“Awake in God
true saints effect changes in this dream world by means of a will harmoniously
attuned to the Creative Cosmic Dreamer.” So presents Paramahamsa YOgAnanda.
Once the Persian mystic Abu said, “A true man is he who dwells in righteousness
among his fellowmen, who may buy and sell, yet is never for an instant
forgetful of god.” This remark he passed after his gentle scorn about certain
fakirs feeling proud of their miraculous powers, over elements like air, water
and space.” Birds too fly in the air; devil is simultaneously present in the
East and the West! “ says Abu. He tries to stress that one should not miss the
chiseled out goal, soul’s reach out close to God, because of any other
worthless diversion. Constant thought of God, the creator, under 365x24x60x60
seconds schedule all through one’s life, should be the backdrop behind all
transactions. The Persian mystic Abu, simply flags brightly love for God and
submerges any other value as worthless.
“KALi-represents,
eternal principle in nature that boils down to essential duality of matter or
creation.” A saint whom Sri YOgAnandaji met while he was silently standing
beforethe KaLi image, at a KALi temple. This saint is known as A Perfume saint.
His statements are worth reflection. He observes, “True self analysis
mathematically operates to produce seers.”
In the life of
Sri Paramahamsa YOgAnanda, even before his birth, from the very conception it
was the great Guru-Sri LAhiri MahAsayA, who had directed that this child
Mukunda (4th child in the family) was to become a great Yogi Who
will work out the salvation of souls in great masses across, from the worldly
life to Higher planes of existence. So
because of the divine momentum that lead him aloft, he felt a detachment to his
family. The boy Mukunda had just completed his high school studies. When his
mother died Mukunda felt is as his greatest loss. He did feel deeply
affectionate towards his 2 younger brothers and his youngest sister. Divine
forces take their course for better good for himself and that the boy Mukunda
blossoming as a Yogi was the Divine plan. That divine launch goes picking up
it’s own orbit. HIS OWN DETACHMENT TAKES Mukunda by surprise. Mukunda expresses
his own mental frame clearly thus:- “All attachment disappeared; My resolution
to seek god as the Friend of Friends became adamantine.” Father, brothers and
sisters were disressed.
Mukunda takes
leave from his family with an assures, affectionate positive note, thus:-
“Revered father, how can I tell my love for you? But even greater is my love
for the Heavenly Father, who has given me the gift of a perfect father on
earth. Let me go, that I someday return with a more divine understanding.”
Alongside the
Yogi enlightens us with the love of a true Guru. He pours the flood light of
the shastras, for us to reflect and reach the shore of wisdom. (P84-F.N.A.Y.)
Hindu scriptures
teach that family attachment is delusive if it prevents the devotee from
seeking the giver of all boons, including the one of loving relatives, not to
mention life itself. Jesus similarly taught:-“He that loveth father or mother
more than ‘ME’ is not worthy of ‘ME’._Mathew 10:37(Bible).
Saints of all
religions have attained God realization through the simple concept of the
Cosmic beloved. Because the Absolute is nirgunau, “without qualities” and
achinthya, “inconceivable” human thought and yearning have ever personalized It
as the Universal Mother.A combination of personal theism and the philosophy of
the Absolute is an ancient achievement of the Hindu thought, expounded in the
Vedas and the Bhagavad- Geetha. This “reconciliation of the opposites”
satisfies the heart and the head: bhakthi (devotion) and gnana(wisdom) are
essentially one. Prapatti, “taking refuge” in God and SharaNAgati, “flinging
oneself on the Divine Compassion,” are really paths of the highest knowledge.
The humility of
Master Mahasaya and of all other saints springs from a recognition of their
total dependence (seshatva) on the Lord as the sole Life and Judge. Because the
very nature of God is Bliss, the man in attunement with Him Experiences a
native boundless joy. “The first of the passions of the soul and the will is
joy.”
Sir Francis Young
husband (Atlantic Monthly, Dec.1936) told of his own experience of cosmic joy: ”There
came upon me what was far more than elation or exhilaration; I was beside myself
with an intensity of joy, and with this indescribable and almost unbearable joy
came a revelation of the essential goodness of the world. I was convinced past
all refutation that men at heart were good, that the evil in them was the
superficial.”
“Man
has in him 2 levels of consciousness. The subconscious mind, then
superconsciousness; the latter in it’s grandeur is the exact opposite of the
subconscious mind as conceived of by Freud; super consciousness comprises the
faculties that make man really man and not just a super-animal.” Professor Jules-Bois
of Sorbonne said in 1928 that French psychologists have investigated and
accorded recognition to the superconsciousness. All these along the steps of
the ladder of evolution of Life and evolution of Mankind. Scientific
advancement is trying to keep pace with philosophy. The French Savant explained
that “philosophy had long back recognized the existence of a
superconsciousness, being the Over-Soul spoken of by Emerson; but only recently
has it been recognized scientifically”. (p.58,59-Foot Notes, Of The Autobiography of a Yogi)
In “The
Over-Soul”, Emerson wrote: “A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom
and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting,
counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents
himself. Him we do not respect; but the soul, whose organ he is , would he let
it appear through his actions, would make our knees bend…….We lie open on one
side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.” (P.58,
59-Foot notes of The Autobiography of a Yogi)
Kebalananda
(otherwise called as Master MahAsayA) was fortunate enough to stay with Sri
LAhiri MahAsaya for 10 years. How a dedicated devotee of a True Guru was
benefited, can be understood through the experience expressed by Master
MahAsayA. “ To be with him, even without exchanging a word for days, was
experience that changed my entire being. The master was a living temple of god,
whose secret doors were open to all disciples through devotion.”(P.35,36-A.Y.)
“LAhiri MahAsaya
was no bookish interpreter of the scriptures. Effortlessly he dipped into the
‘Divine Library’. Foam of words and spray of thoughts gushed from the fountain
of his omniscience. He had the wondrous clavis that unlocked the profound
philosophical science hidden ages ago in the Vedas.”(P.36)
Over 100
canonical books of the ancient four Vedas are extant. In his journal Emerson
paid this tribute to vedic thought: “It is sublime as heat and night and a
breathless ocean. It contains every religious sentiment, all the grand ethics
which visit in turn each noble poetic mind…..It is of no use to put away the
book; if I trust myself in the woods or in a boat upon the pond, Nature makes a
Brahmin of me presently: eternal necessity, eternal compensation, unfathomable
power, unbroken silence……this is her creed. Peace she saith to me, and purity
and absolute abandonment- these panaceas expiate all sin and bring you to the
beatitude of the Eight Gods” (P.36-F.N-A.Y.)
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