HOW TO FIND THE LORD
THE ONLY CULT
SHORTENING THE RADIUS
THE STARTING POINT AND THE LAST POINT
THE SUPREME WITNESS AND THE GREAT THIEF


HOW TO FIND THE LORD

official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12

cross-references: also published in also published in Ba'ba' in Fiesch (as "The 
Ideal Abode")

this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12, 1st edition, version 
	(spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most 
	up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

      Na'ham' tis't'ha'mi Vaekun't'he na ca yogina'm' hrdaye,
	Aham' tis't'ha'mi Na'rada mad bhakta yatra ga'yante.

'Oh, Na'rada, I don't stay in Vaekun't'ha, nor in the hearts of Yogiis; but I reside where my devotees sing.'

      Vaekun't'ha is the mythological abode of the Lord. But the Lord says that, that is not an ideal abode for Him. Nor does He like to reside in Yogiis' hearts, because the Yogiis have their hearts closed. Now if their hearts are closed, where will the Lord reside? So He shifts His abode, His nucleus, to that place where His devotees are singing the Lord's name, they are doing their Kiirtana.

      So the Cosmic Entity, the Supreme Father, has no other alternative but to shift His nucleus to the spot where His devotees are singing. So you are to create an environment of Divinity, not only on this small planet, but in the entire Cosmos. So you must. If you want to gain, if you want to taste, the Divine bliss, the Divine nectar, you should be good Kiirtanites.

      And if you want this artificially-divided humanity to become one - spiritually it is one but in physical and psychic realms different ideals have divided this singular entity into many - if you want to make them one in the realm of physicality and intellectuality you must bind them, you must bring them to a platform that knows no artificial boundaries.

7 May 1979 evening, Fiesch, Switzerland


THE ONLY CULT

official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12

cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Fiesch (as "The Cult of Devotion")

this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

      Intellectuals and scholars say that one may attain salvation by dint of one's knowledge and intellect. Those who are Karma Yogiis, that is, those who follow the path of actional cult, say that by dint of action one will attain salvation. (Salvation means emancipation of permanent nature.)

      Now you know all are children of the Supreme Father. All the children of the same father cannot have the same intellectual standard - it is an impossibility. But that doesn't mean that those who are intellectually backward won't get His bliss or Grace. So this idea is a defective one - that one is to attain Him by dint of one's intellectual knowledge or intellectual stamina. It is a defective idea. A father cannot neglect his son who is intellectually backward.

      Not only this. Till recently there was a defective idea in all the corners and amongst all the groups of people on the earth, that males are blessed beings and not females. In your family life, you know, you feel, that the parents cannot have any sense of disparity in their mind regarding their sons and daughters. Both are equally important, both are equally loving. I said my sons and my daughters are just like two hands of mine. They are just like wings of a bird. A bird having one wing cannot fly.

      Now the days of those defective ideas are gone. All are equally blessed human beings, and those ideas cherished by those intellectuals, that by dint of one's intellect, one will get Him, are not only defective but foolish ideas. Similarly, the idea that by dint of actional cult one is to attain Him - this is also a defective idea because in the realm of actionality all have not got equal status. A weak boy, or say a weak girl, physically weak or mentally weak or even weak in spiritual vitality, has also got the birth-right to attain salvation.

      First, what is the meaning of salvation? Salvation means becoming one with Him, and each and every child of the Cosmic Father has equal right to sit on His lap. There cannot be any differentiation.

      Now what's the guiding factor? Neither intellectuality nor the actional faculty is the guiding factor. Then what's the guiding factor? The guiding factor is that all your ideals, all your propensities, all your thought waves, are to be goaded unto Him. That is, the cult of devotion is the only cult. There cannot be any second cult in the realm of spirituality.

      "Moks'aka'ran'asamagrya'm' Bhaktireva Gariiyasi."

