17 Dec 2003
LAKSHMANA GITA: I II III IV V VI
Swami:
Oh! Lakshman! What a diamond you are
How sharp your spiritual question is!
Brahman is beyond space and time
You can never imagine Brahman.
The meaning of Brahman being ‘Great’
The word Brahman is used for many
The Gita calls the Veda as Brahman
Because the Veda is a great scripture.
Similarly, consciousness is great
Among all the forms of energy
Like light, heat etc., which are inert
Consciousness is living force, the awareness.
Energy is greater than matter
Among the forms of energy also
Consciousness is the greatest form
Since living is greater than non-living.
Hence, consciousness is also called as
Brahman, the great among energy forms
The Veda is greatest among all scriptures
So the Veda is also called as Brahman.
Lion is the king of animals
Here the king means great
King does not mean the real king
Who sits on the thrown and rules.
Among a group of items
The greatest is called as Brahman
Man is also Brahman among living beings
Man is the greatest creation among them.
Every man can be called as Brahman
A great Scholar in the logic is called as
‘Tarkashastra Brahma’, which means that
He is the greatest Scholar in logic.
Man is greatest among the living beings
Lion is greatest among the animals
Both man and lion are called Brahman
Each confined to its category only.
As the king means the real king
Brahman means that which is greatest
Greatest is greater than every great
It is not confined to one category.
Brahman is greatest of all the categories
It is beyond words, mind and imagination
Greatest among one category cannot be Brahman
For, greatest is greatest among all the categories.
Therefore, the soul is not the real Brahman also
Real Brahman means Brahman in the real sense
A member of the Lions Club is called lion
Can he kill the elephant as a real lion?
The word Brahman is used in apparent sense
Awareness is greatest among the items of creation
But Brahman in real sense is greater than awareness
Therefore, Brahman is the greatest.
You cannot see Arundhati star in the sky
But Vashishtha star is clearly seen
Arundhati is very near to Vashishtha
So Vashishtha is shown as Arundhati.
Similarly, Brahman is beyond imagination like Arundhati
Consciousness can be understood like Vashishtha
Consciousness is very near to Brahman
Since Consciousness is the greatest in the creation.
As you show Vashishtha as Arundhati
Consciousness is shown as Brahman
Vashishtha and Arundhati are different stars
Consciousness is creation and Brahman is creator.
Since Arundhati can never be seen by you
You can never imagine Brahman
The only way is to show Vashishtha as Arundhati
Consciousness can be imagined as Brahman.
The soul is neither Brahman nor Ishwara
The drop is neither water nor the ocean
Water is present in the ocean only
Ishwara is only the real Brahman.
The entire creation is only water vapour
Jiiva is only a particle of that vapour
Jiiva is different from Ishwara
Both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Just a drop from the ocean evaporated
Became the creation and you the soul
Just a drop in that vapour only
Ofcourse water vapour can be treated as water
Like this Jiiva may be Brahman qualitatively.
‘Pādo'sya viśvā bhūtāni’ the Veda says
Out of millions of rays of Brahman-Sun
One ray is modified as the world
Ramanuja says this as real modification.
Water molecules are seen in water and vapour
It is only ‘Aabhaasa’, apparent modification
Shankara says so; both theories are same
If you analyze both differ in experience.
Infinite dilution of water drop is vapour
Both differ as image and its reflection
Image is matter and reflection is light
Matter and light energy are inter-convertible.
You are water drop and ocean also
This is the pseudo-Advaita
You are water only but not ocean
This is the Advaita of Shankara.
You are a water drop, a small part of
The Ocean, is the concept of Ramanuja
The whole sum is Ishwara
His small limb is the Jiiva or soul.
You are a drop of vapour only
Which is not in the ocean
Neither you are in the ocean nor you have water
This is the theory of Madhva.
The Buddhist Atheist is attracted
By the pseudo-Advaita at the outset
Slowly he realized that he is not ocean, only water
At last he realized that he is only vapour not even water.
Slowly the soul descends down by the ladder
As the egoism and jealousy vanish
Water vapour is also water by essence
There is a continuity of water from drop to ocean.
Water or water vapour is not Brahman
We called water by the name Brahman
Water is the real consciousness, the object
Water vapour is only apparent consciousness, the reflection.
Now Ishwara also is not Brahman, it means
Since even water is not the Brahman
But Ishwara is always Brahman, because
Brahman is always hidden in Ishwara.
No doubt first only Brahman existed
It wanted entertainment and it created the world
But, how the second came from one?
If second is not there how Brahman was entertained?
This is the secret of creation, called as Maya
Which is inexplicable like Brahman
Certain middle aspects of creation are only known
Beginning and end of creation are unknown.
Unless you cross the space, Brahman cannot be realized
The Veda says “Brahman created the space”
Before creation of space Brahman existed
In the absence of space only Brahman can be seen.
