In fact, the entirety of
existence is one organic wholeness. The whole creation is one absolute,
non-dual aloneness. It is one consciousness, a non-split totality, and one who
finds it and lives in it in its virgin originality, his peace becomes eternal,
his love becomes immortal, and whoever loves such a peculiar personality, his
joy becomes everlasting.
But the accident takes
place, when man divides the one whole existence into good and bad, right and
wrong, sin and merit, hero and villain, God and Satan, Purusa and Prakriti,
Jesus and Judas, Krishna and Kamsa, Buddha and Devadatta, Mahatma Gandhi and
Adolph Hitler. With such a dividing, separating and analyzing mind, the human
being can only cut himself off from the virgin reality of the universe. He can
only be a split, schizophrenic personality whom tensions, restlessness,
suffering, and the innumerable problems of life, necessarily follow like
shadows.
One who sees in all
these masks of diversity the one absolute unity, he really sees, says Krishna
in the Gita. One who finds out the absoluteness of the constant continuity of
the cosmic-void, only he has discovered the Reality, says Buddha in Dhammapada.
One who loves and loves and loves and transcends beyond the lover and beloved
becomes the absolute lovingness and perceives the whole universe expanded wide
into that lovingness like floating clouds in the sky, like rising waves in the
ocean, like the bluish appearance of the firmament, he really loves his
beloved, says the yoga of Lovetrance. It is I alone who can love you and none
else, said Jesus to Mary Magdalene. Then the whole of relativity is just proven
to be an appearance.
But if someone sticks to
his own concocted prejudices and tries to materialize them in his life and
sufferings and tensions result, then he alone is responsible for it. Such
people alone can be held responsible for spreading unhealthy vibrations and
patterns of behavior which invite and seduce others to flow in the same
current. This is why life turns into hell and the world faces international
stupidity turning the globe into one big hellish atmosphere.
In the Interplanetary
civilization people recognized the internal flow of one and the same energy in
sex and celibacy, attachment and detachment, wrath and creativity. Therefore,
they used to respect and adore Rishi Durvas also, who was famous all over the
cosmic-egg for his dreadful anger and terrible curse. He was a great ascetic, a
great yogi, a great man of knowledge and the fastest space traveler. He used to
roam all over the world to all the planets.
One day he appeared in
the Royal assembly of Ayodhya extremely furious, his eyes and face reddened with
anger, his eyebrows turned up. For the philosophers' class it was not required
to ask permission to see a King. Even the Emperor was on twenty-four hour call.
So when Rishi Durvas entered the assembly, Sri Ram stood up with His whole
assembly. All the ministers rose from their seats to deliver their homage, and
an elevated seat was offered by the Emperor.
"Oh
Ram, even in Your presence on the earth, in Your reign, such a great insult has
been done to a member of the philosophers' class!" Durvas uttered sinking
between pain and wrath, taking his seat.
"Who
is it? Who has stepped on the hood of a poisonous snake?" Sri Ram's face
also started to become red in wrath.
Actually
what had happened was this -Maharishi Durvas was a free traveler all over the
cosmos. Early one morning in a beautiful river in a Himalayan valley he took
his bath and began to perform his Sandhyavandanam. After doing this, while he
was in the middle of offering a water oblation to the invisible God by pouring
a handful of water in a certain direction, he became completely absorbed,
taking handfuls of water, chanting a mantram full of devotion, and offering
them towards the sun beam. This continued for a while. At the same time a
gandharva, the Celestial musician of the planet Svah, passed that way in his
airplane. His name was Chitrasena.
The musician was chewing
a betel leaf, and felt like spitting. He spat outside the airplane and the spit
fell upon the busy palms of Durvas. Enraged with great wrath, he looked at the
airplane and recognized it by the flag. Anyhow he completed the ablution and
then traveled through the space and arrived in the assembly of Ayodhya and told
everything to Sri Ram Who was famous as the greatest power, as well as the
greatest protector and admirer of the philosophers' class.
Here
Sri Ram found another chance for a new play. His every play unfolds new
mystery, new understanding, new facts. Sri Ram hardly ever got enraged and
whenever He allowed anger to come in, He totally merged in it. In his full
awareness the anger entered in Him and He remained a vigilant, constant watcher
or witness to it. Whereas with us, anger, sex, sleep come totally obscuring our
vigilance and intelligence. We become obsessed by these feelings as if certain
spirits or ghosts occupy a person's consciousness.
Sri
Ram's state is different. He is fully aware of the arrival of these tendencies
and they come only when He wants, and when they come He welcomes them. In this
occasion He is angry, He is fully experiencing this anger, but also witnessing
it at the same time.
"This
is an insult, a great insult to not only philosopher Durvas, but an insult to
Ram's government," Sri Ram said enraged, and the whole assembly was
frightened.
Durvas became very happy
looking at Sri Ram's face. He found a deep affinity and compassion for Him
which soothed his burning heart. He forgot the pain of his insult.
Sri Ram took three
shining arrows from His quiver and said,
"Ram
will not accept even a drop of water without slaying him. Wherever he may be,
he will be sought after and killed before midnight."
The news spread
everywhere quickly because all the planets were so close that every day
innumerable representatives came to Sri Ram to offer their tributes. The
musician Chitrasena also heard it from Devarshi Narada and became very
frightened and, in fear of death, he became so restless and impatient that he
started trembling and crying. When Devarshi Narada saw his condition his heart
was moved with compassion.
This
is the nature of the lovers of God. If and when their hearts melt over someone
they try every possible way to remove the cause of suffering. Then they never
care against whom they are going to act. They simply know that the motive is to
remove someone's pain and see him happy. The rishis are found many times in
Interplanetary history taking steps against the greatest powers of creation and
against incarnations of God, simply to protect and glorify the lover of God.
"Why
are you so frightened? Of course Sri Ram is invincible, but it does not mean
you are some stone or brick. I want you to feel that you too have an ATMA, and
therefore one should try to save himself until his last breath. Let's go for a
ride, bring your plane," Devarshi Narada said.
(to be continued)
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