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Part I
"Simply remember Him as you
Asceticism & Austerity, Renunciation & Celibacy, Charity, Offerings, Sacrifice, Yoga, Tantra, Initiation & Revelation, Mantra |
Glossary |
Meditation To be aware of Truth is meditation. When this awareness appears, one realizes Satyanarayan with all hindrances and covers removed. The Dhyana (meditation) people speak about is bogus. Meditation is an especially highly developed form of idleness. Haven't you got a profession, a family, any friends? A normal person has, after all, no time for such things. Meditations, Ashrams, that is also ego. I am doing the meditation. Why? To control desires and senses. It is absurd. Because, when we have come on the earth we invited desires. Beyond mind. What do you mean by beyond? Nobody knows. Sometimes they think there is something, but that thinking is also mind function. A person is self-centered inasmuch as he or she is drawn toward meditation, asceticism, and solitude. This is so because in this way duty to others and society is ignored. Whoever is soul-centered in this way is necessarily self-centered. Meditation, what is the need? You are sitting, doing this, that. It is only humbugism. It is farce in the Name of Him. No so-called transcendental meditation or concentration will ever be able to reach that plane of Truth unless it is channeled through work. For Him no meditation, physical acrobatics and austerity are needed. By counting beads and meditation can you stop desires? It is against Nature. Remembering Him is the only path and do your Karmas (daily activities). The work done with complete concentration, when one is deeply lost in action concentrating on the work, when the action and the actor become One and the sense of the individual self is forgotten, this becomes true meditation and penance. When the wholesome communion with the All-pervading Divine Soul and the Supreme Spirit occurs, eventide sets in. No sooner does such eventide approach, than there is the advent of serene devoutness. Faith also comes into being. Flow of respiration turns out to be easy. Sounds of Divine Appellation (the act of calling Name) connote manifestation of Light, and it is that manifestation which is known as meditation.
Divine Appellation is analogous to Divine Semblance. That is the real sanctified Abode. Consequently, the place which is established through the invocation of Divine Appellation, is called the Divine Temple of heavenly appellation or Mahanam. It is the meditation which is called religious contemplation or asceticism.
Prayer
The egoistic prayer and practices may bring certain realization commonly
called Vibhuti (miraculous powers) of the Divine Being. Love Divine is
revealed alone by entering the Vaishnava (state of devotion to God) bower
of Vrindavan (playground of Divine Love within) or the Truth Absolute and
nowhere else.
Prarabdha initiates Prarabdha (destined unfolding of mental, physical and
emotional aspects of life). Prarabdha is intensified by prayer.
If we value the efficacy of prayer, then it should be counted as a vested
interest.
Individuals have no power. We cannot carry the burden unless He carries
it. We commit a grave error in thinking that it is we who are doing things
and not He. When we surrender all thoughts to Him alone this unity is
established and then He responds to our prayers.
Ritual
Beware of rituals and dogmas. Do not go after the form. Grasp the meaning
behind the form.
We must not try to bind Him by any ritualism, superstition or creed.
Without the state of Bliss coming from a direct communion with Him, no
other way attached to Sadhana (spiritual practices), or Bhajan (singing
praises of God), Jap (ceremonial mental repetition of Divine Name), Tapasya
(penance), enables one to come under His notice. Afflicted by desire and
staying without the practices of devoted love with complete surrender, such
persons following Jap Tap get entangled in their desire and develop the
ego.
Jap, Tap, Sadhana, Sannyas (renunciation), Yoga (mental and physical
exercises), rites and rituals, no one can know Him through these things
because the I-sense, the ego-principle, is lurking behind all these acts.
So long as the ego exists one cannot know Him. You can never know Him
through mind.
Penance
The Self cannot be realized through penance.
Work is penance, indeed. The only penance is to brave the outrages of
Prarabdha (destined unfolding process of one's life).
Penance (work) is necessary for Existence in this world, and not for Him.
Egoless work is the only penance.
Silent love is Tapasya or penance. Let not anybody know of this love. If
the next person knows of this love, this Tapasya becomes ungenuine, loses
its integrity, and becomes affected. Patience is the highest
penance.
