Explain to me a bit about the spiritual tradition of gurus and disciples - 5

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, " jagbir singh "

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> Dear All,

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> i received an email that read:

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> " Dear Jagbir,

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> Please could you explain to me a bit about the spiritual tradition

> of gurus and disciples; and how this all works in SY? Do all

> people need gurus for teaching and help; from my own experiences I

> think that they probably do? What I mean is, people really need a

> teacher for guidance along the path, someone very advanced and

> experienced to tell and ask about specific problems and personal

> situations and difficulties, a yoga master. Especially people from

> the Western cultures and from restrictive religious backgrounds

> need help understanding the Eastern concepts of spirituality, and

> need personal guidance at times. "

>

 

In conclusion I have to add that Shri Mataji is far more that a

Sadguru. She is Shaksat the incarnation of the Adi Shakti. She is

indeed the long promised Messiah, the Avatar promised by all holy

scriptures to deliver the Divine Message of God Almighty, His Plan

for all humanity.

 

" The Meaning of Avatar:

 

The term 'AVATAR' means one who was descended, but descended from

where and to what? It means descended from Godliness to human form.

Avatar means those who descended to Earth from the Spiritual world

for the establishment of Dharma, preservation of the human race and

promulgation of Sastra. Avatar means the person who descends, as a

fully or partially empowered incarnation of Divine Mother

Adhiparasakthi, from the spiritual realm for a particular mission.

An Avatar is also called a Savior, that is a person who saves or

rescues mankind from the danger of deterioration. When a savior

appears on this Earth all are saved through his grace.

 

Whenever virtue subsides and wickedness prevails; whenever there is

unrighteousness or Adharma and whenever there is catastrophe and

unrest in the world; the Divine Mother manifests Herself. That is,

Adhiparasakthi comes down to this earth, or physical plane, to

establish virtue and Dharma and to destroy the evil and save the

good. When She comes down to the physical plane She takes human form

and is called an Avatar or Incarnation.

 

An Avatar is also called a Messenger of Divine Mother because an

Avatar transmits pure unselfish Divine Love from the Divine Mother

to man and gives a taste of the unadulterated nectar of heavenly

bliss to the arid souls scorched by the fire of worldliness. The all-

pervading Mother Adhiparasakthi who is Truth, Consciousness and

Bliss, by Her special grace manifests Herself as a common being

during the Avatar period. During this period the Divine mother

assumes a human form and manifests Herself to set an example of

Divine Life before us in this world. It is Her peculiarity that she,

in spite of being boundless, becomes very small.

 

The Avatar or Incarnation of Adhiparasakthi descends from the

Spiritual world for material manifestation. The particular form of

personality of Divine Mother who descends is called an Incarnation

or Avatar. Such incarnations are situated in the Spiritual World.

When they descend to the material creation they assume a common name

Avatar.

 

The Avatar assumes various names and forms such as Rama, Krishna,

Christ, etc at various places in various times, but all are the same

Adhiparasakthi. All the Avatars that have come to this world are one

and the same Adhiparasakthi. The Supreme personality of Godhead,

Adhiparasakthi takes various incarnations and many sub-incarnations

as well, but she is the original personality of Godhead known as

Adhiparasakthi and She incarnates personally also.

 

Adhiparasakthi, although one without a second, manifests Herself in

innumerable forms. All these multifarious forms are understood by

the pure unalloyed devotees, but not by a simple study of the Vedas.

Devotees are constant companions of Divine Mother and whenever

Divine Mother incarnates, the associate devotees also incarnate in

order to serve the Divine Mother in different capacities. The Divine

Mother works through them and propagates the religion. The associate

devotees spend their lifetimes assisting the Avatar and work for the

welfare of the Jivas. However, there is a difference between the

Divine Mother and the Devotees. Therefore, a living entity, however

great he may be in the material estimation, can never equal the

Supreme Mother. Anyone who is a constant companion of the Divine

Mother is certainly a liberated person but he cannot be equal to the

Divine Mother.

 

The Divine Mother is infallible, in that she never forgets Herself

even though she is in material contact. Therefore, the Divine Mother

and the living entity can never be equal in all respects, even if

the living entity is a liberated soul. As such, when the Avatar

comes, with him are born liberated persons as helpers in his world-

play. However, only Avatars have the power to displace the darkness

of a million souls and give them salvation in one lifetime. This is

known as grace.