      The intellectual giant of India, about 1300 years ago, in the post-Buddhistic era, was Shaunkaracarya. He says - he was a giant intellectual - he said amongst all the approaches, amongst all the cults, the best one is the cult of devotion. So that aspirant is the blessed one who has developed this cult of devotion. You may or may not be an intellectual, you may or may not be established in the actional faculty. But if you can develop love for Him, devotion for Him, you are sure to be successful.

      Now how to develop this kind of devotion ? The idea is that the All, the entire Universe, is His object, and He is the Supreme Subject. He sees everything and you do not see Him. Now how can He be objectivated when He is the Supreme Subjectivity? The idea, the spirit or the secret to develop devotional cult is to think, while doing anything, while doing any mundane duty or doing any spiritual practice - you should always remember that He is Subject, He is seeing what you are doing. He is hearing what you are thinking. You cannot do anything secretly. He is always with you.

      This idea has got one advantage and one disadvantage. The disadvantage is that you cannot even think secretly. All your thoughts are tape-recorded by Him. You cannot think secretly. And the advantage is that you are never alone; He is always with you. You are never helpless, you are never shelterless, you are never weak, you are the strongest personality of the universe, because the Supreme Entity is always with you.

8 May 1979 evening, Fiesch, Switzerland


SHORTENING THE RADIUS

official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12

cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Fiesch (as "The Nucleus")

this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12, 1st edition, version 
(spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most 
up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

      You know there is nothing disorderly in this Universe. Everything moves as per certain rules. In this solar system of ours the sun is the nucleus, and so many planets are moving around the sun. In this earthly system the earth is the nucleus, the moon is moving around it. Similarly, in the atomic system also there is the nucleus and electrons moving around the nucleus.

      In our Cosmic order Parama Purus'a is the Nucleus, and so many animate and inanimate objects are moving around Him, knowingly or unknowingly. In the case of human beings, they are moving, they are dancing, knowingly. And in the case of other animals, and other less-developed living beings, and also in the case of inanimate objects, they are also moving, they are also dancing, but unknowingly, unconsciously.

      Even in the case of human beings, when they move around Parama Purus'a, one person moves, one person dances, unknowingly, another person knowingly. Those who are dancing, those who are moving, knowingly, always try to lessen the length of their radii.

      Each and every individual has its own radius, and a spiritual aspirant - what a spiritual aspirant does - he always tries to lessen the length of the radius. Moving like this, [demonstrates with hands], having a particular radius. Those who move unknowingly - the radius remains unchanged, or even, due to their mean propensities, may increase like this [demonstrates].

      And in the case of spiritual aspirants, what happens? Coming nearer, coming nearer, coming closer - and when a person comes into the closest proximity he becomes one with the Nucleus, and that becoming one with the Nucleus is the stage of salvation.

      Now so many entities, so many individuals, are moving around Him, and they are associated with so many physical structures - long, short, white, black, learned, illiterate - so many structures - but the common goal is the Nucleus, Parama Purus'a. There is no shyness, no hatred, no complex, because that Nucleus is the bigger 'I' of everybody; that Nucleus is the Supreme Progenitor of everybody. Now each and every entity has its own Sam'skara. 'Sam'skara' means 'reactive momenta'. The action you did the reaction to which you have not undergone - such an action not satisfied by the reaction is known as what? In the plural, 'reactive momenta'. And beings are to move according to their reactive momenta or Sam'ska'ra.

      Now this movement around the Nucleus is life, rather, human life. Everybody moves, but in the case of humans, the movement is knowingly. We are moving around Parama Purus'a. The human being knows; other animals do not know; and there lies the fundamental difference between a man and an animal. So if, after getting a human structure, a human mind and an objectivated human soul, anybody doesn't move knowingly, he or she is worse than an animal, because an animal lacks in the developed mind. It cannot understand or practise spirituality, which a man can do.

      Now wherever a few spiritual aspirants assemble, whenever there is a gathering of a few spiritual aspirants, I said they shouldn't waste their time in idle gossiping, they should utilise their time in Kiirtana, because when the Kiirtana is done a spiritual environment is created then and there, and as soon as the spiritual environment is created, the Supreme Nucleus, Parama Purus'a, will then and there shift His headquarters to among those aspirants; because the centre of the Nucleus is above the periphery of time, space and person. He may shift it anywhere, wherever, whenever, so desired by Him.

