Posted on: 22 Aug 2023
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Swami, please explain the reason for a Yogi to become Yogabhrashta referred in recent explanation of 12th Prakaranam of Brahma Jnaanam.]
Swami replied:- Yogi means the devotee trying to reach the contemporary human incarnation of God. In the path, the Yogi sometimes falls down and becomes Yogabhrashta to take birth again on the earth so that he/she tries again to rectify the mistake and to continue in the path of Yoga. This happens by the grace of God so that one more chance is given to the devotee to rectify the mistake. You asked for the reason that makes the devotee to slip from the path of Yoga and such reason is only one, which is the ego based jealousy that developed in the unconscious state of mind. The devotee himself/herself is unable to identify the growing ego based jealousy and recognizes it when it bursts out suddenly. This is a hidden dangerous disease since the devotee fails to take care of it from the beginning stage. I will give an example of Yogabhrashta:- The Sudarshana Chakra present on the finger of the hand of God Vishnu was very much praised by sage Narada, who said that God Vishnu couldn’t have success without the help of Sudarshana Chakra. Sudarshana responded saying that what Narada said was correct. While God Vishnu was killing demons using Sudarshana Chakra, the ego based jealousy on God Vishnu developed secretly in the mind of Sudarshana even without his knowledge. Suddenly, it came out when Narada praised Sudarshana and he fell from Yoga to become Yogabhrashta. God Vishnu became angry on Sudarshana and cursed him to take birth in the family of kings of great Hyhaya dynasty (Śucīnāṃ śrīmatāṃ gehe…- Gita) as Kaartaviiryaarjuna so that he will fight with God Vishnu born as Parashuraama by which he will experience the strength of God Vishnu.
Hence, the climax devotee like Sudarshana of the Sadguru must be very careful about the ego based jealousy that develops unconsciously in the mind as the co-devotees start praising the climax devotee. The climax devotee will fall from the path of Yoga. The co-devotees praise the climax devotee as greater than the Sadguru stating that the climax devotee himself is the true incarnation of God and the Sadguru is not so! Why do the co-devotees try to spoil the climax devotee? It is a test of the climax devotee done by the Sadguru regarding his/her intensity of ego. The devotees get bored with the Sadguru, who says that one devotee alone becomes incarnation as per the will of God. The devotees get hurt because the human tendency is to become the highest God. Hence, the devotees will call the climax devotee as God. Then, the devotees say after sometime that they have also become climax devotees because devotion can be developed to the climax state by human effort. After declaring themselves as climax devotees, they announce themselves as God showing the example of the above said climax devotee. Neither they rose nor they allowed the climax devotee to rise. They become pacified because atleast their co-devotee (climax devotee) has fallen. Even though, they are unable to bring the fall of the Sadguru, atleast they succeeded in making the climax devotee to fall because the climax devotee is greater than themselves. Jealousy is not only for the greatest state, but also, is for a greater state.
The human tendency is not to tolerate the greatness of their co-human being atleast, even though the same ego based jealousy started with the human incarnation. The stage of a devotee is always the stage of normal human tendency having ego based jealousy on any co-human being, be it the human incarnation or the climax devotee. Hence, if the devotee wants to succeed in the path of Yoga, first of all, he/she shall eradicate ego based jealousy so that the devotee will certainly succeed in the path of Yoga. These devotees become jealous of the human incarnation and try to take revenge against the human incarnation by projecting the climax devotee as God in competition to the Sadguru. All these nasty mentalities shall be eradicated by the devotee, who wants quick success in the path of Yoga, which means the union with God.