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Vijaya Dasami 2004 Discourse |
Your Reality is in Your Own Self, not Elsewhere |
By which power
of love the earth does rotate without axle or bearing,
By which power of love do the stars remain in the sky without falling on the
earth,
By which power of love do the oceans confine themselves to the limits without
inundating the earth,
By which power of love does the wind-god blow cool breeze in all the worlds,
That mighty power of love is verily the Atmic power.
That power of love is most wonderful, unique and all-pervasive.
The entire creation is permeated with love.
(Telugu
poem)
Embodiments
of Love!
Man need not undertake any special sadhanas to visualise the all-pervading
truth. We call God by different names like Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara. These
are the names given by man to God based on some imaginary forms. But, who has
actually perceived these forms? None so far. There is only one power in
the world, which is all-pervasive.
That is the power of love. It is only by love, are human societies
formed. There can be no humanity without divinity. It is only when man
establishes contact with divinity to some extent, he can acquire a little of
that divine power which is omnipotent.
Embodiments of Love!
In fact, all modes of powers are immanent in Manavatwa
(humanness) itself. It needs no special agent to vest it with any extra powers.
The divine power fully manifests itself in a human being. Human power cannot
function without the help of Divine power. There are four Mahavakyas
in the Vedas, namely, Tattwamasi (That Thou Art), Prajnanam
Brahma (constant integrated awareness is Brahman), Ayam
Atma Brahma (This Atma itself is Brahman) and Aham
Brahmasmi (I am Brahman verily). The essence of these Mahavakyas
is further explained in the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. But, man is getting
deluded as he is unable to understand the import of these Mahavakyas. He is not
able to realise Divine power which, in fact, is in his own self. The divinity in
humanity expresses itself as Sakthitattwa (energy).
Today, man is striving to acquire several powers and make use of them for
getting relieved of his sorrows and sufferings. In fact, these sorrows and
worries are the stepping stones to Divinity. Man should not give too much
importance to these worries. If one analyses carefully, what is there in human
existence, which does not cause worry? Man’s life from birth to death is full
of worries. I often quote a poem to describe this fact:
To be born is a worry, to be on this earth is a worry,
The world is a cause for worry and death too;
The whole of childhood is a worry and so is the old age;
Life is a worry, failure is a worry;
All actions and difficulties cause worry;
Happiness too is a mysterious worry.
(Telugu poem)
Embodiments of Love!
Some people say they had the vision of the Divine in their dream. Some others
say they had it in their meditation. Yet others declare they had seen God
through their Jnana Nethra (eye of wisdom). Most of
these claims are the result of man’s delusion. They are not real. Some people
claim to have seen God in their dream. Where is dream? Where is God? In fact,
dream experience itself is not real. It is only an illusion. They are deluded to
think that way. The day man gets rid of this delusion, he will acquire Divine
power. Hence, everyone should come out of such illusion. Some sit in meditation
and think they are contemplating on somebody. Some others claim to have seen
some effulgence in their meditation. What is meditation? It means ekagratha
(concentration on the inner vision of the omniself). It is visualising a Drisya
(scene) in a state of absolute stillness of the body and mind free from
illusion. But wherever a man is, there is his mind as well. There is no place in
this world without the mind being present. The mind is all-pervasive. It is
said, Manayeva Manushyanaam Karanam Bandha Mokshayoh
(the mind alone is the cause for bondage as well as liberation). We say we are
happy. Where does this happiness come from? Certainly, it is not from outside.
It wells up from one’s own heart. The nature of the mind is chanchala
(fickleness). This fickleness is in our own nature. It has not come from
outside. All relationships we maintain in the objective world are only illusory.
Supposing you marry a girl. From then on, you maintain a man and wife
relationship with her. Even prior to the marriage both of you were existing in
the world, but this relationship was not there. From the moment you both are
married you think she is related to you. Thus, it is a mental relationship.
Embodiments of Love!
Even Maya (delusion) is associated with love. You do not find anything in this
world, devoid of love. Love is in everything in this world. All relationships
between people in this world are established and cultivated on account of love.
Again, love becomes the cause for separation of two individuals. There are
several types of Sadhana in this world; Bhrama Sadhana (coming out of delusion)
is one such. In fact, Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara cannot be visualised in your
Sadhana (meditation, etc.). What all you see in your meditation are only
reflections of your feelings. Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara are not really
existing in this world. They are only your imaginary forms. What really exists
in the world is Manavattwa (humanness). Unable to believe the humanness that is
present right in front of your eyes, if you contemplate on Divine nature, how
can you find it? The name and form that you attribute to Divinity, namely,
Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara are not real. They are only a mirage born out of
your delusion. Everything is contained in the human being. You are Brahma,
Vishnu and Maheswara and every conceivable name and form attributed to Divinity.
When you begin to believe that you are everything, there can be no cause for any
kind of worry. When you are able to realise Aham Brahma,
Aham Vishnu, Aham Easwara (I am Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara verily),
there is no scope for any doubt. All these names and forms are products of your
own imagination. There is no power greater than humanness in this world.
Embodiments of Love!
