purpose of this human life in the light of spiritual line?

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Q.197) What is the purpose of this human life in the

light of spiritual line? Can I talk and see God? I am

doing meditation (Jyothi, U.S.A)

 

Ans.) In the materialistic plane one person says that

the aim of his life is to achieve a particular post

and then help his family members. Some other person

says that the aim of his life is to serve the mankind.

We appreciate the second aim as higher than the first

one. The highest aim of the human life can be known

only in the spiritual plane. The sole aim of this

creation is pleasing God through the entertainment.

Every human being is a part of the creation and so the

same aim applies to every human being also. The human

being becomes fruitful if it serves the Lord and

pleases the Lord through the service. Service means

the sacrifice of work and sacrifice of the fruit of

the work. Service is the proof of the real love. The

mother serves her child by sacrificing lot of work

like giving bath, dressing etc., for years together

continuously. The father serves the child by

sacrificing the fruit of all his hardwork to the

child. It is a clear practical point that the proof of

the real love is only service. If you serve your

family you love your family. If you serve the entire

world you love the creation. If you serve the creator,

you love the creator. It is a very simple point. Love

is the attraction of mind towards any body or any

thing. When the illness attacks the body you take so

much care to serve your body. You love your body.

Similarly you serve your father, mother, wife and

children because your mind is attracted towards them.

What is the first pre-requisite for this love? When

you love your child, you are aware that a particular

small living being is your child and you have the

differentiating knowledge of your child from other

children who are similar. Similarly, when you love God

you must be aware of the form of God, who must be

differentiated from other forms as your child is

differentiated from other children. You are

identifying your child by certain special

characteristics like shape of the face, voice etc; you

are not recognizing your child by the clothes, which

they put on. Other children put on such clothes also.

Similarly, you must distinguish the Creator from the

creation and then only love the creator. You cannot

love the entire creation as the creator. Do you love

all the children as your own children? Therefore, the

pre-requisite of love is the true knowledge and the

inseparable identifying characteristics of an object

by which you get attracted towards it. Therefore, what

is the real form of God? And how it differs from other

forms? What are the inseparable identifying

characteristics of God? The answers for these

questions constitute the detailed true knowledge of

God. Only such true knowledge generates attraction and

love. When you know the separate special details of

Bombay, which are not seen in any other city, then

only you are attracted to Bombay and like to see it.

Before proceeding to the identifying true knowledge of

God, you must also know the purpose of your attraction

towards an object. You love your child, and there is

no purpose in it. You also love a doctor when you are

ill. But that love is not real. It is not love at all.

It is only artificial apparent love exhibited for a

purpose. You want the doctor to help you. Therefore,

true love is that when there is no purpose in it.

False love is that in which purpose is present.

Generally almost all the people love God because God

is omni-potent. He has miraculous powers to do

anything, which is impossible for any body on this

earth. When a problem comes and when one fails to

solve it by all the means existing in this world, one

starts loving God to solve that unique problem.

Therefore, you love the position or power of God and

not the God. A poet shows lot of love and appreciation

on a king in his spontaneous poetry because the poet

loves the power and the wealth of the king. He expects

the king to donate some land or to give him some money

after being pleased with his poems. The poet does not

love the person who is the king. He loves the king

only. Will he write the same poems if the king looses

his kingdom and becomes a beggar? In his poetry the

poet praised that the king is very beautiful with

sweet voice and infinite wisdom. These qualities still

remain with the king even if he has become the beggar.

But the poet does not praise the same qualities of

that beggar because the beggar cannot donate anything

to him. The post of the king and the kingdom are

separable characteristics, whereas the qualities are

inseparable characteristics. You can easily identify

the person by these inseparable characteristics and if

your love on Him is real, you will love him whether he

is a king or a beggar. Are you not loving your son and

praise him whether he serves you or not? Sita

garlanded and married Rama who will be the future king

of Ayodhya. The love of Sita may be on Rama only or

may be on the kingdom of Ayodhya for which she can

become queen or may be both put together. Rama tested

her love by discarding the kingdom and by going to the

forest. Sita followed Rama to the forest. Her love was

only on Rama and not on the kingdom. Ravana further

tested this. Ravana offered her to become the queen.

