That is
why She is called
Janma-mrtyu-jara-tapta-jana-visranti-dayani (851st): To
those devotees who are consumed by the evils of life, death,
and old age, She is the harbinger of peace and solace by
endowing them with true knowledge of their selves.
All human souls, after whirling around in countless rebirths
as they ascend ever higher, will ultimately have to meet the
Great Primordial Mother. Only then
will these devotees meditate on Her in the Kingdom of God
(Sahasrara Chakra) within themselves where She resides,
and eventually return to the Spirit World as liberated
souls. The Comforter is indeed the harbinger of the true
knowledge that breaks the self-hypnotism of the terrible
round of rebirth by unveiling our own inner glory. She reveals
the deep truth that Jesus promised will set us free.
Sampa, this knowledge below
of Jivas (souls), Avatars and the Divine Mother will further
enlighten us, and partially answer
Kyyan Volk's
enquiry about what
will happen after the physical Shri Mataji leaves Earth.
We are souls bound for that Other Shore
and
will have to eventually return to the same Spirit World
where we came from. Whether we are successful in our bid
to evolve into the eternal spirit wholly depends on our
dharma on Earth:
The Four Kinds of
Jivas:
All men and women, or in
short all Jivas, are equal. Yet they can be classified
into four groups as given below:
Bound Souls (Bandha)
Souls struggling for
liberation (Mumuksha)
Emancipated Souls (Muktas)
Ever-free Souls (Nitya
Siddhas)
1. Bound Souls
Bound Souls are those in
the lower levels of evolution. They are obstinate,
stubborn and inflexible, with the characteristic of
animals. They don't heed the Avatars, Sastras, Vedas or
spiritual teachings and lack the capacity to do so. Even
if they hear, they don't follow. When this type of person
gets the spiritual look or vision or Arul Parvai of
Avatars, their sufferings are reduced within the frame of
the Law of Karma. The intensity of their sufferings are
reduced to the extent of their Bakthi or faithfulness to
the Almighty. They have gotten the grace of Avatars to get
good future births in the preliminary stages of their
spiritual evolution and to have Bakthi Marga, Jnana Marga,
Karma Marga, etc., in due course. The possibility of
attaining Brahma Jnana or knowledge of Brahman is very
remote. How they will heed the advice of Adepts is a
question mark. In short, this group of people is so deeply
engrossed in the world of the senses that they are least
interested in the life of the spirit.
2. Souls Struggling
for Liberation
Those of the second group
are souls struggling for liberation. They have just
crossed the animal characteristics and have yet to
stabilize in Divine life. We may call them Sadhakas.
3. Emancipated Souls
and
4. Ever-Free Souls
These two groups are born
to teach mankind. An Avatar is the ever-perfected divine
free man or soul whom the Vedanta speaks of as the free
one who assumes a body for the good of humanity.
It is the second group that
needs special attention. They have just passed through the
preliminary stages of spiritual evolution. They are
capable of identifying Avatars and are ready to follow
their teachings. At this stage the grace of the Avatar
makes them strife to reach the goal of life. It shines on
them and they realize their identity with Brahman and
Adhiparasakthi. Thus, transmigration will come to an end
for such Jivas.
However, each individual
must undertake this evolutionary journey by himself. His
progress will depend on the efforts he himself puts in.
Nobody else, however near and dear to him, can work out
his destiny. He can receive guidance from the Avatars and
more advanced souls but he himself will have to take the
steps on the evolutionary journey. Nobody can carry him
along.
Aim of Manifestation:
Adhiparasakthi, The Supreme
Brahman, manifests Herself in order to protect the good
because they destroy unrighteousness and propagate
righteousness. The good are those who are naturally
inclined towards the good of others, who remember and
chant the name, form, qualities and glories of
Adhiparasakthi, the Divine Mother and propagate them among
people while depending on Her. He whose only aim is
realization of God is good while those who hanker after
worldly pleasures and property are not good.
Those who because of so
many desires remain absorbed in vices such as falsehood,
fraud, deception, dishonesty, etc; who exploit the
virtuous; who remain engaged in doing evil to others; who
don't know what ought to be done and what ought not to be
done; who always condemn God and the Scriptures; such
persons of demonic nature have been called wicked. The
wicked propagate unrighteousness and destroy righteousness
so the Divine Mother Adhiparasakthi manifests Herself for
the destruction of such wicked people.