You must understand that whatever one does in daily life with utmost
sincerity, remembering Him or His Name while practicing patience, becomes
real penance (Tapasya). This is the highest offering to Him. So go ahead in
your work with Him. You will find He has already arranged right things for
you in the right time, which the egoistic person cannot achieve.
Asceticism & Austerity Will one find Him by growing matted locks, putting on
saffron robes, becoming an ascetic? So much one's own is He, so close to
one! Does He stay on mountains and in jungles? Environment is in the mind.
Are desire, anger, etc., finished by becoming an ascetic, going to
mountains, eating vegetarian food? Everything moves under the control of
Nature. Making a big house necessitates paying of its taxes. Will the
creditor leave one? Is what Nature has given false? Can one get Him by
imposing any conditions? Can one reach Him through so many disputations? He
is above all this. Nothing of this touches Him. Our own ego alone is
involved in all this. How calamitous! We have not realized one does not get
Him by donning deception. Putting on deceptive garb means self-deception.
Through the help of the garb, you show others what you are not.
Colored robes and matted hair are but expressions of your vanity.
Old age, disease, death are bound to come to everyone. Can matted locks
save one? Will saffron robes keep one safe? To find one's Self, why should
one put on a disguise? What kind of conduct is that? Seeing your stupidity,
He is pained.
Fundamentally there exists only one Being and that is within you. To
realize Him, to come into communion with Him, you need not go against
Nature by self-repression. You need not do any undue torture to the body or
the mind. Saints and ascetics experience a kind of delight through the
practice of austerity, but that delight pertains to the mind.
Renunciation &
Celibacy
Actually, Sannyas is the state of one who is Self-poised, one who has no
ego attachments.
Sannyas in the true sense of the term, implies the total annihilation of
ego and identification with the Supreme I-Consciousness absolutely in
everyday life. The five senses also surrender completely to the Self.
Then comes the stage of Brahmacharya (celibacy), when
one lives in and through Him and feels His Presence in every experience.
True Sannyas is a sort of subconscious behavior or reflex action. And real
Brahmacharya is conscious perception of One Reality through the manifold of
Existence. While Sannyas displays unconscious will and Brahmacharya
evinces conscious feeling, the stage Grihastha is marked by complete merger
in thought, feeling and will. The real Grihastha is He, Himself, Who dwells
in this tenement of clay.
Real renunciation or Sannyas is to be shorn of ego and to be in Swabhava
(a natural state of attunement with the Supreme). We are all Purna Kumbhas
(pitchers full of Him). To install this Consciousness in our empiric being
is the only necessity.
Picking pockets is much better than the business of Sadhus and Sannyasis
(holy people and renunciates).
The whole host of them (so-called Sadhus) propose to lead us to the
fountain Source. But, in fact, they are leading us to perdition.
Neither the Sadhus and Sannyasis, nor the Pundits (intellectuals) know
anything.
Renunciation and self-denial enlarge the ego and do not eliminate it. They
create vanity. A vanity of calculated achievement, a vanity of having a
distinct position in the society. Complete silent surrender to Him without
any exhibitionism is the only path. Renunciates project their vanity, which
leads to complete darkness. A little
exhibition of power is of no avail so far as realization of Truth is
concerned. The world is His. Every object, from the moon and stars, to
the sun that shines to dispel darkness and give life and joy is His
Handiwork. So what does one renounce? And, for what? There is no escape
from His Creation, it encompasses one from all sides. God is available here
and now, anywhere and everywhere.
Saffron robes and vows of celibacy are against the law of Nature. When I
am born, brought up and leave my body in the lap of Nature, how can I deny
her demands? For instance, a soldier goes to the battlefield and is
determined to fight with the enemy. Suppose he flies away from that place
out of fear. He then is in the same boat with the so-called Sannyasi
(renunciate), who tries to escape the burdens of family life to avoid the
pangs of Prarabdha (destined unfolding process of life).
Brahmacharya (celibacy) does not mean not using sexual organs. It means to
be in Him. What does sexual intercourse stand for? Absorption, relishing
His Rasa (tasting His Love).
