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A CLEAR AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES
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The cultivation of a personal relationship with God is the core of
spirituality.
'Under no circumstances should human beings ever allow anything to
distort or interfere with their mutual relationship with the God -
Supreme Consciousness. They should never think that God hates them.
God can never hate anyone because all are His loving children.
Parents may scold mischievous children but can never hate them.
Similarly, God may scold, but He can never hate. Sometimes parents
angrily shout at their child, `Go to hell you wretch', but don't
actually mean what they say. That is just the expression of their
mouths, not their minds. The same parents who utter such words
become extremely worried when their child falls slightly sick and
lament, `Oh what will happen to our child. We're at a loss as to
what to do'. This shows their genuine concern for the child.'
(PARAMA PURUS'A DOESN'T HATE ANYONE, A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 4, 3
November 1978 evening, Kalika'ta')
God is all loving no matter what the external circumstances may look
like between one person and another in the relative world. God
cannot hate anyone and so no religious preachers can condemn anyone.
'The omniscient Supreme Cognition is the Lord of both heaven and
hell. He is the Father of both developed spiritual aspirants and of
great sinners. There is, therefore, no question of His hating even
the great sinners and loving the good spiritual aspirants. All are
one to Him. He cannot ostracize the former and embrace the latter.
There is no place outside Him where He can throw off the great
sinners. He cannot disown them either, for in that case He would not
remain Saviour of the Degraded.'
(SUBHA'S'ITA SAM'GRAHA PART 24, MYSTICISM AND SPIRITUALITY, 20
October 1967 DMC, Meerut)
What is the situation if a person commits a wrong?
'Various scriptures have laid down different injunctions for the
atonement of different sins. Some say that for such-and-such sin you
must atone in such-and-such way. Others say you must go to hell for
this or that sin. These interpretations vary from scripture to
scripture. About these there is only one word to say. If you walk
down a road you are bound to get dirty. Those who have abandoned all
their previous sins and come to God, accepting God as their final
refuge, God will free them from the bondage of sin. Their future is
certainly glorious. No one need worry about their past. It is
senseless to worry about atonement for past misdeeds. If one is able
to think of his or her Goal to the exclusion of everything else and
repeat the name of the Lord, recite that name with proper
understanding of its meaning, his or her future is bright. He or she
will have no cause to weep.
Only the Supreme Consciousness can assure the unit human beings so
unequivocally. This goes to show beyond any shadow of a doubt that
God is not just a god in the philosophical sense, but the veritable
manifestation of divinity. God cannot be compared to some partial
manifestations. "I will forgive your sins. I will free you from all
sins, I will take away your sins." No one but the Supreme Entity,
has the right to say this. No one has ever said this in the past,
nor will anyone say it in the future. If anyone claims this, it
would be only the highest audacity on his or her part. But the
Supreme Preceptor has proclaimed it loudly and openly: "I will
liberate you from all sins. You have no cause to worry."'
(NAMA'MI KRS'N'ASUNDARAM, DISCOURSE 24, PA'RTHASA'RATHI KRS'N'A AND
PARIPRASHNA, 22 March 1981, Calcutta)
Why is this so? It comes down to the infinite expression of God.
'Whatever has been, is being and will be created is all within the
expression of God - the Macrocosmic Mind. Even time, space and
person all emanate from His mind. Therefore He is already of what
was created and what is going to be created. If you perform
virtuous deeds and thus elevate yourselves to higher realms, the
Supreme Consciousness - God - will be there with you. Conversely,
if you degrade yourself to hell due to your misdeeds, there also He
will be with you, because human beings are all a part and parcel of
Him. Hence under no circumstances should people worry about
anything. If you really go to hell then there also you will do
spiritual practices and spiritual chant and dance and wherever you
do spiritual chant and dance, there the Supreme Consciousness will
have to come because he Himself has said: "I do not reside in
heaven, nor in the hearts of yogis; but wherever my devotees sing
the name of the Lord I remain there. For me there is no difference
between a literate and illiterate person between a scholar and a
fool."
So when the Supreme Consciousness is with you in all circumstances,
and when you are not alone, then how can you say that the world is
full of sorrows? Rather the world is certainly full of joy because
it is from joy that the universe has emerged, in joy it is being
maintained, and finally the culminating point of all movement is the
Supreme Bliss. All the microcosms are part and parcel of the
Supreme Consciousness: all are His progeny, His dear children.
Human beings out of ignorance commit sins, and supposedly for this
they are sent to hell. But if some bad actions are committed,
naturally their consequences also must be undergone. God - the
Supreme Consciousness - dearly loves His children, and thus He
sometimes scolds them and tries to rectify them through punishment.
Certainly He cannot want His sons and daughters to undergo pains and
troubles; rather He wants them progress physically, mentally, an
spiritually.
And what does He do to protect you? He must lighten the burden of
your sins, and thus he steals them away from you. He tells his
affectionate devotees, "Surrender all your sins to me; but the
devotees' hearts are always filled with love for Him - how can they
give their sins to Him? They will rather say, "I will feed Him
with dainties and delicacies, and sing sweet devotional songs to
Him - how can I give my sins to Him? I cannot." But until one's
sins are surrendered, one will have to undergo the vicious cycle of
endless births and deaths. So what does the Supreme Consciousness
do in that case? Without taking the permission of the devotees, He
surreptitiously steals their sins, and thus they become liberated
from the bondages of all their sins. As this burden of sins is
removed, the devotees can move forward at a much faster speed and
arrive sooner at their destination.'