 

A devotee of the Divine Mother sometimes forgets the nature of the

Divine Mother, but by divine grace, a devotee can at once understand

the infallible condition of the Divine Mother. However, a non-

devotee cannot understand this transcendental nature.

It may also be noted here that a living entity forgets everything

due to his change of body, but the Divine Mother remembers because

she does not change Her Sat-Chit-Ananda body. She is advaita, which

means that there is no distinction between Her body and Herself.

Everything in relation to Her is spirit, whereas the conditioned

soul is different from his material body. Because the Divine

Mother's body and self are identical, Her position is always

different from that of the ordinary living entity, even when She

descends to the material world.

 

How to know an Avatar:

 

Truth and love absolute are the essence of the divine. In an Avatar,

we find the expression and exposition of the Love of God. Know for

certain that God is incarnate in a man in whom the Love of God is

surging, overflowing and all absorbing (this maddening sentiment of

life). Such teachers of spiritual truth are always the fairest

flowers of human life and they are the ocean of mercy without any

motive.

 

One can attain realization of God through worship of the Avatar.

Divine Mother reveals Herself to Her devotees in a variety of ways.

She assumes the very form that the devotee has chosen for his

worship. If you worship Her as Adhiparasakthi, she will come to you

as Adhiparasakthi. If you worship Her as Christ, she will come to

you as Christ. If you worship Her as Allah, she will come to you as

Allah. If you worship Her as Krishna or Buddha, she will come to you

as Krishna or Buddha.

 

All are aspects of one Adhiparasakthi. Under whatever name and form,

it is Adhiparasakthi who is adored. Worship goes to She who dwells

within. It is ignorance to think that one form is superior to

another. All forms are one and the same. All are adoring the same

Divine Mother. The differences are only due to differences of name

and due to the differences in the worshiper, but not in the object

of adoration. The real Adhiparasakthi or Allah or Jesus or Krishna

is in your own heart. She lives there forever. She is your

Indweller. She is your partner always. There is no friend like the

Indweller (Antharayamin). Resort to Her. Take Refuge in Her. Realize

Her and be free.

 

Some people want to have contact with Avatars without being endowed

with proper qualifications. Even if an Avatar appears before you,

you will not be able to find him out. You don't have the eyes to see

him as such. You will take him for an ordinary man only. . . .

If you are endowed with the four means of salvation; if you have

Vairagya; if you possess forgiveness and patience; if you have

devotion, you can contact and realize the Avatars and sages right

this second. If you can serve humanity; if you can obey; if you can

be generous; if you can have endless devotion to the Divine Mother,

then you will have self-realization this very second and you will

contact Avatars, Adepts and Incarnations this very second. First

deserve and then desire.

 

Aim of Manifestation:

 

Adhiparasakthi, The Supreme Brahman, manifests Herself in order to

protect the good because they destroy unrighteousness and propagate

righteousness. The good are those who are naturally inclined towards

the good of others, who remember and chant the name, form, qualities

and glories of Adhiparasakthi, the Divine Mother and propagate them

among people while depending on Her. He whose only aim is

realization of God is good while those who hanker after worldly

pleasures and property are not good.

 

Those who because of so many desires remain absorbed in vices such

as falsehood, fraud, deception, dishonesty, etc; who exploit the

virtuous; who remain engaged in doing evil to others; who don't know

what ought to be done and what ought not to be done; who always

condemn God and the Scriptures; such persons of demonic nature have

been called wicked. The wicked propagate unrighteousness and destroy

righteousness so the Divine Mother Adhiparasakthi manifests Herself

for the destruction of such wicked people.

 

The Avatar comes to this world with a particular mission which is

the main objective of the Avatar called Avatara Nokkam. The Avatar

preaches many things and waits for the time to fulfill the main

objective. In the meantime other things required for the fulfillment

of the main objective are completed. Such things as the training of

various cadre of people to perform and complete the main objectives

are done step by step without overruling the Theory of Karma as far

as possible. During this period some of the minor objectives are

also carried out and completed. As soon as the main objective is

completed the Avatar goes back to the kingdom of God that is

Sukshma world, in the predetermined way.

 

Cause and Occasion of Her Manifestation:.

 

Whenever and wherever there is decline in religious practice and a

predominant rise of irreligion, Adhiparasakthi descends Herself.

