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The sacrifice should be done with lot of analysis Sacrifice should be done in the memory of God The rituals should be done with proper analysis The essence of all the rituals is just sacrifice of wealth to a deserving devotee of God and the sacrifice should be in the memory of God. Mere sacrifice to a deserving human being without referring to God is just social service, the reward of which is temporary stay in heaven (Ksheenepunye… Gita). The sacrifice is of two ways. One is in the form of work or service and the other is in the form of wealth. The sacrifice should be done with lot of analysis to discriminate the deserving from the rest. The sacrifice is most powerful means to please God and get His grace, if the receiver deserves. If the receiver does not deserve, the same sacrifice will yield negative results in the form of punishment. Since all the rituals involve sacrifice only as the basis, the rituals should be done with proper analysis in selecting the deserving receiver. The deservingness of the receiver alone decides the fate of the entire ritual. Place, time and formalities of the ritual are not at all important in deciding the fruit of the ritual. If the receiver is undeserving, the sacrifice may be done in sacred Varanasi on sacred day of Maha Shivaratri and the process of sacrifice might have been done correctly following all the steps of the scripture, the result is going to be negative only. If the receiver deserves, whatever may be place, time and procedure of the ritual, the result will be excellent. People are bothered about the place, time and correctness in the steps of the ritual only, which are totally useless. They are not bothered about the main point, which is the deservingness of the receiver. They never analyze the receiver. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Main characteristic of deservingness of a receiver of sacrifice The Veda says that the main characteristic of deservingness of a receiver is the lack of attraction on the returns (Shrotriyasya chaakamahatasya…). When the priest is invited to perform a ritual, he should not aspire for any benefit or returns. He should not ask for the fees. He should accept immediately to perform the ritual without a trace of aspiration for fees. The ritual involves worship of God and he should thank God for getting an opportunity to worship God through the ritual. At the end of the ritual, whatever may be paid to him, it should be received with pleasure and full gratitude. He should feel that the money is given to him by God. He should feel that the donor is only a mechanical means of God. Thus, he should not analyze the payment, which is the form of grace of God. Even if nothing is given, he should return to home after expressing full gratitude to the doer of the ritual for giving an opportunity to participate in the worship of God. If this attitude is maintained, the expectation for fees will not take birth in the mind. Since the ritual is misunderstood as some work of soaping God to give some benefits to the doer of the ritual, the priest is expecting fees from the doer. In fact, if the priest performs the ritual understanding it as the worship of God, the priest himself will be benefitted along with the doer of the ritual. The priest performs the ritual for the sake of the fees only, so that the doer of the ritual alone is supposed to get the total benefit from the worship. The sage Yaska says that the priest is a porter of the luggage of huge gold in performing the ritual for a petty remuneration from the doer of the ritual and rendering all the gold to the doer of the ritual only (Swarna bhara harah…). www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The ritual of performing the ceremony of the departed souls Let us take the example of the ritual of performing the ceremony of the departed souls. You give importance to the day on which the souls departed from this world. You have to find out a deserving person to give him food, clothes and some wealth, so that the fruit of such donation will benefit the departed soul and the doer. Here, the deservingness of the receiver decides the result. If the receiver is undeserving, the departed soul is punished for such a sin apart from the doer of the ritual. Therefore, the departed soul should be careful to do charity to a deserving receiver while he is alive. The time of the ritual i.e., the day of the ceremony is not at all important here. The important aspect is only the deservingness of the receiver. If you do not get a deserving receiver, there is no harm in postponing the ceremony till you get a deserving receiver. You insist on the bank transaction to be done on the first day of every month. You are not bothered about the nature of the transaction i.e., whether it is credit or debit. Similarly, you are bothered about the particular date of the ceremony and you are not worried about the aspect of deservingness of the receiver. If the receiver deserves, the departed soul and doer will be benefitted and it will be a credit. If the receiver is undeserving, the departed soul and the doer will be punished and it will be a debit. You are always worried about the process of ritual, which is just like the bank transaction. Even if the bank transaction is postponed for a few days, you will appreciate if the transaction is a credit. Similarly, even if the ceremony is postponed, you should appreciate if the ritual yields good fruit and the fruit will be good only if the receiver is deserving. You should not worry about the place of ritual. You need not worry whether the bank transaction is in State Bank of India or Axis Bank. You should worry only about the credit-nature of the transaction. Actually, the departed soul is in the energetic body and does not get any trace of the materialized food offered to the priest. If the departed soul goes to God, the food is not required (Nahitena Pathaa Tanutyajah…). This is called as the path of Devayanam or Shuklagati in the Gita. In the Pitruyanam or Krishnagati, the soul may go to heaven or middle world of departed souls (Pitruloka) or hell. In heaven, the soul does not require food or drink (Ubhe tirtvaa ashanayaa…). If the soul goes to the middle world, it takes food from the rays of moon (Nirvishtasaraam pitrubhih Himamshoh…). If the soul goes to hell, it will be tortured with hunger and thirst (Jayasva…). Hence, the materialistic food given to the priest is not at all related to the energetic food taken by the soul. In such case, you need not fear that the ritual is a waste. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The ritual should be performed only on getting a deserving priest If you view the right angle of the ritual, it is very useful. If the receiver deserves, the departed soul and doer of the ritual are benefitted. Therefore, the ritual should be performed only on getting a deserving priest. In the old generations, almost everybody was a deserving receiver. It was very difficult to get an undeserving receiver. But today, the situation is totally reverse. Now, it is very difficult to get a deserving receiver. Therefore, in all most all the present ceremonies, the undeserving receivers are rewarded. The result is that the departed soul is punished along with the doer of the ceremony. It is said in Mahabharata that donation to undeserving is a sin. In performing the ceremony, you need not worry about the Vedic hymns recited by the priest. All the Vedic hymns are only prayers to God. The other Vedic statements are only descriptions of the steps to be taken in serving the deserving receiver. These statements need not be recited at all, if the service is done in practice. Instead of the Vedic prayers, you can pray God even in your mother tongue. God gives value to the devotion only and not to the language (Bhavagrahi Janardanah…). He can understand any prayer in any language since He is omniscient. Therefore, you have to concentrate on the deservingness of the receiver of your donation only and need not worry about other aspects like date of ceremony, language of prayers, steps of procedure of ritual etc. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Tradition need not be blamed to exploit the love on parents through the ritual Ritual-exploiting the weak point for a good purpose It is told that if the priest eats the food, the departed soul gets that food. Even though this is a lie, it has some good purpose. Such a lie will initiate even the greediest person to perform the ritual due to love on his departed parents. When the ritual is performed and if the donation to deserving is done, it gives good fruits to him and also to the departed souls. It is a matter of exploiting the weak point for a good purpose. The weak point is not misused. The mother tells the child that if it eats the food, the moon will come down. It is a total lie but still the mother is not getting sin for deceiving the child. The lie serves good purpose in making the child eat the food. All such statements are pertained to the ignorant people only and not to the wise scholars. The Veda also says that you should perform the ritual to get heavenly pleasures. The ambition for heavenly pleasure already exists in every human being and this weakness is exploited in performing the ritual through which the doer is expected to be attracted towards God through prayers. Here, the Veda is not responsible for creating the attraction to heavenly pleasures. It only exploits the already existing attraction in the human being. Therefore, the Veda need not be blamed for encouraging the attraction to heavenly pleasures as stated by Shankara (Jnapakam natu kaarakam). The Veda says to kill an animal in the sacrifice to offer to God. Here, the Veda does not encourage the killing of animals. Even without the Veda, the human being kills the animals to eat them. Here, the Veda asks the human being to offer the killed animal to God first and then to eat. The Veda is not responsible for killing the animals in the ritual. It is only responsible for the offering of food to God. The Veda adds the offering to God after killing the animal, which is already an existing tendency in the human being. Similarly, the tradition need not be blamed to exploit the love on parents through the ritual. The already existing love on parents is exploited to divert an ignorant person to love God through the ritual in which the prayers to God are offered. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

God is not bothered about the success and failure of His efforts God wants that everything should run on the natural rules setup by Him. God is always fond of doing things based on the natural setup of administration & is never fond of exhibiting His superpower God will not use his super power as far as possible unless a very rare occasion of protecting the most deserving devotee arises. A good administrator will always run the institution on the natural wheels of the rules already setup. As far as possible, he will not disturb the routine and natural functioning of the system. This is the reason for the Lord Krishna not to change the mind of Duryodhana ( a demon), who was rigidly favoring the war. He did not use the super power in the case of Arjuna (a devotee) also, when Arjuna was against the war. In the case of Duryodhana the Lord tried His best to stop the war. In the case of Arjuna the same Lord tried His best to provoke Arjuna to fight the war. In both cases, He has taken lot of time and put best efforts through long preaching. In the case of Duryodhana the Lord failed and in the case of Arjuna the Lord succeeded. Of course virtually it is failure of Duryodhana and success of Arjuna to assimilate the advice from the Lord. However from the angle of the Lord, the effort was put by the Lord and hence from the point of effort it has to be considered as failure and success of Lord only. The total essence is that the Lord is not bothered about the success and failure of His efforts put based on natural setup of the creation. If the individual soul fails in its effort, it will try to use the superpower if it is in possession of such superpower. But the Lord never used such superpower since He wants that everything should run on the natural rules setup by Him. In both the cases the Lord could have changed their minds in a fraction of second by using His superpower. In both the cases, He never used His superpower and tried to achieve result through the natural effort only. Therefore God is always fond of doing things based on the natural setup of administration. He is never fond of exhibiting His superpower. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Demon Vs God The true attitude of a true devotee. The demon is quite opposite to God. He is always using the superpower achieved by him in the wrong direction of fulfillment of his ego. He often exhibits the superpower and gets his ego satisfied. The devotee is always in search of superpower to use it for selfish problems. The devotee is like the ONGC (an oil company) engineer, who is in search of oil hidden in the soil to use it for the generation of power for the sake of using it in improving the facilities. The devotee appears good since the superpower is not found. Once the devotee finds the superpower and achieves it, he will misuse it like the demon. The devotee is always a hidden demon waiting for the opportunity. A true devotee is never in search of superpower. He is always in search of God to surrender his power in service of God without any aspiration for the returns. He always feels that the power in him belongs to God and therefore should be surrendered to God in his service. He does not aspire anything in return because you are not aspiring anything in return while repaying the loan to the donor. This is the true attitude of a true devotee. You are not charging the donor for returning the loan given by him. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

God will accept your offering if it is offered without any aspiration for returns Signs of a true preacher A true preacher also preaches the same true knowledge. He will say that the rupee (dollar) given by you to God will not return back to you with interest because you have not invested your energy in the service of God as loan to Him. In fact it is reverse. You have taken the energy from God as loan and in fact you should return it along with interest. At least you can use a little of it for your selfish ends and return back the huge balance to God. At the worst, you should return at least a little to God after using a huge amount for your selfish ends. Can we imagine the fate of the people, who do not return at least a little of the loan taken from God? The false preacher always propagates false knowledge to exploit the innocent people and get selfish benefits. He says that you will get back the money multiplied by several folds, if you donate a little to God. He collects that little money for his selfish ends posing himself as the representative of God. People are exploited for their ambition of getting back the money in multiple form. The true preacher says that God has nothing to do with such business (naadatte kasyachit…Gita). He says that God will accept your offering in case it is offered without any aspiration for returns. He explains always the true concept without bothering about the returns in terms of business. Whether anything is given to him or not, he will not be concerned about it and spreads always the true knowledge, which may be liked or not by the people. If he gets something through the propagation of such knowledge, he will feel that it is given by God only through the medium of human beings and expresses his gratefulness to God. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

God is known to God (God is known to God and hence the prerequisite condition is fulfilled. For human beings, the unimaginable God can exist like the unimaginable miracle). Veda says that the knower of God is God Himself (Brahmavit Brahmaiva…). Hence, though God is unknown to human beings, He is known to Himself. If you say that the existence of anything must satisfy the prior condition of its knowledge, the rule is not violated since God is having His knowledge. Then, you may say that God exists for God only since the prior condition is limited to God only. This is not correct because you are agreeing the existence of an unimaginable miracle also in the world. When the miracle is demonstrated, it is unimaginable but its existence in the world is accepted. Hence, the existence of unimaginable item like miracle exists in the case of human beings. (The concept of unimaginable nature requires the relative existence of the concept of imaginable nature). To recognize day, night should relatively exist. Similarly, to recognize the existence of unimaginable nature, relatively the imaginable nature must exist. If everything is unimaginable there is no significance of the very concept of unimaginable nature. Therefore, the world with imaginable items exists, so that the unimaginable nature of God can be recognized significantly through relativity. God is known as unknown (God is known as unknown. This is said in Veda and in Gita also) Veda says that angels and sages came to know only one point about the God after long hectic discussions. That single point is that God is unknown (Yasyaamatam Tasyamatam…). Even Gita says that no body knows anything about God (Mamtu veda Nakaschana.). Therefore, the unimaginable nature of God is clearly established by the sacred scriptures. The unimaginable nature of God is elaborated in Veda by various statements (The unimaginable nature of God is elaborated in Veda by various statements). Veda clearly elaborates the unimaginable nature of God through the following statements: Words cannot give knowledge of God (Yatovaachah, Na tatra vaak…). Even mind cannot touch God (Apraapya Manasaa Saha). Intelligence cannot reach God (Namedhayaa, Yo Buddheh Paratah..). You cannot understand God through logic (Naishaa Tarkena…, Atarkyah..). Senses cannot grasp God (Nachakshushaa…, Aprameyah…, Atindriyam….). All these statements have elaborated the concept of unimaginable nature of God by any means.

