15 Dec 2003
LAKSHMANA GITA: I II III IV V VI
Lakshman:
When I reach the state of awareness of awareness
That is the final state of salvation in which state
I experience the Brahman and that is Samadhi
Oh! Sadguru Dattaswami! Explain to me clearly.
Swami:
I am the knowledge, love and bliss
The Vedas call Me Parabrahman
Knowledge, love and bliss concentrated
Multiplied by infinity is Myself.
My power is called Maya,
Which is inexplicable for you
I keep this secret of Maya with Me only
Otherwise, human beings will catch My hair.
To keep the soul always at My feet
I do not disclose the secret of Maya
By this, the soul always surrenders to Me
Otherwise, he will claim himself as the Lord.
Through Maya only I created this world
I enjoy by seeing this everlasting cinema
For enjoyment I created ignorance
Which covers Me and I forget Myself.
I am not sleeping and not caught by dream
I am dreaming in the day opening My eyes
The ignorance is at My will to stay or not
Unlike the ignorance of a night dreamer.
My awareness is not your awareness
If it is so, when you weep I should weep
All should also weep at the same time
Your awareness is negligible part of Mine.
All the souls put together along with this world
Form a pinhead drop in Me, almost nil
I am the mightiest ocean of knowledge, love and bliss
Which are the characteristics of consciousness.
Even all the souls weep together at a time
I cannot be touched, all those being negligible
Awareness of awareness is consciousness, no doubt
You are seeing only the qualitative similarity.
Drop and ocean are qualitatively water, may be
Can the drop become the ocean by this equality?
Water is Brahman but ocean is Ishwara
You are already Brahman but not Ishwara.
Shankara touched this qualitative aspect only
To attract Bhddhists who were atheists then,
He told “Oh drop! You are already water”
But the drop thought that is was ocean.
Buddhist was fooled like this by Shankara
He has to accept his existence and If He is Brahman
Qualitative realization was brought like this
That is the beginning stage, which should be so.
Slowly when he analyzes the qualitative aspect
And goes into quantitative angle, truth is seen
He realizes that he is only water and not ocean
Then he surrenders to ocean to become devotee.
Knowledge by analysis leads to devotion
Devotion needs the ocean to be present before eyes
For this purpose, the ocean enters a human body drop
Through His power of Maya, called human incarnation.
“Aṇoraṇīyān mahato mahīyān” the Veda says so
This means that the ocean has entered the drop
In the same time, it is ocean and also the drop
That is the human incarnation, which is God and man.
This human incarnation is called Parabrahman
Which is greater than Brahman, soul, and Ishwara
Brahman is water, Ishwara is ocean and drop is soul
All these are quite logical terms to grasp.
Parabrahman is greater than all these
The word “Para” means “greater” actually
It is greater than the drop, ocean and water
Since it is the ocean hiding in a drop by Maya.
You cannot face Ishwara directly at any cost
By that force, you will disappear along with this world
You can face Parabrahman, which is the ocean
That speaks with you hidden in a drop like you.
As the ocean is hidden in the drop by Maya
The ocean can enter you also by the same Maya
But the ocean independently cannot hear you
The voice of the drop is nowhere in the voice of ocean.
Therefore, approach Parabrahman and serve Him,
As a servant without aspiring anything from Him
If He wishes, you can get the samadhi
In which the Ocean enters you as a shadow.
Shankara never told that you are Ishwara
He told that you are only Brahman
Awareness of a drop-like awareness is useless
Awareness of an ocean-like awareness is greatest.
You cannot achieve this samadhi by your effort
Your effort is not heard by the roaring ocean
The ocean comes down to hear you in this way
If you do not use this opportunity, you are lost.
When the king comes to hear the public
Your are keeping silent staying in your home
When the king is busy in a battlefield
You go there and submit your complaint!
This is the state of Advaita philosopher
He is the foolish disciple of Shankara
Egoism and jealousy cover his eyes
He cannot see the ocean in a drop.
But he, a drop, wants to contain the ocean
How can the ocean enter him who is a drop?
He discards the technique and the example
How can he become the example by the same technique?
Therefore, follow Sadguru who is the ocean in a drop
If you follow another drop what is the use?
You are a rabbit and If you see the Lion
You will vanish on the spot with fear.
Therefore, the Lion came as a rabbit
Remember, the Lion is covered by the skin of rabbit
It is not at all a rabbit, it speaks “I am Lion”
You rabbit! Don’t imitate that rabbit like Lion.
Recognize and serve that rabbit like Lion with love
Because it looks like a rabbit, it is your friend only
There is no need of fear since the Lion is not exposed
It behaves like a rabbit in all its activities.
A human incarnation also behaves like a man
With all the qualities of nature only
This will generate love and nearness in your heart
For you to approach and love, this technique is adopted.