When there is decline of righteousness and a rise of

unrighteousness, She manifests Herself for the destruction of the

wicked and the establishment of true righteousness. Thus, if

necessary, She manifests Herself in different forms at this time.

However, she manifests herself only as and when there is need for

Her manifestation.

 

There is a decline of righteousness from the Satya Yuga, or Golden

Age, to Treta Age, Dvapara Age and Kali Age respectively. In the

Satya Age, Dharma, or righteousness, flourishes. In Treta Age the

decline begins and becomes rapid in Dvapara Age. In Kali Age, the

most evil of the ages, unrighteousness or Adharma prevails. In this

age the Godhead, the Divine Mother, manifests Herself for the

establishment of righteousness.

 

There is descent of Divine Mother for the ascent of Man. As an

Avatar, She puts on a fleshly body out of Her own free will for the

upliftment of mankind. She is quite independent and has absolute

control over Maya. Meanwhile, Jiva, men, are slaves of Avidya, or

Maya, so long as they have no self-realization. She is completely

free to act in many ways at Her will and has no obligation to adhere

to such rules and regulations. Therefore, She appears by Her own

will whenever there is irreligiousity and a disappearance of true

religion. It is a recognized fact that from time to time messengers

and incarnations of the Almighty Adhiparasakthi are born on earth to

shed the light of righteousness and dispel the darkness of evil and

injustice.

 

Dharma is the base on which the edifice of life is built and the

Divine Mother takes it as Her special mission to see that it does

not decay. Whenever Dharma is assailed, She incarnates to set an

example to the world and remove the hurdles in the path of Dharma or

righteousness. Whenever there is a setback in Dharma it becomes the

primary concern of the Divine Mother to re-infuse and revitalize the

vigor into Dharma.

 

In assuming birth, Divine Mother does not abrogate Her intrinsic

nature of being the birth less and deathless Mother of all

existence. Her fundamental infinitude of perfections undergoes no

diminution the process of incarnation. The form She assumes, the

body in which She incarnates, is a particular configuration of Her

own radiant and transcendental form, untouched by Rajas Tamas. It is

material in so far as it transcends to the taints of terrestrial

matter. In time of crisis, for the moral regeneration of the world,

the grounds for Divine incarnation are not the necessity of Karma

but free resolve transcending it.

 

The re-establishment of Dharma is accomplished in two ways. Firstly,

the righteous ones on earth who are languishing for want of direct

communion with Divine Mother, the object of their loving adoration,

are granted the vision they long for, by Divine Mother in Her

incarnate form. They are thus rescued from their spiritual

affliction and sustained by the life-giving grace of Divine

Communion. Secondly, those who are evil and antagonistic to the call

of the Divine, are released through apparent destruction to get a

new embodiment favorable to their turning Divine. The essence of

righteousness is love of God, which is fostered by the self-

revelation of God through the Avatar.

 

What is Unrighteousness?

 

When the righteous, innocent, weak, pious and spiritual people are

exploited by the unrighteous, cruel, strong, wicked and mundane

people and when moral values are lost and morality prevails: that

state is the state of decline of righteousness and the rise of

unrighteousness. When there is a decline of righteousness and a rise

of unrighteousness, by God's order, saints come to the earth and

true strivers are revealed. They both work to reestablish

righteousness. Sometimes liberated souls, who have realized God,

come to earth as representatives of God to help the people attain

salvation. Where there are such strivers and saints, there is

neither so much decline of righteousness, nor so much rise of

unrighteousness, as in other places where there are neither strivers

nor saints. When people don't follow the teachings of strivers and

saints, but start to kill them, leaving only a few righteous persons

to propagate righteousness, there is a decline in righteousness and

Adhiparasakthi, the Brahman, manifests Herself.

 

What is Irreligious?

 

The principles of religion are laid down in the Vedas and any

discrepancy in the matter of properly executing the rules of the

Vedas makes one irreligious.

 

Establishment of Dharma or Righteousness:

 

Because unrighteousness propagates due to the performance of actions

with a selfish motive and attachment to the unreal, the

establishment of righteousness consists of preaching and propagating

the selfless performance of actions. The Divine Mother

Adhiparasakthi manifests Herself in order to propagate the

performance of selfless actions through Her deeds. When this sort of

feeling is propagated, righteousness is naturally established.

The Divine Mother is the abode of Dharma, or righteousness, so She

manifests Herself in order to establish righteousness well. In fact,

righteousness never perishes. It only declines. Whenever there is a

decline the Divine Mother reestablishes it.

 

To establish true Dharma and peace, She comes down as the World

teacher. She shows Maya bound Jivas the true path of Mukti, or

liberation, by coming down in a human body. Although She is on Earth

in human form, She is not bound by Maya. She thus embodies Herself

in different bodies at different times but the incarnations are not

different. She is one. She only appears in different forms out of

necessity. She teaches man by appearing in a form that is suitable

for that particular time of Avathara.

 

She has appeared in India many times and has taught us many things.

That is why India was and is the fountain of knowledge. In the past,

whenever it was necessary, she has lifted India, upholding her by

Her hands of Dharma. It is for this reason that even today in this

downtrodden, oppressed and famine stricken India so many heroic

souls, righteous and enterprising, are taking birth and guiding us.

That is why our country has, even now, the true ideals of Gnana and

Bakthi compared to those in other countries.

 

The Power and Capacity of an Avatar:

 

An Avatar as epoch maker functions as a perennial source of power

and beneficence for a whole epoch. An Avatar can transmit

spirituality with a touch or even a mere wish. By his look, wish, or

touch, people are saved. The lowest and most degraded characters

become saints at the command of the Avatar. When an incarnation

comes, a tidal wave of spirituality breaks upon the world, and

people feel spirituality almost full in the air.

 

His message, Gospel or Arulvakku, and power transcends age and time.

People look upon him as an eternal source of faith, hope, love,

strength and inspiration. The milk of Divine love streams and flows

to us from the Avatar. The Avatar is the meeting ground of personal

and impersonal, of Divine and human. He is at once individual and

universal. The Avatar is the teacher of all teachers, the highest

manifestation of Divine Mother through a human form.

 

An Avatar is a mighty person. He removes the veil of ignorance of

thousands of men and women and takes them to the land of eternal

rest and bliss. The Avatar is one with the Supreme. An Avatar is not

like an ordinary individual soul. The Avatar is the rays of Divine

Mother Adhiparasakthi. When the work of the Avatar is over, he

disappears from the world.

 

Adhiparasakthi has two manifestations. In one, She reflects through

the universe and is called Nature. The second manifestation is

through the great Incarnations of Adhiparasakthi that are the

various Avatars such as Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Mohammad,

Chaitanya, Guru Nanak, Kabir, etc. These two manifestations of

Adhiparasakthi are: Karana Brahman

 

Karya Brahman

 

Karana means cause. Karya means effect. Karya Brahman, also known as

Hiranyagarbha, is the creative aspect of Adhiparasakthi. Avatars

descend from Karya Brahman. There cannot be any descent of Avatar

directly from Karana Brahman. Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, the three

Murtis, belong to the Karya Brahman aspects of Adhiparasakthi.

Brahma is the creative aspect; Vishnu is the preservative aspect;

and Siva is the destructive aspect. There is no polytheism in the

Hindu religion because polytheism means worship of more than one God

and this is not the case.

 

As per the doctrines of our ancient Rishis of yore, there are

sixteen rays or sixteen digits or sixteen planes of manifestation or

sixteen expanding Kalas emanating from Adhiparasakthi, the Supreme

Brahman. One ray is needed to maintain the animal kingdom. Two rays

maintain the animal kingdom and five to eight rays are required for

human beings. One can rise from savage to a higher spiritual status

only according to the number of rays. For Avatars, nine to sixteen

rays emanate from the Supreme Mother. Avatars are classified

according to the number of rays. The different kinds of Avatars are

as follows:

 

Purna Avatar

 

Amsa Avatar

 

Lila Avatar

 

Purna Avatar means full Avatar, in whom all sixteen rays are

present. Lord Krishna was a Purna Avatar. There are also Amsa

Avatars with partial incarnations. Sri Sankaracharya was an Amsa

Avatar. Lord Rama was a Lila Avatar with fourteen rays. Ancient

Rishis, modern philosophers, and theosophists mention seven rays,

twelve rays and so on when they describe the stage of spiritual

development of their Gurus, Spiritual Masters and Adepts.

