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.

Lord Buddha

Dear All,

What does the above pour mean to us?

As human beings we commit many mistakes. We act as per dictate of ahamkara and vasanas.

When we listen to the gospel of avataars/masters on how human life has to be, we are often filled with remorse and we always carry the guilt feeling within us though the entire world may not know about the same.

We are often able to forgive the mistakes of others but we look down upon ourselves for all our weaknesses.

Can this be attributed to "dvesha" for ourselves ? Yes, it is.

Bhagwan says, "your compassion must cover yourselves also".

At the lower or still evolving level, it would mean that we have to love ourselves as much we are able to live the world , for, our existence is not apart from God, which we understood in yesterday's post.

"What ever I am, I am Yours. You say You are love and You have told us to live in love. If I have to practice the same, then how can the love not cover myself also? I may be a sinner, I may not be succeeding in progressing towards You, but who else but You can give me the strength to reach You?? Mujhe Shakti do, with that strength, let me immerse in devotion / love for which, mujhe Bhakti do and  after I reach the last but one stage in my Bhakti, give me Your hand and help me cross the last step, mukhti do, to whom can I pray for all these, who has all these things to give but You, O Sai Shiva!!!"

At the highest level, the experience of today's quote is -"In the ocean of Love, the entire cosmos is enveloped (ISA VASYA IDAM SARVAM), how can I be left out as a Jiva, devoid of Love, enriched with ego? There is no one left out, including me, who has any existence separate from the existence of God as LOVE.  Prema Sagara Sai Rama"!!!!!

Love. 

Bhagwan Mahavira

Dear Ones,

The above truth follows from the following simple truth(s):

1. We are created by our parents, our parents from their parents and so on.
2. The world is created out of a combination of 5 elements-Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
3. All the human body of our parents, their parents... and retracing to the first human being is made out of only these 5 elements. 
4. Who created these 5 elements? Obviously God, as God without form is the only existence prior to the 5 elements and hence, the cause of 5 elements can only be God. 
5. Did God have any special equipment, special material for creating 5 elements? No, because there can be no material, no equipment which is not made of 5 elements. Want to check? Please look around,  make a list of all material that you can see, including your own body and then surf google to find out how each of those materials are created. You will find that they are created by a combination of 1 or more of the 5 elements. 
6.  So, When God existed alone without form, He could not have had anything except Himself, without form, in essence.
7. So, while creating the 5 elements, it is evident that He could have only poured HIMSELF, HIS OWN ESSENCE for the creation of 5 elements.
8. And, hence, it is already proven above that there is no creation/no object that is not made out of 5 elements, from the above, it follows that there is but GOD in every created matter in this creation. 

So, at intellectual level, it is proven beyond doubt that we have no separate existence of God.

But How to experience this non-dual existence as God?

Only through intense contemplation in the path of wisdom or through reaching Atma Nivedanam in the path of Bhakti!

It is sufficient to know through logics that we and God are one.

It is most important and in fact, only important and relevant attainment is to experience God hood, by existence as God.

Go back to Surrender post where hanuman explains the 3 levels of his relationship with Sri Rama thus:-

• In physical form, I am Your dasa, O Rama (Dvaita)

• At intellectual level, I know that I am a part of the ocean that You are, O Rama (visishta advaita)

• As atman, TVAMEVA AHAM - I am You and You are me - (Advaita - where, as Mahavir pours in today's quote, our existence is not different from that of God)

Love.