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Message On Shri Baba's Cosmic Vision On The Moon-2 of 3
Message On Shri Baba's Cosmic Vision On The Moon-2 of 3
2007
Today the need for the majority in the society is to cut the
unjust bonds and replace them by justified bonds. The justified
bonds have no strength to cut the unjust bonds because the
unjust bonds already cut them. Justice is already defeated by
injustice and now again the same justice cannot defeat the
injustice. To cut the bond with injustice, most powerful bond with
God can alone do it. Now Nivrutti, which is the establishment of
bond with God is needed in Pravrutti for everybody. If the love to
God cannot replace the injustice, at least fear to God is needed. If
the student is not studying due to love and respect to the
teacher, at least the cane of teacher is required. To establish
bond with God or fear to God, the proof for the very basic
existence of God is needed. If you can explain every thing and if
there is nothing beyond your understanding, then you are the
God. Therefore, unimaginable God with unimaginable power is to
be established and that can be done only through unimaginable
miracles. In Gita, first, Krishna tried His level best to convince
Arjuna through the analysis of Pravrutti itself. But the bond with
Bhishma was very strong and no bond of Pravrutti including self
can replace it. Hence, God has to introduce Nivrutti, which deals
with the establishment of bond with God, so that it can cut the
bond of Arjuna with Bhishma. For this purpose, Krishna praised
the fruit of Nivrutti, so that a common man can be attracted
based on his human psychology of attraction to fruit. Otherwise
in pure Nivrutti, there is no fruit except the service to God.
Assume that a fellow is fond of drinking wine, which is unjust
bond. Drinking milk is good for health and it is the justified bond.
But any lot of teaching about the merits of milk and defects of
wine could not change him from drinking the wine that gives
immediate happiness and he does not understand the health
given by milk in long range. Now the only way left over is to
preach him about God and about the unlimited happiness that
can be derived from the association with God. The existence of
God is to be proved to him through a petty miracle. That creates
faith in the existence of God in his mind and about the possible
infinite happiness from God in future. Now the Nivrutti of God is
introduced to him with the attraction of eternal bliss as best fruit
of Nivrutti to attract him to Nivrutti and divert from wine. This is
not pure Nivrutti in which no fruit is introduced including bliss. In
Pure Nivrutti, only miserable service is the fruit introduced to
discourage the devotee. God never teaches the pure Nivrutti to
devotee. The devotee comes by himself or herself to God for pure
Nivrutti and does not go back in spite of hectic opposition from
God. Gopikas in Bhagavatam are devotees of pure Nivrutti.
Goloka is above the abode of God and God kept them on His
head, but they were not having any desire for Goloka except the
desire to be with Krishna. God gave them His eternal presence in
the form of Krishna in Goloka. Arjuna in Bhagavatgita is a
devotee of Nivrutti aimed at Pravrutti. The level of Gopikas is
superior than that of Arjuna. Gopikas got salvation in that birth,
but Arjuna got salvation after two births. Arjuna was also sage
called as Nara and was almost near to the level of Gopikas and
hence the Nivrutti preached in Gita is almost near to pure Nivrutti
of Bhagavatam. Krishna Himself preached Nivrutti to Arjuna and
tried to attract him to God through Gita so that the bond with
God can cut his bond with Bhishma. Any lot of stress given about
the bonds of self, his sons and kingdom can’t cut his bond with
his grandfather. Only the bond with God can cut his bond with
Bhishma (grandfather). In the case of Gopikas, there is no need
to try to attract them to God since they were already
tremendously attracted to God. Hence, there is no need of
preaching to Gopikas, who have already come to the test of Datta
(Krishna) directly. They have already completed enough
preaching in several past births. Nivrutti with fruit of infinite bliss
is stage of preaching and Nivrutti with miserable service is the
stage of final test. One passes the test if he or she is prepared for
miserable service only, forgetting the bliss as fruit. The moment
one is attracted to bliss, bliss disappears. The moment one is
attracted to miserable service, bliss appears. If you are prepared
to serve Him like a dog at His feet through total surrender, you
are in the post of God. If you are attracted to the post of God, you
will become the dog at His feet! Your attitude and the fruit are
related in reverse way because the words God and dog are
reverse! Except for the need in Pravrutti, God would not like to
preach Nivrutti to anybody since it appears as the projection of
self by God. People always try to find the wrong side of any
concept due to jealousy. Shankara used the weapon of Advaita by
stating that everybody is God to pacify the natural tendency of
jealousy due to ego. Once a devotee asked Shri Satya Sai Baba
about His claim as God. Baba replied that everybody is God
including that person. Baba told that He has realized Himself as
God, where as that person did not realize that truth. The person
asked this question only with jealousy and that was pacified with
the answer of Baba. Immediate requirement should be seen and
not the absolute truth which can be preached in long run. Shri
Baba never told that He is God in majority and Krishna also never
said like that in public. Krishna declared that He is God
repeatedly to Arjuna in person only, since Arjuna deserves
Nivrutti. Even there, Krishna spoke like that only for Pravrutti and
not to boast about Himself like a demon. Similarly, Baba
expressed miracles only to correct the Pravrutti in the society.
