God Realization - Not Just Sermonizing

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, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

>

> i asked why he did not tell about spirit before? Arwinder replied he

> was never asked. Neither did he offer to spill out the remaining

> knowledge the Adi Shakti had given him. (The only time he did so was

> more than a decade ago when on August 9, 1995 he declared that he

> meditates with the Adi Shakti, and explained his experiences in

> detail. He was five.) Maybe that knowledge will be revealed as and

> when necessary and i have no desire to extract it yet. The Shakti

> has Her own way of making that happen.

>

> Now i know why over the past two days i am having deep meditations

> that are full of bliss and vibrations. It is because the knowledge

> of " spirit " is coming directly from the eternal Shri Lalita Devi who

> resides in all Sahasraras. It is knowledge that the Divine Mother

> wants humans to know. Aham Brahma Asmi (I am Brahman) and Tat Twam

> Asi (That Thou Art) makes more sense now. i now want to be Silent

> for a few days to savour this Divine Nectar from Brahman Herself.

>

> Jai Shri Ganapathi,

>

>

> jagbir

>

>

 

As i said before, if you have to walk a single step in any direction

to seek God Almighty/Brahman you are going the wrong way. That is why

all external rituals and idol worship are for the ignorant, foolish

and those conditioned by priests and pandits. There is absolutely no

hope of release from rebirth in such avidya till the end of eternity.

 

 

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God Realization -Not Just Sermonizing

By Sushil Kumar Vasudeva

 

Satiation of carnal desires (or seeking sense-pleasure) is not the

aim of human life. Human beings have a much higher and nobler goal to

achieve. Lasting peace, equanimity and equipoise of mind can never

come from worldly attainments. Happiness obtained from worldly

accomplishments is transient and hence does not last long. On the

contrary, they become a cause of worries and sorrows at some stage in

life. Paradoxically, even amidst prosperity, pelf and plenty, many

people feel an agonizing sense of inner impoverishment, which, they

admit makes them feel ill at ease. The aspiration for self-

fulfillment becomes evident from their search for the nectar of life.

True happiness lies in spirituality, if taught by a preceptor and

learnt by a seeker as a science of experience of the inner world.

This is also what is commonly called God Realization.

 

Mere oral sermonizing is not realization by any stretch of the

imagination. Realization is the instant and spontaneous supra-mental

experience of inherent divinity; a perfect sage is capable of and

helpful in conferring such Realization. It is upon this super-sensory

experience that our quest of peace, happiness and perfection can be

put to rest.

 

However, mere theory is not capable of producing the desired results.

Theory sans practical experience of divinity inherent in man is like

padding the mind with prolific descriptions of Soul and Super Soul -

only to eventually be confronted with natural questions like: Where

is God? How I can see Him? This is amplified in the Bhagavad Gita,

The Song Celestial. It is primarily a story of Sri Krishna, the Lord

in human embodiment, and Arjuna, the disciple. The dialogue between

them is spread over 18 chapters.

 

From chapter one to 10 of the Gita, Lord Krishna replied to a

plethora of questions from Arjuna. This constituted verbal education.

This, however, did not quiet the agitated, confused and wavering mind

of Arjuna. Replies generated further questions. Though the answering

authority was Lord Himself, verbal knowledge could not satisfy,

convince and pacify the flustered mind of Arjuna. Arjuna identified

Krishna as merely a physical body. All exhortations and teachings of

Lord did not yield any lasting effect. This was in reality a divine

sport of the Lord in human embodiment. He wanted to show to mankind

that attainment of God is beyond verbal knowledge. Lord thus showed

to posterity the limited value of theory and mere sermonizing.

 

The Saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa has re-affirmed the eternal verity

of this fact. He says, " What will a man gain by merely reasoning

about the words of the scriptures? Ah, the fools! They reason

themselves to death over information about the path. They never take

the plunge. What a pity! "

 

Eventually Lord blessed Arjuna with the divine eye and showed him His

cosmic form - the transcendental reality. Arjuna exclaimed on

initiation, " If hundreds of thousands of suns rose up at once into

the sky, they might resemble the effulgence of the Supreme Lord in

that universal form " (Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 12). Physical eyes can

just see the outward form. The inner soul can be practically

perceived by the eye of spirit.

 

The celestial vision is not a mental construction but the revelation

of the metaphysical truth that is beyond the finite mind and

intellect. On seeing the elemental and metaphysical form of God

through the divine eye, our horizon widens and we move beyond the

earthly tumults and sorrows that engross us so easily. An anecdote

from the Vedic texts expounds on this factual notion.