When your service that is the proof of your love is full
Then the Lion enters your body as a shadow for sometime
Through His Maya to give you His experience
The Lion cannot enter you unless you die.
Death does not mean the physical death of the body
By which the egoism of the soul is not lost
Spiritual death is crossing ‘I’ forever
‘I’ disappears only in the selfless service.
The service should be to the drop containing the ocean
You can never approach that mightiest ocean directly
Therefore, the ocean in the drop is the only alternative
When ‘I’ is removed, ‘My’ also gets removed.
If ‘My’ is lost all the desires are lost
The desires are the branches of ‘My’
‘My’ is the trunk and ‘I’ is the root
Removal of trunk with branches is the spiritual death.
If you remove the root also along with the trunk
You have become just the inert skin of rabbit
The Lion can wear this shirt of rabbit skin
Of course, the Lion should also wish to accept that shirt.
Therefore, your effort should not be only for spiritual death
You should also try to please the Lion always
The Lion can never enter the non-living rabbit
What is the use of this? You have become inert.
You cannot experience anything as you are not alive
Is it not the greatest foolishness for you?
It is like getting an award after death
Which you cannot receive and you cannot enjoy your fame.
Therefore, live like a rabbit and do not cross your ‘I’
Let the root be there even if the trunk and branches are cut
You can experience the love of the Lion through your ‘I’
The Lion becomes your servant in this world and also there.
Hanuman crossed both ‘I’ and ‘My’
He became the inert skin, which is the shirt of the Lion
Hanuman creates, rules and destroys the world
But Hanuman is only inert and the Lion does everything.
In this state, the soul of Hanuman does not exist
The inner Lion speaks that He is the Lion
For you it appears as if Hanuman is speaking
But it is the monkey incarnation of the Lion.
Radha did not cross her ‘I’
She retained her ‘I’ limiting to her body
Her awareness is the awareness of her body
Let the Lion be with its own rabbit skin cover.
She does not want to die spiritually
To become a new skin shirt for the Lion
She wants to live like a rabbit with its own skin
To experience the love of Lion which exists separately.
But for this experience, Radha has no other desire
All the branches and the trunk were cut
Only the root ‘I’ is retained and there is no ‘My’
Hanuman cuts both His ‘I’ and ‘My’.
Hanuman cannot experience the love of the Lion
Because He is only the inert shirt of the Lion
Hanuman is not hearing His own fame
The Lion is only hearing the fame of Hanuman.
Hanuman becomes the Lord of the fourteen worlds
But what is the use? Hanuman is not existing
Radha is limited to one world only
Which is called ‘Goloka’ that is the topmost world.
Limiting to one world means
Radha retained ‘I’ with limited feeling of body
Hanuman spreads into all the fourteen worlds
Meaning that He crossed ‘I’ and became infinite.
If you become infinite, you become inert
If you remain finite, you are alive
Goloka is above the fourteen worlds
Radha is cleverer than innocent Hanuman.
Remember that both Radha and Hanuman cut
The ‘My’ with all the worldly desires
Both served the Lord with real infinite love
For the Lord Hanuman tore His heart and Radha died.
Remember that Hanuman is not innocent
Because Hanuman is the monkey incarnation of the Lion
Rama was the human incarnation of the Lion
Lion is the Master and the same Lion is the servant.
Radha is a rabbit with its own skin
Radha never desired the Lion to enter her
She does not want to become inert skin
Lion remained as Lion and rabbit as rabbit.
But the Lion became the servant of the rabbit
The Lion is doing everything by the wish of Radha
Radha is sitting on the head of the Lion
Served by ‘Krishna Lion’ as ‘Śrīmat siṃhāsaneśvarī’.
When Radha was left in Brindavanam
Krishna spoke to Radha through Uddhava
All the above message in the name of ‘Parabrahma jnana’
And gave the following letter written by Himself.
“I am the Lion covered by the rabbit skin
You are the rabbit covered by your own skin
But due to your love and sacrifice, you act as the Lion
I am acting as the rabbit catching your feet.
Oh rabbit! Remaining as a real rabbit
Both internally as well as externally
You converted Me as a rabbit internally also
Just I remain as a Lion in the visible form.
I am the ocean contained in a drop
You are only a drop in a drop
How miraculous is your love
Practically you are the ocean and I am the drop.
I create rule and destroy this world
As your eyebrow moves and orders Me
The twelve-hour night passed like twelve seconds
While I was pressing your tender feet in Brindavanam.
Now the twelve-hour night is passing as
Twelve hundred hours in Dwaraka without you
The same blue water is Yamuna as a small river there
And also is the mighty ocean here in Dwaraka”.
The word Radha came from the word Dhara
Radha represents Dhara, which means
The continuous stream of love without any break
Such a devotee can be Radha whether male or female.
In this Kali age Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Is considered as Radha for His continuous love
He liked to be a limited ant, which is alive
Grasping the inert sugar, which is infinite.
To be continued...
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