Rishis and Masters

We can know about these past lives if we know the technology of breathing. This is the next step after Ramana Maharshi (Understanding silence, knowing the watcher, assuming the state of witness (sakshi) to the universe is what is given by Jillellamudi Amma and Ramana Maharshi. This is the first step). The soul (atma) that is reborn again and again should know how it is to live. What is the experiment that is to be conducted in this life has to be known. The experiment done by each individual depends on his breathing pattern. This has been given by Lahiri Mahasaya and Paramahamsa Yogananda. If you change your breathing pattern, you will become an engineer instead of a doctor. 

To decide on what experiment needs to be conducted, you should know what humanity is doing. This is like a literature survey that is done before commencing research work. During the literature survey, the student finds about all the work that has been done in the field of interest and ascertains that his topic of research has not been delved into till then.

Similarly, to successfully conduct the experiment of life, we should know what humanity has been doing. For this we should know Theosophical literature. We should know about the root races, evolution and dissolution of lives, the characteristics and capacities of the etheric body, astral body, mental body and causal body. We should also know about how the interaction in previous lives is having its effect in the present life. This is known by the name of Karma.

The greatest contribution of Sri Aurobindo to humanity is the concept of synthesis and integral yoga. He explained how one can realise the precept “All life is Yoga”. He explained how all parts of our being – physical, astral, mental, causal could be synthesised into WHOLE and transform it to perfect state of Yoga.

Ramana Maharshi’s basic approach towards life is that you should be beyond body, desires and mind. You should be an active witness to all these just like a mother who supervises her child at play and pulls him back whenever he is in danger. Similarly, you should be a watcher to all the activities of the world and pull your body, desires and mind whenever they swerve away from the path. If you are a karma yogi, you should control your physical body. If you are a bhakti yogi, you should control your emotional body and if you are a Jnana yogi, you should control your mental body. If you are a synthetic or integral Yogi, you should control all the three bodies. You should be aware of your thoughts, emotions and actions and this is what is meant by a state of witness (Sakshi bhaava )

When you do all these, you realize that in addition to your individual potential, there are divine energies that can help you. This is to be learnt from the sadhana of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. The 33 vertebrae in the backbone are the sources of divine power. These have to be understood and realized as 12 Adityas, 11 Rudras, 8 Vasus and 2 Ashwini kumaras. When you understand the science of devatas, it is called vidya. How to utilize the devata energies to hasten evolution can be understood from the life and works of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.

The joining of hands of devatas and humans to progress in evolution is what is to be understood as devapujan. This collective effort is called sangateekaran. The result of this collective effort is given as daan to the society. This 3-fold process of Devapujan, Sangateekaran and Daan is the basis for Yagna as propounded by Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya.

You can do all that has been given above only if you have shraddha. You cannot apply logic to these. Your belief should evolve into faith and put you in action. This is what has been given by Sai cult as faith (Nishta) and patience (Saboori) 

Let us not try to see these Masters who adorn the Akhanda Gurusatta as individuals with a particular name and physical body. They are the embodiments of the concepts given above. It is practically not possible to list out all the Gurus, hence the 14 Gurus are symbolic of all the 14 levels in spiritual education (6 Chakras + 5 koshas + 3 Granthis). One who has mastered all the 14 levels of education is said to be the Master of 14 worlds of consciousness. Each Master is representative of a consciousness. If one can understand “Akhanda Gurusatta” in this spirit of inclusiveness, you will see your own Guru as a part of this galaxy of Masters.

LOVE is the quality that is to be developed and that is the real Parasuvedi which can transform baser metals to nobler metals. If we know how to love, even an enemy becomes a friend. Do we really know how to love? We should know how to have the real love of a Master, a Guru. Do we even think about what sacrifices these masters have done. They have descended from such higher planes. The messengers from higher planes come in abundance to this planet earth, mostly to India. You just cannot understand how they feel being here. The level at which they live. And they have left all that to transform us. Feel that touch of love from them. That is Parasuvedi which transforms you.

We are not allowing the love of the masters to touch us. Our desires are in between. The main characteristic of air is touch. Let the air that you breathe in touch you. It takes time to establish this....but try try until you get the touch of the Master.

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