The happiness losses its significance in absence of misery The continuous happiness becomes misery. The happiness has its value only when it is temporary and is interrupted by misery. The continuous eating of sweets, the continuous scenes of happiness in cinema, the continuous winter etc., will bore you and turn themselves into misery finally. The profit of even little money gives happiness to a poor man but the profit of even lot of money does not give happiness to a rich man. The happiness losses its significance in absence of misery and the continuous happiness itself gets converted finally into misery. Therefore, the continuity of happiness is impossible. The bliss can be continuous because it is infinitely multiplied intensity of happiness and the very nature of bliss is continuity. Such bliss can come only from God and it can be neither from the soul nor from the world. The soul gives only temporary absence of happiness and misery called as peace. The world gives both happiness and misery and none of these two is continuous. If you reach the state of God, which is called as “Saadharmya” in Gita, then only you can derive the bliss from the world in which souls form a part only. Such state can be obtained only from the true spiritual knowledge given by Satguru along with His grace. At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org
How to control bad qualities. It is foolish to think to get rid of the bad qualities completely. By spiritual efforts, you can control these bad qualities (Rajas and Tamas) to certain extent and this is also essential because uncontrolled bad qualities disturb the balance of the society. In such case God will punish them. Control is possible but complete eradication is impossible in the case of these bad qualities. Control is boasted as eradication. Therefore, after achieving the control by the detachment from the worldly bonds, these qualities remaining in the soul should be diverted towards the Lord. The Lord is pleased by the basic love existing in these qualities. The selfless love is like sweet milk and the bad quality is like a ceramic cup. The selfish love is like salt water and the good quality is like a golden cup. The milk is paid but not the golden cup. The sage Shuka says that if the devotion exists, the nature of the quality is not important at all. This was the answer given by the sage to Parikshit in this context (Jarabuddhyapi…., Kimutadhokshajapriyah…Bhagavatam). Here you must be very careful to understand that the already existing sin is diverted by the Lord and the Lord did not generate the sin. Wealth from waste means extraction of wealth from the existing waste. It does not mean that to extract wealth, waste must be created! Similarly, you can explain the non-vegetarian food of Jesus. People cannot be controlled to avoid the non-vegetarian food. It is already existing which is uncontrollable. Jesus tried to divert this at least towards the God. He advised that one should thank God for providing such non-vegetarian food instead of taking it directly. He showed the dry fish to God with gratefulness. Veda says that you should offer the flesh of the killed animal to God in the sacrifice (Yajna). This does not mean that Veda is asking you to kill the animal. Anyway you are going to kill the animal to eat it and you cannot be controlled under any circumstances. In such case, Veda says that you should offer the flesh to God and eat it. Shankara says that the scripture is based on the existing nature of the human being and is not generating the same nature (Jnapakam Natu Karakam). Even if Krishna did not exist, such nature is existing in Kali Yuga. Even if Jesus did not exist, such non-vegetarian habit exists in the world. God comes through a medium having the same common qualities of human beings to be close with them. By such common qualities, the Lord encourages them also to have a straight path to God from their qualities without any change. If such encouragement is not given, the sinners will go deeply in the path of sins only, since the path to God is opposite to the sin (Apichet Sa Duracharah, Apichedasi Papebhyah, Sarva Dharman –Gita). At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace
True Essence of Yoga Yoga is the most prestigious field of spiritualism. People think about 6 wheels (Chakras) or lotus flowers present in the spinal card, which are not seen by the eyes. They are imaginary and so they carry some inner meaning. When you say a face as a moon, fools search for moon in that face. But, wise people see similarity in the face and moon. Similarly, wheels and lotus flowers should not be searched in the spinal card. Spinal card is the main nerve, representing mind, which is the base of love. All these wheels or lotus flowers are the bonds of love in the various relatives like parents, wife or husband, children etc. They are compared to wheels or the revolving whirlpools in the ocean, which attract a swimmer and drown him. Similarly, these love wheels are compared to lotus flowers, since the lotus flowers attract the bee by sweet fragrance and bind it. Similarly, these love flowers attract any one and bind them. “Kundalini” is the mind which is the energy travelling as waves like a serpent, should cross all these love wheels connected to 7th lotus flower in the head called “Sahasrara”, which is Buddhi or intelligence that takes the decision, which is the firm love on God. Bhagavat Gita is called as the main scripture of Yoga (Yoga-Sastra). Why there is not even single reference to these wheels or lotus flowers in anywhere in Gita or even in Upanishats? Since they are not real, they are not even mentioned. The author of the Gita was Krishna, who was called Master of Yoga (Yogeswara). Krishna also says that the real yoga was lost since long (Sa kaleneha mahata….). This means that in the beginning, Sages in India knew the real yoga and loved God only crossing all their family bonds. In due course of time only, this true yoga was lost. Why? The middle age Indians were unable to cross their family bonds and so failed to succeed in Yoga. They wanted to cover their in ability by twisting the very concept of yoga. The family bonds were removed from the concept and only wheels or lotus flowers are left fixed. Now, they close the eyes and say that they have seen the lotus flowers or wheels, which are only imaginary. Now they cross these wheels by their imaginary “Kundalini” and say that they have succeeded in Yoga. These blind teachers are also not to be blamed, because they were trained like that by their blind teachers. This misinterpretation was done long time back and hence, even at the time of Krishna, He told that yoga was lost since a long time. We cannot catch those original culprits, who were the top most twisting masters and so the present tradition also cannot be blamed. Only rectification is the way left over. Some say that they see light, which is only an imagination. After all, the mind is a form of energy and on its concentration imaginary light can be imagined. Instead of such a week light, you better see a strong light with your open eyes. What is the use of these imaginary lights and colours, without achieving the Lord through your love, which excels the various worldly, loves. I pity the foreigners, who are trapped in this false imaginary line of yoga, who are wasting their precious lifetime and energy. In fact, they are the best to succeed in yoga, if the reality of the yoga is exposed. Their family bonds are very weak and their love towards God is real, which is proved by their huge sacrifice of money to God’s work. Money is the fruit of work and its sacrifice for God’s work is “Karma phala tyaga” as mentioned in Gita. Again, the middle age Indians twisted this word “Karma phala tyaga” as sacrifice of the fruit of the work like praying God instead of sacrifice of money. The reason was that these Indians were unable to sacrifice money to God due to their strong love on their children. Foreigners ask their children to earn after certain age. Indians store money even for ten generations and still continue to store only. Since prayers, meditation and knowledge are very much diverted to God, India was blessed by God with good language, good mind and good knowledge. Since foreigners are good in sacrifice, God blessed them with good wealth. Even Indian spiritual centres were strongly funded by foreigners only. Swami Vivekananda cried, “Why my India suffers with poverty in spite of so much spiritual knowledge?” Sacrifice of money (Karma phala tyaga) and sacrifice of work (karma Sanyasa) put together constitute the God’s service, which is the real Yoga (real proof of love) called “Karma yoga” in Gita. Foreigners are the best in this karma yoga and so they easily succeed in yoga. Throughout Gita, this karma yoga was explained as yoga and wheels or lotus flowers are not at all mentioned.
