Showing posts with label Primordial Master. Show all posts
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Monday, November 30, 2009
CREATION OF DATTATREYA
The sage Narada went to the Goddesses Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati, saying that Anasuya, wife of Atri, was the most virtuous woman in any of the worlds.The Goddesses sent their husbands, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to test the piety of this women. Anasuya washed her husband’s feet and then sprinkled the Gods, who were disguised as Brahmins, with this water. They were turned into babes. The three Gods deprived of the power to return to their original form, were trapped at her hermitage. Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati came in search of their husbands, but she said she had some claim as she had nursed them so long.
The Gods agreed to create a combined form with three heads and six arms if she released them. This three headed divinity was named Dattatreya. The Central head represents Vishnu, the right head represents Shiva and the other Brahma. The dogs which are depicted with Dattatreya represent the perfect devotees, faithful to their master.
And Guru Dattatreya is the archetypal Guru, that is, He is the prototype or original model form which all gurus emerge. He is the Guru principle. As the Adi Guru, He has incarnated many times to guide mankind. He came as the ten great Primordial Masters. From Janaka through to Sai Nath, this great principle has incarnated to give form to God’s love for mankind, returning again and again to correct our mistakes and bring us back to a God-centered life.
The patience and love of the true guru is clearly illustrated in Shri Dattatreya’s repeated, preserving, incarnating guidance. It is Guru Dattatreya who leads mankind across the Void, bringing us from the treacherous oceans of illusion to the safety of the far shore where Shri Mataji, as Shri Durga, waits for us with outstretched arms! Lord Dattatreya had only one job to do, to establish our dharma, so that we could evolve. Each of his manifestations had only this to do.
Lord Dattatreya himself is the essence and innocence of Shri Brahmadeva, Shri Vishnu and Shri Shiva. He is the integration of all the three Gunas, and above all is innocence itself. One is constantly reminded of Shri Mataji’s emphasis on the first, and most important aspect of the Guru, Shri Ganesha. Innocence is the wellspring of the guru of wisdom. In his manifest forms, as Confucius, Zarathustra, Lao Tze, Nanaka, Moses, Abraham and Muhammad, Lord Dattatreya has been the foundation of great religions, preserving man’s dharma.
Shri Mataji has explained, “Adi Guru Dattatreya worshipped Mother along the banks of the River Tamasa. Tamasa is the same as your Thames. And He Himself came and worshipped here…. in this great country of Shiva, of the Spirit.
(DCB January- February 2005)
RAJA JANAKA
There is a beautiful story told by Shri Mataji about Raja Janaka:
“You know, kind Janaka was called as ‘Videha’. The great sage Narada asked him one day, ‘Revered Sir, how are you called as Videha? You live in this world. How can you be a Videha? Raja Janaka said, ‘this is very simple.
I will tell you about it in the evening. Now please do this little job for me. There is milk in this bowl. You take this bowl and come along with me. Please see that not a single drop of milk is spilled on the earth. Then only will I tell you why I am called Videha.’
Narada took the bowl and followed Janaka everywhere. He had to be very careful because the bowl was such that by the slightest movement the milk might have spilled. He got quite tired. When they retired for the evening, Narada asked, ‘please tell me now. I am getting quite fed up with carrying this bowl and following you everywhere at the same time.’
Raja Janaka said, ‘first of all tell me what you have seen? Narada replied, ‘Nothing except this bowl of milk so that it won’t spill.’ Raja Janaka said, ‘Didn’t you see there was a big procession in My honour, then there was a court wherein there was a program of dancing? Didn’t you see anything? Narada answered,’ No, Sir, I have not seen anything.’
Raja Janaka said, ‘My Child likewise with Me, I also see nothing. All the time, I just watch my attention, where it is going making sure that it won’t spill away like the milk.”
Explaining Chitta-nirodh, Shri Mataji said, “This sort of attention one has to develop by watching attention. Chitta-Nirodh. Nirodh means the saving of your attention. So your attention should not be on saving money and worldly things and all that, but attention itself must be saved.
As you watch your money,
as you watch your road when you drive,
as you watch your child when it is growing,
as you watch the beauty of your wife, or the care of your husband
all put together you watch yourself, your attention.”
(DCB January- February 2005)
“You know, kind Janaka was called as ‘Videha’. The great sage Narada asked him one day, ‘Revered Sir, how are you called as Videha? You live in this world. How can you be a Videha? Raja Janaka said, ‘this is very simple.
I will tell you about it in the evening. Now please do this little job for me. There is milk in this bowl. You take this bowl and come along with me. Please see that not a single drop of milk is spilled on the earth. Then only will I tell you why I am called Videha.’
Narada took the bowl and followed Janaka everywhere. He had to be very careful because the bowl was such that by the slightest movement the milk might have spilled. He got quite tired. When they retired for the evening, Narada asked, ‘please tell me now. I am getting quite fed up with carrying this bowl and following you everywhere at the same time.’