(Ātmana ākāśaḥ sambhūtaḥ – Veda)
You break your head for hundred years
Absence of space can never be imagined
Then, how can you imagine the Brahman?
It exists before the creation of space.
“Consciousness creates space in dream
The dream space disappears with dream
The consciousness remains after dream
Consciousness beyond dream space is Brahman”.
If Advaitin says the above argument, My Friend!
The consciousness after the vanished dream space
Exists only based on this real space only
It means consciousness requires space base.
This real space may disappear, then
The consciousness remains, but there should be
Another more real space for that, since
No proof for the consciousness without space.
The Veda calls more real space “Parama Vyoman”.
When all types of spaces disappear, then only
Space disappeared, for, there was no any space
Before the creation of the space by Brahman
Brahman is not space based as it is beyond space.
Brahman without any type of space
Can never be imagined by any one
Anybody is in the space only
Who can cross this space?
Even Devas and Rishis are in the space only
Even they cannot imagine Brahman, not to speak of men
“I am a Deva, how can I tell about Brahman?”
Yama told Nachiketa in the Upanishad.
No example can be given to Brahman
Every example in the world is space based
No example in this world is the actual Brahman
When it cannot be even the example for Brahman.
“The final conclusion of many seminars
Conducted by Devas and Rishis concluded
That Brahman cannot be known by any means
At least this, if one knows, he knows Brahman a little.
If any one tells that he knows Brahman
He does not know even a little of Brahman
This is the knowledge of Brahman, Brahma Jnana
That I can give to you,” told Yama to Nachiketa
Therefore, by your analysis, you can never
Even imagine Brahman, how can you see it?
If you leave the self-effort, egoistic path
And cry for Brahman, surrender as a devotee.
Brahman appears, talks, touches and lives with you.
‘Brahman alone knows Brahman’ the Veda says
Brahman preaches you about itself
The Veda told, “Brahman reveals its body
If you love Brahman with selfless service”.
(Brahmavit Brahma, Yamevaiṣa vṛṇute – Veda)
Body means human body, the Gita says
It is ‘Sthula’ body, which is the external
The internal body, Ishwara is ‘Sukshma’, in it
Brahman the ‘Karana’ body is always hidden.
(Mānuṣīṃ tanumāśritam – Gita)
In Purna and Paripurna human incarnations
Brahman, Ishwara and human body exist, no Jiiva
In Purna, Brahman exhibits itself to some extent
In Paripurna, Brahman exhibits itself to the full extent.
Purna is Rama and Paripurna is Krishna
Other incarnations are Kala, Amsha and Aavesha
Kala means a ray of power of Ishwara enters
Amsha means a part of power of Ishwara enters.
In Kala and Amsha, human body and Jiiva exist
Vyasa is Kala and Kapila is Amsha incarnation
In Aavesha, Ishwara enters human body and its Jiiva
For some time for a purpose as in Parashurama
Ishwara is always with Brahman, remember it always.
Incarnation as fish, tortoise etc., are temporary
They came for killing demons, then vanished
Never Ishwara enters the inert statue
The Veda says, “For Ishwara there is no statue”.
(Na tasya pratimā asti – Veda)
The Gita says that if you worship inert statue
You will be born as inert object only
Inert statue is only just to have a vision
Like seeing the photo of your son, who is away.
(Bhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā – Gita)
The statues and photos are imaginary forms
Nobody has taken the direct photos
No doubt, Devas exist in the bodies of light
Which can be seen by penance and they talk.
But, you cannot touch and live with them
Devas are also Jiivas in divine light bodies
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are the three light bodies
In which Ishwara is hidden in whom Brahman is hidden.
The only difference between Vishnu and Krishna is
In Vishnu, the body is light, in Krishna, the body is five elements
You cannot touch and live with Vishnu
You can touch and live with Krishna.
You do lot of penance to approach and see Vishnu
Without any effort Krishna came to you
You respect a copper coin when you earn it
You neglect even a gold coin when someone gives it.
Krishna looks like you exactly with same body
Vishnu looks different with a body of light energy
Man always likes a different one
And repels with a similar one.
Egoism and jealousy are the two layers
That covers the two eyes of every man
Man can never accept the man
But God in man is the gold coin.
The external clothes only differ
In Krishna and Vishnu
Krishna is the only shirt
That gives full bliss and satisfaction to you.
The same person is present
In both the clothes
The person is Ishwara
In whom Brahman is hidden.
The essence in one sentence is that
You should worship Narayana in the Nara form
That one sentence alone if taught
It falls like arrow, which is stem of grass.
The same sentence when taught
With the Veda, Shastra and logic authoritatively
It inserts in you like the fire arrow
The Gita says that Knowledge is fire.
To be continued...
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