Express Article-Viswarupa Dharshan

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Some people are reasonable; many are unreasonable, especially when

their own interest is touched. Irrationality is common. It is not

new. Occasionally irrationality insists beyond limits. Irrationality

has a way of suddenly changing into its opposite when faced with

pressure of strength.

 

What does not yield to argument yields to strength. What no measure

of strength can move, an illuminating thought sometimes moves.

Thought is more powerful than strength and it is known to bring

strength around in time. Human ego can defy strength or even

knowledge. It can defy even Gods. Those are great moments in the life

of the individual. Its message is different.

 

A time comes when the most developed EGO wants to destroy itself and

it cannot. At those moments, it seeks out the strongest force known

and provokes it until it swings into action.

 

The fully developed Ego is subconsciously aware that it has to be

destroyed at this point. There is no mechanism of self-destruction

available to him. Such a subconscious knowledge leads him to the

sources of greatest power to consciously provoke them into direct

action. Duryodana refused to see the divine power of Krishna because

he needed the war and more so, needed to be destroyed. It was a

subconscious knowledge.

 

An illustrious poem was taken up for discussion among the Sangam

poets. A line in the poem spoke about the natural fragrance of the

hair on the head. The dispute travelled all pats and finally subsided

over only one point: whether human hair is capable of natural

perfume. All but one agreed that it could have a sweet smell. One

poet differed. It is a known fact that human beings carry an aura.

Those endowed with the perception can directly know what aura has.

People can have an aura of light of various colours, white, golden,

blue. Spiritual realisation can endow a person with any capacity. One

Sadhu gave up bathing but he exuded no bad smell. Around him was a

good smell. Generally, spiritual seekers do not seek after such

endowments. They come on their own. Ego can refuse to sanction any

argument. When the contending poet revealed his third eye hoping the

other poet would bow down, the reply came," even if you open your

third eye, I am not going to accept your definition." His ego sought

destruction at the hands of Siva. He was not simply refusing an

argument.

 

Duryodana refused the Pandavas their kingdom. He refused to give even

five villages to them. "I shall not permit them space enough to plant

a needle," he said. He proceeded to arrest Krishna who came as an

ambassador, contrary to the royal custom. Krishna rose in the

splendour of his original divine form. Duryodana dismissed it as

magic. But all in the court including the blind Dridharashtra could

see the Viswaroopa.

 

 

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