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Question : Niteyanthan, Johor Bharu, Malaysia M/38 21st November 2008
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Swamiji,I have my own guru,who I'm praying everyday ,do patham puja and meditated everyday at least 45 to 50 min .there's only one question .I want to comminicate with my guru,I'm going to fullfill my this birth.What should i do?
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Shri Nathan, Namaskar
Please mind well that Guru is the reflection of your soul (Atma).
Communicating with Atma is the communication with Guru. Please
do not be too much after the body image of Guru. Understand the Guru principles.
In addition to your prayers you must learn some scriptures to understand what really Guru is. I shall recommend "Shatshloki" or "Vivek Chudamani" written by Hon. PujyaPad Bhagwan Shakaracharya.
Thank you
Swami Aniljee
Shri Nathan, Namaskar
Please mind well that Guru is the reflection of your soul (Atma).
Communicating with Atma is the communication with Guru. Please
do not be too much after the body image of Guru. Understand the Guru principles.
In addition to your prayers you must learn some scriptures to understand what really Guru is. I shall recommend "Shatshloki" or "Vivek Chudamani" written by Hon. PujyaPad Bhagwan Shakaracharya.
Thank you
Swami Aniljee
Question : Sunil Goel, Lagos, Nigeria M/54 21st November 2008
If Ishwar is Self and one and the same all around, then where does the question of individual Jiva come. If you say, Jiva is also Ishwara, then where does Jiva go after death. Does it stop at a place to decide which seed to enter into to purgate its vasanas? And if it is a realized Jiva does it just merge into the self/Ishwara?
Is the Ishwara infinite and having no beginning and no end and in fact does not do anything at all, it is just there to illumine our consciousness. Is that its purpose. Is that our purpose also to realize that we are just awareness and to constantly remember that?
Is the Ishwara infinite and having no beginning and no end and in fact does not do anything at all, it is just there to illumine our consciousness. Is that its purpose. Is that our purpose also to realize that we are just awareness and to constantly remember that?
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Shri Sunil Goel, Namaskar,
1. Ishwara (God) is a relative term. The nescient have firm belief that what
they see, hear, smell etc. and experience the world is true. The world is true for them like the world in the dream is true for the dreamer. Nescient is a daylight dreamer. However, after blessings (Kripa) of Guru when one understands the illusory nature of the world, the world becomes a living dream for him. So as long as one is undoubtedly convinced that the world is true, it becomes necessary to think about the creator of the world. Human brain understands that where there is a creation there has to be a creator. This imaginary creator of the imaginary world is called God. Since God is pure imagination of human being, He can be named, (as God, Ishwar, Rama Krishna etc.), can be figured, can be made historical, can be made a hero of the stories. can be made vested with power, etc. So, there is creator, (God, Ishwara) because there is creation. Once the illusion of creation is cleared neither world remains nor Ishwara. The illusion of creation is cleared by self realization. God, Ishwar, Allah are therefore, relative terms.
2. Sakshi (witness), Chetan (live) and Nirguna (without qualities, properties or form) is the definition of Self. Except "Self" nothing has existence. "Self" is all pervading, omniscient and omnipresent. Self imagines itself to have come to life or Jeeva stage due to effect of Maya. You will have to understand Maya from reading scriptures or saint’s literature.
3. “Na Jayate Mriyate wa” the scriptures say that nobody has ever born and nobody dies. In the state of knowledge all the living and non-living material in the world disappears like the broken dream.
4. Your last question is very interesting. There is no purpose of this world and no purpose of human life. Nothing imperishable could be achieved by human being in this world. Whatever he does during life time is only the game of his mind, or it is just like tides in the glass full of water. The scriptures advice for self-realization only to combat the penuries of life. Nescient suffers too much in his life due to various material reasons. Jnani (knowledgeable person) knowing that nothing permanently exists do not get involved by mind in the worldly things. Jnani constantly remembers who he is and does not get affected by the dualities of life like Death and birth, richness and poverty, loss and profit, happiness and sorrow, good and bad etc. Lord Krishna has therefore said, “Samatvam Yoga uchyate”. Equanimity to everything is Yoga. Yoga does not mean physical exercise.
Thank you very much for your mail The emails like yours make me happy.
Swami Aniljee
Shri Sunil Goel, Namaskar,
1. Ishwara (God) is a relative term. The nescient have firm belief that what
they see, hear, smell etc. and experience the world is true. The world is true for them like the world in the dream is true for the dreamer. Nescient is a daylight dreamer. However, after blessings (Kripa) of Guru when one understands the illusory nature of the world, the world becomes a living dream for him. So as long as one is undoubtedly convinced that the world is true, it becomes necessary to think about the creator of the world. Human brain understands that where there is a creation there has to be a creator. This imaginary creator of the imaginary world is called God. Since God is pure imagination of human being, He can be named, (as God, Ishwar, Rama Krishna etc.), can be figured, can be made historical, can be made a hero of the stories. can be made vested with power, etc. So, there is creator, (God, Ishwara) because there is creation. Once the illusion of creation is cleared neither world remains nor Ishwara. The illusion of creation is cleared by self realization. God, Ishwar, Allah are therefore, relative terms.
2. Sakshi (witness), Chetan (live) and Nirguna (without qualities, properties or form) is the definition of Self. Except "Self" nothing has existence. "Self" is all pervading, omniscient and omnipresent. Self imagines itself to have come to life or Jeeva stage due to effect of Maya. You will have to understand Maya from reading scriptures or saint’s literature.
3. “Na Jayate Mriyate wa” the scriptures say that nobody has ever born and nobody dies. In the state of knowledge all the living and non-living material in the world disappears like the broken dream.
4. Your last question is very interesting. There is no purpose of this world and no purpose of human life. Nothing imperishable could be achieved by human being in this world. Whatever he does during life time is only the game of his mind, or it is just like tides in the glass full of water. The scriptures advice for self-realization only to combat the penuries of life. Nescient suffers too much in his life due to various material reasons. Jnani (knowledgeable person) knowing that nothing permanently exists do not get involved by mind in the worldly things. Jnani constantly remembers who he is and does not get affected by the dualities of life like Death and birth, richness and poverty, loss and profit, happiness and sorrow, good and bad etc. Lord Krishna has therefore said, “Samatvam Yoga uchyate”. Equanimity to everything is Yoga. Yoga does not mean physical exercise.
Thank you very much for your mail The emails like yours make me happy.
Swami Aniljee
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