The contemporary human incarnation gives assurance to you
regarding the possibility of becoming God in this very life itself,
because the fruit after death may be a created story as per
general thinking. Hence, today the requirement for majority is to
establish the existence of unimaginable God through miracles
and cut the attraction of injustice by the attraction to God or at
least by the fear to God. The devotees trying for pure Nivrutti are
always in minority and can be guided personally. But, today, even
the majority needs the knowledge of Nivrutti so that the concept
of God and becoming God in this life itself (Jeevanmukti) should
be understood. If the fear to God is established through invisible
hell created by unimaginable God, that may serve the purpose of
controlling injustice to certain extent. But all do not fear, since
some are careless criminals. But they can be changed by the love
to become God, which is Nivrutti. Hence, there is a need of
propagation of Nivrutti also for the sake of Pravrutti as done in
Gita. The invisible hell can be established to a scientist through
the concept of infinite space also even without the unimaginable
miracle. I have not shown the hell to the scientist in the infinite
space. But the scientist has also not shown the limits of this
infinite space so that I can be sure about the absence of hell
anywhere in the space. This brings 50-50 probability of non-
existence and existence of hell. If the hell is non-existent and if
still I am careful in not doing the sin, I have not lost anything.
Moreover, I am benefited in not having any tension due to fear
from court of law here in doing the sin. If there is hell, the
scientist will be punished terribly in the hell apart from the
tension of sin here. In this way also, the cosmic vision introducing
the infinite space gives knowledge of the probable hell to control
sin. In cosmic vision, Arjuna saw not only the stars but also all the
energetic bodies of souls in the upper worlds. This establishes the
concept of the soul taking a sensitive energetic body
(Yatanashariram or Bhogashariram) to go to hell or heaven.
Hence, Gita is Nivrutti, based on and aimed at Pravrutti only. You
need not criticize Krishna for claiming Himself as God repeatedly
in Gita as self-boasting and trying Arjuna to make slave to Him.
God does not require any service or any pleasure from anybody
or anything because He is already omnipotent and Infinite Ocean
of bliss. Devotees are trying to reach Him to get bliss from Him
and transfer their sins to Him. God is not gaining anything from
the devotee except the suffering of his sins. Hence, God is not
interested in this Nivrutti, which is a business ending in sure loss
and no gain! God does not like to take the sins of devotees often,
except very few exceptional devotees, because such transfer of
sins is a disturbance to the administration of the cycle of deeds
also as per the divine law. But today devotees are thinking that
God is trying for Nivrutti to get some devotees for His service and
some are thinking that the post of God cannot be continued
unless He gets certain number of liberated souls through Nivrutti
like certain number of members of assembly needed for the
ruling party to continue in the Government! God in human form
also, who generates the divine knowledge, does not need the
service of anybody in its propagation, since the knowledge itself
gets propagated without any effort like the scent of a flower.
Once it is generated, it itself spreads everywhere. The knowledge
of a scholar is like water, where as the knowledge of God in
human form is like fire. Yohan says that his preaching is like
purifying with water-bath, where as the preaching of Jesus is like
purifying with fire-bath. Water purifies the place where it is
poured. But the fire put in one place spreads and purifies the
entire mass by burning and turning it into ash. The purification by
water is limited and also is temporary. If you wash any item with
water, it becomes dirty by next day. But if you burn any item with
fire, it is permanently purified without any change. Hence, the
divine knowledge preached even to a single person like Arjuna
personally in secrecy, spreads all over the world like fire and its
effect of purification is forever. Jesus also preached the
knowledge to a few people only and did not publish it in His time.
But today it has spread all over the world. The divine knowledge
of God spreads by its own divinity and potency and not by the
help of the devotees, who spread it. The efforts of devotees in
propagation are only formal and nominal like the efforts of
monkeys in the service of Rama. The devotees are sure to
succeed in the service of God and to get the eternal grace of
God. Shri Satya Sai Baba told that He is catering the food with
smile cooked by Shiridi Sai Baba, who was furious. The cook will
not allow any one to enter kitchen because you will find the
board of no admission in to the kitchen and you will find many to
eat in the dinning hall. You can understand the majority around
Baba today and the minority around Baba in Shiridi previously.
