Sunday, March 6, 2011

Beyond the hierarchy of universal religion

The essences of the universal ideas remain there as classes of species and individual creatures are made as copies of each class of species whether the class of species is of animals, men or gods. Every class of species is present in every copy of creature qualified by it like humanity is present integrally in each human being. WE know a thing because it belongs to a class that abides in the eternal abode. We see a cow because she belongs to a class that exists in essence in eternal abode. Just as musical sounds are extracted from the rhythm of harmony (Raag), similarly the phenomena give us a power to arouse in us an intimate feeling of the reality hidden underneath.


Mahamati Prannath was provided with a deeper understanding of the absolute do not deal with Godhead Himself but only with His attributes. From his attributes, like a reflection in a mirror, God the Akshara Brahman is manifested as the relative God of mirror-image from whom ensues the whole creation. In essence, the Supreme Godhead is absolute in His bliss, in His knowing and in His existence. He is therefore called Sat-Chit-Anand, i.e., absolute existence-consciousness-bliss. This relative world in only a travelling, a coming up of different centers of His absolute consciousness through various relative conditionings.


The Absolute Reality is thus experienced by Mahamati Prannath as the Totality comprising the graded existences of various levels of consciousness. The absolute Totality is divine love whose bliss-stream goes on waving. The ocean of divine love is substantial, the rising bliss forms of creativity are just waving attributes.
The Godhead is union in the eternal sport of ever-rising creativity of blissful love. And God, the Akshara Brahman, is the reflection attribute of separation in divine love and causes consciousness of pain through the concealment of Supremes' absolute knowing and absolute bliss. The eternal expense of God is the consciousness of longing to seek fulfillment in union with the Absolute blissful love. Hence, the eternal existence of God is the existence of eternal longing seeking fulfillment through the varied creations.


After the dissolution of the manifest into the unmanifest Nature, the all abiding pure consciousness that shines forth is that of Akshara who is a partial manifestation of the supreme Parmatma, the Supreme Godhead.
'Pesishable Kshara is the whrld of ignorance; imperishable blissful Akshara is the zone of wisdom. One who rules the world of ignorance and the zone of wisdom is higher than both.' (Yajurved, Svetashvotar 5:1)


'Multiple universes emerge from Akshara Brahman and again merge into him. The divine Supreme, however, is higher than him as He transcends all forms, vital energies and mind, and is pure all pervading inside and outside of the world - AKSHARAT PARTAHPARAH. (Atharva-ved, Mundak, 2.1.1)



The Vedas say that three zones of Akshara are not involved in the process of creation, only the fourth zone is enveloped with nescience and causes the universes of fleeting nature. The upper three zones of Akshara are full of bliss : 'TRIPADASY-AMRITAM DIVI' and are truer essence of Akshara Brahman than his fourth zone of illusice creation. Now the question arises: from where the bliss comes to the higher three zones of Akshara? It comes from the blissful reality of Aksharatit Purushottam who is nothing but the stream of bliss consciousness :'BRAHMANO HI PRATISHTHA AHAM AMRITASYA AVYASYA CHA' (Gita 14:27) - 'The imperishable Brahman is etablished in the unending bliss of my highest reality of Para Brahman.

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