01 Apr 2017
Shri Kishore Ram Asked:1) Padmanamaskaram Shri Dattaswami!!!
Bond with God either is Pravrutti or Nivrutti is highly essential for any spiritual aspirant. This is what i understood as the essence of the spiritual knowledge from your preachings. However, due to a small incident in my house last week, I was deeply pained and have few queries on it.
a) If family bond becomes a hurdle in my spiritual progress directly or indirectly becoming an obstruction in the propagation of Swami's divine knowledge (Satsanga), What can I do?
b) For me, it is quite funny to see people at home have a special bond with God (in the Pooja room, there is a special chair (simhasanam)/special statue decorated where they worship thier Kula Daivam. This means that they like to maintain an additional bond with Lord apart from their family and materialistic (money) bonds. But in reality, they tend to oppose human form of Lord or not even a normal Guru for that matter. You said in the telephonic conversation that bond with God is on one side while the bond with the family and others on another side. But, I feel even bond with God can be maintained (minimum) on the same line with Family in the field of Pravrutti.
c) Why the term Samnyasa was given such a hype from such a long time? The reason I ask is, these days if someone is interested in spiritual knowledge, their family member would worry about the person, would mostly leave the house and take samnyasa (this happened to me as well). Why the true meaning of Samnyasa was not preached by previous incarnations to remove the confusion?
d) How can I inject/impart this Spiritual Knowledge from Datta Swami into my family members who can’t digest the truth directly?
Swami Replied: In Telephone, I told some points related to yourself, which you should not have taken to your family members directly. I know your stage in the spiritual path and hence the knowledge suitable to your state was spoken by Me to you. If you take this knowledge to the people of a different lower state, there will be repulsion. A P.G. student came and asked his professor a doubt in quantum mechanics. The Professor gave the answer clarifying his doubt. The same P.G. student of Physics has gone to house and started explaining the doubt and answer to all the family members. Will they understand that point? They will feel that the P.G. student has become mentally wrong and will take him to a doctor for treatment in the mental hospital. Hence, the basic policy in any knowledge including the spiritual knowledge is about the deservingness of the receiver (Adhikari) and the related subject to that level (Vishaya). The suitability of the subject to a specific receiver of knowledge is called as relationship (Sambandha). The fourth aspect is the utility of such knowledge in the case of receiver (Prayojanam). Hence, these four aspects must be considered before preaching spiritual knowledge to a specific human being. We must judge the eligibility of the receiver and give the eligible spiritual knowledge only to that receiver. You can't preach P.G. subject in L.K.G. class or vice-versa. Hence, whatever I told to different levels must be with you. You must judge the level of the receiver and give the corresponding part of spiritual knowledge only to such receiver. Since you are selected by Me for the propagation of spiritual knowledge, I have to give the spiritual knowledge of all levels to you so that when you meet people of a specific level, you can give the corresponding part of entire spiritual knowledge only to them. When they rise to the higher level, you will give them the other related part of spiritual knowledge. Like this, the spiritual knowledge must be preached as per their levels. When they assimilate the knowledge and rise to the higher level, you must preach knowledge of higher level. When they reach the highest level, you must preach the knowledge of highest level. Whatever may be your level, I have given the spiritual knowledge of all the three levels because you are selected to preach the spiritual knowledge to all the levels in the world in which your family also exists. After judging the level of your family member or outsider only, you have to give the corresponding part of the spiritual knowledge.
When I select people for the propagation of the spiritual knowledge, certainly they are of highest level only. Otherwise, they can never approach Me. They can never even identify Me. Though, you belong to the highest level, you must come down to higher and high levels also in preaching. If you preach standing in the highest level only, you cannot do the propagation of spiritual knowledge to the world including your family. If you can't come down to lower levels, you must sit separately and go on memorising the highest level of spiritual knowledge, which is for your spiritual development and not for spiritual development of the entire humanity. You can uplift yourself more and more in the highest level by independent process of thinking called as meditation. Foolish people think that meditation means closing eyes and imagining a form of God. What is the use of imagining the form of God without participating practically in His service? Hence, meditation means only thinking and analysing the spiritual knowledge within yourself sitting in an isolated place by closing your eyes to avoid any external disturbance. Therefore, meditation for self development is different and preaching the humanity for its uplift at various levels is different. Meditation indicates Yogi. Preaching spiritual knowledge to humanity indicates Samnyasi. Without becoming Yogi, one cannot become Samnyasi. Without studying the P.G. degree, how can we teach in a college? People think that leaving the house and family with a saffron cloth is Samnyasa. This impression is totally wrong. A Police officer in Khaki dress is not doing the duty of punishing the criminal. If you call him as a police officer, you can call a person leaving his house and family in saffron cloth also as Samnyasa. A Police officer in civil dress is punishing a criminal and such person is to be called the real police officer. Similarly, a person doing the propagation of spiritual knowledge to uplift the lower levels of humanity is a real Saint and not a person merely leaving the house in saffron cloth! There are several beggars begging for food in saffron cloth (Udaranimittam bahukruta veshah – Shankara)! It is true that in olden days, unless you leave your house and family, you cannot become a samnyasi. The reason is that one should wander all the places in preaching the spiritual knowledge to various levels. If the person sits in the house with family, this is not possible. But, today by the grace of God, one can become samnyasi without leaving the house and family. God has given the best way, which is the computer. You can spread the spiritual knowledge through computer sitting in your house. Saffron cloth indicates the maturity of knowledge just like a matured fruit gets saffron colour. What is the use of saffron cloth without getting maturity in spiritual knowledge and without preaching it to humanity?