Now what is His Grace? The moving entity becomes one with the Nucleus, how? It depends on His Grace. It doesn't depend on human logic, or human intellect; it depends on His Grace. What is His Grace? Mr. A may say, 'Why am I not enjoying His Grace?' Mr. B may say, 'I am enjoying His Grace.' But what's the fact? The Grace is everywhere, but you know, just like rainfall -- when it rains what happens? If you have an umbrella above your head you won't be drenched. And if you remove the umbrella you will be drenched. So in the case of Divine Grace, it is like rainfall, but there is an umbrella of vanity upon your head, that's why you are not drenched. Remove the umbrella of vanity and you will be drenched; then you will enjoy His Grace.

      And that's the secret, and when you are enjoying the Grace, what will happen? The radius will be shortened, and in this very life you will become one with your Goal, your Nucleus. This Nucleus knows no artificial barrier, nor isms, countries or philosophies. This Nucleus knows that the moving entities are My children - they want to come and sit on My lap.

9 May 1979 morning, Fiesch, Switzerland


THE STARTING POINT AND THE LAST POINT

official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12

cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Fiesch (as "The Supreme Controller")

this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12, 1st edition, version 
(spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most 
up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

      Whenever something is done, the doer should follow certain rules and regulations, and the authority that creates those rules and regulations is known as the 'controller.' Here in this Universe of ours, so many actions are done, there are so many manifestations and expressions, so many waves are emanated from so many sources; so there must a strong controller.

      But that strong controller must not be a machine, nor should he be of mechanical order. He must be a loving entity.

      Now there are so many controllers in different fields and different spheres of our life. There are so many different expressions, so there are different controllers also. But above all controllers there is the Supreme Controller.

      In Sam'skrta, 'controller' is 'Iishvara', and the Supreme Controller is called 'Maheshvara.' Now the rules and regulations of lower controllers may or may not be of perfect order, but the rules and regulations of the Supreme Controller must be of perfect order. Otherwise the equilibrium or equipoise of this Universe will be lost.

      So our first duty as disciplined human beings is to do as per the desire of the Supreme Controller, of that Maheshvara. Just doing according to the desire of that Controller is a must for all spiritual aspirants. But while obeying Him, While doing as per His desire, one should always remember that Supreme Entity is not the boss; that Supreme Entity is the loving Father. The relationship is not official, the relationship is purely personal.

      You know if there is an impersonal entity controlling everything, having no link with you, in that case the psychology of discipline won't be created, because in that case an order is followed or obeyed or adhered to due to a fear complex - but in the field of spirituality there must not be any complex, neither fear complex nor shy complex nor any other complex. So the scriptures saying that if you do not obey Him you will go to Hell, like this, these scriptures are the worst enemy of human society. Because these scriptures create a complex, a fear complex, in the human mind, and that fear complex creates disparity in this human society.

      This human society is one. It is a singular entity. It cannot be divided; it must not be divided; and we won't allow any entity to create any fissiparous tendency in this human society.

      Whatever a man is to do in his spiritual life he is to do - why ? Because he is in love with the Supreme Entity. Love is the first word, love is the starting point, and love is the last point. And scriptures have no moral right to create a fear complex in the human mind.

9 May 1979 evening, Fiesch, Switzerland


THE SUPREME WITNESS AND THE GREAT THIEF

official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12

cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Fiesch (as "The Great Thief")

this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12, 1st edition, version 
	(spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most 
	up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. Words in square 
	brackets [   ] are corrections that did not appear in the printed version.

      While explaining the inner significance of Tan'd'ava, I was saying one of the names of Sada'shiva is 'Nat'ara'ja' that is, 'the king of dancers.' There are so many names, so many attributes, but occult science says He is beyond the periphery of all attributions, beyond the scope of all qualifications.