You say that Swami appeared in your dream last night. This is not correct. I do
not appear in anybody’s dream. When you intensely desire that Swami must
appear in your dream and constantly think of the same, that intense desire will
assume a form in your dream. God does not assume a form or change into another
form. Some people think that God is angry with them. This presumption is also
not correct. God has neither love towards somebody nor anger towards another.
All these presumptions are of your own making. You attribute anger or other
feelings to God. Instead, if you live in love constantly, you will not find
anger in others. In fact, love is your true form. Man is born out of and
brought up with love. Not only a human being, but every living creature
experiences love right from its birth. There is no force more powerful than love
in this world. No power on earth can change love. Do not get deluded by
the thought that you have acquired this power and that power. All these are only
illusions (bhrama). Bhrama
is not Brahman. Nor can Brahman
be equated with Bhrama.
Embodiments
of Love!
What is meant by Divyatma? It means Divine Atma.
Atma is nothing but consciousness. And, that consciousness is all pervading. You
do not find a place where there is no consciousness. Consciousness is
omnipotent. There is one aspect to be borne in mind in this context.
Consciousness is movable. But we are deluded to think that it is static. In
fact, the real power is within you only. That is Atma
Sakthi (atmic power). We have already known that Atma is consciousness.
Therefore, Atma Sakthi is chaithanya
sakthi (power of consciousness). This is all-pervading. This enables you
to witness different forms. The immense power in humanness is Divine in nature.
It confers peace and happiness. You may think that Divine power is some special
power. It is not true. Your own power of contemplation assumes the form of
Divine power. Therefore, first and foremost you realise your own innate Divine
nature. All that is written in the books or read by you are not in fact true.
There are some kinds of power which are temporary. They are not eternal. Such
transient powers should not delude one. You are learning the Vedas. Every sound
that emanates from the Vedas emerges from the navel only. We are experiencing
the sound emanating from our own navel. Supposing you go to a hill and shout
“Oh!” the sound comes back to you as resound. Similarly, good and bad
emanates from you only. They do not come from somewhere and get into you.
Embodiments of Love!
For example, you go on repeating loudly a particular sentence taken from a book.
After sometime, you will get it by heart. But, the sentence memorised by you is
not yours. It is only a resound. In God’s creation, everything is reaction,
reflection and resound. All that we experience in the outside world is
only a reaction, reflection and resound of the inner being. We are,
however, deluded to think that this reaction, reflection and resound are real
ones. Whatever feeling comes out of your heart and takes a shape outside is the
real form. It means that, that form has already been conceived by you. Supposing
you imagine a particular form for Lord Rama. Then, contemplate on that form,
closing your eyes. You can visualise the same form, as a reflection of your
inner thoughts. All that is manifested in the outside world is only a reaction,
reflection and resound of your inner being.
Embodiments of Love!
You yourself are Rama, Krishna, Easwara, etc. You think that you are Easwara and
contemplate on that form. You will become Easwara, verily. Yad
Bhavam Tad Bhavathi (as you think so you become). Similarly, you think
that you are Rama, Krishna, etc., and you will become Rama and Krishna. Today,
people sit in meditation. It is only for developing concentration, not with a
view to contemplate on God. People mistake concentration for meditation. This is
not a correct method. All these exercises are reaction, reflection and resound.
Only you are real, you are the truth. You are able to visualise God only in
human form. Man cannot conceive or visualise anything greater than him. You
are everything and everything in creation is immanent in you. Unfortunately, man
today is forgetting his real nature and is imagining something which does not
exist. This is the result of delusion, which, in fact, is of his own making. It
is only when man comes out of this illusion that he will be able to realise
Brahman.
Embodiments
of Love!
Love is the most important factor. If you pray to God with intense love and
devotion, your prayers will certainly be answered. Such is the power of love. Devoid
of love, nothing can be achieved even in this mundane world. Love is God, live
in love! The whole world becomes a vacuum, without love. That love alone assumes
a form. Realise this truth. You sit in your so-called meditation, and
try to forget yourself through imaginary experiences. If you forget yourself,
how can you visualise the truth? Constantly live in the awareness “I am God, I
am everything and I am the reality. All forms are subject to change”. For
example, an infant at the time of birth will be small in size. Then it will grow
into a child, a boy, youth and an old person. In all these different stages of
life, man alone is the reality. “All are one, be alike to every
one”. This is the lesson one must try to learn.
Embodiments of Love!
Let the flame of your love be steady, not flickering. There is no greater
Sadhana than love. That is the spiritual practice you have to adopt. That is the
Divine practice. Divinity is omnipresent. You have to realise that omnipresent
divinity within your own self. It is present in all the three states of
consciousness, namely, dream, wakeful and deep sleep state. One has to strive to
experience that divinity constantly. That is Prajnanam
Brahma (constant integrated awareness is Brahman).
That is Sakshatkara (vision of divinity), an
experience which transcends all the three states of consciousness.
Embodiments of Love!