God enters human body known as human incarnation The human incarnation is God entering the human body as said by Gita (Manusheem tanumashritam….). The human body consists of three sub-bodies. The first is external gross body made of five elements. The second is internal subtle body (Jeeva), which is a bundle of qualities. The innermost is the causal body (Atman), which is the pure awareness or soul. Atman is like standstill water and qualities (Jeeva) are like the waves in the water. Jeeva and Atman are inseparable. Atman can exist without Jeeva, which is the steady soul in the meditation without thoughts. By effort, the thoughts (Qualities) can be completely destroyed so that pure soul remains. This is the Nirguna-Atman (attribute less soul) of Advaita Philosophers. But Jeeva can’t exist without Atman. When God enters the human body, the Jeevatman, a jointly associated system of qualities and soul together, which is the liberated soul exists there as the personal assistant. The Jeevatman is only a slave to God and can be considered as almost living doll. Veda refers this to the two birds living together on a common tree. The two birds are God and Jeevatman and the tree is the gross body of Jeevatman. God is visiting guest in the house of the liberated soul. God doesn’t come into mere inert gross body. God lives with the liberated soul selected by Him from His family of liberated souls, so that the liberated soul becomes happy due to visit of God. God and the liberated soul are homogeneously united like two metallic components in a single phase of alloy. God pervades even the gross body whenever it is required as in the situation of uplifting the hill. The human being consisting of gross, subtle and causal bodies acts as a wire charged by current. The live wire is treated as current for all the practical purposes and can be treated as current. Hence, the human being is treated as God and this is the monism of Shankara limited to the human incarnation and not to be extended to every human being. In human being the soul and Jeeva are the two birds as per Shankara and in such case, you can call the Jeeva as soul, but not as God. According to Ramanuja the interpretation is God and soul only referring to the human incarnation.

Miracles, Scientists, Atheist and God Miracles are very widely distributed in the world to give proof for the existence of the God to every human being, which is the basic requirement. If you pray sincerely in a temple or even in open place, generally God gives you His answer through a miracle. Many have witnessed this in their lives. Some times due to the inevitable fruits of your past deeds, God keeps silent for some time and that time is used in your transformation. Hence, scientists call this as probability or coincidence of events. Hence, God demonstrates specific miracles in human form to meet this twisted interpretation of scientists or atheists. Even devotees and even demons do specific miracles. God has given a wide coverage for spreading miracles since it involves the very basic issue of His existence. Scientists have to accept the existence of unimaginable nature from the practical example of unimaginable limits of this infinite Universe. Scientists may reject miracles but can’t reject the unimaginable limits of space. One instance of existence of unimaginable entity is sufficient to prove the existence of unimaginable God. The miracles act as supporting evidences of the same concept.

The God of science According to science, inert energy is basic material of this universe, which creates, maintains and finally dissolves entire creation and is the God of science. The design of the world doesn’t require the need of awareness because a long duration of time has set up the design of world perfectly by the theory of probability. Scientists do not accept the necessity of an intellectual agent to design this wonderful world as philosophers imagine in Vedanta (Brahmasutras). If this is the end of the story, science could have easily disposed the proposal of Vedanta and the scriptures can be easily concluded as poetic imaginations of certain poets. It can be easily concluded that certain people have created this poetry to exploit the society in the name of God. Anyone can easily believe science and by this time the world should have been filled with atheists only and today, the minority should be theists. But surprisingly the majority is theists and minority is only atheists. The atheists say that since majority is uneducated, theism exists due to possibility of easy exploitation of uneducated people. But even educated people show majority of theists only all over the world. What is the reason for this? The reason for this is that the unimaginable God is showing miracles in the lives of several people to establish the existence of unimaginable God. Not only this, the unimaginable God is exhibiting unimaginable miracles through several devotees and also demons widely. Not only this, God is coming in human form and is offering explanation of the miracles and concept of God. Genuine miracles are many in the world and the minority of atheists is unable to dispose these miracles as magic. You may write the correct answer through copying in the examination. Some body might have also written the same correct answer without copying in the examination. Since the answer is one and same, can you say that the other person who has written the correct answer also copied necessarily? The product may be same but the methods of production vary. Sodium chloride can be produced in several ways. You have produced it in one way. I have produced it in another way. The end product is the same sodium chloride. You cannot say that I have also produced in your way only.

