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.
Koji
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