You are worshipping several forms of divinity. However, you cannot afford to
forget your own innate divinity. In fact, you yourself are ascribing umpteen
number of names and forms to divinity. But, divinity is only one, which
is changeless. That changeless eternal divinity is immanent in you. All external
forms and names are like fleeting dreams. And those dreams are not
real. Hence, strive to come out of that bhrama
(delusion). It is only when you come out of that bhrama,
you will be able to realise Brahman. You have
witnessed something in your dream. What is it? It is your own self, nothing
other than that. You are visualising your own self in the dream state. Your real
nature is love. Hence, you manifest your real nature. There are several aspects
which you have to learn in future. What is future? Future is uncertain;
past is past; only present is what matters. Both past and future are contained
in the present. You alone are present in all the three - past, present and
future.
Embodiments of Love!
Divine powers and Divine manifestations are immanent in the human being;
they are not to be sought from elsewhere. By constant Sadhana, man can realise
this truth. Your reality is in your own self, not elsewhere. In order to
visualise that reality, one has to turn his vision inward. Reaction,
reflection and resound - all the three are existing in your own self; they are
not external. Supposing you have a brother who earned a good name and fame. Who
is he? He is your brother. He represents a particular form. From where did this
form come? It came from reality. And that reality is his true nature. Thus, a
form that manifested from reality deludes us from visualising the reality
itself.
Dear students!
If you wish to understand certain aspects more clearly, I will explain in
greater detail after sometime. The kind of meditation you are doing is not
correct. You are keeping one form in your mind and contemplating on that. Where
did this form come from? It is of your own making. You are deluded to think that
God is confined to only this form. Thus, right from the beginning you are with a
deluded belief. If only you come out of this delusion, can you visualise the
truth. Do not ever be under the illusion that God is somewhere in a distant
place. You are, in fact, God verily. Your own form is Divine. Your bliss
is Divine. Your reaction, reflection and resound are Divine in nature. Never
deviate from the firm faith that you are God. Always contemplate on one aspect: Aham
Brahmasmi (I am Brahman). What is the meaning of the Mahavakya
Tattwamasi (That Thou Art)? Tat is that. Twam
is this. Together they become Asi. They become one.
Thus, all these four Mahavakyas Tattwamasi,
Prajnanam Brahma, Ayam Atma Brahma and Aham
Brahmasmi lead you to the same truth, that, you are God verily. Adi
Sankara had expounded and explained this great Advaita philosophy in ever so
many ways and ultimately merged himself in that great truth. Thus, reality is
not somewhere in a distant place. It is within you. Your very nature is
reality. How can you realise this truth? Only by cultivating pure, selfless and
Divine love. Without love, nothing can be achieved in this world. Love is the
source and sustenance for the entire universe. Love is God and God is love.
Embodiments of Love!
All of you are Embodiments of Divinity. Your forms are Divine. You and
God are one. You are not different from God. Experience this unity. Ekam
sath (truth is one). Unity is truth. Unity is divinity. God is not
separate from you. God is manifest in you. Unfortunately, you are
forgetting this truth. If you forget your own nature, it amounts to forgetting
everything else. Never forget your reality. Without forgetting that reality,
meditate on it. Always remember one fact: wherever I am, I am always
Divine. Hold on to this firm belief, steadfastly. That
is the truth contained in the Mahavakya Tattwamasi,
the inseparable and non-dual nature of Divinity. Do not be under the illusion
“Rama has appeared in my dream, Krishna has appeared in my dream, Swami has
appeared in my dream”. This is a sign of ignorance. All these are dreams only.
How can a dream be called a reality? The very word “dream” explains its
nature. As long as you are in sleep, this experience may be true. The moment you
wake up, the experience vanishes.
Embodiments of Love!
Keep your love securely. Never give up love under any circumstances.
There is no God other than love. Love is God, verily. Love is your path, and
goal. Never deviate from this path of love. If you find any difficulty in
treading this path or if you have some doubts to get clarified, I am always
there to help you. Try to reduce your doubts. These doubts will lead
you to delusion. Always get yourself firmly established in the truth Tattwamasi
(That Thou Art). It is a mistaken idea to think that this form has visualised
that form of Divinity, for you and God are not separate. Brahman
is very much immanent in this body. Brahman and Aham
are one and the same. Undertake Sadhana to realise the oneness of these two.
That is the ‘Pathway to God’. If you wish to meditate on God, never
allow your thoughts to be disturbed by worldly objects. You meditate on your own
real nature, which is Divinity. In that divinity, everything else is contained.
If you thus meditate on your own innate Divinity, you will realise your unity
with divinity. In fact, that unity is Divinity.
The four Mahavakyas Tattwamasi,
Prajnanam Brahma, Aham Brahmasmi and Ayam Atma
Brahma are Vedic declarations which emphasise the oneness of the
individualised soul and the Supreme Soul. They exhort the individualised soul to
realise this truth. Therefore, one has to strive to attain that state
of unity. As you gradually progress in that Sadhana, you will ultimately reach
that goal. Supposing you want to learn the spelling of a word; just think how
many times you will be repeating that spelling. In the same way, you must set
out on this path of Sadhana. This is a scared Sadhana. If you are able to know
the true meaning of these Mahavakyas, you will be
able to realise the truth.
(Bhagawan concluded His discourse with the bhajan “Prema
Muditha Manase Kaho…)