The Macrocosm in the Microcosm

Many people slander image worship, but its basis is really one’s capacity to see the macrocosm in the microcosm. The value of image worship is testified by experience; it doesn’t depend on one’s imaginative faculty. What is found in the form of the Lord (Virat-swarupa) is also found, undiminished and unalloyed, in the image form (Swarupa). Images serve the same purpose as metaphors and similes in poetry. They illustrate, amplify, and clarify. Joy comes not through the shape of things but through the relationship established. Not any child but her child makes the mother happy. So it is with each one and all things! With each and every thing in the universe, if one establishes that kinship, that Godly love (Iswara prema), then truly an overpowering joy can be experienced! Only those who have felt it can understand.

If it is about our capacity to see the macrocosm in the microcosm, it is about intelligence and someone who goes to the Lord and is in his presence for that much time and has not the capacity to realize that he is with the macrocosm and he is going back to his place and there he is again in his small world of microcosm and he doesn’t realize the that it is not the same or that something is wrong, such a person, whatever it looks like at the outside level, he cannot be awake, he is dull and stupid and that were Baba’s words in the insight he said, ‘stupid’.

He uses always the best words to describe something.

Many people slander image worship, but its basis is really one’s capacity to see the macrocosm in the microcosm.

Also in the Bible is said that we should not make an image of God. To be able to see the macrocosm in the microcosm is based on intelligence, we can call it pure intelligence or creative intelligence, but it is intelligence. 

The value of image worship is testified by experience; it doesn’t depend on one’s imaginative faculty.

 

What does Baba exactly tell us here? Whatever the image we have it has to be testified by experience and it is not about imaginative faculty. We have to know the difference between imagination and experience. If we think we know, it is imagination, we talk about a certain way we see it based on imagination only, not testified experience. When is the experience testified, when we do it and we are together and all experience Baba's love in it. If we have the experience, like Darshan, the image is reflected in the Atmic reality of Baba’s presence and we have the experience of it and we even get the reflection of the same image listening to his words, it is testified by experience and it is not our imagination. To think that Baba will give what we want, when the divine reality is about something else and it is about intelligence and self-realization and cognition and expanding awareness, it is about divinity and pure love, we go to him with wrong expectations and that is also an imaginary faculty, we think it is God that gives, when in reality it is something else. How can we get aware of the truth in it and what it really is, it is testified by experience.

We don’t live a love based on imaginative faculty, we live a love based on truth. We do not imagine how to love Baba and remembering how his Darshan has been, we make the experience and we realize it and if we listen to his words, our experience is testified. He is in his words, he is the divine message, he is the ‘I am that’ and everybody is the same ‘I am that’, and who has the capacity of light and intelligence to realize the ‘I am that’  is also God. There is only ‘One’ – principle of ‘I am that’ and it is for all the same.

We don’t imagine Baba’s love in front of us, we have the experience of him and in listening to him and sharing with other as he is present when two or three are in his name together, we testify the experience and he is really present and it is true and not in our imagination.

If we try to remember the Lord’s love as it was in our Darshan and we try to make it stronger on an imaginary level, we don’t realize the truth in it, it is only imagination.

But in a study circle sharing with others we testify the same experience that was present in Prasanthi Nilayam and with Baba, that is He, that is his love and he is present and not absent, but in our imagination trying to love him as much as we can, we are in the mind and in illusion.  Sharing with others his words and listening carefully to him, we actually get aware of Baba’s presence. It is testified in the experience and not just imagination.

If we are not able to discriminate between imagination and true, we are not very intelligent, but as Baba said, it is stupid.

Do you agree? There is the difference of experience and only thinking of it. If we meditate with a mantra we have to make the experience of meditation, there was the example of a strawberry used, we cannot just look at it and describe it, and we have to taste it to make the experience, so we have to meditate to make the experience. It doesn’t work if we are only imagining it. It has to be testified by our experience. And the same is with Baba’s love. If we share it in the study circle with others in his words Baba’s love is present and it is possible to feel his presence and that is testified experience and not in our imagination thinking we feel love and we are special and alone and not talking to others. If we do that we are actually not living Baba’s message and we make not the experience of it, but it is all on an imagination level.