Whenever the Avatar requires secret details of past and future

events, or any clarification, the Avatar contacts Karana Brahman

through ecstasy known as Arul Nilai. The Avatar goes into the

Nirvikalpa Samathi, the highest superconscious state, and then comes

back to the conscious state. This superconscious state is the Thuria

Nilai, or Fourth State. This is the state in which the individual

soul rests in his own Sat-Chit-Ananda Svarupa, the highest Brahmic

consciousness during Nirvikalpa Samathi. Only Jeevanmuktas or sages

can attain this state. The glory of the state of Thuria is

ineffable. Its splendor is indescribable. This is a very special

form of occult trance and the Avatars call it Yoga-Nidhrai,

or " Temple Sleep. " This is a very special type of trance because the

Avatar who has studied this under temple conditions knows what he is

doing and can throw himself deliberately into the trance state as

and when required. In this state he is under his own control and

cannot be obsessed by others.

 

This is only an outline and there are a number of Divine

requirements and steps in attaining such a state. Please note that

under the surveillance of Avatars we can also attain such a state if

we have the basic requirements of Bakthi, Devotion, Purity of Mind,

etc.

 

The superconscious state is attained only in absolute samadhi and by

cessation of all bodily functions. Normally, there is no return from

this state. A person who goes into the superconscious state remains

in that state for about twenty-one days and then passes away.

However, a few who are destined to teach mankind return to the

ordinary plane of consciousness by keeping a trace of egoism,

without which corporeal existence is impossible. The Avatars cherish

a few desires for the betterment of the world. By taking hold of

this and through the special divine grace of Adhiparasakthi, they

come down from the superconscious state to the conscious state.

Incarnations are always conscious of their own divinity. They know

it from the moment of their birth. They assume human form and human

limitations for a particular period of time in order to teach us. In

reality they are never limited. They are ever free but appear to be

limited to the eyes of ordinary human beings.

 

From their very birth, the Avatars are knowers of Brahman, the

Divine Mother. It should be noted that there is no difference at all

between Brahman and the knower of Brahman, " He who knows the Brahman

becomes the Brahman " — Mundaka Upanisad. The Atman or Brahman cannot

be known by the mind because it is itself the knower. Therefore,

man's relative knowledge reaches only up to Avatars, who are always

established in Atman or Brahman. The highest ideal of Adhiparasakthi

that the human mind can perceive or grasp is the Avatar. Beyond this

there is no relative knowledge. Such knowers of Adhiparasakthi or

Brahman are rarely born in the world and very few people can

identify and understand them. Attainment of knowledge of

Adhiparasakthi is the highest object of life. By deep devotion to

the Avatars, who are world teachers, that knowledge will manifest

itself in time. " (Om Shakti Spiritual Movement)

 

The www.adishakti.org and www.al-qiyamah.org websites are based on

Shri Adi Shakti: The Kingdom Of God, a 2200-page book of the

revelations of the Adi Shakti in the Sahasrara. This is what Her

physical incarantion Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi proclaimed on Earth:

 

" Once this book is out all over the world, it will be known about

our work. We'll not be challenged any more. But still we have to see

for ourselves, that if we have this kind of recognition or not, our

capabilities should be up to that. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

You Must Develop Humility, Shri Adi Shakti Puja

Cabella, Italy – May 21, 1998

 

Yes, only by deep devotion to the Avatars, who are world teachers,

that knowledge will manifest itself in time. Her Divine Message to

humanity will eventually triumph. She is Sakshat everything this

Mahamantra proclaims, and far more:

 

Om Twameva Sakshat

Shri Mahalakshmi Mahasaraswati Mahakali

Trigunatmika Kundalini Sakshat

Shri Adi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi

Namoh Namah

 

Om Twameva Sakshat

Shri Kalki Sakshat

Shri Adi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi

Namoh Namah

 

Om Twameva Sakshat

Shri Kalki Sakshat

Shri Sahasrara Swamini Moksha Pradayini

Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi

Namoh Namah

 

The Eternal, Infinite, Divine Primordial Mother the Spirit Of The

Living God Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is the Sole Source

and Cause of all the Divine Revelations, Miracles, Knowledge,

Truth and Prophecies proclaimed at the www.adishakti.org and www.al-

qiyamah.org websites. Her Divine Message to humanity will eventually

triumph through our deep and fearless devotion to the Adi Shakti.

 

Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.

 

jagbir