What are the specialities of this Bhágavata Dharma, this Sanátana Dharma, this Human Dharma? There are four portions: Vistára, Rasa, Sevá, and Tad Sthiti.
Vistára: It is the characteristic of human beings to expand themselves mentally, intellectually, and in all other subtler spheres of life. Inquisitiveness in the subtler spheres of life is the human course. It can’t he suppressed. It can’t be sealed. It can’t be blocked forever. In the interest of the healthy progress of humanity, this intellectual flow must not be suppressed. Human beings can not tolerate this suppression. And those who try to suppress the gleamings of humanity and their philosophy come within the scope of dogma. Dogma is detrimental to human progress.
The second item is Rasa. Wherever there is an existence, there is movement. Mobility is life, and the main waves of this Universe emanate from the Parama Puruśa. Parama Puruśa has so many waves, and due to differences in wave-length, we see so many objects, so many creations. This flow of Parama Puruśa vibrates the entire Universe. This flow of Parama Puruśa is known as Rasa.
But individual entities with their individual consciousness, individual subjectivities have got their respective and individual flows also. You want to do something. You want to write a poem. It’s the individual flow of your mind. If this individual flow gets the support, gets the parallelism of the Cosmic flow, the flow of Parama Puruśa, you become successful. Otherwise you may attain some success, but your desire will not be fulfilled. Where one’s endeavour is to do something great, something noble, or something bad, but it is not supported by the Cosmic flow, then that man is known as a technician. When that flow is supported by the Cosmic flow, that man is known as a genius. What is a technician? The ordinary human quality developed to an extraordinary degree of efficiency is known as “technical man” or “technician”.
The second point was Rasa. It is also one of the human flows. The first one was Vistára, the second was Rasa, and the third point is Sevá.
Sevá means service. There is a fundamental difference between business and service. Business is mutual. You are giving something and you take something. A mutual transaction. But in the case of Seva, you give everything, but you take nothing in return. It is not mutual, it is unilateral. When a man offers this Sevá to Parama Puruśa, it is the highest form of service. While rendering any service to the worldly, one must ascribe Parama Puruśahood to that man.
Suppose you are serving a man whose name is Rama. While serving Rama, you must not think that you are serving Rama. In that case, there will be vanity in your mind. You must think that Parama Puruśa has come before you in the name and form of Ráma; and by serving Ráma, you are actually serving the Parama Puruśa. Because what is Ráma? He is a finite expression of that infinite Parama Puruśa.
The fourth point is Tadsthiti. Tadsthiti means ensconsing one’s soul in the Supreme Stance. Parama Puruśa is the Supreme Goal, the Supreme Desideratum of human life. It is the terminating point of all human approaches. So this Dharma Bhágavad Dharma, Sanátana Dharma is the speciality that differentiates a man from an animal. So we must develop this Human Dharma, and by developing this Human Dharma, the ordinary human entity is based on the grandeur of creation.
Human existence is trifarious. Man has got his spiritual body, psychic body and his quinquelemental body – this physical structure – hands, legs, ears, nose, etc. When the flow is for the Supreme Desideratum, there must be an adjustment amongst these three flows of human spirit, human mind, and human entity. There must be parallelism between spiritual flow and the psychic, and there must be parallelism between psychic wave and the entitative wave.
For progress in entitative flow, one is to lead a pure life, a moralistic life, a life based on moral principles. Do not do anything bad. What is bad? Bad is that which depraves human existence. Follow a strict code of morality. Live a pure life, a neat and clean life. Be strict in 16 Points. What will happen? Your entitative flow will get purified and will be in parallelism with your psychic wave.
For maintaining parallelism between psychic waves and spiritual waves, what are you to do? You are to follow the auto-suggestion and outer-suggestion of incantations. What is outer-suggestion? If you are in the company of good people, that company – their discourses and talks will influence your mind, and your mind will be purified. The curvatures will be less and the flow will be straightened. This is outer-suggestion through incantations. Now, what is auto-suggestion through incantations? It is doing meditation and japa (mantra repetition) as per the instruction of the Ácárya. This is auto-suggestion. These incantative auto-suggestions and outer-suggestions will purify your mind, and the mind will be in the position to maintain proper parallelism with your spiritual flow.
What is spiritual flow? For spiritual flow, you need not go through so many books and so many scriptures. You need not do anything else; only all your propensities should be suspended and brought to a particular point, a particular gland and goaded unto the Parama Puruśa. When you love the Parama Puruśa with all your propensities good and bad, then that collective flow of your mind is devotion. By dint of one’s devotion, one can attain the Supreme Stance. One gets the Parama Puruśa.
So, devotion is the only secret in spiritual movement, and the incantative outer-suggestion and auto-suggestion can help you in psychic movement. A neat and clean life based on morality can help you in your entitative flow, and there must be a happy blending, or parallelism amongst entitative waves, incantative waves, and spiritual waves.
The Supreme Goal of spiritual movement is the desideratum or ideological flow of all human beings. We should always remember this point.
How are we to maintain this parallelism without His special grace, without the grace of Parama Puruśa?
The obstacles, the hindrances are known as Máyá. It is a very powerful force. And it tries to deprave. It tries to degenerate the very existence of human beings. How can an individual with his poor mind fight against such a strong force, Máyá?
Yes, one can fight. If one gets the grace of the Supreme, one can fight. Now, you can say, “This gentleman has got the grace of the Supreme and I do not get the grace. What am I to do?” No, He is omnipotent, omniscient, and all-loving. His grace is for all without any exception. But because of your individual vanity, you do not realize it.
Suppose there is a heavy rain of His grace. If you hold an umbrella of vanity over your head, you will not get drenched with the rain. So, if you remove the umbrella of vanity from your head, you will be drenched with His grace.
No man is unimportant. No man is insignificant. Everyone is a VIP. All of you were born of noble family, the noblest family, because Parama Puruśa is your father. You are not an insignificant person.
17 August 1979 DMC, Taipei
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