Today, people are using saffron colored dress also as one of the variety without becoming saints! Therefore, if you understand the real duty of samnyasi, you need not wear saffron cloth and need not leave your house. You can become a perfect saint sitting with your family in your house even without saffron cloth provided you have matured spiritual knowledge in your head and a computer in the hand.
The high level is Pravrutti in which you worship God and also serve your family members. You will respect God as the highest in your theoretical devotion. But, when the practical test comes, you will vote for the other candidate standing against God. Dharmaraja worshipped Krishna as God in all the times. But, when God and deity of justice stood as opposing candidates in the election, Dharmaraja voted for the deity of justice because he is the son of Yamadharmaraja (Lord of Justice). God was defeated before the family bond. Krishna asked him to tell a lie in the war. Dharmaraja refused because telling a lie makes his father to become furious and unhappy. All this is Pravrutti.
The next higher level is the middle junction of Pravrutti and Nivrutti. The voter (devotee) votes this side sometimes and that side sometimes. Arjuna is an example. He killed his grandfather on the order of Krishna and voted for God against family bond. But the same Arjuna, who fought as a servant of God to punish injustice (not merely fighting for getting his kingdom) withdrew from the war since his son Abhimanyu died! Arjuna is called as 'Pandava Madhyama', which means that he is the center of the five Pandavas. Similarly, he stood in the center of Pravrutti and Nivrutti.
The ultimate highest level is Nivrutti in which all the family bonds are thrown away (Avadhoota) before God. Gopikas are the best examples. They have thrown away their children in giving butter to God. By this, they have thrown away the two important bonds of wealth and children. They have also thrown away their bonds with husbands by running to Brundavanam to dance with Krishna. The fruit of this level is higher than highest, which means really the highest. Goloka was created by God for them, above His abode called Satyaloka or Brahmaloka.
You must examine the receiver to know to which level the receiver belongs. If the receiver belongs to high pravrutti level, you should not preach the highest Nivrutti level to him. You have got the problem because of this error. If I come to your house, you know what I will preach? I will see the horoscopes of your family members and will tell how to get rid of difficulties and how to achieve profits and benefits for the materialistic progress of the family. I will say that since Shani is bad, they should worship Lord Hanuman so that they will get rid of all the obstructions in their materialistic path. They will be so happy that they will prostrate to My feet as the real preacher! After sometime, when I visit, they will be very happy to see the materialistic result. Now, I will say about the real character of Hanuman, who worshipped only Lord Rama as the human incarnation and preach about the concept of contemporary Human Incarnation. The Veda also follows this procedure in which the ordinary people of materialistic level are attracted by sacrifices for which the materialistic benefits in this world and heavenly pleasures in the upper world are shown. Gradually, the ordinary person is lead to the final spiritual knowledge of the Upanishads. Such sacrifices are fruit oriented (Kaamya Karma) and finally the Upanishads preach the spiritual knowledge in which service and sacrifice without aspiration for fruit (Nishkama Karma) is stressed. When I go on stressing this angle of ultimate spiritual knowledge, they reach to the higher and the highest levels in course of time regarding the relevant contemporary human incarnation. You have to bring the LKG student year by year to the PG level and then only teach the Wave Mechanics or Quantum Mechanics to him.
Therefore, in preaching or teaching, the knowledge of psychology of receiving devotee or student is essential. For this, knowledge of the four aspects (Anubandha Chatushtaya) is essential, which is the deservingness of receiver, the related part of the subject to the receiver, the relationship which is the suitability of the concept to the level of the receiver and finally the utility to the receiver, which brings the spiritual progress in course of time. This is nothing but the psychology. A scholar (Pandita) always preaches the subject concentrating on the Truth alone without studying the suitability of the subject to the level of the receiver. A preacher (Guru) does not bother about the subject and bothers only about the suitability of the subject to the level of the receiver so that some immediate practical benefit must be achieved. For this purpose, the preacher does not mind even to modify the subject according to the suitability of the receiver. When Shankara came to this Earth, all were atheists. If you talk about God, he will beat you and if you talk about human incarnation, he will kill you! Hence, Shankara played a trick to convert atheist into theist in the first stage. Shankara told that soul is God. Shankara asked the atheist whether he or the soul exists or not. The atheist told that he or the soul (awareness) exists. Then Shankara asked whether God, who is the soul or himself exists or not. The atheist has to tell that God exists. Hence, even truth can be modified in view of the suitability of knowledge to the present level of the receiver. This does not mean that Shankara told that every soul is God. Shankara told that He is God (Shivoham). Then He swallowed the wine. His followers also swallowed wine since they are God (since every soul is God). Hence, they also swallowed the wine. Then Shankara swallowed the molten lead asking them to swallow the same. They fell on His feet and then Shankara told that He alone is God (Shivah Kevaloham). Hence, in the concept of Human Incarnation the human being becomes God because God merges with It like electricity with metallic wire. The human soul in Human Incarnation is God and hence what Shankara told is correct (that soul is God). This applies only to Human Incarnation and not to every human being. Ofcourse, every human being has the chance to become human incarnation.
You may get a doubt that why Jesus preached the highest level of spiritual knowledge to all the people by saying “Unless you hate your family, you can’t be My disciple”. This means throwing away the bonds with parents, wife and children. He also said that a camel may pass through the eye of a needle but a rich man can't get salvation. This shows throwing away the bond with money with wealth. This is the concept of highest level of throwing bonds with family and money for the sake of God. Why He preached this to all? He preached this with a specific aim. Unless you say the student that he should get 100/100 marks to pass the examination, the student will not try seriously and by such serious effort he will get at least 40/100, just the real pass mark. If you have to reach ‘n’ level, you have to fix the goal as ‘n+1’. Hence, by such extreme preaching, the devotees will at least reduce their attachment to family bonds to some extent so that they will not do corruption for the sake of family.
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