But she refused. Therefore, the love on God should be

analyzed and should be decided whether God is loved or

His omni-potent miraculous power is loved for our

advantage. Some people want to take advantage in this

world and some others want to take the advantage in

the upper world so that they can be protected from the

hell. In both cases the love on God is not true. It is

only the love on his associated power. Sankara says

that the true love on God should not have any desire

related to this world or to the upper world (Ihaamutra

Phala Viragah). If the love is on the power of the God

only what is the use of the real form of God or the

inseparable characteristics of the God? The poet loves

anybody as the king. For him anybody on the thrown is

beautiful and is very wise. In such case if the king

donates the desired land or cash by seeing the poem

written by a poet, the poet does not bother to see or

talk with the king. Therefore, when we love God’s

power for some advantage, we need not worry about His

form or in seeing or talking with God. You can just

chant the prayers. He responds to your prayers and

your desire is fulfilled. In such case one need not

see the God and the God also does not want to see his

or her bloody face.

When a mother wants to see her child, she is not

thinking about any advantage out of it. In fact the

mother presents some cash to the son as a gift and if

the son needs, she will even sell all her jewels and

sacrifice for the sake of her son. Similarly, if the

person is having true love on God, that person wants

to see God not for any advantage, but even at the cost

of disadvantage. For such person only God appears and

such person only can see, talk, touch and can even

live along with the God. For such persons only the

need of the enquiry of the real form of God.

The real form of God is unimaginable as said in Vedas

and there is no question of seeing or talking or

touching the God. Gita also says that nobody can know

God (Mam tu Veda Na..). Such unimaginable God cannot

be said to have a form or formless. The Creator is

beyond the creation, which is a four-dimentional

network of space and time alongwith matter and energy.

The creation contains both formless items like space,

energy and air and also formful items like water,

earth etc. If you say God as formful or formless, then

God becomes a part of the creation and not beyond the

creation. Veda says that no item in the creation

including the pure awareness or life energy is God

(Neti, Neti…). But there are real devotees who have

real love towards God and want to see, touch, talk and

live alongwith God for no selfish advantage either in

this or in the upper world. The God who has infinite

kindness and infinite love cannot reject such real

love. The God is omni-potent and can satisfy the

desire of such real devotees and the real devotees are

crying for such fortune of vision etc. The God is

capable and the devotee deserves. Nobody can put his

finger between these two. To satisfy the real devotees

God comes in human form and all these four fortunes

are blessed upon the real devotees. If God comes in

the form of space or energy, which is formless or in

the form of statues, He cannot grant these fortunes.

He can talk, touch and live with the devotees when He

comes in the human form only. Only the human body can

do such things as per laws of nature. The nature is

His creation and the laws of nature are the rules of

His own administration. He will not voilate these

rules except in the case of inevitable emergency. Why

should He use His special power (Maya) and talk or

touch or live with you in the form of space or energy

or statues? When the purpose is served through the

normal routine, why are you so rigid about the

abnormal way? God need not heed to the foolish rigid

behaviour of some human beings. Infact they want to

pray the formless God or God in the form of a statue

for the sake of their selfish convenience only. You

can offer food to formless God or statue and then you

can eat the entire food. You are satisfied as if you

have given meals to God and at the same time not even

a grain of rice is lost. There are many inconvenient

losses and troubles with the human form of God. But

the real devotees are not worried about such loss and

infact they are happy to loose if God can enjoy by

that. They feel happy when God eats that food. The

mother visits her son and pays him some cash. When the

son is happy with that she derives infinite happiness

and does not feel it as a loss or trouble. The mother

will stay with her son and serve him day and night if

necessary and feels very happy about it. Similarly,

these real devotees feel happy to serve the Lord and

they are happy about the loss incurred in it. Lord

came to the human form as Krishna for the sake of

Gopikas only and not for others. Only Gopikas could

recognize Him and served the Lord by offering butter

and they felt happy in such sacrifice. They did not

feel such sacrifice as loss. Krishna was not their

child. But they loved Him more than their children.