Raja Janaka said, ‘first of all tell me what you have seen? Narada replied, ‘Nothing except this bowl of milk so that it won’t spill.’ Raja Janaka said, ‘Didn’t you see there was a big procession in My honour, then there was a court wherein there was a program of dancing? Didn’t you see anything? Narada answered,’ No, Sir, I have not seen anything.’
Raja Janaka said, ‘My Child likewise with Me, I also see nothing. All the time, I just watch my attention, where it is going making sure that it won’t spill away like the milk.”
Explaining Chitta-nirodh, Shri Mataji said, “This sort of attention one has to develop by watching attention. Chitta-Nirodh. Nirodh means the saving of your attention. So your attention should not be on saving money and worldly things and all that, but attention itself must be saved.
As you watch your money,
as you watch your road when you drive,
as you watch your child when it is growing,
as you watch the beauty of your wife, or the care of your husband
all put together you watch yourself, your attention.”
(DCB January- February 2005)
ABRAHAM
Abraham exemplified virtue, righteousness, humility and total surrender. He would rush from his tent and greet the traveler on the dusty road, beseeching them to enter his own tent and have “just a little bread”.Abraham would treat the travelers as if they were honoring the tent with their visit. So in a profusely ingratiating manner, the prophet would receive his guests as gems dropped from Heaven.
“My Lord, if I have found favour in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, while I fetch a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on- since you have come to your servant (Genesis 18, 3-5).
(DCB January- February 2005)
MOSES
The “Ten Commandments” contain the ten basic virtues or dharmas for all mankind. Shri Mataji says that as carbon has four valencies, as the quality of gold is its un-tarnishable nature, so man has ten valencies.These are the ten sustenance points representing the ten petals of the Nabhi Chakra. It is because of these that we stay spiritually pure enough to ascend. The significant difference between man’s valencies and those of carbon is that man has the free will to consciously choose them, whereas carbon is bound to its valencies by the laws of nature.
These are the Commandments that God proclaimed to Moses on Mt. Sinai:
I am the Lord your God.
You shall have no other God before Me.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.
Honour your father and your mother.
You shall not kill.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
You shall not covet your neighbour’s house.
(DCB January- February 2005)
ZARATHUSTRA
Ideas of good and evil, Heaven and Hell, angels and devils, are inherent. Everything was harmonious in the universe until the angel Ahriman rebelled and was driven from Heaven. Hence the fight between good and evil will endure until the judgment Day.Then the World will renewed and evil will pass away. The pure soul will attain the realization of the kingdom of Heaven.
“The soul which is afraid to fight against evil has failed to carry out its Divine mission and has wasted its life during its sojourn in this world.”
“On the day of Resurrection you shall be answerable to Ahura Mazda for your thoughts, words and deeds in this world.”
Joy
The Avesta tells us that the highest aim of our lives is to attain perfect happiness (joy). The means of doing this is to know God’s Will and to act in harmony with it. “Let the joy of living fill your heart to overflowing.”
Marriage
Chastity is one of the chief virtues of Zoroastrianism. Marriage is one of the most inviolable contracts and children are a blessing. Women are the sustaining powers of marriage and mankind. “A chaste woman is the noblest creation of Ahura Mazda.”
“Woman is the marvel of creation. Unrivaled and unequalled in form and beauty is she in the seven realms. She is the blooming flower in the garden of life that breathes perfume all around.”
“Woman is the teacher of gentility to man. She helps man grow in moral height. She is the sustaining power of the Life of man.”
(DCB January- February 2005)
LAO TZE
The Tao is most akin to water, since water has quality of being able to take the form of any vessel which contains it. Hence it is the most flexible and spontaneous.The Tao is female in nature and is described as the Mother of all things. It is obliviously the Kundalini Herself.
“The spirit of the valley never dies. This is called the mysterious female. The gateway of the mysterious female is called the root of Heaven and Earth. Dimly visible it seems as it were there yet use will never train it.”
From Lao Tze’s teaching we learn that a Guru’s purpose is to spread the light of the Divine by becoming a channel that enlightens seekers and takes them to higher levels. Lao Tze was the embodiment of the Guru that expresses the Divine. This is not only seen through His teachings but also in his life. He could only see one thing: Tao or God as the absolute. There was no compromise. He was pure in attention.
A Guru teaches by having tremendous compassion. Lao Tze could love any seeker because He could recognize the divine in them. It was that which he loved and it was that to which He directed His teaching.
A guru teaches that which is pure. Purity enables us to see through the illusion of the Divine and there we find
detachment in joy,
contentment in love
and absoluteness in the Spirit.
When one becomes the Guru, one is absorbed in the ocean of the Divine. We are soothed, we find nothing matters, we know it is going to be all right because we become purity.
“The world had a beginning
And this beginning could be the Mother
Of the world,
When you know the Mother
Go on to Know the Child
Go back to holding fast to the Mother,
And to the end of your days
You will not meet with danger.”
