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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

Any human being cannot do any work just by will even after long concentration.

The same work happens as soon as the Lord wishes just once. This whole Universe

is created just by His one wish. The faith is a long time concentrated will

power. The will is common in both the Lord and human being. The will is a

characteristic of awareness. This awareness is common item in both the Lord and

the human being. Therefore, will is also a common item in both the Lord and

soul (human being). All these worlds are created just by one wish of the Lord.

But even if the soul wishes one crore times in a highly concentrated way called

“Faith”, even an atom is not created. When both are forms of awareness, why

this vast difference comes? Just the one wish of the Lord appears as the solid

Universe to all the souls! Even the highly concentrated will of a soul is not

appearing as materialized form to other souls. Such will is not even appearing

as imagination to other souls. It is appearing

as imagination only to that particular soul, which imagined so. In one house

the bulb is not glowing in-spite of putting on the switch several times. But in

another house, the bulb is glowing when just once its switch is put on. In both

the houses, same switches, same wires and same bulbs exist. But, the difference

is that in the first house, there is no current. In the second house, there is

current. Similarly in the awareness of soul, God (Parabrahman) does not exist.

 

In the awareness of the Lord, God exists. This awareness is called as

Brahman, because awareness, which is the first creation of God, is greatest

among all the items of creation. Brahman means anything, which is greatest

among a category of items. The word Parabrahman means God or Creator, who is

beyond Brahman. Due to the power of God only, creation takes place. Mere

awareness has no such power to create this Universe. This awareness is the will

or imagination of God. This Universe appears always as imagination only to God.

This Universe itself is an ocean of awareness. The soul is a drop in it. The

power of the ocean is far greater than the power of the drop. Due to this only,

this universe appears as materialized solid to the soul. This whole universe is

again a drop only in the awareness created by God in the beginning, which is

called as “Mula Prakruti” or “Maha Maya”. God does not exist in the Universe.

Therefore, this Universe becomes a scene to the

spectator-God. Scene must be different from the spectator. The “Mula

Prakruti” into which God entered and pervaded is called as Lord (Eswara). This

Lord is spectator and Universe is scene. Thus, both the Scene and the outer

cover of Brahman are forms of awareness only. The soul is also a form of

awareness. Soul – Universe –Spectator become greater and greater as we pass on.

God is neither in the Universe nor is in the soul. Therefore, both these have

no power of creation. Spectatorship is the characteristic of the awareness.

Therefore, even the soul is a spectator. But the soul can see its own imaginary

world as imagination and the Universe as reality. It cannot see this Universe

as imagination. For the Lord only, this Universe including all the souls is an

imagination.

 

The Lord knows and sees everything in the Universe. But the soul sees and

knows only a little in the Universe. Thus the spectatorship also differs in

both the cases. The soul can see and knows everything of its own imaginary

world only. Though, the Universe is entirely awareness, a part of it becomes

spectator in the form of souls and another part is inert which does not see or

know anything. This difference took place only by the will of the Lord.

Therefore, a soul cannot throw away this difference created by the Lord and

cannot treat both as one and the same awareness. The soul cannot say that the

whole Universe has spectatorship. Some claim that they have realized the entire

Universe as one awareness, which is totally against their own experience. Such

experience of difference is the will of the Lord and so they behave differently

for all practical purposes. No scholar talks with a stone! A stone cannot

preach you and remove your ignorance for all practical purposes.

Even the Lord views both the soul and inert matter differently as per their

status, but He views both as His imagination. But the soul cannot see both as

his imagination and the soul also views both differently like the Lord. If you

refer to the external form of the Lord only, which is awareness, both the

external form of Lord and the entire soul are one and the same. The difference

is that the Lord is God embraced by the awareness, where as the soul is mere

awareness. The Lord is the wire with current, where as the soul is the wire

without current.

 

Therefore, the soul cannot achieve anything in this world just by faith only.

Its external actions may achieve something in this world but not its mere

internal will. Even this external action becomes sometimes invalid, because the

field of its action is the world, which is without God. Some say that

everything is possible by self-confidence or faith. But this statement is

laudable only till it is not analysed! The wire without current cannot create

even a ray of light in the bulb. People believe that self-faith can achieve

anything and therefore, they conclude that the self itself is the Lord.

Anything is possible only to the Lord. If a soul wishes to make everything

possible, the only way is to catch the Lord and please Him. “Self-Faith’ means

the faith that is concentrated on the Lord, who came down as a self or as a

human being. For the sake of the convenience of the soul to achieve such goal,

the Lord comes down as a soul. The faith in such soul, to believe it as

the Lord is called as “Self-Faith”. All the power of God is present in such

human incarnation, because God and His power are beyond the spatial dimensions.

 

The soul can change anything just by its will in its imaginary world only but

not in this physical world. It can change a stone into Lord Krishna in its

imaginary world. But the soul cannot change a stone into Lord Krishna in the

actual world. If you believe the fire as water and put your finger in it, it

will burn and will not be cold. Therefore, before you believe, you must analyse

and find out the truth in the object. You must identify the real water and then

only you can believe it as water. Then if you put your hand, you can feel it

cool. So, just by faith, everything in this world cannot become God. Even if

you believe yourself as God and utter the same for crores of times, you cannot

become God. First you must analyse and identify the God in human form and then

believe Him. Such faith is a wise faith. Otherwise, the faith is a blind faith

only. For the former, good results and for the latter bad results are

inevitable. Hence for the identification of God,

analytical knowledge is the first and foremost requisite.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

krsnajoe <omd01788 wrote:

The soul is essentially pure; just as the sun in the sky is pure. And the rays

of the sun are light giving and beneficial for all living beings. But when the

sun is obscured by a cloud, it cannot be perceived. Similarly the beauty of the

soul, who is a part of God, cannot be appreciated as long as it is covered by

the cloud of ignorance. The spirit soul being part of Krishna has all the

qualities of God in minute quantities. All the opulences of God are reflected by

the soul. But the cloud of ignorance hides the pure transcendental qualities of

the soul. When covered, what we see are the symptoms of ignorance - Lust, Anger,

Greed, Envy, Illusion, and pride. The six enemies of the soul are very powerful,

because they are completely empowered by Maya or the illusory energy.