Equality in situations of happiness and misery is Yoga You should enjoy both happiness and misery like the sweet & hot dishes in your meals. Achieve the state of continuous enjoyment through entertainment from the creation Gita says that you should enjoy even your death Gita says that equality in situations of happiness and misery is Yoga (samatvam yoga…). Generally people misunderstand this concept. They think that keeping oneself inactive towards happiness and misery without any disturbance like a stone is the meaning of this verse. Such meaning is wrong and is not the actual opinion of the Lord. It is only the misinterpretation of misunderstood heart of the verse. You are not a stone to show such inert behavior. You are a living human being and can never behave like that. You can behave like that by taking some sedative drugs and there is no need of the intensive spiritual effort to achieve such state. The actual opinion of this verse is that you should enjoy both happiness and misery like the sweet and hot dishes in your meals. While taking the hot dish, your tongue is vibrating and tears are flowing from your eyes! But still you are enjoying the taste of hot dish in your heart. Similarly, you weep in the situation of misery, but if you are able to enjoy your own weeping, you have achieved the state of continuous enjoyment through entertainment from the creation by which you have attained the state of God. Gita says that you should enjoy even your death (eshaa brahmi sthitih…). In fact, the author of Gita exhibited His own concept in His practical life. The same sweet smile that appeared on the face of the Lord while dancing with the beautiful Gopikas, remained on the face of the Lord at the time of His last breath also after shot by an arrow.

The way to attain the sate of God According to Veda, God created this world for His entertainment and He is enjoying all the scenes of this creation. If you can enjoy all the incidents of your life in a similar way, you have attained the state of God and this is the monism (Advaita) preached by Shankara. Shankara told that the Lordship (Eshwara) is a myth (Mithya) in this context. This means that when God and the soul are enjoying the creation equally with continuous entertainment, there is no need of bringing the irrelevant Lordship of creation, ruling and destruction of the world in this context. The peon is seeing the cinema along with the producer and director. The state of producer and director is meaningless to differentiate the peon and producer ejaculate director as far as the enjoyment of the cinema as a spectator is concerned. Mithya means neither true nor false. The producer ejaculate director is sitting in the hall and therefore the state of producer ejaculate director is not false. But still the state of producer ejaculate director is unnecessary and irrelevant as far as the common spectatorship is concerned. Therefore the state of producer ejaculate director is neither true nor false. Hence it is called as Mithya. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

God need not be consoled since He is weeping externally God is enjoys His weeping resulted by the misery God enjoys His weeping internally You need not show sympathy to the Lord if He is brooding over some personal misery. From the external weeping, you mistake the Lord as suffering from the misery. In fact, the Lord is enjoying His weeping resulted by the misery. You are always weeping externally and internally due to misery and therefore you should be consoled. The Lord need not be consoled since He is weeping externally and is enjoying the weeping internally. You should not judge the Lord on your standards. You should understand the Lord on His standards. Therefore Yoga means the equality in the enjoyment of mind in both happiness and misery like God. The Yoga always refers the state of God achieved by you. Whenever a great fortune is achieved, it is denoted by the word Yoga. Therefore you will attain the state of Advaita through Yoga only. When such a state is achieved in practice, it is called as Karmayoga. When such a state is understood with full clarification, it is called as Jnanayoga. When such a state is achieved by you in practice through your powerful liking to God, it is called as Bhaktiyoga. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The identity mark to recognize the possessor of true spiritual knowledge and the best preacher of such true spiritual knowledge is the true spiritual knowledge and its best explanation only If you want to eat an apple, you have to search for the seller of apples in order to purchase an apple from him. Then, how to identify the seller of apples? The identity mark for recognizing the seller of apples is the apple itself. Therefore, your requirement itself is the identity mark to recognize the possessor of your requirement. If you want to learn Physics, you to have select the best teacher of the physics. What is the identity mark of the best teacher of physics? The identity mark is the best teaching of the physics itself. Similarly the requirement of an aspirant of spiritual path is the correct direction in his spiritual journey. The correct direction in the spiritual journey can be given by the true spiritual knowledge. Apart from the true spiritual knowledge, there should be best way of explanation of such true spiritual knowledge. Therefore, your requirement is the true spiritual knowledge and its best explanation, so that you can get the correct direction in your spiritual effort. Now, the identity mark to recognize the possessor of true spiritual knowledge and the best preacher of such true spiritual knowledge is the true spiritual knowledge and its best explanation only. Veda says that the true spiritual knowledge (Satyam, Jnanam…) along with its best explanation (Prajnanam Brahma) is required for the correct spiritual direction. Veda says that the true spiritual knowledge itself is God. It means that the possessor of true spiritual knowledge is God. It should not be confused that the knowledge itself is God. The possessor of your required important item is addressed as the item itself. You are calling the possessor of apple as apples. You call him “Oh Apples! Come here”. Here, the word ‘apples’ means the possessor of apples.Gita clarified this confusion by saying that the possessor of knowledge is God (Jnanitvatmaiva…). www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