I've been a yogi most of my life. Minus the religious aspects of it. For me, there is nothing between this waking consciousness and "God". There are no deities to appease. No rituals to perform. No rules for that matter. What exists is an awareness that all things, including my human identity, are parts of a whole. I can look at the world through human eyes, interact with it, while at the same time remaining aware of that is all a manifestation of a singular conscious energy of which I am. Is this not the true essence of yoga? x
Awareness is most precious form of cosmic energy but it has got its own demerits The awareness is the most subtle form of cosmic energy and is given ultimate value. It is more valuable than any inert form of inert cosmic energy. Awareness is most precious form of cosmic energy. This is the unique merit of awareness. Due to this the three Acharyas preferred awareness to be the best medium of God. But awareness has its own defects. Awareness is not an independent entity like the inert cosmic energy. It is a special work form of the inert energy. It is the consequence or the result or the product of inert energy in association with the functioning machine called as nervous system. It is a specific product of the basic inert cosmic energy. The other specific products of the basic inert cosmic energy are light, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism, etc., The basic inert cosmic energy is ‘Mula Maya’, which is the basic material of this Universe. The above consequent forms of Energy are ‘Maha Maya’. Awareness is one of the daughters of ‘Mula Maya’. When you say that God wishes or thinks, it really means that the unimaginable God wishes or thinks. The unimaginable God (Para Brahman) need not be awareness to wish or think. He is the source of the entire Universe, which constitutes several entities and works or qualities. Awareness is an entity and wishing or thinking is a specific work or quality. Even the association of an entity with a specific work or quality is also due to God. God can dissociate any entity from its associated quality or work. Before God, the fire could not burn even a dry blade of grass. This event is said in Veda. The Omni-potent God can do anything and hence God wished to create this world. Due to wish, you need not conclude God as awareness applying the worldly logic, which fails in Him. A common man may not understand this due to the failure of worldly logic, because his mind is always trained in the worldly logic. For the sake of such ordinary people, the three Acharyas have selected the mediated God (God embedded in awareness) and described God as the awareness. One should be careful that a specific bit of awareness charged by God only can be treated as God like a specific wire electrified is treated as electricity. The selfish human beings have extrapolated this and treated every bit of awareness as God. This is wrong because every wire cannot be treated as electricity. Only in a specific electric wire, the wire is electricity and the electricity is wire. This equation fails if it leaves that specific wire.
For the existence of God to be proved, the imaginable medium is necessary When a miracle takes place, there are two entities. One is the imaginable medium that stands as the basis and the other is the unimaginable entity i.e., conveyed about its existence. A tender boy called as ‘Krishna’ and a big hill called as ‘Govardhana’ together stand as the imaginable medium. When this big hill was lifted by the tender boy, the unimaginable event shows the existence of some unimaginable entity in the boy. The nature of the unimaginable entity cannot be understood, but its existence is established through this event. If the boy or hill is absent this unimaginable event cannot take place and the existence of unimaginable entity in the boy cannot be identified. Therefore, even for the existence of God to be proved, the imaginable medium is necessary. The boy with a physical body is not much valuable because there is a general repulsion due to jealousy and ego between the human beings. The awareness is invisible and very subtle. When the medium is invisible the point of jealousy disappears. Therefore, the Acharyas have selected the awareness alone without the physical body as the medium of God for the sake of psychological satisfaction. But for this purpose the awareness without a physical body does not exist at all. On deep analysis one can easily understand that the awareness taken as God is nothing but a specific human incarnation because there is no awareness which is continuous. It is only a temporary psychological trick of the spiritual preacher for the sake of beginners affected by jealousy and ego.
Proof for existence of unimaginable God beyond the boundary of space The boundary of the Universe need not be made of the same material (five elements). A metallic wheel may have a plastic ring around its edge. Therefore, the boundary of the Universe need not be made of the same imaginable material. The boundary is unimaginable means that the boundary is made of unimaginable material i.e., God. Even if you say that the diameter of the Universe is some billions of light years, is there a compound wall in the edge of the boundary? If there is such wall what is present beyond that wall? If you say that space is present beyond that wall, space is also a part of the Universe (one of the five elements). The theory of bending of the space around object proves that space is the most subtle energy. Therefore, the diameter of the Universe is infinite. The theory of constant expansion of Universe is also meaningless because expansion of any material requires the existence of space different from the material. When space or subtle energy is the basic material of the Universe, the word ‘expansion’ becomes ridiculous. The infinity of the Universe stands for the existence of unimaginable entity beyond the Universe existing from the boundary of Universe. Unless you accept the unimaginable region beyond the boundary of Universe, you cannot speak of the end of imaginable boundary of the Universe. All this discussion will clearly establish the existence of unimaginable region or God beyond the Universe.
The unimaginable God can never be touched even by your intelligence or logic The unimaginable God can never be touched even by your intelligence or logic. When you say that God wished to create the world, you have not touched the absolute God. The God in your statement is only the absolute God embedded in the awareness. The awareness was created by Him in the beginning and He entered that awareness. Awareness is the medium (Upadhi) for God here. Now ‘God Thinks’ means that the awareness controlled by God thinks. You can go up to this point only which is the extreme edge. All the three Acharyaas went up to this point only. The medium indicates the possessor of the medium. The wire indicates the electricity in it. You can call the wire as electricity or the electricity as the wire. Similarly, in such case you can call God as awareness or awareness as God. But every wire is not electric wire. Similarly, every bit of awareness (living being) is not charged by God and hence cannot be called as God.
God is not awareness God created the awareness as an entity and created the process of thinking as a quality or work separately. By the order of God this entity (awareness) and quality or work (thinking) are associated. If God wishes awareness may dissociate with such work. A patient in coma has awareness but cannot think. An inert computer, which has no awareness, thinks like a human being. Therefore, the association of awareness and thinking is not constant even in the worldly examples. Even without the wish of God the dissociation is seen. Therefore, when there is no constant association between these two, how can you conclude that God is awareness since He thought of creating the Universe? You can say that generally there is association between these two. Based on this you can conclude that an item is awareness through the process of thinking. You must be careful about the exceptional case of computer (robot). When even robot violates your general conclusion, why not God, who is beyond the worldly logic violate this conclusion? God can think even without being awareness, because He is the creator of awareness as well as the creator of the very process of thinking. Veda says that God is beyond worldly logic (Naishaa Tarkena, Atarkayah).
The excellent proof that God is not awareness There is only one God as per Veda (Ekameva Advitiyam Brahma) but the awareness is in multiple bits called as living beings. There is only one Ajay but the red shirts are several. If there is only one red shirt like one Ajay, the constant association is valid in both directions. It means wherever there is Ajay there is red shirt and wherever there is red shirt Ajay exists there. Similarly, if there is only one bit of awareness like one God, we can draw the logic of saying wherever there is God there is awareness and wherever there is awareness there is God. In such case we can say that God is awareness and awareness is God. But in practical experience (Anubhava Pramana) the awareness is discontinuous existing in the form of several living beings in the world. If the awareness is continuous and homogenous, there should be no inert item in the creation. In such case the air and earth should talk. When you put the leg on the earth the earth should file a case in the court for insulting the earth with leg. Similarly, the air should react when you spit in the air. The Advaita philosophers bring a simile of conversion of mind (awareness) into imaginary world or dream. Based on the simile they say that the inert world is also a modification of the awareness. In the imaginary world or dream the inert items like a hill, a tree, etc., are also modifications of awareness. Similarly, they maintain that the inert items in the world are also modifications of the awareness. This is meaningless because there is a direct proof (Pratyaksha Pramana) for the conversion of mind into imaginary world or dream. As you create the imaginary world more and more, which is a process of thinking, the awareness or mind gets exhausted. Your mind becomes weak and you get tired. You will take some food to supply the energy. If your total mind is ten calories of nervous energy, you feel energetic. But after spending some time in imagination (creating the imaginary world), let us say eight calories are spent. You become tired with the remaining two calories of energy. A point will come when you cannot think further with headache. The nervous system which converts inert energy into awareness gets exhausted resulting in headache. If you say that such awareness is God, God must have been reduced in quantity by creating this world. God remains constant even after the process of creation. This is not the case with mental awareness. Therefore, the awareness and dream cannot stand even as a simile in this aspect!! You say that the awareness is totally God!! You can take this as a simile for God and creation as the mind is completely free to create, maintain and dissolve the dream, God is free to create, maintain and dissolve the world. In this aspect the above example can stand as a simile. A simile stands in a particular aspect only and not in all aspects. If the simile is similar in all aspects, there is no difference between the simile and the object compared. You can compare the awareness in one human being to the awareness in another human being in all aspects and say that the awareness in both human beings is one and the same. Here also the similarity is qualitative. The awareness in two human beings is divided in two quantities by the boundaries of their bodies. The awareness in one human being may be more (twenty calories) and the awareness in another human being may be less (ten calories) in a particular time. Even in a single human being the awareness may vary in quantity from time to time. In deep sleep the quantity of awareness becomes zero.
Well then if the one God were beyond awareness why do we persist we can buy information for and about Him? The many Gods, to me, must be free of any charge, any horendess effort to know about them. One of them will and shall occur as the solution that that were the true God for vacuous suffering experience of where and how I was born onto some god (only God can tell me I was alive by Him). That means I am within awareness for the unbought one God of the universe.
If God isn't awareness, then how did He know what He was creating? This is simple idiocy. Also, if you expect people to trawl through this stuff of yours, you'd do better to avaoid acting like you're spamming up the board.
and precisely how does a non-awairness "think"? i'm sure i must be missing something here somewhere. =^^= .../\...
There is no logical way to prove that God even exists. There is no way to speak about the purpose of this world. Our logic has to operate only within sense of our perception. We cannot extend the logic beyond what we see with our senses. Awareness is as much a sense as physical feeling or emotional feeling. Finding God through such things as awareness is indirectly aimed toward God.
Yoga is aimed at a level of awareness above the merely logical. A level of supra-sensible perception and knowledge. Also there is no way to prove by logic that God does not exist.
Ehhhh, I apologize. Logically speaking, it can't be true...we don't know. I should have said that statement is valid.
ÐÑÇämþër; Building is there. Implies Builder should be there. Creation is there. Creator should be there. I can see the building, which is in front of my eyes, but builder need not stand in front of the building. He will be in his own job. If you want to meet the builder, you should definitely put effort to locate the builder and see him. Likewise Creation is there in front of our eyes. But have we put anytime effort to locate and identify the creator? Instead of that, with least effort we can propagate to others also that God is not there. They are not only blinded, they are making others also blinded. Some people who are theists may become prey for the propagation of this ignorance also unfortunately. The greatest sin on the earth is to be unfaithful. To identify the builder you should know the identification marks, where he lives, what he does etc.. and we have to enquire if we don't know. This is to say that knowledge is required to identify any person. This knowledge is called divine knowledge if the aim is to identify the Lord, which actually only is to be propagated. Lord created this universe for the enjoyment without any selfish motive and we human beings are enjoying the creation. Like through nice parents, wife, children, beautiful nature consisting of pleasant looking mountains, rivers, sea, nature, changing weather etc. If we cannot please the Lord, the human life is incomplete. We serve our family members by spending our hard earned money and also physically. Are we not serving family as Servant, and these family members are nearly equal to us. Where as, Lord is omnipotent and requires no help from us, many times satisfied our desires, saved us from mishaps etc. and if we cannot bow our head in front of Him, it is very ridiculous. It is very great honour to serve Him, this is the path followed by His real devotees. These real devotees could overcome ego and always wants to serve Him as servant. Jesus preached the gospel and His followers participated in His mission as servants for further propagation of divine knowledge. These great devotees never hesitated to serve Lord Jesus and their names have also been known even today. At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami Anil Antony www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace
The straight answer for that, no need of quoting scriptures etc, because he will say that it is some theoretical imagination. The only proof for God is the human incarnation coming into the world, and straightly performing the unimingable miracle and by that He proves the existence of the unimaginable God and also He preaches about the unimaginable God. You are unable to know the unimaginable miracle and He is performing. Neither you analyze nor you perform the miracle. Thus human incarnation is the authority. Jesus told I came to fulfill the statements. The scriptures are fulfilled by the arrival of the human incarnation. Jesus arose a person who died three days back, no body can do it, that is not possible for an ordinary man. The same Jesus told there is God. You could not analyze this miracle and you could not under stand the miracle, and hence the performer of the miracle is the sole authority in this field. Either you should also perform the miracle and say God does not exist. But you should do it in genuine way. Some body acts as if he is dead and ask him to rise; not like that not magic. If you can also do and say God doesn’t exits. Then we will agree and we will say that all these scriptures are just bogus. That is why these scientists and atheist fight with miracles. They are only catching their throat. They are always enemies to the miracles. That is the only hard nut for them, if they cross that hard nut then they have won. Scriptures alone cannot stand, unless something is demonstrated it is not proved. That is I why Jesus told I came to fulfill the statement of scripture. I demonstrate or perform the theoretical knowledge preached in the scriptures. Only human incarnation’s miracle is the only answer for these atheist and scientists.
