How to Listen and Think it Over

All the five elements have been created by the will of the Supreme. They must be used with reverential care and vigilant discrimination. Reckless use of any of them will only rebound on you with tremendous harm. Nature outside must be handled with discretion, caution and awe. It is the same with our inner 'nature' and internal instruments too! Of these, two are capable of vast harm - the tongue and one's lust. Since lust is aroused and inflamed by the food consumed and the drink taken in, the tongue needs greater attention. While your eye, ear and nose have single uses, the tongue makes itself available for two purposes: to judge taste and to utter word - symbols of communication. You must control the tongue with double care, since it can harm you in two ways. Patanjali, (The author of Yoga Sutras) has declared that when tongue is conquered, victory is yours! 

Thinking about five elements created by the will of the supreme feels for me the divine like a 'person' or it is rather a feeling of how to get it right and as I don't know, it makes me not like listening. It makes the thought come up, the will of the supreme, what is that? 

And we think maybe it is the way it is translated and it should be said in a different way that we can somehow relate to it. What is it that we don't know, about everything if we don't have the experience of it. There are texts I just cannot read it or listen to it, I get just tired and lose all taste for it when I just read a few sentences. 

But he is talking about care and discrimination. It makes us ware that we don't want to listen really, that has nothing to do with the words, but with listening in general. It is good to know that we don't feel like doing it. And it seems rather nobody wants to do it really and in that sense we can tell, okay that is why we feel like that, it is normal and it has nothing to do with the words, but with inner resistance. 

  

All the five elements have been created by the will of the Supreme. They must be used with reverential care and vigilant discrimination.

Selfless Love is just One

Selfless Love is just one, in the same way Divinity (Brahman) is also not manifold. That is why scriptures state, "Ekam Eva Advitiyam Brahma"! That means, God is One and is the only One without a second. If we choose to understand the oneness in everything, we must seek to understand that oneness by recognizing the latent Divinity (Brahman) in different living beings that come into contact with us. Simply because you acquired a human form, you should not think that you are only human in nature. Your external form indicates that you are human. Never forget your inner self, the real aspect of Divine, who is firmly present in the depths of your heart. When God is firmly present within you, is it right for you to put up pretenses and false and inappropriate appearances? If under these circumstances, you begin to exhibit desires and show distortions, it will be doing injustice to this permanent aspect resident in your heart.

Selfless love is one only and we can ask why it is one. If there is selflessness it is beyond the body and the mind and that is for all the same selfless love. We experience that selfless love when we are sharing his divine words and we think it over or when we are singing as all sing for the same divinity, it is the same love and that is how we are able to melt in that feeling of love and it is a means for us to realize that there is only one love. As soon as there is no difference, as we know it from consciousness, when it is manifest we have lots of forms and names, when it is none-manifest or pure consciousness it is for all the same, there is no difference in our inner experience and that is why we merge in a state of oneness, only with meditation we don't get aware of it, it is just on the being level inside in silence, but it doesn't manifest as love and being one in love as it does when singing Bhajans.

It is none-conceptual, but not just on the being level, as we experienced it with meditation, but on the feeling level in the heart. It is easier to realize the non-conceptual reality on the being level, we just sit and meditate and go beyond the thoughts and in silence, that is easy, we don't need to realize that when we sit together and sing for the divine that there is one love for all, selfless and pure and therefore, there is only and without a second.

In silence we experience it as good, positive energy, but it is not the same as getting aware of the oneness when we are singing, when we merge all in a feeling of love we get aware of Swami's presence and divine love. During Bhajans we sing for the divine and we feel that love and when that love is there, there is also a feeling of oneness, but we need to be inside awake to get aware that all merge in that same love or oneness and that is the man coming in our dreams to awake us who takes care of that part, he makes us aware that we are one and how it is happening. If we see it because the man coming in our dream to awake us in our dream as, 'I am the One', we know that there is only one God and that there is no difference between the I and the One, but we have to listen again and again and again and we have to see it in our own life to get a feeling for it and to be able to understand it.  

There is only one and always the same one and the only one without a second.

Selfless Love is just one, in the same way Divinity (Brahman) is also not manifold. That is why scriptures state, "Ekam Eva Advitiyam Brahma"! That means, God is One and is the only One without a second.

Learn to Give, not to Take

When we look at the Avatar of Narasimha, we get a feeling of terror. When Lord Narasimha appeared, it looked as if Prahlada was standing in a corner full of fear. At that time, Lord Narasimha looked at Prahlada and asked him if he was afraid of the fearsome figure which had come to punish his father; but Prahlada explained that he was not afraid of the Lord as it was the sweetest form one can comprehend. He said that he was indeed happy to be able to see the Lord. The Lord then asked why Prahlada was afraid. To this Prahlada replied that he was afraid because the divine vision which he was then having was likely to disappear in a few moments and he would soon be left alone. The fear which was troubling Prahlada was that God will leave him in this world and disappear. Prahlada wanted to ask God not to leave him. God's divine vision and divine beauty are such that only his devotees can appreciate.

Swami talks about divine vision, the lion known as avatar. He is also an avatar and somehow explaining to us how it felt for his devotee to meet such a terrible looking and fearful figure. 

He said that he is the man coming in our dreams to awake us. He was quite often present as that man coming in the dreams to awake us, but once he had two Baba faces, one with very long sharp teeth like a vampire or like the lion and the other with a very long nose, it didn't feel like terror. In that aspect of Narasimha the teeth are very much like that, very long and sharp and when thinking it over we get a feeling for it and also that it makes actually much more sense for an avatar to be like Narasimha. We know that the vampire is a negative symbol and more the sign of demons, but Narasimha is exactly that avatar who came just because of that reason to kill the father of Prahlada, who had tried already in many ways to kill his son, that is the story of Prahlada. 

It was a so called Baba dream and not used to see him like that with such big teeth, it was not very scary when I had seen it in the dream, but it was not able to forget it.  

It was not about understanding yet. It was far away from listening and thinking it over yet, it was just part of the reality we had to face and what was reflected in the dream was not that nice actually, it was more than a warning, looking back at it it was very scary actually.