Lord Krishna in Bhagavad
Gita shloka X-2 emphasizes upon the fact that the mind of a normal human being
is unable to conceive the origination of God as all creation exists since times
immemorial and is without a beginning. Yet, we can always feel the presence of
God everywhere since the time of big bang. It is not God himself who manifests
but his divinity ... our Atman (the soul within) that manifests on Mother Earth
and shall always continue to manifest.
Such
spiritual masters after learning of the secrets of the domain of God can preach
to the mankind the benefits of traveling on the path of wisdom. Once we believe
in the fact that God always remains unseen but still we can always feel his presence
... what our spiritual elders have to say in the matter is accepted by the society.
Not because they are more learned than us but because they are the nodal points
where manifests the divinity itself.
Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita shloka X-2 also emphasizes upon the fact that the
stage of a human being ... the highest manifested stage on Mother Earth is not
to be passed of as a mere fact of life. Only as a human being can one achieve
Moksha (salvation). Even Devas (celestial beings) have to come down to Mother
Earth and take the garb of a human being before final liberation can take place.
No other form
other than of a human being can achieve salvation (Moksha). Having reached the
highest stage of manifested life ... must we all not strive to obtain salvation
in this very life! Difficult ... yet, not unachievable. We, living on Mother Earth
strive to gain the kingdom of Heaven after we leave the body ... only again to
come back on Mother Earth ... take the garb of a human being and realize God.
The cycle can
always go on and on ... until we realize the subtle truth. Does it mean that while
in Heaven we cannot gain God realization ... Emancipation forever from the cycle
of birth and death ... yes, we never can do that ... we need to come back to Mother
Earth ... take the body of a human being ... become a spiritual master of the
highest order like King Arjuna ... only then can we hope to achieve liberation
from the manifest life forever.
Spiritual masters who have not yet realized God ... spiritual leaders of the level
of Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Acharya Rajneesh (osho) ... they
also need to rise still higher up the mental plain before they can achieve liberation
forever from the cycle of life and death. All
these masters truly desired self-realization in their life yet, could not succeed
and all have truthfully admitted of this fact in their biographies and autobiographies.
Similarily as
heating water to the temperatures of 99 degrees centigrade cannot produce enough
steam power enabling a steam engine to get started ... one needs to reach the
hundred percent level before full steam power can be generated to give the final
thrust to the spiritual engine of life. Vivekananda left his body at 99 degrees
centigrade ... he was aware of it ... he deeply repented it yet, he had no solution.
Similarily,
Aurobindo desired God realization within this life and admitted at the end part
of his life that in spite of all the efforts he could not attain self-realization
and hoped that in the next life he would attain it ... such was the will power
of these spiritual masters! Admitting of their failures and achievements in public
is a feat which cannot be accomplished by man of lower virtues.
Why so? Not even the spiritual masters who have accomplished a certain state of
spiritual development are unable to conceive the concept of God. Not possible
for celestial beings (Devtas) and even spiritual masters ... there must be something
divine in reaching the stage of God realization. To be able to distinguish the
Pearls from the ordinary stones ... to be able to reach a stage when everything
is permanent bliss ... what more is there to seek after having realized God.
Here Lord Krishna emphasizes
on Pandava King Arjuna the virtues of knowing God and permanently residing in
his domain after God realization.