Anandamayi Ma

Dear All,

We go to a cinema hall to watch a movie.

We are seated comfortably and there is a pure white screen in front of us.

At the designated time for start of the show, the projector man enters the projector room and switches it on.

On the white screen, advertisements appear, the censor board's certificate appears and then there appears a movie with 3 hours of entertainment with many forms, with different names, many scenes depicting many emotions. 

Along with various scenes, we laugh when the characters in the movie do a comic scene, we cry in an emotion filled scene, we get active in the fight scenes, we smile and feel satisfied when the hero and the heroine stand united at last, after so many hurdle!

Have we ever thought about what would be happening to the pure white screen on which so many forms are apparently doing so many actions? 

Perhaps we have never thought about this till now.

Does the pure screen get affected by the ever changing scenes projected on it, though we as on lookers get totally moved by various scenes?

For the screen, how does it make any difference whether any movie is played on it, whether the hero laughs or cries or jumps or fights or dies on the screen?

From the morning hours when the cleaner enters the hall to clean the hall and up to the end of the last midnight show and then until the cleaner comes on the next day morning, the screen exists there, still, pure, white, unmoved by any thing projected on it. 

Maa puts it beautifully in the above quote when she says "though the dance of creation is happening around me in the hall of eternity, I shall remain the same".

What does the above quote in the light of the movie and screen example actually mean?

God Almighty, after having created this universe, stands totally disassociated with the universe though each and every object is created by Him, sustained in Him and dissolve in Him.

The screen without which, no movie can ever be played in the hall and yet, the screen  has no association with any movie which is being projected on the screen. 

The screen was there (before the show), the screen is exactly existing as pure (during the show) and the screen continues to exist as pure (after the show).

Same is the state of existence of realized Masters, Maa being one of the few such masters. 

100s of visitors/followers/ashram inmates may be interacting with Swami Sivananda / Chinmayananda / Anandamayi Maa / Rama / Krishna / Ramana etc.

Several actions may be going on during the day in which the masters themselves may seem to be actively involved. 

However, the real pure existence of the masters which is their SELF/ATMAN/PURE CONSCIOUSNESS has absolutely no association, no connection with any of their actions happening around them, just like the screen which has no association, no link with the motion which is on, on the screen. 

The author stands as witness to the above truth. He was seated near Maa Amrutanandamayi few years before in Her ashram. There was so much of action going on, She was apparently discussing about some problems in Her medical college with some college authorities. In between, She was attending to scores of devotees approaching Her, getting Her hug, weeping and crying on getting Her hug, crying out their personal problems to the saint.

The author watched all the drama with amusement and his inner state of existence aligned with Maa's state of existence and in that very instant, he could almost see through the total inner silence of  Maa.  

All the college problems, devotee's tears etc. were like the motion picture on the screen as explained above whereas the Saint was silent and still within, exactly like the pure awareness screen. 

Her eyes fell on the author, the state of inner silence of the author and Maa were totally communicated to each other in the depth of silence and both smiled, to convey that "I KNOW WHAT AND  WHERE  YOU ARE".

Few words were exchanged which were adequate proof that both knew each other's existence till eternity. The author reserves the conversation that happened between the two as it is purely personal though he is perfectly aware that anyone who reads what Maa conveyed to the author about him would be amazed to the core!

Love.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Dear All,

Bro Hari, in one of his talks, says, 'If Swami applies for a visa and His name has to be filled in the visa application, perhaps the entire bhajanavali book has to be attached as annexure for filling all names of Sai".

Similarly, for explaining the above quote, author has to attach all the 18 posts under the theme "Purpose of Human Birth".

As though the Lord tells us "You are God. You were ever God. You have just forgotten your identity in few births. God realization is nothing but striving to search and discover your true identity".

And, this Self-Realization is possible ONLY by turning inward, through intense meditation. 

Only after you lose cognizance of all objects in the world, all thoughts about you and the world around, you can actually come face to face with your true identity, the Divine you, the way in which God created you and sent to this world. 

There is nothing else to do.

All the actions are first thought and then done with our mind. The use of mind has very well been learnt in the MBCA posts.

Once God realization happens to a Jiva, then as Ramana says,"There is nothing else to be done" because, after realization, the Jiva turned Jivanmukhta, does not plan to take up any action. 

He lives moment to moment and in such living, any action, any event in his life is not done, it just happens.

The state of a Jiva turned Jivanmukhta (Realized Soul) is such that even while undertaking intense actions, they exist as pure SELF, which is always action less as SELF is body less, mind less, thought less!!

Love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Dear All,

When we say that the world is changing, world is moving, all objects - plants, trees and human beings are born, live and die, let us just think for a moment, with what relevance we say that they move or they change / they live / they die. 

Is it not that all these are in relation to some thing, some phenomenon which does not change, which does not move, which is not born, which does not die?

This can be better understood by one example.

When we are seated in a train which has stopped in a station, in the next line, a train is moving non stop in full speed.

We say that the other train is moving, only with reference to the train which is not moving, in which we are seated.

Similarly, only with reference to some phenomenon which is much beyond this moving world, which by itself does not move, which is not born and which does not die, it appears that the world is moving / man is born, man lives and man dies!

Look around the world and see each and every object in the world. 

Can't you realize that all these objects could not have been created by any object which is also moving like all other objects?

There must be something super natural, some phenomenon that is change less, unmoved, which existed before time space came to be known.

Out of such super natural phenomenon which by itself is motion less, birth less, death less this entire creation  which is continuously moving and which has all objects in it which are born, which live for some time, which die after some time.

This super natural phenomenon is GOD!

Love.