The Avatar comes to this
world with a particular mission which is the main
objective of the Avatar called Avatara Nokkam. The Avatar
preaches many things and waits for the time to fulfill the
main objective. In the meantime other things required for
the fulfillment of the main objective are completed. Such
things as the training of various cadre of people to
perform and complete the main objectives are done step by
step without overruling the Theory of Karma as far as
possible. During this period some of the minor objectives
are also carried out and completed. As soon as the main
objective is completed the Avatar goes back to the kingdom
of God that is Sukshma world, in the predetermined way.
Cause and Occasion of
Her Manifestation:
Whenever and wherever there
is decline in religious practice and a predominant rise of
irreligion, Adhiparasakthi descends Herself. When there is
decline of righteousness and a rise of unrighteousness,
She manifests Herself for the destruction of the wicked
and the establishment of true righteousness. Thus, if
necessary, she manifests Herself in different forms at
this time. However, she manifests herself only as and when
there is need for Her manifestation.
There is a decline of
righteousness from the Satya Yuga, or Golden Age,
to Treta Age, Dvapara Age and Kali Age respectively. In
the Satya Age, Dharma, or righteousness,
flourishes. In Treta Age the decline begins and becomes
rapid in Dvapara Age. In Kali Age, the most evil of the
ages, unrighteousness or Adharma prevails. In this age the
Godhead, the Divine Mother, manifests Herself for the
establishment of righteousness.
There is descent of Divine
Mother for the ascent of Man. As an Avatar, She puts on a
fleshly body out of Her own free will for the upliftment
of mankind. She is quite independent and has absolute
control over Maya. Meanwhile, Jiva, men, are slaves of
Avidya, or Maya, so long as they have no self-realization.
She is completely free to act in many ways at Her will and
has no obligation to adhere to such rules and regulations.
Therefore, She appears by Her own will whenever there is
irreligiousity and a disappearance of true religion. It is
a recognized fact that from time to time messengers and
incarnations of the Almighty Adhiparasakthi are born on
earth to shed the light of righteousness and dispel the
darkness of evil and injustice.
Dharma is the base on which
the edifice of life is built and the Divine Mother takes
it as Her special mission to see that it does not decay.
Whenever Dharma is assailed, She incarnates to set an
example to the world and remove the hurdles in the path of
Dharma or righteousness. Whenever there is a setback in
Dharma it becomes the primary concern of the Divine Mother
to re-infuse and revitalize the vigor into Dharma.
In assuming birth, Divine
Mother does not abrogate Her intrinsic nature of being the
birth less and deathless Mother of all existence. Her
fundamental infinitude of perfections undergoes no
diminution the process of incarnation. The form She
assumes, the body in which She incarnates, is a particular
configuration of Her own radiant and transcendental form,
untouched by Rajas Tamas. It is material in so far as it
transcends to the taints of terrestrial matter. In time of
crisis, for the moral regeneration of the world, the
grounds for Divine incarnation are not the necessity of
Karma but free resolve transcending it.
The re-establishment of
Dharma is accomplished in two ways. Firstly, the righteous
ones on earth who are languishing for want of direct
communion with Divine Mother, the object of their loving
adoration, are granted the vision they long for, by Divine
Mother in Her incarnate form. They are thus rescued from
their spiritual affliction and sustained by the
life-giving grace of Divine Communion. Secondly, those who
are evil and antagonistic to the call of the Divine, are
released through apparent destruction to get a new
embodiment favorable to their turning Divine. The essence
of righteousness is love of God, which is fostered by the
self-revelation of God through the Avatar.
What is
Unrighteousness?
When the righteous,
innocent, weak, pious and spiritual people are exploited
by the unrighteous, cruel, strong, wicked and mundane
people and when moral values are lost and immorality
prevails: that state is the state of decline of
righteousness and the rise of unrighteousness. When there
is a decline of righteousness and a rise of
unrighteousness, by God's order, saints come to the earth
and true strivers are revealed. They both work to
reestablish righteousness. Sometimes liberated souls, who
have realized God, come to earth as representatives of God
to help the people attain salvation. Where there are such
strivers and saints, there is neither so much decline of
righteousness, nor so much rise of unrighteousness, as in
other places where there are neither strivers nor saints.
When people don't follow the teachings of strivers and
saints, but start to kill them, leaving only a few
righteous persons to propagate righteousness, there is a
decline in righteousness and Adhiparasakthi, the Brahman,
manifests Herself.
What is Irreligious?
The principles of religion
are laid down in the Vedas and any discrepancy in the
matter of properly executing the rules of the Vedas makes
one irreligious.
Establishment of
Dharma or Righteousness:
Because unrighteousness
propagates due to the performance of actions with a
selfish motive and attachment to the unreal, the
establishment of righteousness consists of preaching and
propagating the selfless performance of actions. The
Divine Mother Adhiparasakthi manifests Herself in order to
propagate the performance of selfless actions through Her
deeds. When this sort of feeling is propagated,
righteousness is naturally established.