Everything what my ex does is imagination only. He is actually thinking that God gives him this and that and he is just taking advantage of it, there is no reality in it and when it comes to sharing with others, he doesn’t share with anybody, so the testified experience of Baba’s love as experience and not just the thought of it, is not present. We feel it during Bhajans and we feel it in the study circle, we share in the testified experience, it is Baba’s presence and love and not just imagination.

That is how we should understand Baba’s words, there has to be reality, it has to be experience, we do it now, we share and in that is Baba and what we think Baba is giving and that he is in there, and that is only imagination.

We have to listen and only if we listen and go deep into his wisdom, we are actually able to be in a study circle, otherwise, it is only half a circle and that can go on forever.

If we are outside of the experience using the gift of Baba only in a selfish way and it is all imagination and no reality of love. If we have a study circle and if Baba is in it we share the wisdom if not we are the example of only half a circle, but if there is no sharing at all it is even worse, there is no testified experience..

It is like with mediation, we had to meditate to make the experience, no use of just talking about or imagining to meditate, only the testified experience is real and that is the same with Baba’s love, only the testified experience of that love is real and true and Baba, the imagination of it is not Baba, but illusion, the imaginative giving is not Baba, but only our mind and we are stupid if we don’t get aware of it.

The value of image worship is testified by experience; it doesn’t depend on one’s imaginative faculty.

We have to know the difference between imaginative faculty and we in the West are great in imaginations and difference in the real experience of it. The real experience is only with others together as he said, ‘if two or three are in my name together I am in the midst of them’.

What is found in the form of the Lord (Virat-swarupa) is also found, undiminished and unalloyed, in the image form (Swarupa). Images serve the same purpose as metaphors and similes in poetry. They illustrate, amplify, and clarify. Joy comes not through the shape of things but through the relationship established.

He talks about the value of image worship testified by experience. In India there are many God’s and many ways how they worship the Lord. We have to understand it right and see for what purpose it is. 

They illustrate, amplify, and clarify. Joy comes not through the shape of things but through the relationship established.

If we live the established relationship there is joy. If Baba uses metaphors it is to illustrate, amplify and clarify. It is as he is telling us here, the experience of ‘joy’ doesn’t come from the shape of things, but through the established relationship. It has to be testified experience not just our imagination what it should be, only the imagination is not real, it is illusion.

Only if we share with others like in a study circle Baba’s words we feel his presence due to his words in the circle and it is a circle, otherwise it is only half a circle.

The highest wisdom has organizing power and we know that also from our meditation time. If we do it – it is like when we meditate – it is present because we do it, we share our experience with Baba with the others and it is testified experience and it feels like in Prasanthi Nilayam where Baba is present and if we just imagine it, it results in the ‘catastrophe’ which was in the insight last week or it is even worse, the message of Baba is not only ignored, it is just not there. There is no Baba in it, there is no meditation, there is no sharing, there is no talk about Baba, there is nothing … what is there, it is disturbed and it is dangerous. If is disrespectful and misuse of his gift and his message. If it is about a catastrophe, there is no enlightenment in that, there is no intelligence in it, there is no light and that is testified experience and not just imagination. If we talk about mind, we are on the imagination level and if we talk about Baba and truth, we are on the testified experience level.

We should always listen carefully and think Baba’s words over and seeing it in our own life so that we are able to absorb the wisdom in our own self.

Not any child but her child makes the mother happy. So it is with each one and all things! With each and every thing in the universe, if one establishes that kinship, that Godly love (Iswara prema), then truly an overpowering joy can be experienced! Only those who have felt it can understand.

