The Web Of Love

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There is a story that Narad Muni was once sent to the earth from heaven by Lord Indra to fetch water. This was also to teach Narad the lesson in powers of Maya. Narad on coming to earth met and fell in love with a maiden and lived with her and their children for 12 years, before a revelation regarding his true identify was revealed. He went back to Indra who told him that he was gone only for ½ an hour of heaven time. That was Indra’s relativity! Similarly Adi Shankracharya was once engaged in a debate by a

Mishra couple who challenged him that being an ascetic monk he does not know anything about love and householder life and concerns. He was stung by the criticism and decided to learn about it. He left his body by yogic powers and entered the body of a recently dead king and enjoyed the company of his beautiful queens for 7 years and would have continued to do so before his friends brought him back to his "senses" and his original body. He understood the power of Maya first hand! In every religion getting into Maya Jaal or web of love is frowned upon. They all insist that renunciation, breaking of bonds etc., frees the soul for ultimate salvation and liberation. But liberation from what? All religions insist that we should liberate ourselves from the human bonds so that we can become free and merge into Universal Consciousness. Some religions even preach that one reaches heaven after death where

all the goodies are available round the clock forever! But isn’t this earth of ours that we call home with all its happiness and pain not a part of Universal Consciousness? What is the basis of such teachings in almost all religions? First of all most of these religious teachings are of very ancient origin and were produced at the time when the humans lived in stone ages with hardly any technological achievements. Hence some felt that it was better to give humans the opium of better after-life so that they could be used as slaves for few masters without grudging or questioning. This could be one of the explanations. Energy-wise it becomes very difficult to get out of the gravity of this earth. Yogis have said that by willing one’s own death, one can use the gravity of sun and moon to help the transmigration of soul to other worlds. For example Bhishma Pitamah in Mahabharata stayed on the prickly arrow cot for about six months before he left his body by will at winter solstice. Similarly Swami Vivekananda studied the almanac thoroughly before deciding when to leave his body. They obviously understood the effect of gravity on human thought and memory (soul). But that can be done by very few people. Most of the humans become residents of this planet earth

both in bodily and ethereal forms. Probably in ancient times humans could do that because of the genetic make up of the aliens from advanced civilizations but as our genetic material gets mixed up with evolutionary life forms of this planet we might not be predisposed any more to those commanding heights. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that the Yoga of Kaliyuga is Bhakti because other Yogas like Raja Yoga etc. are difficult to practice and may require super human efforts. For ordinary people Bhakti Yoga is an easy way out. Maybe he understood intuitively the genetic process of evolving humans. Anil K.

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