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Old 24-04-2017, 11:25 AM
kisalipa kisalipa is offline
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Salvation of Sage Nara

Krishna said that He knew all the births of Arjuna. Arjuna was Sage Nara who was associated with Sage Narayana. Sage Narayana was a human form charged by God. But due to the repulsion between the common media of human bodies and the resultant ego and jealousy, Sage Nara could not fully recognize Sage Narayana and Sage Nara treated Sage Narayana as only his friend (Sakhya Bhakti). The same attitude continued when Narayana became Krishna and Nara became Arjuna. Arjuna worshipped Lord Shiva through penance to get the divine weapon called Pashupata Astram to win the war but he did not have full confidence in Krishna since he was treating Krishna only as a human being having some limited divine powers. In those days, having such divine powers was not a big thing since even Arjuna had several divine weapons, which contained miraculous super powers. For such incomplete faith of Arjuna, Krishna told Arjuna that he would not fight with any weapon in the war. It was an indirect hint to Arjuna about his incomplete faith in Him since Arjuna tried for the grace of Lord Shiva when Lord Krishna was already present before his eyes. Krishna meant that since Arjuna had the divine weapon from Lord Shiva, there was no need for Him to participate in the war. Arjuna could not understand this sense in the statement of Krishna. Arjuna approached Krishna not as a devotee but only as a student, treating Krishna as a human Guru and not as Satguru or God in human form (Shishyah teham...—Gita). Further, Arjuna asked Krishna that how Krishna taught Yoga to Sun-god [in the very ancient past] because Krishna was born only recently. Further, he asked for the proof of [Krishna being the Lord, through] the cosmic vision. Even after all this, on the last day of the war he did not get down from the chariot before Krishna got down and this shows the attitude of Arjuna towards Krishna was that of a only a human being. The result of all this incomplete faith was that Arjuna went to heaven for some time after death and then returned back to earth and was born as a hunter called as Kannappa. He continued with the same worship to Lord Shiva in that birth also. He sacrificed his eyes for the Lord in the test. This shows that he gave full value to God; the only problem was in finding out the correct address of the Lord, due to the repulsion between common media. Then he went to the abode of Lord Shiva and could not worship Shiva there also due to the same repulsion of common media because he was also in the same energetic body as that of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva in meditation gives an impression that He is meditating upon the formless God called Brahman. All the devotees there are again misled by this Maya and neglect Lord Shiva due to the repulsion of common media and meditate upon the formless Brahman alone. These souls neglect the human form of God when they come to earth and worship the energetic form as greater than the human form. But the same souls in the upper world neglect the energetic form of God and meditate upon the formless God thinking that it is greater than the energetic form. Hence, the disease of repulsion of common media is common to both earth and the upper world. Even the souls in the divine energetic bodies called as Devas, are subject to this powerful illusion of neglecting the common form present before their eyes and loving some unavailable form, which is not before their eyes. This is stated in the Veda (Paroksha Priyaa Ivahi Devah Pratyaksha Dvishah). The Veda also says that God is before the eyes of the souls existing either on earth or in the upper world, since God takes the same common form as His medium (Yat Sakshat Aparokshat Brahma).

When divine bodies are not exceptions to this great illusion, what to speak of human beings? Indra neglected even Lord Shiva due to the same principle of repulsion between common energetic bodies and was made to stand still by a single look of Shiva. If that is the case of Indra towards the energetic incarnation [Shiva], what about his attitude towards God in a lower human body like Krishna? Therefore, Arjuna also worshipped formless Brahman in the upper world and his devotion to Shiva subsided completely by this new form of devotion. He was born as Swami Vivekananda on earth with the formless devotion and his next birth will be that of an atheist. A devotee of the formless Brahman is easily trapped by misconceived Advaita and will conclude that the formless Brahman is his own self. Therefore, the next step will only be atheism. But the Lord wanted to save him because the Lord was very much pleased with his basic sacrifice for God in the previous birth. The Lord wanted that this soul should find the proper address of God since the value for God was already present in him to the climax. Therefore Vivekanada was dragged to Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, who was a simultaneous human incarnation of God in the time of Sai Baba and Akkalkot Maharaj. Shri Paramahamsa praised him as Lord Narayana in human form. This is the special style of Datta in preaching. When He wants to preach to a fellow who has a large ego, He will reverse the concept to Himself and hence the real meaning of that statement is that Shri Paramahamsa was Lord Narayana in human form. Nobody has understood the real sense of that statement including Narendra. Swami Vivekananda was called as Narandra, which means Nara (Arjuna) who is the son of Indra. He led all his life only as an Advaita philosopher. He treated Paramahamsa only as his master or human guru. The Advaita philosophy can be used to develop confidence and to come out of stress for which God is pleased like a father-doctor seeing his child claiming [pretending] to be a doctor. One can feel that one is God and develop confidence in oneself. Krishna said that Arjuna is Himself i.e., God (Pandavanam Dhanamjayah). This statement aims at building up self-confidence in Arjuna, which was lost due to tension and grief. One can come out of stress, feeling that this world is unreal and that one is God. But one should not really believe this and practice it. If the child pretending to be a doctor starts performing surgery on a patient, the same father [doctor] will become furious because the life of another human being is spoiled [in danger]. Moreover, in the case of the Advaita philosopher, he is misleading [putting in danger] several innocent souls, who are also children of the same God. Shri Paramahamsa said that He would open the brain [reveal the truth] of Narendra only in the end because such confidence and stress relief had to be given to the world through Narendra. In the end, Shri Paramahamsa opened the brain of this soul. In the last days, Narendra sat near Him and thought whether his guru was really God. Shri Paramahamsa immediately looked at him and said, “I am the Rama and the Krishna”. Narendra realized that He was the human incarnation and fell at His feet. He became a liberated soul by attaining full salvation from ego and jealousy that arises due to the repulsion between common media.
At The Lotus Feet of JagadGuru Dattaswami!!!

Last edited by kisalipa : 24-04-2017 at 12:39 PM.
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