“Some immature critics of Indian philosophy believe and say that the way of devotion is different from the way of knowledge. The learned employ this distinction to emphasize a particular thesis on which they discourse in different contexts. I think, we should not get confused by this and fail to understand the truth. When intelligence matures and lodges securely in the heart, it becomes wisdom.
When that wisdom is integrated with life and issues out in action, it becomes devotion. Knowledge which has become mature is spoken of as devotion. If it does not get transformed into devotion, such knowledge is useless tinsel. To hold and to say that Jnana and Bhakti, knowledge and devotion, are as different from each other as gold is from baser metal is to expose one’s ignorance.”
-Sri Rajagopala Chari
My path is to encompass all the creations of GOD, truth, oneness and not a particular divine being. Hence thou my form is defined, I live in the being of oneness. Thus I happen to be led to a lifestyle which reflects as a miniature normal human life but having the creation resolved in me and thus affect it. In a sense it can be said as morphing the future state of harmony.
There is no easy way to do this since most of the incarnations like Jesus for example had to take to the body level too. They like me live in the now and have no goal coz essentially they are benign. There path is set by the extent of disharmony in their contemporary period and since they are aware of their true nature they strive in the now to be harmonious again. They are just untainted glass in this world and get tainted by the disharmony of existence and hence set to correct it and become untainted, which is their true nature and in the process morph the collective future. By the way each one of us are untainted too but are ignorant about it.
In the book “Alchemist” too this is followed where the protagonist is in search of gold(gold is inert physical form of being benign) reaches his goal only after merging with the 5 elements forming the physical world and thus become one.
I consider myself as the 10th one and the last after which the new age will dawn. But more the disharmony present, more the body- mind(which are mirrors) suffer. But if I maintain the connection with the oneness then the sufferings dissolve by the moment in synchronicity. A special state ensues where knowledge and devotion are one and the same is reflected in the Body and mind, which resolves the harmony outside since the universe is a hologram of LIFE. This the ancients called MAYA.
Maya is not the same as illusion though various modern quantum scientists and Psychiatrists have equated them. But they are not far from the truth. The nature of reality is a collective dream which is Maya. By dream we imply thoughts we harbor. The broader the scale of the thought, the more is the influence of dreamer. This is the reason oneness , synchronicity, God or devotion leads one to that state where the mundane existence is lifted to the heights of existence where there is no need for desire since having realized oneness all our wants materialize on their own. One becomes GOD of all one surveys or in other words we are “AHAM BRAHMASVI”. The smaller the consciousness of the mental world the more the wants and cravings for which divine assistance is prayed. It is like the thief stealing the steering wheel when he could have taken the whole car. This is the purport of the meaning that we are made in the image of god, which we fail to comprehend.
MAY ALL SEE THEIR PATH with the INNOCENCE of a Child and RESPONSIBILITY of adults.