      Why is He beyond the scope of all attributions? There are two reasons. One is that He is the creator of everything, so He is the creator of qualifications also, attributions also. So how can He be within the binding scope of those principles, of those qualifications? And certainly He is beyond the reach of these qualifications. In Sam'skrta, qualification or attribution is called 'Gun'a', and He is called 'Gun'a'tiita', that is, beyond the bondage of any Gun'a.

      And there is another reason also, and that is -- suppose a man is an M.A. in thirty subjects. Still, he cannot be an M.A. in an infinite number of subjects. Human possibilities have certain limitations. But He is beyond all limitations. So how can one say that He has got this quality or that quality? That's why He is Gun'a'tiita.

      Once upon a time some devotees approached one poet, one Sam'skrta poet, to get him to write something regarding the qualifications of Parama Purus'a. He said, 'Yes, I'll write something, I'll do the duty within a few seconds.' Then that poet wrote a Shloka in Sam'skrta, that is, a poem in Sam'skrta. Poems are called 'Shlokas in Sam'skrta. And he wrote,

      Asita girivara kajjalam' sindhupa'tre
Surataruvara sha'kha' likhanii patra muravii
Likhitva' yadi grhitva' sa'rada' sarvaka'lam'
Tada'pi tava gun'ana'ma iisha pa'ram' na ya'ti.

      Now if we want to write about His qualifications we require ink, we require paper, and we require - what? We require one writer. To write about His qualifications we require these things, So the poet said, 'If we get the mighty Himalayas as an ink tablet - we require ink - and as an ink pot, all the oceans of the world; and then a pen.

'The biggest imaginary tree of Heaven is known as "Pa'rija'ta." If we use that tree as the pen and if this entire lithosphere is used as paper - and who is to write? If the imaginary goddess of learning, the mythological goddess of learning, Minerva, writes with this ink tablet, ink pot, paper and pen - for how many days? For an innumerable number of days - even then it won't be possible for her to write all His qualifications.'

      He is beyond the periphery of all qualifications. That's why He's 'Gun'a'tiita.' Nat'ara'ja is one of His qualifications, it is not everything. He is also called 'Parama Purus'a.'

      What's the meaning of 'Parama Purus'a'? What's the meaning of 'Purus'a'?

      You know this physical body, this physical body is what? It is one of your cells, it is a physical cell. And within this physical cell, there is the psychic cell. And there is the spiritual body. Now the entity that always remains with you, within your physical structure, within your psychic structure, and also closely associated with your spiritual structure, is Purus'a. 'Pura' means 'representing the structure'; the entity who is always present with you, within your structure, is Purus'a.

	Now each and every entity, each and every living being and each and every inanimate object, has Purusa in it. Some objects are animate, due to the presence of afferent and efferent nerves, due to the presence of so many organs; and when Purus'a is there those organs can function. In the case of inanimate objects - stones, sand, earth, water - due to the absence of those nerves and organs they cannot realize anything, they cannot feel anything, they cannot witness anything. But the Purus'a is there. Purus'a is present everywhere.

	Now the individual Purus'as lying covert within your existence are unit Purus'as, your individual 'I's, your little 'I's. And the Supreme is called 'Parama Purus'a.'

	'Parama', the word 'Parama' has two meanings, two significances. One meaning is 'Supreme', another meaning is 'the final Para'. What is 'Para'? Suppose you are seeing an elephant. Here you are the subject and the elephant is the object. Now, because the elephant is the object, we say the elephant is the Apara entity and you, the seer, are the Para entity.

	Now who's seeing? Your eyes are seeing. Why are your eyes seeing, how are your eyes seeing? Because your mind wants it. So in the next phase, that is, in the first inner phase, who is the Apara and who is the Para? The eyes are Apara, object, and the mind is Para, subject. Then in the next inner phase the mind is Apara and your A'tman, the witnessing entity, is Para.

	But you know Parama Purus'a is seeing everything. What your A'tman is witnessing, that thing is also witnessed by Parama Purus'a. So your A'tman is Apara and the Supreme Entity is Para. So He is the Supreme Para, that's why He's called 'Parama Purus'a'.  This is the exact meaning of the term 'Parama Purus'a'.

