A PERPLEXING PROBLEM'

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A PERPLEXING PROBLEM'

 

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Law of nature requires two sides, two opposites in every thing. There

are negative and positive, as we always see in Negative & Positive

wires of electricity and poles of a magnet. Cohesion of matter is

also on the same basis. But for infusion of negatives & positives

matter will diffuse. Man's intelligence, known as science, separated

these bindings and created Atom, devastating power of which we all

very well know. As God created demons, He also created gods. He

created good as well as the evil. So is the case with Maya and Man.

The latter is well equipped to fight Maya, if he really wants to. For

that reason Maya is also made very strong. If man fails to use his

intelligence and knowledge, the result can be like explosion of Atom.

Man knows that fire burns, why should he put his hand into it ? A

snake is passing by, why should man stand in its way and get bitten ?

A pit is dug (with or without mounds of mud lying around it), why

should man walk with closed eyes and fall into it ? There is big red

board saying " High Voltage—Danger ", why should man touch it ? Well,

if he does, he has to suffer. Man is riding in a chariot with wild

horses. He should have control of these horses—creation of Maya. If

he does not, he meets his doom instead of reaching his destination.

 

The God created Maya to test man. Man is Atman, a part of Paramatman.

Man's goal is to reach Paramatman. It cannot be made easier. Actually

it is easy if man uses the power bestowed upon him by God. Imagine

how hard a student has to work even to pass school test. Man has to

raise himself to conquer Maya and then reach his goal like a drop of

water which reaches back to the ocean after a long and difficult

ordeal. Maya's hold is momentary when man's intelligence is weak. In

such a moment what to say killing someone else, he even kills

himself. Once that moment of heat passes, he realises his mistake.

Thus man is more powerful than Maya, if he keeps his intelligence

intact and uses it.

 

The whole universe in founded on the primary polarity princi­ple of

positive and negative forces. Only the ultimate reality, the

Absolute, or Brahman or God or whatever we may term it, has no

polarity, no pairs of opposites. All principles are harmonised in it.

 

>From the one Brahman emerges Shiv-Shakti, the father and mother

(opposits) of all that is ! Shiva is the Twin God-head— the

destruction and generation aspects (Opposites). In fact, the concept

of opposites is basic to our very thinking. We cannot talk of "

Adwaita " without " Dwaita. " We cannot know light without darkness.

 

—Shri. V. B. Nandwani

 

Mahim,

 

Bombay-16.

 

 

 

(From Sri Sai Leela Janaury 1974)