You are creating your life over and over again. Your feelings keep you in the cycle of birth and death.
From the book Beyond the Vedas
1
The
Vedas
Veda is the treasure from which one retrieves the knowledge of the
Brahman. There are four Vedas – Rig, Sama, Yajur and Atharvana Veda. These
Vedas are the words of God. Through meditation, the sages attain the knowledge
and inner meaning of the Vedas. The Lord removes their doubts to know Him as
the Supreme wisdom in all. This is Vedanta contained in the texts called
Upanishads.
The Lord says,
… ‘I am the Maker of the
Vedanta. I am the One who gives peace to man by giving him the knowledge and
deeper principles of the Vedas. I bestow the true meaning of the Vedas…’
From where you attain the
wisdom of God, there is Veda. The Vedas have sections called Karma kaanda,
Upasana kaanda and Jnana kaanda. Their goal is to awaken a dispassion for the
mundane and to kindle wisdom in those who have the capacity for it. The one who
attains the Absolute wisdom, is the one who has fully and correctly understood
the inner meaning 0f the Vedas. Others remain ignorant, immersed in worldly
pleasures.
In the 15th chapter of the Gita, Sri
Krishna states,
… ‘I am
seated in the hearts of all; I am the source of memory, knowledge and the
reasoning faculty. It is verily ‘I’ who am to be known by all the Vedas; I am
indeed the author of Vedanta and the knower of the Vedas too…’
The Vedas contained
in scriptures light the lamp of wisdom, the wisdom of Brahman. My experience
however, is different. For me everything in Creation is a living Veda. Each
animal, worm, insect – all are Veda. I say this because I obtained the wisdom
of the Brahman from each one of these. I have written about this wisdom and
called them ‘Vidyas’. Since I see the wisdom of the Lord in every atom of His
Creation, the entire Creation becomes my Veda.
I wrote ‘Gita Govindam Pt.3 ’
in three sections. The first section is Karma kaanda, the second, Bhakthi
kaanda and the third, Jnana kaanda. I was able to write in this manner because
I attained the wisdom of the Lord’s true form. I saw the entire universe as His
form. Following this, Swami asked me to write, ‘Beyond the Vedas’. It is an
explanation for jnana, wisdom. Are you wondering how there can be an
explanation for jnana? The Gita says that jnana is the skill to know the Sathya,
the truth of each and every object in Creation. What is Sathya? It is God! This
knowledge is jnana.
The Garuda Purana gives the
definition for Brahmacharya,
‘Brahmacharya is
sacrificing the indulgence in pleasures through the instruments of mind, speech
and action, at all times and in all places…’
Here is given the principle of
Brahmacharya. This means that one should not seek pleasure, through thought,
word or deeds, at all places, all times, in all states, one must sacrifice.
This is the true meaning of Brahmacharya….
The thirteenth sloka of the 8th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita
says,
… ‘ Having restrained all
the media of perception, fixing the mind in the heart and the life breath in
the head, remaining steadfast in yogic concentration, uttering the one
syllabled ‘Om’, thinking of Me, he who departs leaving the body attains the
Supreme state.’
Swami and I walked on the path
of Brahmacharya as defined by the Garuda Purana. This complete Brahmacharya
ripens into the highest chastity.
The power of this Supreme
chastity makes Kaamadeva into Jnanadeva. Swami said that our child (in Prema
Sai Avatar), an aspect of Kaamadeva, would be a Jnanadeva, a child of wisdom.
The Gita instructs us to
contemplate on the Lord with one-pointedness. I followed this discipline of God
consciousness from the time of birth. This is why in my next birth; I will
again live with God from the time I am born. I will live every moment with Him,
totally absorbed in Him. Swami said that because of such one-pointed purity,
our child Kaamadeva would write, ‘Jnana Vashista’. It will show how each
one of us should make efforts to attain Supreme wisdom.
5 May 2006 Meditation
Vasantha : Swami,
give Yourself to me. I cannot bear the separation any longer.