How to judge the true knowledge? Not only the knowledge must be true, but also the way of explanation must be best Veda says that the true spiritual knowledge itself is God. The possessor of true spiritual knowledge and the best preacher of such true spiritual knowledge is the true spiritual knowledge and its best explanation only. You need not search the possessor of knowledge by going to various places. The knowledge given by a preacher is printed in the form of books. You can read various books, which are the messages given by various preachers. You can judge the true knowledge explained in best way. How to judge the true knowledge? It is said that your inner consciousness is the best judge (Pramanamantahkaranapravruttayah). When something is true, your inner consciousness will always prick you, saying that it is truth, even though you may not like it. Similarly your inner consciousness will say the false thing as false, even though you may like it. Actually God is giving this hint to you through your inner consciousness. Sometimes, the knowledge may be true, but, if the explanation is not good, you will be having confusion. Even in such situation, your inner consciousness hints you that it is true. Ofcourse, if the true knowledge is explained in best way, you will not have any confusion. Therefore, not only the knowledge must be true, but also the way of explanation must be best. When both these aspects are accomplished, know that the preacher of such true knowledge explained in best way is God alone. Such preacher is called as Satguru. Guru is the preacher and may give the true knowledge, which was already given by God through the scripture. But the best explanation of it, clarifying all your doubts is possible to God alone (chidyante sarvasamsayah). www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The primary purpose of God coming in human form The contemporary human incarnation of God can inspire you to implement the true knowledge in practice. The primary purpose of God coming in human form is only to give you the correct direction in your spiritual effort through the best explanation of the true knowledge, which clarifies all your doubts and inspires you to practically adopt the knowledge. The true knowledge explained in best way is like huge fire (Jnanagnih…Gita). Such true knowledge explained in best way is the huge power to bring implementation of theory into practice. If there is any hindrance in your implementation of theory in practice, it is only the imperfect clarification of the true concept. Therefore, the contemporary human incarnation of God can inspire you to implement the true knowledge in practice. Inspired by the teaching of Lord Krishna, Arjuna fought the war and even killed his grandfather and teacher. Mandanamishra left the family and became a saint following Shankara, just after hearing the best explanation of true knowledge from Shankara during the debate that went on for several days continuously. Therefore nothing is as powerful as the best explained true knowledge (Sarvam Gnanaplavenaiva...Gita). www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

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Sages are greater than Angels and Angels are greater than human beings. Arjuna stands for the human beings. Hanuman stands for the Angels. Gopikas stand for the sages. The test for Arjuna is in the level of human beings. The test for Hanuman is in the level of Angels. The test for Gopikas is in the level of sages. These three tests can be compared to quarterly, half yearly and final examinations, if the entire spiritual effort is compared to one year academic course. The faith of human beings in the service of the human incarnation can stand firm, if the human incarnation is without selfishness and helps to protect the justice in the welfare of the society. Krishna proposed the war to destroy the evil Kauravas to protect the justified Pandavas. By this, the justice will be established in the society. There is no selfishness of Krishna in this war since He gets no benefit from the victory of Pandavas. These two points are made clear by Him in Gita. The lack of selfishness (Naanavaaptam Avaaptavyam….) and the establishment of justice in the society (Dharmasamsthapanarthaya….) are made clear and therefore Arjuna participated in the service of Krishna by fighting the war. Arjuna is the best human being since he also clarified the lack of his selfishness by withdrawing himself from the war in the beginning. The normal human beings participate in the service of Lord only if their selfish ends are achieved. The faith of Angels in the service of the human incarnation like Hanuman, Lakshmana etc., was of higher level. Rama used Hanuman in achieving His personal work to attain His wife thus selfishness is present in the service of Rama. But, there is no injustice in the service