Cooking means adjusting the truth of spiritual knowledge to the
tune of receivers so that people get attracted first and then
slowly get into the truth in course of time. Shankara, first,
attracted the egoistic and jealous atheists by Advaita through
commentaries arguing with atheistic Buddhists and
Purvamimamsakas and then propagated devotion and total
surrender to the converted atheists into theists. Shiridi Sai Baba
represents the adjustment of the truth to the frequency of
existing human beings like adjusting the tune before singing the
song and Satya Sai Baba represents the propagation of the divine
knowledge like singing the song in the already adjusted and
subsequently fixed tune. Shiridi Sai Baba limited Himself to a
small place and that time was not with much developed science.
Our elder generations were always without ego and with lot of
devotion compared to the present generation. Atheists were
almost absent. Hence, Baba was spreading devotion to Lord and
total surrender to Him according to Ramanuja and Madhva by
saying always “Allah Malik” (God is the Master). But today Baba
covers all the world, which is with well developed scientific
thinking and widely spread atheism. The time and the range of
coverage of space are different for Baba today. Hence, you find
plenty of miracles meeting the challenge of science and atheism
also. To pacify the ego of today, Baba has taken the weapon of
Advaita of Shankara since the present atmosphere is almost
similar to that of Shankara. Baba tuned His program in Shiridi to
spread devotion, but by the time, He took another body the need
of that tune changed and hence Baba tuned His program again to
the present day. Arjuna wanted to withdraw from the war to save
the society and was prepared to sacrifice wealth of his family for
the sake of the welfare of the society. But Krishna gave more
importance to punish the evil forces as a witness for the future
regarding the divine administration of the world. Today the case
is reverse and modern Arjuna is looting the society through
business, politics and corruption in the employment for the sake
of luxuries of himself and his family. The welfare of the society is
sacrificed for the luxuries of family. The atheism and rationalism
has spread so much that people have lost even fear to hell and
God. The priests, who are supposed to lead the society on the
divine knowledge also became big business men and offer rituals
as means to nullify sins and get the grace of God to continue the
sins. In this atmosphere, for the sake of society, lot of miracles is
the immediate requirement to establish the very existence of
God, His divine administration and the unseen hell. Baba
concentrated all His efforts including the concept of Nivrutti to
rectify the Pravrutti of society, which is the immediate need. Gita
is for Pravrutti of majority of society and Bhagavatam is for a few
sages of Nivrutti and is a personal affair. Bhagavatam is like a
Research institute meant for a few research scholars (Nivrutti).
Gita is like the non-formal adult education to spread basic literacy
in the masses.
Miracles are useful to change the theists converted into
atheists temporarily by ignorance. Cosmic vision was useful to
rectify Arjuna and Udanka but the same vision was not useful at
all to bring even a trace of change in Duryodhana. The Lord in
preaching Gita spent Lot of time and very little time was spent in
showing cosmic vision. It is the Gita that transformed Arjuna and
cosmic vision plays a minor role only, because Arjuna continued
questioning the Lord even after cosmic vision. In such case, mere
miracles without knowledge are of no use at all. Devotees to
solve their problems only but not to change them will exploit
mere miracles. I like to tell you about a small miracle shown by
Lord Datta through this human body. A devotee does not believe
the concept of human incarnation and he believes that only the
statue of Lord Venkateshwara on the seven hills is the God. His
wife is believer of the concept of contemporary human
incarnation and was devoted to God Datta through this human
form. Several times she had smelt the divine scents given by
Lord Datta through Me. Her husband mocked at her ignorance.
She prayed Me to change her husband also and make a devotee
of human incarnation. Immediately, he also got the scent of lotus
flowers from Me. He did not believe it and told that I am
possessing some chemical with Me since I am a professor of
chemistry. But the scent did not leave him even though he has
gone to his house. He searched all over the house thoroughly
stating that I might have placed some chemical in his house
secretly with the help of his wife. No chemical was found. The
scent did not leave him for one month continuously even though
he left the city and went far and far from the city. He left the city
and stayed in other cities far from this city for several days but
the scent does not leave him like the Vishnuchakra not leaving
Durvasa. The intensity of scent increased day by day and
became pungent. He consulted expert ENT doctors, who said that
nothing was found. He does not change his concept and still
denies the concept of human incarnation. Due to continuous
scent, he became very much disturbed and dejected. He became
all most a severe patient and finally fell down helplessly. His wife
and other devotees asked him to accept the concept, but still he
is standing on his original concept only. Finally his wife and other
devotees prayed Me to withdraw the scent since his life is in
danger without proper food and sleep. Immediately he was
relieved from the scent. Still he is a believer of the statue of the
Lord only! He told that I did some black magic on him! Therefore,
there is no use of miracles in Nivrutti. They have some use in
Pravrutti to create fear for sin due to existence of unimaginable
power.