(WHAT ARE THE NOBLE TRUTHS, Subha's'ita Sam'graha Part 11, 20 March
1979, Kanpur)
'God knows everything -- all past events, all future events, and, in
between the past and future, the short span of present. But you
intellectuals, from one side you are learning, from another side you
are forgetting. Because you are learning with a particular speed and
forgetting with more speed. And this is the condition of the
intellectual. Do you want to become intellectuals, or do you want to
become devotees?
God is the Lord, He's the Father, He's the Progenitor, of all
creatures, of all living beings. Human beings, you know, are the
most developed, most elevated creatures. And He's the Lord of all
elevated creatures. He is the Lord of those so-called intellectuals
also (if they are actually elevated creatures). Lord of hell and of
heaven. But you know, those who are downtrodden people, illiterate,
sinners -- aren't they children of that Supreme Consciousness?
Certainly. He is the Lord of heaven, He is the Lord of hell also. He
is the master of all, He is the Divine Consciousness of all. So no
sinner should feel that because he is a sinner, the Supreme
Consciousness doesn't love him, the Supreme Consciousness doesn't
like him. He should remember that he may be a sinner, but still he
is the child of that Supreme Consciousness - of God; the Supreme
Consciousness (God) cannot hate him.
He is the Lord of all elevated creatures, He is the Lord of all the
seven heavens, and He is the Lord of, He is the Father of, He is the
loving Progenitor of all downtrodden people, all sinners, all
degraded, depraved persons. So it is the duty of all human beings to
utilize each and every moment of their precious lives in spiritual
practices, in divine meditation, in ideating on the glory of the
Supreme, and utilize their valuable lives in doing the singing of
the name of the Lord.'
(A'NANDA VACANA'MRTAM PART 34, THE UNIVERSAL EXPRESSION OF PARAMA
PURUS'A, 23 November 1970 morning, Hyderabad)
What is the proper approach for the human being to take?
'A person should do work and while doing work should remember that
whatever one is doing is meant for God-realization.
If a person is doing spiritual practices just for God-realization,
no matter that the world is going to hell, will we not call such a
person utterly selfish? If one is not doing service to humanity and
has no concern for them and is engaged only in spiritual practices
for God-realization, then he or she deserves to be called self-
seeking despite his or her spiritual longing.
There are mythologically seven worlds [netherworlds, hells] One is
the lowest of all. The colour of all these seven worlds is black.
Black is no colour. Want of colour is black, so there we find
blackness. But there are degrees even in blackness; all blackness is
not the same. And mythologically, the upper hells are lighter shades
of black than the lower hells.'
(A'NANDA VACANA'MRTAM PART 30, SELF-REALIZATION AND SERVICE TO
HUMANITY, 28 November 1978 morning, Nagpur)
But mythology is not the goal.
'When you attain God, there is no contraction. This is not the
seventh layer of heaven; it is in your mind. Thus, God is not very
far from the common people.'
(SERVICE TO HUMANITY IS THE SUPREME IDEOLOGY OF LIFE, A'nanda
Vacana'mrtam Part 15, 15 October 1979 morning, Nagpur)
'One must be very, very cautious, so that vanity may not develop.
What vanity will do to a spiritual aspirant is that there is an
inflated ego and this is like drinking wine, while self-
aggrandizement leads one into the deepest hell, and social status is
like the excrement of a pig. Give up all three of these mental
ailments and only sing the glories of the Lord - engage yourself in
contemplation on God.
Self-aggrandisement is truly like hell. One who suffers from a
superiority complex is converted into stone -- he or she will be
crudified to this extent. This is the result of the feeling of a
superiority complex.'
(A'NANDA VACANA'MRTAM PART 23, THE DIALOGUES OF SHIVA AND PARVATII --
3, July 1967, Delhi)
You must find God internally.
'"Here is a place of pilgrimage; if one takes a dip in this
particular river, one will acquire this much virtue -- all this is
false." If one can acquire virtue by taking a bath in the river,
then all the creatures in the water of the river will also get to
heaven. And yet all the rivers which you see nowadays at different
places of pilgrimage are full of stinking water! Those who take a
bath with such ideas are people dominated by the static principle.
Their condition is of those who are performing external worship,
worshipping the God of stone that is found in the temples, while
their internal God is left unworshipped. They are like one who
throws away the rice that is in one's hand and wanders from door to
door in search of one's livelihood. Those persons are truly fools
who throw away the food that is in their hand and wander to
different doors to beg.'
(A'NANDA VACANA'MRTAM PART 23, THE DIALOGUES OF SHIVA AND PARVATII --
3, July 1967, Delhi)
Be like the simple devotee.
'The sage asked "If your foot-dust is smeared on the forehead of the
Lord, will you not incur great sin thereby?" The cowherds replied
unhesitatingly, "Perhaps we may incur sin thereby, and we are ready
to enter hell for that. But if the dust-particles of our feet can
cure our beloved Lord, that would be wonderful." This is the
epitome of devotion, and to please the Supreme Consciousness we must
develop this type of exclusive devotion.
So you should always remember one thing: that your spiritual
practice, your mundane activities, your worldly ideology, your
social, economic, and moral ideals in every sphere of your existence
must be suffused with the ideation that you love your Lord, and you
should love Him for only one reason - to please Him.'
(THE PATH OF SALVATION, Subha's'ita Sam'graha Part 11, 1 January
1979, Patna)
from works of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
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