Paramhansa Yogananda

Dear Ones,

Let us understand the inner meaning of the profound gospel of the Master.

This quote is referred umpteen number of times in all Vedanta discourses by almost all Masters, all Scholars, all Sanyasis.

• Wave is at surface level whereas the ocean is at substratum level.
• The entire cosmos, the manifest creation, you and me and every one else are visibly seen in our physical form at gross level just as the waves are visible at the gross level, standing on the sea shore.
• From where the wave  originates, in what the wave  sustains and after a while, in what the wave  dissolves or merges?  In the substratum which is ocean. Correct?
• Similarly, all of us, the entire nature, upon understanding the process of creation out of 5 elements, the process of creation of 5 elements itself etc. in day before yesterday's post, are born out of the source that is God, call Him as any incarnated form or call Him as Consciousness or Brahman. We sustain in God and we ultimately dissolve/merge in God. 
• When we stand on sea shore and watch the waves coming towards us with full force, will we ever think that the waves will remain as they are permanently? No
• If that be so, why we make a mistake that we with our form, with our ego, with our present identity as Manohar or Ram or Priya or Latha or what ever, will remain as we are, with the same name, same form, same identity permanently?
• This misapprehension, thinking that what we are today is our eternal identity is as ignorant on our part as believing that the wave charging towards us will remain as such, eternally!
• So, the ONLY goal in every human life is to run/march towards  the source, the God, that is eternal and that we really are, ignoring all our mistaken notion in all  our births that our present identity is permanent.
• Don't we know Swami's answer — "you have come through your parents but you have come from Me, live with Me, live due to Me and you have to come back to Me"!
• We adore Him as Prana Sakha because, He was THERE (as source of all sources) before we were ever born for the first time, He is HERE when we are here in this birth and He will ever be THERE, when we would have gone from this world upon death and He will EXIST when we come back on this earth in next birth!
• This eternal existence of the source God is given by the Master in the last line when he says, "The ocean can exist without waves whereas the waves have no identity, no birth without the ocean".
• Bhagawan........... Bhagawan........... Prana Sakha Bhagwan, O Sai Mere Prana Sakha Bhagawan!

       
Love.