The Divine Mother is the
abode of Dharma, or righteousness, so She manifests
Herself in order to establish righteousness well. In fact,
righteousness never perishes. It only declines. Whenever
there is a decline the Divine Mother reestablishes it.
To establish true Dharma
and peace, She comes down as the World teacher. She shows
Maya bound Jivas the true path of Mukti, or liberation, by
coming down in a human body. Although She is on Earth in
human form, She is not bound by Maya. She thus embodies
Herself in different bodies at different times but the
incarnations are not different. She is one. She only
appears in different forms out of necessity. She teaches
man by appearing in a form that is suitable for that
particular time of Avathara.
She has appeared in India
many times and has taught us many things. That is why
India was and is the fountain of knowledge. In the past,
whenever it was necessary, she has lifted India, upholding
her by Her hands of Dharma. It is for this reason that
even today in this downtrodden, oppressed and famine
stricken India so many heroic souls, righteous and
enterprising, are taking birth and guiding us. That is why
our country has, even now, the true ideals of Gnana and
Bakthi compared to those in other countries.
The Power and Capacity
of an Avatar:
An Avatar as epoch maker
functions as a perennial source of power and beneficence
for a whole epoch. An Avatar can transmit spirituality
with a touch or even a mere wish. By his look, wish, or
touch, people are saved. The lowest and most degraded
characters become saints at the command of the Avatar.
When an incarnation comes, a tidal wave of spirituality
breaks upon the world, and people feel spirituality almost
full in the air.
His message, Gospel or
Arulvakku, and power transcends age and time. People look
upon him as an eternal source of faith, hope, love,
strength and inspiration. The milk of Divine love streams
and flows to us from the Avatar. The Avatar is the meeting
ground of personal and impersonal, of Divine and human. He
is at once individual and universal. The Avatar is the
teacher of all teachers, the highest manifestation of
Divine Mother through a human form.
An Avatar is a mighty
person. He removes the veil of ignorance of thousands of
men and women and takes them to the land of eternal rest
and bliss. The Avatar is one with the Supreme. An Avatar
is not like an ordinary individual soul. The Avatar is the
rays of Divine Mother Adhiparasakthi. When the work of the
Avatar is over, he disappears from the world.
Adhiparasakthi has two
manifestations. In one, She reflects through the universe
and is called Nature. The second manifestation is through
the great Incarnations of Adhiparasakthi that are the
various Avatars such as Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Christ,
Mohammad, Chaitanya, Guru Nanak, Kabir, etc. These two
manifestations of Adhiparasakthi are Karana Brahman....
Whenever the Avatar
requires secret details of past and future events, or any
clarification, the Avatar contacts Karana Brahman through
ecstasy known as Arul Nilai. The Avatar goes into the
Nirvikalpa Samathi, the highest superconscious state, and
then comes back to the conscious state. This
superconscious state is the Thuria Nilai, or Fourth State.
This is the state in which the individual soul rests in
his own Sat-Chit-Ananda Svarupa, the highest Brahmic
consciousness during Nirvikalpa Samathi. Only Jeevanmuktas
or sages can attain this state. The glory of the state of
Thuria is ineffable. Its splendor is indescribable. This
is a very special form of occult trance and the Avatars
call it Yoga-Nidhrai, or "Temple Sleep." This is a very
special type of trance because the Avatar who has studied
this under temple conditions knows what he is doing and
can throw himself deliberately into the trance state as
and when required. In this state he is under his own
control and cannot be obsessed by others.
This is only an outline and
there are a number of Divine requirements and steps in
attaining such a state. Please note that under the
surveillance of Avatars we can also attain such a state if
we have the basic requirements of Bakthi, Devotion, Purity
of Mind, etc.
The superconscious state is
attained only in absolute samadhi and by cessation of all
bodily functions. Normally, there is no return from this
state. A person who goes into the superconscious state
remains in that state for about twenty-one days and then
passes away. However, a few who are destined to teach
mankind return to the ordinary plane of consciousness by
keeping a trace of egoism, without which corporeal
existence is impossible. The Avatars cherish a few desires
for the betterment of the world. By taking hold of this
and through the special divine grace of Adhiparasakthi,
they come down from the superconscious state to the
conscious state.
Incarnations are always
conscious of their own divinity. They know it from the
moment of their birth. They assume human form and human
limitations for a particular period of time in order to
teach us. In reality they are never limited. They are ever
free but appear to be limited to the eyes of ordinary
human beings.