Being a saint or a monk has nothing to do with God, but is only acceptance
by tradition.
Sadhus and Yogis avoid responsibilities of natural life and become
escapists, ritualists, and achieve nothing.
You cannot leave His Creation and find Him elsewhere, can you?
Charity
Are not charity and prostitution the same? Are the gifts of Nature I have
acquired my property? Who has given me the right to misuse them?
Offerings
Have we anything to give Him, our Father? Can the Almighty, our Father,
expect any Dakshina (offering of money, flowers, etc.) or earthly offerings
from His Children? Decidedly not. If we can attune ourselves to the Mahanam
that we received with birth and submit to Him, this at once becomes the
only form of Dakshina. For He alone is the Giver, the rest are all
seekers.
Sacrifice
Can sacrifice be done with putting on of pompous display? That is
only self-aggrandizement. The real sacrifice is inner sacrifice. This is
only an inner treasure. In this inner gratification He is present. Is
sacrifice conducted by beating drums, pealing bells, collecting
people?
Sacrifice is above charity. Charity is giving away as to one's own self.
Sacrifice is, however, quiet Swabhava (natural attunement with Supreme
Truth). Penance is of a very low plane.
Yoga
To see the form as situated in one's own Reality is called Yoga. Have you
understood? In the substance is the Light of the form and then again, that
of the formless in the form. Again, the coming and going of the form out of
and into the formless takes place in Existence. That indeed is life and
death. That is why to be firmly situated in one's Reality is named Yoga.
Putting one's head down, legs pointing to the sky, performing various kinds
of mental and physical gymnastics, does not enable one to anchor oneself in
Reality.
All this Yoga, Tantra, scriptures are full of misunderstandings, all
strange practices. Truth is outside the reach of the mind. By no means can
you get Him through rituals, only through Love.
Yogis and Ashrams are only farce for moneymaking business.
Not through the arithmetic of counting of beads, or through multiform
penance, or Yogic practices can one reach Him, even in crores (ten
millions) of years.
You do not reach Him by performing physical and mental gymnastics of
so-called Yogis and Tantrics. They have the biggest egos! They are only
looking for transitory personal power and so doom themselves to greater
bondage by inflating their egos.
LEFT: Dadaji in Latma Lotus Posture, Calcutta 1973
Yoga is such humbug. I consider all these complicated body postures
ostentatious self-torture. It is not even a good technique of relaxation.
Swimming is far more relaxing. Also, going for walks. Smoking cigarettes
also relaxes.
If you practice Asana (Yoga postures) you may acquire a sort of power, as
for instance flies will not touch your body. But, such powers go off. Be
always with Nam. Then the objective with which you have come here will be
realized.
Perfect and absolute self-surrender to God and a constant desireless or
choiceless awareness of Him charged with single-minded devotion and
reliance, is the only perfect or real Yoga. Since then God takes over the
entire responsibility for our lives, works His own Divine and Infallible
way, and Captains the ship of our Life to its final destiny, realization of
our True Nature.
With His Touch your work will be All-blissful, All-joyful. Sadhus and Yogis
want to attain this state by efforts, rituals, meditations, and
austerities. But they cannot get His Love, a real joyful state. A person
gets it only by the natural process of living. Even the Yogis, who try to
get it only by austerity, if they ever get anything at all, they get only
dry, tasteless, insipid superstitions.
Tantra
But, Tantra professedly has a profound philosophy to offer. In
it the ultimate Reality is a perfect equipoise of Siva (masculine power)
and Sakti (feminine power). Its goal is to fully awaken the human Soul from
its state of slumber and to raise it to the state of Purnahanta (free of
egoism), Svatantrya (freedom), Omniscience and Omnipotence through the
complete awakening of Kundalini, to be achieved through Samadhi, through a
state of equilibrium of Prana and Apana. This state of Moksha is glibly
dovetailed with Bhoga! And the entire farrago of Tantric merchandise is
laid bare before you to bear on the contingency of Nada, Bindu, Kala,
Kama-Kala, etc.! All this is good talk, but bad logic. It suffers from
egoism and mental geometrization, and when achieved is necessarily an
effect, limited in space and time. It is transitory and is right under your
thumb. This may give you some miraculous power for a short spell of time.