	Now this 'Parama Purus'a' is the Supreme Witnessing Entity. What your individual Purus'a is seeing or is witnessing or is feeling - everything is being witnessed by the Supreme Entity.

	Now how is everything being witnessed by the Supreme Entity?  Suppose you are creating a rhinoceros in your mind and that rhinoceros is moving within your mind. Whatever that rhinoceros is doing, you are seeing. Whatever that rhinoceros is saying, you are hearing. [And whatever that rhinoceros is thinking you are hearing.] Whatever the rhinoceros does, there and then it is being witnessed by you. No activities, no thought waves, of that rhinoceros, are a secret for you - you know everything. And whatever is being done in the Universe is nothing but a mental creation of Parama Purusa. Everything is within His mind. He is the Macrocosm[, and everything is Microcosm].

So each and every man is moving within His mind. Everything is within Him, nothing is without. Whatever is being done He sees, He knows, He feels. This universe is nothing but a mental projection of that Parama Purus'a.

Hence He is Parmaa Purus'a, and because everything is His mental creation, everything, everybody, is -- what? His child. He is not the ruler; He is not the administrator; He is not the boss. He is the creator, the generator; He is the operator; and He is the destroyer. When He withdraws His thought waves within Himself then nothing will remain. You came from Him, you are moving within His mind, and finally you will be one with Him. That's why I said that He as generator is represented by 'G'; He as operator is represented by 'O'; and He as destructor is represented by 'D'  'G', 'O', 'D'. He is 'god'.

	Now let me explain the meaning of the word 'Deva' first. The root word is 'Div' The Sam'skrta word is 'Deva'. 'Deva' means 'vibrating faculty'. The entity due to whose presence everything in the Universe vibrates is 'Deva' or 'Div', and its Latin adjective is 'divine'.

Everything, each and every expression, is represented by a particular type of wave. There are sound waves, there are light waves; some waves may or may not be properly understood or assimilated by your organs. Some sounds are audible, some sounds are not audible. Some of the light waves are visible, some of the light waves are not visible. But all those waves are Devas, because they vibrate the entire creation.

	Now all these waves emanate from a particular source. The source is a singular one, so the source that controls all these Devas, all those vibrations or vibrational faculties, is Maha'deva. 'Maha'' means 'great'. 'The great Deva'. Hence Parama Purus'a is called 'Maha'deva'. That is, another name of Parama Purus'a, another name of God, is 'Maha'deva'.

A very popular name is 'Hari'. In Sam'skrta the root verb 'Har' means 'to steal', and 'Hari' means 'the stealing agent'.

It is fundamentally against Sixteen Points and Yama and Niyama, so how can Parama Purus'a steal? He is stealing, that is, His actions are ultravires to the principles of Sixteen Points, and Yama and Niyama? It is against Asteya.

Though He cannot go against the principles of Sixteen Points, Asteya and Yama and Niyama, but the very name says that He is a thief. You heard 'Hari' means thief?

Yes, He is a thief, but He is not against Sixteen Points or Yama and Niyama. How can this be?  As explained, each and every entity is within His mind; He is the generator, operator and destroyer. Everybody is His, all are His loving children. But you know, whatever a man does, that very man will have to undergo the reactive momenta of his original action or actions. Suppose a man committed so many sins in so many lives; now he will have to undergo the reactions of those actions, of those bad actions. Then for all millions of years he will have to pass through so many troubles, so many pains, so many mental tortures. A father cannot like this, a father cannot think that His children will have to go through so much trouble because of their past bad actions. So what does He want? He wants His sons to give Him -- what? The sins committed by them. But the sons will say, the daughters will say, 'No, Father, we will give you flowers, we will give you sweets, we will give you so many things; but we can't give you our sins. We can't."

	Then what will this loving Father do? He will secretly take away the sins. He is the great thief.

10 May 1979 evening, Fiesch, Switzerland