Posted on: 07 Feb 2005
[He generated bliss in me. O God, lead me in the true path?]
This entire universe is objective because the Creator is the subject and the Creation is the object. Any item in the Creation is also an object. The human body is the most convenient object. Only through such a human body, should the Lord be meditated upon and served. The subjective God (Creator) is beyond words, mind, intelligence, logic and imagination as said in the Veda. The Gita says that if one approaches the subjective God directly, he will end in misery (Avyakthahi Gatih Duhkham…). This verse in the Gita means that the souls having human bodies cannot worship the subjective God directly because such worship leads only to misery. You cannot even imagine the subjective God. When the approach is subjective, the mind is destroyed as said in the Gita in the above verse. Only the objective approach will give happiness because there is no difficulty for the mind in capturing God through an object. Since you are an object, you can capture the boundaries of another object through your mind. Any object is within the four-dimensional space-time model. The subjective God is beyond the dimensions of space and time. When you try to capture the subjective God, the mind is unable to catch Him and undergoes a lot of difficulties leading into strain that destroys the mind. But when you experience God through a human being, you will not have any strain in capturing God, who is identified with the object. When the subjective God is not at all experienced, how can His characteristic sign, which is Bliss, be experienced? You cannot look at the sun directly. Then how can you enjoy its heat or light? Even if the sun is not seen directly, if a lens, which is illuminated by the sun, is seen, you can actually enjoy the light and heat at least in small quantities. When the sun is completely hidden by the clouds, neither the sun nor his heat and light, are experienced.
Bliss is defined as the continuous happiness, which is infinitely intense. You may sometimes mistake the temporary happiness also as Bliss. When you have not tasted the infinitely intense happiness, you may misunderstand even a small shadow of Bliss (happiness) as Bliss itself. Moreover, your Bliss is not the highest goal. You must please the Lord and pleasing the Lord must be your highest goal. Therefore, your experience of the bliss need not necessarily be the pleasure of God. Mere bliss can be obtained even from materialistic things like drinking wine etc.
Only divine knowledge followed by divine love and bliss can reveal to you the identity of the Lord. But once you have recognized the Lord by the knowledge, love and bliss, your aim should be the service of the Lord through which the Lord must be pleased. In this service you may not have the bliss or sometimes, you may even have to face a lot of unhappiness. Jesus said that unless one detaches even from his own life for His sake, he couldn’t be His dearest disciple. You should feel that all that unhappiness during service is happiness if it pleases the Lord. You must have the power of patient analysis and discrimination in the search of the truth. Your aim should not be the attainment of bliss but it should be making the Lord blissful through your service and sacrifice. If this ultimate goal is realized, the soul gets the topmost place in the heart of the Lord.
You have entered the heart of the Lord deeply through your proven love towards the Lord in the very first step itself [This devotee donated large amounts of his hard earned money for Swami’s mission]. The Lord sincerely wants to hold on to you in the path of the truth. The Lord does not want to use any super power in this matter because the path of knowledge and devotion should be spontaneous, natural and real. The final result of the effort of Swami thus depends only in the power of your discrimination and on your patience in analyzing the knowledge in search of the truth. You will have firm faith only when the divine knowledge helps you as a fertilizer to germinate devotion and also acts as a pesticide to remove worm-like attractions and illusions of Satan, who always tries to take away the sheep from the Lord like a wolf or a fox.