total concept is that i) the soul is God and this concept acted as promoter of atheist become theist and also every soul to take interest in the spiritual knowledge to get infinite treasure without a trace of effort! This initiated lot of interest in every soul for spiritual knowledge, which exploits the weakness (high ambition) of the soul. ii) The second step is that the soul must worship God as a devotee to get His grace to become God. The disciples followed this second step also without analysis (that is - “why the already God shall worship Himself to become God?”) due to the force of ambition. iii) During the worship, the soul must think himself as servant of God remaining in perfect dualism. The second point is reminded through Ramanuja and third point through Madhva. The necessity of reminding came since some theists (converted atheists) questioned the worship of God when they themselves are already God. They continued only in the first step that they are always God. For these slipped theists only, God Shiva sent devotees from His inner circle to the earth as subsequent incarnations (Ramanuja and Madhva). Both Ramanuja and Madhva propagated about God Vishnu since God Vishnu and God Shiva are one and the same as per the Veda. Vishnu (Narayana) is preferred than Brahma and Shiva since the souls are present in the middle state (maintenance) of world, which relates to God in the form of Vishnu. Without realizing this point, followers of both stuck to God Vishnu only rejecting God Shiva and treating God Brahma as a devotee of God Vishnu. God Shiva was also treated by some good followers as the top class devotee (Paramabhaagavatottama) of God Vishnu. Even the followers of Madhva treated Hanuman, the son of Vaayu, as the devotee of God Vishnu (Rama) and incarnation of God Shiva. Hanuman is treated as God Brahma also in the position of future creator. Ramanuja, being the incarnation of Adi Shesha is placed in the list of ten incarnations of God Vishnu and thus is treated as God Vishnu. All this circular explanation results that all these names are of one God only called as Datta, single actor playing in various roles simultaneously (as we see in the cinemas), who is the first energetic incarnation of Parabrahman or unimaginable God as per this Datta Swami. Hence, we shall not differentiate incarnation of God from His servants following Him in His service on this earth. God Datta alone exists in all these divine names and forms.
(To be continued...)
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