to Rama since His wife was stolen by Ravana and to get back His wife is justified. Hence, the Angels are prepared to serve the Lord if the service is justified even though it is with selfishness of the Lord. In fact, Rama told Ravana that He will go back if His wife is returned back. In such proposal the establishment of justice in the society is violated since if Ravana is not killed there will be harm to the society. Even though the social justice is sacrificed, at least there is personal justice in the proposal since Rama will get back His wife. This proposal shows selfishness of the Lord but there is no injustice in sacrificing the social justice for the sake of personal justice. The faith of sages in the service of the human incarnation is the top most level. Krishna has lot of butter in His house and He is the richest in the village. But, He was steeling butter from other houses and others are poorer than Him. He is eating the butter for His personal strength of His own body. This is highest selfishness. In the case of Rama, at least He is worried to protect His wife, who is other than Himself. The selfishness of Krishna is greater than the selfishness of Rama. Moreover, the highest selfishness of Krishna is blended with highest injustice since the butter of poor people is stolen by the boy of rich king of that village. Similarly, Krishna enjoyed with girls and married women in Rasakeli. This enjoyment is also highly personal and is blended with highest injustice since such loose character is the greatest sin. In these two aspects the service to Krishna is with highest selfishness of Krishna and highest injustice. In such test, even the Angels will fail, who always oppose the sin and not to speak of the human beings. Arjuna was mocking at Krishna about these two aspects in the context of protection of Gaya from Krishna. Dharma Raja refused to tell the lie since it was injustice even though Krishna requested him to tell the lie. Hanuman never mocked like that but did not worship Krishna due to these two aspects and was worshipping Rama only, who was the past human incarnation. Gopikas were sages in the previous birth. In such final test, all the Gopikas did not succeed. Several Gopikas protested at the steeling of butter and complained to Yashoda. The Rasakeli was done with high secrecy since it was performed in the midnight while the entire village was in deep sleep. Only a few Gopikas succeeded in this final test. They liked and encouraged the steeling of butter. They participated in the Rasakeli with full willingness. In fact, Krishna tested them again in this aspect by saying that they should go back to their houses since it is greatest sin leading hell. Gopikas told Him that they will die by jumping in to the river if they were refused. They did not care even the hell before the fortune obtained in pleasing the Lord. Arjuna was given the fruit of ever lasting association of the Lord as Nara with Narayana. Hanuman was given equal status since Hanuman was made creator, ruler and destroyer of this creation. The few selected Gopikas were given the highest fruit since they were kept above the head of the Lord. The service to the Lord in the contemporary human form is only a test of the devotees according to their level. Actually, the Lord has no selfishness and does not require any pleasure from outside since there is nothing to achieve from out side as said in scripture (Aptakamasya…..). The top most devotee gives top most importance to the Lord even beyond the concept of justice. The aim of following the justice is only to please Lord and justice is not greater than Lord. Lord is the protector of justice. Krishna conducted this test only in the case of Gopikas, who were sages and such test was not repeated in any case in the future life of Krishna. Service is a practical sacrifice and that alone brings the grace of Lord in reality. Knowledge and devotion are only helping agents to achieve such practical state of action. Therefore, the action (Karma Yoga) was mainly stressed in Gita. When the Lord is born as a human being in this world, the Angels and sages also accompany Him to show the path to the humanity through their success in the tests according to their levels. The human devotees also follow the Lord and stand in their level. All these tests in various levels are for the sake of the entire humanity only

The real human incarnation is one in thousands The concept of human incarnation is most perfect truth. At the same time it is most complicated and most dangerous also. It is truth because God interacts with the human beings in human form only. If God enters an inert statue, the purpose of preaching right knowledge to the humanity is not accomplished. If you say that the God in statue also has awareness by virtue of His omnipotence, such awareness cannot be used to give the right knowledge to the devotees. The statue is made of inert matter and if awareness also exists in it, it just becomes the human being. The human being is nothing but the human body made of inert matter associated with awareness. If the statue starts preaching knowledge, there will be excitation and the freedom to interact for clarification is not possible. The energetic form has inert energy as the material of body associated with awareness in which God may exist. Such energetic incarnation is not freely available to the humanity for preaching the right knowledge and it is relevant to the angels only, which are souls in energetic bodies. Good human beings only become angels after death. Sinners become devils after death. Angels and devils are the souls in energetic bodies after death. The souls in the materialized human bodies can be also treated as angels and devils. A human being is a mixture of both angel and devil and becomes Ghost after death. Thus, death does not differentiate the classification. Therefore, the human incarnation is the most relevant for humanity and this logic is the basis of the truth. At the same time this aspect of human incarnation becomes very dangerous because several human beings claim themselves as incarnations and exploit the people. Some exploit to satisfy their ego or jealousy developed over the human incarnations seen by them. Some exploit to earn money and some exploit to enjoy the sex in illegal way. Thus, the real human incarnation is one in thousands of false human incarnations and its isolation is very critical. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The clue to identify the right human incarnation The above problem is to be avoided since there is no other alternative than getting the right direction from the knowledge of the right human incarnation. The right knowledge is very essential without which the correct direction in the spiritual effort is lost. All the doubts about the right knowledge can be efficiently clarified from the right human incarnation only. Unless the doubts are perfectly clarified, the knowledge cannot be implemented by the human being. If the direction is wrong, all the effort goes waste and hence the right knowledge plays very important role in any effort. Since there is no other way than the human incarnation (Nanyahpanthah…Shruti), you have to avoid all the exploitations and stick to the concept. The clue to identify the right human incarnation becomes very important point. The only clue is to recognize the right knowledge, since the right incarnation alone gives the right knowledge. What is the way to recognize the right knowledge? The inner conscience alone can recognize the right knowledge. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

One shall have the courage to implement the right knowledge As long as the knowledge is not right, the doubts will be coming in your mind continuously. You should not fear to implement the right knowledge because the first stage is to accept the right knowledge in theory only. In course of time only you will gain the courage to implement the right knowledge. The fear in implementation of right knowledge forces you to treat the right knowledge as the wrong knowledge. In such state also, your inner conscience pricks you always suggesting it as right. You will neglect the suggestion since you suffer for your lack of efficiency in getting the right fruit by implementation of right knowledge. You are ambitious of the fruit and you are inefficiency in implementation of the right knowledge removes the possibility of getting the desired fruit. In such state of confusion, the best solution invented by your mind is to treat the right knowledge as wrong and to think that the desired fruit cannot be achieved by such assumed wrong knowledge. The final result is to treat the right knowledge as wrong. For the same reason, your mind treats the wrong knowledge as right since it is very convenient to implement the wrong knowledge. Your mind links the right fruit to the wrong knowledge and thus make you feel to get the right fruit through the implementation wrong knowledge assumed as right. This is the analysis of the instantaneous psychological process, unaware of which, people like the implementation wrong knowledge assuming as right and assume the achievement of right fruit. When all your doubts are cleared, the courage to implement the right knowledge is spontaneously generated. Some doubt existing in your mind unconsciously is responsible for your fear in the implementation. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The possessor of right and excellent knowledge is God Veda says that God is the infinite right knowledge God is the excellent knowledge The Author himself can alone give the correct sense of his own statement. Veda says that God is the infinite right knowledge and that God is the excellent knowledge (Satyam Jnanam…, Prajnanam….). This does not mean that God is the knowledge itself. It only means that the possessor of right and excellent knowledge is God and such knowledge is His correct identification mark since it is His inseparable characteristic. If some body wears a red shirt always, the red shirt becomes his identity mark and you can call him as the red shirt like calling “Oh! Red shirt! Come here”. Gita gives clarification on this point, which says that the possessor of knowledge is God (Jnaanitvaatmaiava……). Since God enters the human being only, such identification is mentioned. The human being is always characterized by the knowledge. Knowledge is one sided characteristic of awareness. It means knowledge is always associated with awareness and awareness need not be associated always with knowledge. An animal or bird has awareness but no knowledge. Therefore, you should not take awareness as the meaning of the words indicating knowledge in Veda like Jnanam and Prajnanam. This clarification is given in Gita, which says that God enters human body (Manusheem….). Hence, Gita always gives clarifications on Veda. Such correct clarification can be correctly clarified by the human incarnation only since the same God, who said Gita, can alone give the original sense of the text. The Author himself can alone give the correct sense of his own statement. Since, God is one and the same in all the human incarnations, any human incarnation can clarify the text said by any other human incarnation. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace