06/06/07 The limitation of intellectual Knowledge
Bhagavan said:
The whole universe and that which is beyond the universe are within me. I am the sun of the sun. I can create the universe and destroy it too if I so wish. There is the issue of global warming. The scientists know up to this much, but I know what is beyond that. If everything is destroyed due to global warming, who will remain to see what happens afterwards? Who can say the Ultimate? For that reason there is no way for people save to pray to God.
International Vedanta Society is the Titanic that will never sink and the ship on which people may take shelter. The devotees are the rescue party that will save them from disaster. They have no reason to be afraid about this.
Description by Monti:
When Bhagavan was saying all these words, His expression was changing, and ultimately He stood in His own form. It seemed as though He were injecting rays into us. It seemed that in front of Him everything was very negligible. He started His words during the discussion of global warming. Now, He is connected with all the living beings in the world.
Commentary by Koji:
Bhagavan has realised Brahman, so he has realised that he is not in the universe, but the universe is in him. He has realised Shakti, so he has the realisation of that element that projects the universe into apparent existence.
Those that search with the intellect can know things that are within Maya. If you know something with the intellect, there are three elements; the subject, the knower, the object, which is the known, and the relation between the two, which is the knowledge. However, spirituality is a unique discipline in that those that are investigating it are trying to know not a perceived object, but the subject, the perceiver. It is not possible to do this with the intellect. If the intellect is put onto the subject, the subject is transformed into an object, and another subject is made outside, which warps the original situation.
You do not know your face. You cannot see it. If you have not seen it in a mirror, that is not your face, but a mere reflection, a certain manifestation of your face. You can not know your face completely, but you are your face. 100% Knowledge, Absolute Knowledge is not knowing, but being.
You cannot know Brahman, but you are Brahman. The problem is that we are not conscious of being Brahman. The Brahman is intermingled with objects like the body, the mind and the ego, and these things attract the consciousness. If we can remove these things, only Brahman will remain, and we will have the realisation of being Brahman. The state in which only Brahman remains is called nirvikalpa samadhi.
The intellect works with vibrations. Nirvikalpa samadhi is the vibrationless state, so it is necessary to make the intellect silent. We do not know that we are Brahman, so we are living in ignorance. Without even knowing what our identity is, we cannot be prepared to really live. Not always trying to spiritually elevate ourselves when we understand that we should realise Brahman is a weakness, a completely illogical way of living. We must be marching towards Truth.
In this age, it is IVS that has the grace of God. Until the divine works have been done, it will never sink. The most important ingredient for being successful in spirituality is that grace of God. We should recognise that, jump onto the ship, and make its works our own.
The whole universe and that which is beyond the universe are within me. I am the sun of the sun. I can create the universe and destroy it too if I so wish. There is the issue of global warming. The scientists know up to this much, but I know what is beyond that. If everything is destroyed due to global warming, who will remain to see what happens afterwards? Who can say the Ultimate? For that reason there is no way for people save to pray to God.
International Vedanta Society is the Titanic that will never sink and the ship on which people may take shelter. The devotees are the rescue party that will save them from disaster. They have no reason to be afraid about this.
Description by Monti:
When Bhagavan was saying all these words, His expression was changing, and ultimately He stood in His own form. It seemed as though He were injecting rays into us. It seemed that in front of Him everything was very negligible. He started His words during the discussion of global warming. Now, He is connected with all the living beings in the world.
Commentary by Koji:
Bhagavan has realised Brahman, so he has realised that he is not in the universe, but the universe is in him. He has realised Shakti, so he has the realisation of that element that projects the universe into apparent existence.
Those that search with the intellect can know things that are within Maya. If you know something with the intellect, there are three elements; the subject, the knower, the object, which is the known, and the relation between the two, which is the knowledge. However, spirituality is a unique discipline in that those that are investigating it are trying to know not a perceived object, but the subject, the perceiver. It is not possible to do this with the intellect. If the intellect is put onto the subject, the subject is transformed into an object, and another subject is made outside, which warps the original situation.
You do not know your face. You cannot see it. If you have not seen it in a mirror, that is not your face, but a mere reflection, a certain manifestation of your face. You can not know your face completely, but you are your face. 100% Knowledge, Absolute Knowledge is not knowing, but being.
You cannot know Brahman, but you are Brahman. The problem is that we are not conscious of being Brahman. The Brahman is intermingled with objects like the body, the mind and the ego, and these things attract the consciousness. If we can remove these things, only Brahman will remain, and we will have the realisation of being Brahman. The state in which only Brahman remains is called nirvikalpa samadhi.
The intellect works with vibrations. Nirvikalpa samadhi is the vibrationless state, so it is necessary to make the intellect silent. We do not know that we are Brahman, so we are living in ignorance. Without even knowing what our identity is, we cannot be prepared to really live. Not always trying to spiritually elevate ourselves when we understand that we should realise Brahman is a weakness, a completely illogical way of living. We must be marching towards Truth.
In this age, it is IVS that has the grace of God. Until the divine works have been done, it will never sink. The most important ingredient for being successful in spirituality is that grace of God. We should recognise that, jump onto the ship, and make its works our own.
Koji
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01/06/07 Avatar Tattva
Bhagavan said:
An avatar is the condensed form of eternity, like ice floating on water. Due to the pressure of the waves, it melts into the water. Similarly, an avatar comes in a form, but sometimes it has a shape, sometimes not. When Brahman takes a shape, like ice, you can touch it. Doing that, you are touching the Brahman itself. Just as, when you touch ice, you sometimes touch water also, and the ice slowly melts to form water. In that way, I shall also dissolve into it.
Only God has that eternal love. Love does not come from nirvikalpa samadhi. In 1989, after my mahabhava, that love came to me whose touch unbalances you. A guru cannot have that love. Only God can give it. In the same way, only a cow can give milk, not a bull. A bull can give dung which you can use, but he can neither give milk nor reproduce. Just like that, God can only create and give that eternal love which you cannot get from anybody. Everyone comments on my love, my attraction, however, no-one understands I am God himself, from whom you are getting this taste.
Commentary by Koji
The water in the ocean is caused to freeze into the avatar form whenever there is, "a decline of spirituality and ascendence of materialism," as explained by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita 4:7. The avatars incarnate where a lot of devotees are present, which is why they normally appear in India, a country whose whole existence is based on spirituality.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is the realisation of Brahman, of Truth. Mahabhava is the realisation of Maya. All feelings, like love, are contained within Maya, and mahabhava is the originating point of all feelings, containing them all.
A magician pulls a rabbit out of an empty hat. The magician's friends know how the trick is done, but cannot do it themselves. Only the magician both knows the secret and can do the trick. In the same way, the brahmajñani, who knows Brahman through having experienced nirvikalpa samadhi, knows the secret of the universe, and how everything is done, but cannot manipulate Maya himself. The Bhagavan, who has also experienced mahabhava, does have the power to manipulate Maya as he wishes. We see the evidence of this in the percentage of devotees of avatars that realise themselves, and the speed with which they do so.
A manifestation of love is attracting power. 'Krishna' means 'the one that attracts'. If we read the Bhagavatam, we come across stories in which Krishna was playing his flute in the woods, and the people who heard felt an irresistible attraction to him and went jumping out of their windows and running out to see him, forgetting everything else. One who has this attracting quality has attained the realisation of Krishna. Jesus Christ also had this quality. It is described in the Bible how Jesus came across some fishermen coming out of the sea with their nets, told them to follow him, and they came immediately, becoming his disciples. He got about five different disciples in this way. In the modern day, to most people these things sound about as likely to be true as a mere fairy story, but I have myself seen this kind of thing around Bhagavan with my own eyes often enough to believe. God has come.
An avatar is the condensed form of eternity, like ice floating on water. Due to the pressure of the waves, it melts into the water. Similarly, an avatar comes in a form, but sometimes it has a shape, sometimes not. When Brahman takes a shape, like ice, you can touch it. Doing that, you are touching the Brahman itself. Just as, when you touch ice, you sometimes touch water also, and the ice slowly melts to form water. In that way, I shall also dissolve into it.
Only God has that eternal love. Love does not come from nirvikalpa samadhi. In 1989, after my mahabhava, that love came to me whose touch unbalances you. A guru cannot have that love. Only God can give it. In the same way, only a cow can give milk, not a bull. A bull can give dung which you can use, but he can neither give milk nor reproduce. Just like that, God can only create and give that eternal love which you cannot get from anybody. Everyone comments on my love, my attraction, however, no-one understands I am God himself, from whom you are getting this taste.
Commentary by Koji
The water in the ocean is caused to freeze into the avatar form whenever there is, "a decline of spirituality and ascendence of materialism," as explained by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita 4:7. The avatars incarnate where a lot of devotees are present, which is why they normally appear in India, a country whose whole existence is based on spirituality.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is the realisation of Brahman, of Truth. Mahabhava is the realisation of Maya. All feelings, like love, are contained within Maya, and mahabhava is the originating point of all feelings, containing them all.
A magician pulls a rabbit out of an empty hat. The magician's friends know how the trick is done, but cannot do it themselves. Only the magician both knows the secret and can do the trick. In the same way, the brahmajñani, who knows Brahman through having experienced nirvikalpa samadhi, knows the secret of the universe, and how everything is done, but cannot manipulate Maya himself. The Bhagavan, who has also experienced mahabhava, does have the power to manipulate Maya as he wishes. We see the evidence of this in the percentage of devotees of avatars that realise themselves, and the speed with which they do so.
A manifestation of love is attracting power. 'Krishna' means 'the one that attracts'. If we read the Bhagavatam, we come across stories in which Krishna was playing his flute in the woods, and the people who heard felt an irresistible attraction to him and went jumping out of their windows and running out to see him, forgetting everything else. One who has this attracting quality has attained the realisation of Krishna. Jesus Christ also had this quality. It is described in the Bible how Jesus came across some fishermen coming out of the sea with their nets, told them to follow him, and they came immediately, becoming his disciples. He got about five different disciples in this way. In the modern day, to most people these things sound about as likely to be true as a mere fairy story, but I have myself seen this kind of thing around Bhagavan with my own eyes often enough to believe. God has come.