The members of Sri Ram's
Royal assembly were not the immature seekers of today who, having just a slight
glimpse of a vision or two, start talking very loudly about their experiences
and become careless towards their duties and responsibilities. Instead of
developing a serene humility towards the entire existence, they develop vanity
and a superiority complex, and break themselves from all people around. They
start breaking disciplines and laws of higher consciousness and thus become
strange and weird in the eyes of people. Or they run away to solitude, or
become monks and nuns and wear strange robes.
No,
the members of the Royal assembly of Ayodhya were not shallow spiritualists.
They were perfect disciples of Sita Ram and therefore no one escaped to solitude
and no one appeared in the assembly with shaved head and strange clothes. They
came at the right time in their usual dress, with extreme humility, without
breaking their disciplines.
They bowed down to Sri
Sita Ram with extreme homage and devotion. But one thing had happened -instead
of heads having been shaved, ego had been totally shaved. Not the dress, but
the heart had changed color entirely. Their eyes, faces and gait all expressed
the deepest relaxation and peaceful awareness. They all did their duties and
services as if they were moving meditations, as if samadhi was in motion. As if
the Nirvana was vibrant and active.
Sri Sita Ram were
sitting on the Royal throne and the whole assembly was sitting in all
quietness, in extreme stillness. But it was not a dead silence; there were
waves of full-awareness and the whole atmosphere of the parliament was vibrant
with the deepest possible joy.
Then
Sri Hanumanji entered the hall and bowed down to Sri Sita Ram.
Sri Ram looked straight
away into His eyes and asked,
"Who are You?"
And Sri Sita Ram smiled, full of mystery.
Hanumanji was in an
ecstasy of transcendental wisdom with full-awareness, so immediately a verse
erupted from His Being, dehadrstyà tu dàsoham
jivadrsya tvadamkah neoline vastutastu tvame vàham iti me nischità matih.
He
knew the couple of the Lord wanted to know how much He had remembered from the
lesson delivered yesterday. So Hanumanji said,
"My Lord, the body
is a part of nature. It is a combination of clay, water, air, fire, and space,
and every particle of the body is changing every moment. A constant exchange is
going on between the atoms of the body and all the bodies of trees, flowers,
animals, and human beings. Therefore, the body is not personal. It belongs to
existence.
"It
is a part of creation and there is one director of this creation. His body is
never changing. His body is not made of five elements and three gunas. That is
trans-material and anti-proton composition. And that is why the Director is
transcendental and He is directing each movement of the world."
So
on the level of body-consciousness everybody is His servant. Whether one is a
cosmic-conscious, liberated soul Laotzu, Buddha, Shankaracharya, or just an
ordinary ignorant. If you appreciate and love this relation it is okay, if not,
much possibility is for you to fall and become complex, though one is still a
devotee of God.
Shankaracharya
has sung a song---"My Lord, although the ocean and the waves are one,
still people have to say ocean's waves and not the wave's ocean."
Acknowledging this
relation is sincerity and just speaking on oneness while rejecting the eternal
relation of the Lord with His creation expresses a great imprudence.
"So My Lord, I am
Your `DAS' (a servant) on the level of body and on the level of soul I am part
and parcel of You, never to be divided from You. Soul is not pure
consciousness. Soul is just a chidabhasa, a reflection of You, the supreme
effulgence, conditioned in the astral body.
"The rays can only
be a part of the sun. A spark can only be a part of the fire. The chidabhas can
only be a reflection of the effulgence of pure consciousness. I am constantly
part and parcel with You on the level of soul.
"By logic, the
effulgence of pure consciousness is all-pervading but by deeper experiences in
Nirvikalpa samadhi, in all pervading consciousness, the feeling of
"ALL" is merely psychological. It has no independent existence. When
the feeling "ALL" is evaporated, the concept of pervading becomes
unnecessary. When the concept of "ALL" is finished, instantaneously
pervading also disappears. Then a ONENESS exists in its absolute suchness,
expanding into one, entire-wholeness.
"On
the level of this ONE WHOLENESS," Hanumanji said, "My Lord, how can I
have any separate identity? In a fast unifying force of electrical energy of
bliss consciousness, where the entirety is exploding into one unique
wholeness, there is no way to love one another other than dissolving and
transforming oneself into that ONE wholeness. So I am You, My Lord."
Everybody's eyes widened
in a great joy and wonder. The presentation of Sri Sita Ram's gospel of
yesterday was so perfect. Before it was a little philosophical but Hanumanji's
commentary was short, straightforward and very easy to understand. Everybody
thanked Hanumanji and flowers were showered upon Him.
Sri
Ram greeted Him by offering Him a highly perfumed flower garland from His own
heart and the assembly echoed and re-echoed -
Jai Hanumanji, Jai Hanumanji
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