They did not give butter even to their own children

and offered it to the Lord. Their love to God crossed

even their love to their children. When such real love

exists, God comes in human form and reveals His

identity to you. Your love must be real and must be

practically proved by the sacrifice of work (Karma

Sanyasa) and sacrifice of fruit of work (Karma Phala

Tyaga) as emphasized in Gita. Sacrifice of words, mind

and intelligence, which are freely supplied to you by

God is like offerring drinking water to the guest,

which was freely supplied by the municipality. But

sacrifice of work and fruit of work are like offerring

the meals to the guest and it is sacrifice of your

hard-earned money. Of-course the meals must be

associated with drinking water also and at the same

time mere drinking water is almost nothing. Sacrifice

becomes complete, which is the complete proof of your

real love only, when you sacrifice mind, words,

intelligence, work and fruit of work. Sacrifice of

words is prayer and sacrifice of mind is meditation,

sacrifice of intelligence is the spiritual discussion.

Therefore, meditation alone is the sacrifice of the

mind i.e., supplied freely by God. Sacrifice of

anything, which is hard earned by your work, is the

real main sacrifice.

When the Lord exposes Himself as the source of all

infinite super natural powers, all the people will run

to Him with same speed and will sacrifice to their

maximum. In such case you cannot differentiate the

real devotee from a fraud devotee. The reason is that

the super natural power attracts all the people with

equal force. When acids are dissolved in water they

show equal strengths because water being high polar

solvent attracts the hydrogen ions from all acids

equally so that their extent of ionization becomes

same. The strong acid cannot be differentiated from a

weak acid. This is called as levelling effect. When

the same acids are dissolved in glacial acetic acid,

which is a weak solvent, the acids will ionize to

different extent as per their inherent nature. When an

official asks for some amount of money, all the

merchants will run to him with equal speed and give

that amount. In this case you cannot differentiate the

real donor from the real greedy merchant. But when a

beggar begs for some money, a real donor donates

whereas a greedy person refuses. The real nature of

the individuals comes out in the case of the beggar

only. Similarly, when God comes in human form and

exhibits the super natural powers all the people rush

to Him with equal speeds and show equal love on God.

Even if God recognizes the real devotee by His power

and rewards him, the other devotees will find fault

with the God. They will argue that even though the

extent of devotion is equal, the Lord showed

partiality. Therefore, God in human form will not

exhibit miracles and will exhibit only His inseparable

special knowledge, which projects Him as Guru only and

not Bhagavan. Datta means God donated to the devotees

in human form. His right half is Guru and the left

half is Bhagavan. The right half is only projected and

the left half is hidden. In such case only the real

devotees can be filtered.

It is easy to approach the human incarnation and

praise Him as God. But the most important part is to

retain the same faith through out the life. When Datta

becomes inconvenient in practical way the faith should

persist. The faith should be practical and permanent.

The recognition of human incarnation must be done with

the help of the sacred scriptures like Vedas,

Brahmasutras and Gita. You must take a long time to

decide the human incarnation. Once you have decided

you must stick to that in spite of all the troubles

and inconvenience, which you face practically. There

is no use of catching somebody in haste and then

withdraw by the next day. You will continue like this

through out your life. Therefore, you must study all

the scriptures and be thorough with the divine

knowledge, which generates the devotion or love. If

your devotion is real you must prove it by your

service. The real love is only one way traffic.

Attaining the God, seeing Him and talking with Him are

useless. Demons have seen and talked with God by doing

long penance. What is the use of it? They were finally

destroyed. Even if you don’t see or talk with God, if

you please Him through your proven real love, you are

blessed. Rama never saw Lord Siva. But He was blessed.

Ravana saw and talked with Siva, but was destroyed.

Therefore, pleasing the Lord should be our final aim

and not mere vision or conversation.

 

 

 

 

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