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[Nityakalyan] Maya and Devi Upasana

 

 

Friends,

 

Pranams.

 

Devi Upasakar Sri Ganapathi has sent a beautiful message on the power

of Maya and how only Her Grace can free us from the illusion (Moha).

I thank him for the message on behalf of all the members of our

group.

 

Even Jnanis, who have performed tapas for several yugas, cannot claim

to be free of Devi's influence. Only the Absolute Reality is free

from Her influence. But even there, we are taught that Devi is

inseparable from the Absolute Reality. Even the greatest exponent of

Advaita, Sri Sankaracharya has affirmed the concept of Siva-Sakti

Aikyam.

 

When Maha Swami says that it is waste of time to think of Advaita, it

should be understood in proper perspective. It is not that the

doctrine of Advaita is to be eschewed. By its very nature the Advaita

relates to a situation when 'I' is not there. If it is referred to as

a sort of culmination of sadana, when the sadaka has already lost

himself absolutely, Advaita does not lend itself as something of a

practice or experience. When 'I' am 'thinking' of Advaita, the

Advaitic situation obviously does not exist. When I am engaged in a

sadana, Advaita seems to be a distant dream!

 

Something may not be within my grip right now or may be impossible of

practice. This does not make it impossible as a 'siddhanta'. We

should go on and on with our sadana. As Sri Ganapathi has rightly

pointed out, this may be a matter of several janmas. This sadana is

something that is 'given' to us. If I am a devotee of Siva or Sri

Krishna, it is something 'given' to me. What Maha Swami has said

is, 'go ahead with what you have, without unduly pondering about

Advaita condition'.

 

One who is a real bhakta of Sri Krishna would never claim to have

acquired his bhakti, by his own effort. If he does, he cannot be a

real bhakta. It is He Who blesses us with a spiritual thirst and

guides us from within. In Tamil, we call Him as 'Iyavul' meaning 'One

who makes us function from within'. As regards bhakti, Sri

Manickavachakar has also said, 'Avan Arulaale Avan thaal vananki'

meaning 'worshipping Him because of His Grace'

 

Even in Devi Upasana, Abirama Bhattar would say, 'padmapadayugam

choodum pani enakke adaithanai, ullathu azhukkai ellam nin

arutpunalaal thudathanai' (You made me worship your sacred feet and

You made my heart pure by the sacred water of Your Grace.)

 

When you practice 'Upasana', naturally you are not in advaitic

condition. If only you are to attain advaita situaion, 'you' have

disappeared already; because, it is a position of complete oneness

and there is no question of 'I'. In this peculiar situation, I have

no right to dispute or refute the siddhanta of Advaita also. I should

not rush to refute that which is even theoretically not a matter of

experience. If somebody has attained that condition, that 'somebody'

is not there at all.

 

Maha Swami has given this advice to 'us' to encourage 'us' to

progress in our 'given' path.

 

Let us all continue with our own 'given' sadana, eliminating as far

as possible 'ahamkara' and 'mamakara'. All siddhantas and sampradayas

are there like milestones. The same road may take me to place X, then

to place Y and then to place Z. Somebody may tell me that the road

goes to place X and somebody else may say that it leads to place Y.

If only you are sure that you on the 'road' (sadana marga) because of

His Grace, you would not be confused. You would concentrate only in

your progress in the 'given' path. Appar Swamigal said, 'En kadan

pani cheidu kidappade' (My duty is only to carry on with what has

been 'given' or 'assigned' to me.)

 

With kind regards,

 

K S Venkataraman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nityakalyan/

 

Nityakalyan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ganapathy --- Vijaya

 

" Jai Bhavani "

 

 

 

 

 

 

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