 

Once Narada went to a sage named Sanat Kumara to learn about truth,

and Sanat Kumara inquired what he had studied already. Narada replied

that he had studied the Vedas, Astronomy, Philosophy and various

other secular subjects; yet there was no end to his desires and

cravings and hence no peace of mind and satisfaction. This response

was followed by a conversation between the two, in the course of

which Sanat Kumara remarked that all his knowledge of the Vedas, of

Astronomy and of Philosophy was but secondary; sciences are but

secondary. That which makes us realize the Brahman (Lord of the

Universe) was the supreme, the highest knowledge. Knowledge of

science covers only part of our lives, but the knowledge which

religion brings to us is eternal, as infinite as the truth it

preaches.

 

Expounding further, Sanat Kumara told Narada that memorizing the

Vedas is not sufficient. Though the Vedas prolifically eulogize

divine knowledge, the sovereign science and the supreme secret that

this knowledge is, finds only theoretical narration in the sacred

literature. God expects the seeker of truth to go beyond theoretical

description and mere sermonizing. Lord ordained this supreme secret

to be revealed to the aspirant at the time of initiation by a true

preceptor. Sermonizing that human beings are essentially divine is

eclipsed by a practical manifestation by a perfect sage. In the end,

Sage Sanat Kumara initiated Narada into eternal knowledge and in the

process Narada was put through cosmic experience of divinity. It is

only after meditating on the divine light of consciousness that

Narada attained perfect peace, happiness and equanimity of mind. He

obtained the stature of a perfect sage, i.e. the one whose individual

consciousness is one with the universal consciousness.

 

Human being is fundamentally and essentially divine in nature.

However, the divinity in man is shrouded and veiled by the endless

chain of thoughts and desires. It is only on knowing and realizing

the indwelling spirit in practical sense that our compulsive habit of

identifying ourselves with gross body, mind and intellect ceases.

Theory followed by practical experience truly confirms, affirms and

solidifies the abstract truth that is sought to be instructed. Simply

knowing that the supreme spirit dwells in all beings as Soul is not

sufficient. It is the vision in practical sense which would arouse

unflinching faith. We, thus, need someone who can give the abstract

metaphysical truth a visible reality.

 

We need some outside help for this. This outside help comes from

perfect spiritual master of the time who has himself known and seen

the metaphysical form of God by unraveling the profoundest mystery.

While the outside physical world of objects is the domain of the

physical sciences, the field of study of religion and spirituality is

the inner world. Our inner realm is beyond comprehension of sense

organs, gross body, subtle mind and intellect.

 

The ground on which a physical science claims superiority over other

streams of secular knowledge is that its theories are based on and

verifiable through laboratory tests. A student of chemistry cannot

master his field of study without experimenting and verifying in the

lab the theoretical narration of chemical equations. The spirituality

contained in the holy treatises is not merely the delight and ecstasy

of academicians and philosophers. The domain of holy texts is the

metaphysical world of ultimate reality.

 

Head and Founder of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan, the Divine Light

Awakening Mission, Sri Ashutosh Ji Maharaj professes, " No fleshly eye

can see the sovereign form of God. Human eye is not made for

effulgent light of the Lord. Divine eye is the angelic eye, while the

two visible eyes are the eyes of the flesh. The soul, the inner of

the inmost, is perceived by the eye of spirit. The disclosure of this

truth is beyond the finite mind. The spontaneity is the hallmark of a

genuine preceptor " .

 

Upon manifestation of our innate divinity, we learn to go beyond

regarding the Supreme merely as a transcendent mystery and see Him as

close to us; as close as a father is to a son, as a friend to a

friend or as a lover to the beloved. These human relations find in

God their fullest realization. God as father is a familiar conception

in most of the religions. The Old Testament uses the image of the

Father when it declares, " like as a father pitieth his children, so

the Lord pitieth them that fear him " . The idea of God as Father is

the central conception of the teaching of Jesus.

 

Clarifying further, Sri AshutoshJi Maharaj declares, " Until one sees

the cosmic vision within, one will not comprehend the true essence of

the cosmic process and destiny. The vision is the revelation of the

inherent divinity in man. This supersensuous experience is instant

and spontaneous in every aspirant at the time of initiation. It

happened not only in the remote past, it is possible even today;

provided one has the urge in his heart " .

 

It is, thus, on opening of the eye of spirit that your journey into

the inner space of the ultimate reality begins. This is the eternal

way of meditation. As you go along and grow on this path, you begin

to get closer to the cosmic consciousness and peace, happiness and

perfection are natural concomitants. One then leads a life of self-

fulfillment and performs worldly duties as a service to God.

Consecration of all actions at the lotus feet of the Lord becomes

second nature. Agitations of mind wither away and all doubts,

negativities are cut asunder.

 

God Realization -Not Just Sermonizing

By Sushil Kumar Vasudeva