As a boy, Lord Sri Krishna was naughty. He would steal butter from houses, share it with his friends, eat some himself, and break the earthen pots full of curds and butter. Then he would smear a bit of butter on the months of the calves and slip away from there. The people in the house would find the calves’ mouths smeared with butter. They would think that the calves had caused the damage and would beat them.
As a matter of fact, God Himself is the cause of all that happens. In the process the poor calves get the beating. ‘I…..you……this……that……..happiness……sorrow…….respect…….disrespect……. capital punishment…….’ The Ultimate Cause of all these is God, the Pure Consciousness. However, by being disloyal to God the calves i.e. our minds get the beating.
God is the greatest of the great and on forging a relationship with Him one is liberated. Just having a great name does not serve any purpose. It is often found that poor destitute people, having nothing in their possession are named as karodimal (meaning worth crores of rupees), Lakhpatram (denoting worth lakhs of rupees), Hazariprasad (denoting worth thousands of rupees), Lakshmichand (meaning Goddness of wealth), etc. Where will all this lead to?
‘Lakshmi goes looking for cow dung; Jagpal (meaning one nurturing the whole world) is found begging.
Amar (meaning immortal) Singh is dying; I am happy with my Thanthanpal (meaning pauper) who actually earns money.
Real peace and happiness can hardly be obtained by possessing palatial mansions, luxury cars or by wearing precious jewels or ornaments! We are paupers as far as the true wealth of inner bliss is concerned. A man who is poor from within is that much more dependent on external objects. And the more one is dependent on external objects, the more one is bereft of the wealth of Self-bliss.
A person well endowed with the wealth of Self-realization and with that of the external world is not much interested in the latter. One gets it by destiny. The wealth of Self-realization brings all worldly successes too. Once you possess the wealth of Self-bliss, you no longer hanker after external wealth, which then gets drawn to you automatically. One’s shadow naturally follows one. Likewise, once you attain Divine Bliss, you get external happiness and comforts by the force of destiny. In case you don’t, even then you don’t desire them. Such is the glory of Divine Bliss! So long as childhood continues, one’s childish intellect makes one play with dolls, toys etc. As maturity comes, youth arrives, one is married, how will playing with dolls and toys interest him or her? When the intellect is shrouded by ignorance, then there is attachment to the world. On the other hand, a well-developed intellect with well-established discrimination exposes the hollowness of worldly objects. A prudent analysis will reveal that everything around is but made from the five elements of nature. Out of ignorance we kept playing with toys and dolls; but as wiser sense dawned upon us the game just went out of our lives. You are born to play with the Braham. You are here to enjoy playing with God Himself and not with the causality of this world of dolls and toys. This human birth is bestowed upon you to forge a close bond with God and to obtain Supreme Bliss.
After wedding a man, a young woman hardly plays with her dolls. Similarly, once our mind gets wedded to Supreme God, it will hardly have any interest in the toys and dolls of worldly pleasures.
A puppet show commences. In the show, one king invited another, who came with his entourage. He was duly welcomed by the host king and extended appropriate hospitality. Then in the course of conversation, tempers rose and the two crossed their swords. A fight occurred. Two got hacked, four died, and six fled.
Thought it appears to be a big affair, in reality it is merely an artistry of the puppet master’s fingers. Similarly, in this external world the causality appears outwardly but the puppet master is none other than the Supreme Self. We see duality in the form of good and bad, mine and yours, this and that, but all these are mere appearances projected from the fundamental source-, the Supreme Self. Once your repose your smaller self (‘I’) in that Supreme Cause and become one with it, these external cause and effect phenomena will appear merely as a game to you.
As a matter of fact, God Himself is the cause of all that happens. In the process the poor calves get the beating. ‘I…..you……this……that……..happiness……sorrow…….respect…….disrespect……. capital punishment…….’ The Ultimate Cause of all these is God, the Pure Consciousness. However, by being disloyal to God the calves i.e. our minds get the beating.
God is the greatest of the great and on forging a relationship with Him one is liberated. Just having a great name does not serve any purpose. It is often found that poor destitute people, having nothing in their possession are named as karodimal (meaning worth crores of rupees), Lakhpatram (denoting worth lakhs of rupees), Hazariprasad (denoting worth thousands of rupees), Lakshmichand (meaning Goddness of wealth), etc. Where will all this lead to?
‘Lakshmi goes looking for cow dung; Jagpal (meaning one nurturing the whole world) is found begging.
Amar (meaning immortal) Singh is dying; I am happy with my Thanthanpal (meaning pauper) who actually earns money.
Real peace and happiness can hardly be obtained by possessing palatial mansions, luxury cars or by wearing precious jewels or ornaments! We are paupers as far as the true wealth of inner bliss is concerned. A man who is poor from within is that much more dependent on external objects. And the more one is dependent on external objects, the more one is bereft of the wealth of Self-bliss.
A person well endowed with the wealth of Self-realization and with that of the external world is not much interested in the latter. One gets it by destiny. The wealth of Self-realization brings all worldly successes too. Once you possess the wealth of Self-bliss, you no longer hanker after external wealth, which then gets drawn to you automatically. One’s shadow naturally follows one. Likewise, once you attain Divine Bliss, you get external happiness and comforts by the force of destiny. In case you don’t, even then you don’t desire them. Such is the glory of Divine Bliss! So long as childhood continues, one’s childish intellect makes one play with dolls, toys etc. As maturity comes, youth arrives, one is married, how will playing with dolls and toys interest him or her? When the intellect is shrouded by ignorance, then there is attachment to the world. On the other hand, a well-developed intellect with well-established discrimination exposes the hollowness of worldly objects. A prudent analysis will reveal that everything around is but made from the five elements of nature. Out of ignorance we kept playing with toys and dolls; but as wiser sense dawned upon us the game just went out of our lives. You are born to play with the Braham. You are here to enjoy playing with God Himself and not with the causality of this world of dolls and toys. This human birth is bestowed upon you to forge a close bond with God and to obtain Supreme Bliss.
After wedding a man, a young woman hardly plays with her dolls. Similarly, once our mind gets wedded to Supreme God, it will hardly have any interest in the toys and dolls of worldly pleasures.
A puppet show commences. In the show, one king invited another, who came with his entourage. He was duly welcomed by the host king and extended appropriate hospitality. Then in the course of conversation, tempers rose and the two crossed their swords. A fight occurred. Two got hacked, four died, and six fled.
Thought it appears to be a big affair, in reality it is merely an artistry of the puppet master’s fingers. Similarly, in this external world the causality appears outwardly but the puppet master is none other than the Supreme Self. We see duality in the form of good and bad, mine and yours, this and that, but all these are mere appearances projected from the fundamental source-, the Supreme Self. Once your repose your smaller self (‘I’) in that Supreme Cause and become one with it, these external cause and effect phenomena will appear merely as a game to you.
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