Shiridi Sai Baba also experienced a defeat from Tamboli in
boxing. Krishna ran away to Dwaraka by the invasion of
Jarasandha on Madhura. Rama became unconscious by the
serpent weapon (Nagastra) in the war. Parashurama was insulted
by the defeat in the hands of Rama. Shiva was defeated by
Krishna in the war of Banasura. Jesus could not save Himself from
the insults and crucifixion in the end and the soldiers mocked at
Him. What is the essence of all these events? The message and
the secret of the events of God is always multidimensional. God
is in fond of all types of roles in His creation. He likes to act in the
role of success as well as in the role of defeat like a cinema actor
fascinated in acting variety of roles. Veda says that one of the
roles that fascinated is thief (Taskaranam pataye…) as you find in
the incarnation of Krishna. Another dimension is to transfer the
defeat of His devotee on to Himself, which is the result of his sin
and relieve the devotee from the sin. Jesus suffered the sins of all
His close devotees through crucifixion. It is not correct to say that
He suffered the sins of all the human beings irrespective of
devotion. It is said in Bible that He came to save His people. It is
not said that He came to save all the people without
discrimination. Another dimension is to give message to devotees
that one should take success and defeat with equal spirit.
Another dimension is to test the firmness in the faith of the
devotees who already believed Him as God. Another dimension is
to pacify the jealousy that comes up from the subconscious state
of the devotees due to repulsion with contemporary human form.
Another dimension is to give some strength to atheists who are
given the role of opposition to human incarnation. The producer
of cinema gives remuneration even to the actor playing in the
role of villain in cinema. God created Satan to test Himself when
He came in the role of human incarnation as Jesus. The producer
may enter into the cinema in the role of hero and is opposed by
the role of villain in the cinema, but as producer he gives
remuneration to the actor in the role of villain also. Hence, Jesus
told us to hate the sin and not the sinner. It means to hate the
role of Satan but not the actor in the role of Satan created by
God. God acted in a role of Jesus to preach the response of a
devotee to Satan.
Hence, you have to understand the significance of the
Knowledge from the moon, airport, Baba sitting there for some
time in terms of cosmic vision as I explained to you in the
beginning. Any part of this world is giving knowledge to you.
Baba told that God is expressed as this world. It means that the
world (Brahmanda) containing five elements, life as trees, mind
as birds and animals and intelligence as human beings
represented by the human being (Pindanda) made of gross body
with five elements, Jeevatman made of life, mind and intelligence
becomes the medium of God in the case of contemporary human
incarnation, which is Shri Satya Sai Baba Himself. The returning
of Baba without performing the miracle is a test for the firmness
of the faith of devotees, who believed this contemporary human
incarnation. The ego and jealousy hidden in the sub
consciousness of any devotee will now be provoked by the
atheists to slip from the faith. After all, the atheists are playing
their due roles given by God in testing the faith of devotees and
the devotees must play their due roles given by God by keeping
their faith doubled by this incident. The whole life of Baba
preaching the devotees is long academic year of study and this
incident in His last stage of life is annual examination conducted
as usual to Lord Datta. You should not blame atheists also
because what all they say pertains to several fraud human
incarnations, who are doing miracles through magic only. There is
nothing to oppose in the creation of God and you have to take
everything in positive sense only as the message of God. Baba
told that if somebody criticizes Him as hair-basket Baba, He is not
worried since it is truth. If somebody criticizes Him as ball-headed
Baba, then also, He is not worried since it is a lie. Hence, in any
case tension and reaction are meaningless since the criticism is
either perfectly true or perfectly false. The criticism of atheists is
perfectly true in the case of false human incarnations and
perfectly false in the case of Baba. Every devotee of Baba must
maintain such analysis and attitude in the life and the balanced
and calm face of Baba in this situation is a practical
demonstration of His message of Pravrutti already given to all the
devotees. Baba will be the happiest if devotees practice the
knowledge given in His speeches.