‘Happiness And Misery’ To Bliss In Atma Yoga you are immune to both happiness and misery. But in this transformed state, which is exactly equal to that of God, you are entertained and enjoy equally both happiness and misery. The first state of an ordinary human being is to enjoy happiness and feel pained in misery. By Atma Yoga you neither enjoy happiness nor get pain in misery. If you are in the first state only and still become a devotee of God, you can get continuous happiness only by the grace of God. This is a sideline from the first state. By that you will be bored in this sideline because even continuous happiness will bore you and will result in misery. In Atma Yoga there is no enjoyment at all. In the second sideline which is worship of God with desires (Kamya Karma), there is continuous enjoyment which bores you. Thus, both the lines have their own defects. But if you can reach the state of God directly by transforming yourself through the divine knowledge and grace of God you will have continuous entertainment without boring. Since both happiness and misery are changing alternatively, there is no point of boring. Since you are enjoying both, your happiness is continuous and is called as bliss (Ananda). The very meaning of Ananda is continuous happiness, since the letter “A” means continuity (Aa Samantat). But the main point in attaining the direct transformation into the state of God is that you should be always aware of God. The Advaita Philosopher also tries to achieve this after Atma Yoga. But he utterly fails in this because the state of God cannot be achieved without the grace of the God. Such state of God was the aim of Shankara and therefore He stressed on the devotion to God always. The Advaita Philosopher thinks that he is God and therefore he ends in Atma Yoga only. In Atma Yoga also the equality of happiness and misery exists but the equality is in the silence or peace or immunity to the enjoyment. By this the very purpose of the creation is lost. The Veda says that the purpose of the creation is entertainment and not immunity. If the immunity is the aim, God should have slept continuously without this imaginary creation. Assuming that the Advaita Philosopher is God, this point from the Veda (entertainment) is contradicting such assumption. Thus, such state of God is obtained by the liberated soul who becomes the servant of God. This liberated soul also takes human form like God and enjoys continuously in the world like human incarnation. The Atma Yoga is obtained by a realized soul who does not believe in the existence of God separately. Such egoism and ungratefulness will lead to the loss of Atma Yoga also and the egoistic and ungrateful Advaita Philosopher is thrown in to first state where he is pained by misery. The divine Maya will throw him in to such beginning state and actually then the Advaita Philosopher suffers like an ordinary human being. Totapuri, such an Advaita Philosopher, suffered with stomach pain and tried to commit suicide by the will of Maya. Liberated souls, like Raghvavendra Swami (Prahlada) etc., derived bliss in this world like the Lord. They never became ungrateful to God and Hanuman is the best example. Advaita according Shankara is this final state of God and not the Atma Yoga from which you can be easily pushed down by Maya. Written by His Holiness Shri Datta Swami website address: universal-spirituality.org e-mail address: [email protected] Jai Guru Datta
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:24:25 +0000
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