Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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In the Middle Too There is Only Paramatma

 

In Srimad Bhaagavad Bhagavaan has said -

 

" Ayum hi sarvakalpaanaam, saheenchee no mato mama

madbhaavah sarvabhooteshu manovaakaayavruttib hih (Srimad Bhaagavad

11:29:19)

 

" However many spiritual disciplines that are there for attaining Me,

of them all, the best discipline that I understand to be is that

through one's mind, speech and body, the behavior and sentiments

should be of Me alone. "

 

Upanishads have given three examples to help understand this point -

Gold, Iron and Earth (soil). Just like there can be various

oranaments made of gold. In spite of their shape, name, form,

weight, usefulness, price, etc. being quite different, it is gold

only. Like out of iron there can be various different weapons,

arms, tools, but the iron is one and the same. Just like out of

earth (soil) one can make many different types of earthen pots, but

the earth is the same, similarly in this world that is manifested

from God, there are various different types of beings, creatures and

things, but though being many, in them Paramatma is only one.

 

The jewels that are made from gold, the gold is visible and evident

and so is the iron in the weapons and arms and the earth in the

earthen pots, but in the world that manifests from Paramatma,

Paramatma is not visibly seen. Therefore everything is only

Paramatma - to understand this point the example of a wheat field is

given.

 

The farmers call the green fields where wheat is planted, as wheat

fields. If the plants are eaten by some animals, the farmer says my

wheat was eaten away, even though there is not a single grain of

wheat that was eaten! Even though in the fields there is not a

single grain that is to be seen in any of the plants, but it is

wheat - of this the farmer does not have the slightest bit of

doubt. If there is a trader in the market, he will not consider the

plant as wheat. He will say this is only a plant, how is it wheat?

I have bought and sold many many bags of wheat, I understand what

wheat looks like. But the farmers says this in not just any

ordinary plant that animals eat, this is wheat. Because in the

beginning in the form of a seed it was wheat, in the end at the time

of harvest it will be wheat, therefore in the middle even though not

seen in the plant, it is only wheat. That is in the middle, in the

form of fields too, it is only wheat. That which is in the

beginning and in the end, is in the middle as well. This is the

principle.