But it has nothing to do with Him. In practice, Tantra indulges in perverse
sex acts and its multiform seeming sublimation. But the sex act, in fact,
no act can ever lead to the Zero experience.
Initiation &
Revelation
LEFT: Dadaji with 160 yr old renunciate, Calcutta 1972
A person is born initiated. One has simply to realize this fact. He is
within as Mahanam.
Other than mind, beyond mind, there is no language, only Diksha.
Diksha, Darshan (vision of God), that thing (Truth) is everywhere. But, we
could not find It. We have forgotten because of Prakriti (physical Nature)
and Maya (Divine Creative Power). When you will be off (ego ceases to
exist), then you will find Truth.
Initiation (Diksha) means seeing Him (Darshan). Does the body remain when
you see Him? Mantra! Beej! What is all this tittle-tattle you utter? Can a
body-bound Guru ever give all these? If a seed has no energy, that seed is
dead and no fruit comes of that seed.
How will it do if there is no Darshan? Darshan, however, is an internal
affair. If we cannot taste the Rasa of Krishna Leela (relish God's Love),
what else shall we do?
Mantra
When I am united with the Husband, Who is Govinda, when I have taken refuge
in His basal Existence, how can I utter His Name (there being no separate
Existence)?
Other than that One which is within, is there anybody who can tell you, I
am giving Mantra?
Whispering a Mantra in the ear of the aspirant during an initiation
ceremony is no Diksha at all. It is a fraud and a hoax.
Mantra is already there with you.
In the ear, human Gurus are giving Mantra. What is the utility? At the time
of birth, we have received that Mahamantra (Great Name of the Supreme) and
Diksha (initiation). So, who will give, other than Him? That is the thing
that Dadaji is to convey. That is His Message.
A human Guru whispers some words into the ear of the disciple and orders
that they be repeated over and over. How does the human Guru know these
words? They come from the mind. What arises from the mind is a distortion
of Truth. Certainly these words do not come from Him. The human Guru in his
or her own interest gives the Mantra. A regular income is thus assured from
a business in the Name of God. What a calamity! Can there be a greater
crime?
Yes, Jap (Name repetition) and Dhyana (meditation), whatever you say, have
a use at one time. But whose meditation or Name repetition will we do? That
we need to know in advance. When Nam (Supreme Name) and Nami (the Named)
become One, then there is Supreme Bliss, then all is perfect.
Why do you go for Jap? He has been doing It (Mahanam) round the clock. You
just try to listen to that.
How can I give you Mantra? Tantra? Everything is within.
Ego is not being eliminated with the help of Mantras and penances, rather
these things enhance its bondage.
It is futile to compare the Mantra given by so-called Guru and the Mahanam
you have received direct from Sri Sri Satyanarayan.
What indeed is muttering the Name thousands of times? All these are
superficialities.
This is all jugglery, do you understand? Repeating Mantras and meditation
are another form of egotism. Can one get Him by millions of repetitions of
Mantras? Has He told you to go to Him with a treasury of numerical digits?
What is the meaning of Laksa Jap (hundreds of thousands of Name
repetitions)? In an instant Laksa Jap is done, if the Laksya (aim or
target) is toward Him. Doing Laksa and Laksa of Name repetition is of no
use if He is not kept as the Laksya.
Why count beads or utter a few words not having a direct relation with Him?
He is within you. You remember Him and try to love. You cannot have
anything with meaningless external exercises. Nam is ringing in your heart.
Nam alone will put you on the line of communion.
Mantra? Why do you bother? It will come automatically. Automatically you
will understand.
It is He Who is your Guru. He has been constantly ringing the Mantra in
your heart. If you want to hear it, do approach Him and pray for His favor.
He is waiting for your prayer. Pray for the Mantra, but not under any
condition nor for fulfillment of your worldly desire. It should be in one
mind and in earnestness, and you will get It (Mahanam). |
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