Words

[Guest guest]

Words are unmanned boats

Drifting in an empty lake.

They ferry no one across.

Just have a drink!

 

Pete

[Guest guest]

Dawg

 

U B trippin.

 

 

 

Nisargadatta , " seesaw1us " <seesaw1us>

wrote:

> Words are unmanned boats

> Drifting in an empty lake.

> They ferry no one across.

> Just have a drink!

>

> Pete

[Guest guest]

Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

Any spiritual aspirant is an ordinary human being only and thus science is

applicable for analysing yourself. In fact the process of elimination only can

do the attainment of self or the casual body, which is a perfect scientific

procedure. Self is the best item of the creation and the analysis of self is

also science. When you are an item of creation, your ways and efforts cannot be

supernatural and they must follow the natural rules of creation, which are again

science only. Therefore you must use the logical scientific analysis in

analysing yourself and your path to reach God. But God is beyond this creation

who is the Creator. Therefore God cannot be analysed by science. When the goal

is above science the scientific path cannot be meaningful because the scientific

path will lead to such goal only, which can be analysed by science. For e.g.:

let us take the path to Bombay, the path is on the Earth and Bombay is also on

the Earth. A path that can be analysed by logic can reach

the goal, which must be also analysed by the logic.

 

If I start the journey to God and ask the path to reach Him, nobody can show

the path because the God is invisible. An invisible goal will always have an

invisible path. Nobody can travel in invisible path. One can show the path to a

holy temple. If God exists in the statue, such path is a true path. The main

purpose of reaching God is to know the whole knowledge of yourself, the correct

path and the correct goal. The reason is that God is the best preacher since all

the matters are related to God. Therefore the Human Incarnation is the correct

place of God. The human incarnation consists of a visible human body so that the

path to reach Him also becomes visible. Since God is in the human incarnation,

by reaching that human body you have reached God. In fact God pervaded all over

the body and you have reached the God. The God becomes visible through human

body and therefore the path to reach God is also visible. The main purpose to

reach God is to hear the correct version of the

entire spiritual knowledge. Then through service you have to please the God.

 

In the case of statue, it is not preaching any trace of knowledge. Moreover

when we serve the statute it is not appearing pleased on its face. Due to these

two reasons neither God is in the statute nor God is the statute (Na tasya

Pratima- Veda). The statute in the human form is a model to indicate the human

form of the Lord. The ignorant human beings who cannot accept the human form of

the God due to egoism and jealousy can worship the statute as training for

sometime to worship the human form of Lord in future (Pratimahyalpa Buddhinam-

Smruti). But one should not sit in the training through out his life. If he sits

in the training only, he is born as an inert object like stone (Bhutejya yanti-

Gita)

 

Since the Human Incarnation is the Creator, the analysis of the Human

Incarnation gives an idea about the God but Vedas and Gita say that God is

always unimaginable and can never be known. But the existence of the

unimaginable God must be experienced (“Astetyeva”—Veda). Otherwise you may say

that God does not exist because He is unimaginable and also beyond experience

..The unimaginability is called as Maya. Unimaginability is the property of

Parabrahaman, which has entered pure awareness and made the Mula Maya or pure

awareness to become Maya. Mula Maya is not unimaginability since creation did

not start. Therefore, the word Mula Maya means the root of Maya and has no Maya

in it. When creation started the Mula Maya is converted into Maya, which is a

mixture of the unimaginability of Parabrahman that entered Mula Maya and the

imaginability of the world (Prakruti). Therefore, in the state of Mula Maya or

 

Brahman, the Parabrahman is not exhibiting unimaginability to the souls

because the creation has not yet started and the souls were not yet created.

Brahman is the purest state of Parabrahman in the absence of creation. In that

state Parabrahman is not unimaginable to itself and therefore has no

superimposed apparent ignorance. The unimaginability arises only when

imaginability or Prakruti also exists as a reference. Therefore, Brahman can be

said as the Parabrahman leftover with pure awareness and without unimaginability

(Maya) or imaginability (Prakruti). Maya means wonderful. A wonderful thing need

not be unimaginable. Thus the imaginable world (Prakruti) is also called as Maya

because the Prakruti is also wonderful. Sankara gave another meaning to Maya

i.e., which does not exist. That is also correct because the droplet of the pure

awareness, which has become the world or Maya is very negligible and can be

treated as almost non-existent.

 

Sankara never told that the world is absolutely non-existent. He said that the

world is Mithya, which means that it is neither existent nor non-existent

(sadasat vilakshana). It is existent because it exists even though it is very

very little. It is non-existent because its existence can be neglected, since it

is very very little. People have misunderstood Sankara, who state that according

to Sankara the world is non-existent.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

Werner Woehr <wwoehr wrote:

 

Can't it be a bit smaller, why has it always to be that 'Supreme' ?

 

Werner

 

 

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