Posted on: 09 Feb 2005
[My son is trying to become a film star in Hollywood. Can You please bless him? I would like to help a poor lady in a problem. Can you please bless her? In a dream I found broken pieces of an idol of Vasudeva in a car and the driver was asking me if the pieces belong to me? Can You please explain this?]
Swami sends His heartful blessings to your son. This whole world itself is the Universal Cinema. The real Hollywood hero is the Lord Himself. Ask your son to surrender to that Real Hero and for Him it is nothing to grant this boon to your son. Moreover, you are going to be saved by that real Hollywood Hero at your end. Your son cannot save you because he himself has to be saved by that Hero. All these family relationships are only the bonds between the roles acting in this world cinema. These bonds neither existed before this birth and nor will they exist in the coming birth. All these family members are only your co-actors appearing in different roles from one movie to another. Thus these dramatic bonds are temporary and therefore are unreal.
According to Shankara that which is temporary must be unreal. The dramatic bond neither exists before the drama and nor will it exist after the drama. Therefore, the bond does not really exist even during the period of this drama. There is only one bond, which is permanent and real. That bond is between that real Hollywood Hero, who is the producer and director of the entire field and the actors. That bond is the employer-employee (Swami-Sevaka) relationship. This bond is permanent from the beginning of this creation and will never break. Therefore, treat that real Hollywood Hero as your Son from now onwards. He will definitely fulfill the wish of His younger brother [your son] about whom you are dreaming.
You want to help a poor lady in her problem. No doubt, social service is good and you will get a place in heaven for such good deeds. But heaven is also temporary and you have to return to this world as said in the Gita (Ksheene Punye…). Therefore, mere social service is of no permanent use. You always have to mix social service with the devotion to God. That lady is facing her problems because of her deeds. The problems are a punishment given by the Lord. If you simply try to help her without preaching the divine knowledge and devotion to her, it is interference in the administration of God. Therefore, tell her to pray the Lord in times of difficulty. Then your help mixed with the divine preaching serves the purpose of punishment. Punishment is only to bring about change and when she becomes a devotee, it is the best change. Then there is no need of the punishment. Then God blesses her and her problem will be solved. However, Swami has already sent blessings to her.
Your dream has some divine significance. The car is your body. You are the owner of the car. The steering wheel is your mind. The wheels of the car are the senses of the body. The driver is your intelligence. The driver must have a proper training to drive the car. Lord is the owner of this training center. The training is nothing but divine knowledge. Therefore, if the driver is properly trained in divine knowledge you are sure to reach the correct divine goal. The broken pieces of the statue of Vaasudeva indicate that the statue stands only as a representative of the Lord. Vaasudeva means the son of Vasudeva or the human body. The Lord enters the human body and pervades all over the human body so that the human body should be treated directly as the Lord as said in the Gita (Vaasudevah Sarvamiti….). Vaasudeva stated that He would be born again and again for every human generation as said in the Gita (Yada Yadahi….). The Lord stated that He is not modified into the human body and therefore, you should treat His human body only as the wire into which the electricity has entered. During the lifetime of Vaasudeva that human body was the Lord and devotees never differentiated between the Lord and that human body. But at the end, the Lord left that human body and it was cremated by Arjuna. The Lord again appears in another human incarnation. The human body is just a shirt. The shirt is changed but the person is not changed. Therefore, if you are talking about Vaasudeva, does the word mean the Lord or the human body?
The human body was inert and was not different from an inert statue and it disintegrated into pieces. The Lord alone is eternal and therefore, the word Vaasudeva refers to the Lord alone. Thus every human incarnation is Vaasudeva. The body of Rama disappeared. The same Rama came, as Lord Krishna but Hanuman could not recognize Him. Lord Krishna showed that He was Rama. Lord Krishna taught this entire concept to Hanuman after giving Hanuman the vision of Rama.
Therefore, your dream conveys a message to you that you should search and find out that real Hollywood Hero present in a role today. The Brahma Sutra says that the Lord utilizes the dream as a medium for the divine message (Sandhye Srishtirahahi…). I convey My apology to you for the delay in My reply since I had to answer several letters. As Swami I convey My blessings to you for your spiritual development.