Here Baba talks about the direct experience. Not any child but our own child can make a mother happy. What is the difference between direct experience and just the imagination of it. It is in direct sharing, a family is only a family if we share and are together, if we just think about it we are a non-functional family like a marriage which is only in the head is a dysfunctional marriage, it has to be real and shared to be a marriage. If we just think how it should be, we are on an imagination level and we develop our imaginative faculty.

So it is with each one and all things! With each and every thing in the universe, if one establishes that kinship, that Godly love (Iswara prema), then truly an overpowering joy can be experienced! Only those who have felt it can understand.

The example of the mother and the child is with everything the same. If there is a relationship with the Godly love, there can be joy experienced. And Baba also is telling us that only those who have felt it can understand.

I had been in his Darshan and there was that much joy it felt like overflowing and I didn’t know how to take it, it felt like too much joy sometimes.

It is like in Prasanthi people are that nice and happy that on a certain point it is difficult to take, that was my experience and then we begin to see the others and those who are less happy and the problems  and we may think we cannot take that, but it is only the other side of it and the shadow.

It is not intelligent if we go to an Avatar with the imagination in our head that we know already everything … that is for sure misleading and wrong. We have to be open and learn and not be convinced that there is nothing to learn as it seems to be the case with some people I know, they don’t even make an effort to listen to Baba’s word, what about thinking it over and being able to absorb.

We have to make the experience that ‘we don’t know and he is the knower’, he knows and he is the doer. The insight is about intelligence. Only if we are able to get aware of it that he is the doer, don’t imagine his form …, he is the doer on a energy level, non-conceptual, he is the doer in our own higher self, but that higher self is beyond the body, therefore, it feels like ‘He is the doer’, he is beyond the body, ‘I’ is in the body, but when we follow him and go into that relationship we realize that ‘I am that’ or ‘I am the one’ and that ‘I’ is not anymore in the body, but the universal ‘I’, but we cannot make the experience of it in the body, we have to share with others to make the experience of it and that is how we get to the testified experience and that is Baba’s presence and love and that is ‘real’, everything else is just imagination.

We look in Baba’s eyes and see the bliss, that is real love and joy and happiness and not just imagination. 

Only those who have felt it can understand.

How do we feel it after Baba has left the body? We feel it during Bhajans and we feel it during the study circle and we make the experience if we share his message and ‘our message has begun’, we have to stand up and do it. And only if we do it and we jump over the shadow of fear of others and devotees and material and wordy stuff, only if we do it, only if we practice we get out of the vicious circle what has made it end up in a catastrophe, a catastrophe because Baba, the man in the dream who is there to awake us said that it was the reason why he was in the wheelchair, the catastrophe has also hit him … that is a real catastrophe.

We should look at what we are doing and get aware of the stupidity in our attitude of mind that we get such a message of the Lord that he has been in the wheelchair because of that. There was in the inner view and insight as catastrophe and also a catastrophe for us and that is testified experience.

There is no joy in that, but there is a catastrophe, there is no love, but there is a catastrophe, there is no care and no sharing, but there is a catastrophe and Baba in the wheelchair and it is a disaster. There is no divine message and no messenger of God, but a catastrophe.

If the gift of the avatar is used only in a selfish way and you are two, not only one, it turned into a catastrophe.

It seems we have to open to window to let in a vampire and that window was opened up it seems when you sent him to Baba and gave him your room to live in instead of a job, what he really wanted, to share the status with the others in the ashram, your status, your room, your respect you had in the ashram, because Baba gave you lots of attention.

You had sent him there to build up an even bigger ego just focused on getting from the Lord what he couldn’t get with you, reaching out for the impossible, it is all based on imagination, not one single thought of all of that is based on reality, it is all illusion only and dream.

There is not one testified experience in it and he goes on like that in his mind living in the dream of imaginary God who is giving him whatever serves him, but never what severs the others and no sharing and that means – no Baba, just a catastrophe, using Baba’s gift and power only for selfish means.

Actually every normal person in the mind in the world is better than such a monster of a blind cruel and heartless egomaniac, who doesn't know what he is doing and who is using the Lord only for his own selfish means.