Verse 15
Jnaanayajnena chaapyanye
Yajanto maamupaasate;
Ekatwena prithaktwena
Bahudhaa vishwatomukham.
Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the
all-faced,
as one, as distinct, and as manifold.
In this wisdom of the spirit which is jnana
yajna, they behold Me in all varieties of forms - “Ekatvena pṛthaktvena bahudhā
viśvatomukham”.
As I am everywhere, they can behold Me as one
Being existing everywhere; or they can behold Me as two realities indwelling as
a transcendent element and also as an immanent element; or they may look upon
Me as a multifaceted Reality indwelling many souls.
It is said that Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
once came to Benares to have darshan of the great saint and
sage Trailanga Swami, a great siddha.
The greatness of that siddha was
such that it drew even Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
It appears that Sri Ramakrishna put a
question to Trailanga Swami: “Maharaj, how many gods are there?”
Swamiji raises three fingers, then two
fingers, then one finger. That was the answer. Rama Krishna nodded his
head and conveyed, “Yes I understand you.”
The great disciple understood the great
Master’s significant gesture: God is three-fold, God is two-fold, God is
single.
Three-fold: God can be visualized as a manifold manifestation, as the souls of all
created beings;
Two-fold: He can be considered as a dual manifestation, transcendent and
immanent;
One / Single: He can be beheld as one only.
According to Sankaracharya, there is one
reality; according to Ramanuja, there are two realities; according to Madhva,
there are many realities.
Sri Chinmaya writes,
“A man of realization moves about the world,
seeing his own
Just as one light in the midst of a thousand
mirrors comes to provide crores of reflections everywhere, so too, the one
centered in the Self, when he walks out into the world, sees everywhere his own
Self dancing, shooting glances at him from all around at once, thrilling him
always with the homogeneous ecstasy of perfection and bliss.”
Sai devotees should align the above
secret with the one expression taken in an Alaap for a song Ram Hare, Hari
Naam Bolo where, we sing, “Ik Noor te, sab jag upjyaara”.
There is only one light, one pure
consciousness, which is described as Jnanam Brahman, as it is
the source Knowledge which illumines all other knowledge in this
creation!!! It is one light, which illumines this entire creation!!!
Love.