(DCB January- February 2005)
CONFUCIUS
Like His personality His teaching are natural, human and simple. Actual life was used to illustrate His points since this was easy for the people to understand. He divided life into five relationships which were:i. Kind and minister
ii. Husband and wife
iii. Father and son
iv. Brother to brother
v. Friend to friend
To conduct these relationships in a virtuous and respectable manner was to follow the will of heaven. He distinguished between a spiritual and a materialistic man thus: “the superior man understands what is right, the inferior man understands what is profitable.”
There were five virtues of nature according to sage: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and sincerity.
Just as Shri Mataji has stressed the importance of sincerity in Sahaja Yoga, for example the necessity of singing and praying with love from heart, so also Confucius said, “Sincerity is that by which Self-completion is finished.
The possessor of sincerity does not merely accomplish completion of himself, with this quality he completes other men.” This quotation takes an added significance when it is considered in the light of Sahaja Yoga: an open sincere heart facilitates the Kundalini’s passage up the Sushumna Nadi.
(DCB January- February 2005)
SOCRATES
Socrates guided his pupils to the truth by considering ideas in their various aspects until the right answer was established. He brought forward the Theory of Forms: “as above, so below.”The unseen Realm of Forms is the Divine and heavenly strata of the Virata which contains the blueprint for all the earthly replicas. Everything on the earthly plane of existence is merely an imperfect reflection which is subject to changes and human imperfection, while that which exists in the absolute is divine, perfect eternal and unchanging.
The soul originates in the realm of forms and through seeking and aspiration eventually returns to it. This is the point in our spiritual evolution which we are now working towards in Sahaja Yoga- by putting our vibrations we enter the kingdom of God.
“He who enters the next world unanimated and unenlightened shall be in the mire but he who arrives the purified and enlightened shall dwell among the Gods.”
(DCB January- February 2005)
MOHAMMAD SAHIB
Shri Mohammad spoke extensively about the Day of Judgment, promising Paradise to those who followed a righteous life as explained in the Koran and Hell for those who turned against God and his Messengers.Speaking of the Day of Judgment in Sura XXIV He says:
“24. On the Day when their tongues,
Their hands, and their feet
Will bear witness against them
As to their actions.
25. On that Day God
Will pay them back
(All) their just dues,
And they will realize
That God is
The (Very) Truth
That makes all things manifest.”
And in Sura XXXVI :
“65. That Day shall we set
A seal on their mouths
But their hands will speak
To us, and their feet
Bear witness, to all
That they did.”
From Sura VII :
“57. It is he who sendeth
The winds like heralds
Of glad tidings, going before
His mercy: when they have
Carried the heavy Laden
Clouds, we drive them
To a land that is dead,
Make rain to descend thereon
And produce every kind
Of harvest therewith: thus
Shall we raise up the dead:
Perchance ye may remember.
“58 . From the land that is clean
And good, by the will
Of its Cherisher, springs up
Produce (rich) after its kind:
But from the land that is
Bad, Springs up nothing
But that which is niggardly:
Thus do we explain the Signs
By various (symbols) to those
Who are grateful.”
(DCB January- February 2005)
NANAKA
At ten years of age His mother thought it was time He took part in sacred thread ceremony.
As the thread was being put over Nanaka’s neck, Nanaka cried, “Wait, Sir, why must I wear this thread? Will it make me good and kind?
“I’ m not sure.”
“Then it is of no use to me. Give me instead a thread of mercy and contentment.”
“A tree is known from the fruits it bears, so a man’s religion is known from the deeds that he performs. Robes, symbols, forms, rites, rituals and ceremonies that do not lead to righteous deeds will not take man far in the path of spiritual progress.
The real problem is to rid the mind of evil propensities. If that’s not accomplished all our austerities are of no avail.”
“This body is a palace and it is the house of God. Within it God kept the infinite flame.”
(DCB January- February 2005)
As the thread was being put over Nanaka’s neck, Nanaka cried, “Wait, Sir, why must I wear this thread? Will it make me good and kind?
“I’ m not sure.”
“Then it is of no use to me. Give me instead a thread of mercy and contentment.”
“A tree is known from the fruits it bears, so a man’s religion is known from the deeds that he performs. Robes, symbols, forms, rites, rituals and ceremonies that do not lead to righteous deeds will not take man far in the path of spiritual progress.
The real problem is to rid the mind of evil propensities. If that’s not accomplished all our austerities are of no avail.”
“This body is a palace and it is the house of God. Within it God kept the infinite flame.”
(DCB January- February 2005)
Sai Nath
“My master told me to give bounteously to all that ask. No one asks with wisdom. My treasury is open. No one brings carts to take away the real treasures.
I say dig and search, but no one wants to take any pains.
Be the true sons of the Divine Mother and fully stock yourself. What is to become of us? This body will return to earth and air we breathe will melt into air. This opportunity will not return.”
“Your Mother is the Mother
Of all the Adi Gurus
She is the one who taught
All the Adi Gurus
She created the Adi Gurus
And She creates out of you,
The Adi Gurus.”
(DCB January-February 2005)
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