Swami : Be
patient for some time. We are going to live together in the next Avatar. From the time we
are born, we will live together. This becomes
one-pointed Prema. No one has shown such one-pointed love. No Avatar has had
this. Due to this one-pointed Prema and Brahmacharya,
our child will be a great soul of wisdom. This is why he will write the Jnana
Vashista. You are writing Yoga Vashista and he will write Jnana Vashista.
Vasantha : Everything is correct Swami, but I am not able to
bear the separation.
Swami:We
are One, we are together. You are crying without enjoying the bliss of
union.
Vasantha: Swami,
is not this desire for You, kaama?
Swami: No,
these feelings become Kaamadahana, the burning of desire. We are burning the
kaama of all.
Vasantha: How
will I offer this body to You? It should not have any trace of impurity.
Swami: Your
body will have the fragrance of chandan. You are going to change and purify all. Due
to this sadhana, in your next birth you will have a physical body but without any impurities.
It will be a divine body.
Vasantha : Swami,
Swami, I am not able to bear this revelation.
(I was coughing continuously
and was unable to meditate further. )
In
Prema Sai Avatar, the marriage between Swami and I
will be fixed even before our birth. We will have deep love for one another
from childhood. Our thoughts, words and deeds will be one. Since we will live
purely one for the other, our five senses will not wander. Brahmacharya is a
discipline followed by the senses. Since my five senses are absorbed in Swami,
His senses will center on me. It is due to this pure one-pointed Brahmacharya
that Swami is saying our son will be an enlightened one.
The Gurukula system of
education of ancient times gave importance to sense control and
one-pointedness. The students lived with the Guru and first trained the senses
to focus fully on him. The Guru imparted Vedic wisdom to them. Such students
stepped into the outside world, married and begot children. These children had
an illumined intellect, great souls were born. This is the fruit of Gurukula
education. How then would the fruit of Avatarhood, the Avatar’s child be?
The Prema Sai Avatar is unique;
He will not descend in an ordinary way. Unlike the previous Avatars, He Himself
is now planning His next Avatar. He is revealing how He will look, what His
character will be like, how He will behave and many incidences from His life.
Imagine then how His child will be? By performing Kaamadahana, the burning of
lust, He has made Kaama His child. His child will be Jnana deva, a child of
wisdom.
Kaama and Jnana cannot exist
together, they are poles apart; one is South Pole, the other North. Converting
kaama into Jnana is sadhana; this is transforming the Kali Yuga into Sathya
Yuga; the peak of
Kali
Swami Himself has planned that all these
events are going to happen in the Prema Sai Avatar. According to His plan, a
wisdom child will be born due to His Brahmacharya and pure celibacy. The child
will write Jnana Vashishta.
3 December 2005 Meditation
Swami :
None of the Avatars that have come so far have revealed themselves totally. I alone
am showing Myself in Total. You are the only jeeva who is able to absorb me
fully and reveal My Truth. We have descended
only to give this wisdom to man. Your books contain this wisdom. You absorb
the truth and publish them as books. Each and every book is a
different expression of this Truth. If one reads just one book with full
concentration and one-pointedness, wisdom
will be attained.
Vasantha : I
understand Swami, now I will write.
As I
have written before it is only this Avatar, Sri Sathya Sai Baba that is revealing Himself in Total. He is showing
an easy path to God. He clearly shows us what maya and truth are. Wisdom is
pouring from Him in showers. Up till now, no one has done so much for mankind.
I performed penance to attain
Him and as a result, I had many experiences. These experiences form the books
that I write. This wisdom is imparted through the dialogues that I have with
Swami in meditation. Each and every book is only the wisdom revealed by Swami.
In fact, everything is contained in the first book, ‘Liberation Here itself
Right Now’. The other books are merely an expansion of what has been said there.
The Sathya Sai Avatar is showing His Truth and expanding it like an ocean. How
can I absorb it totally? So far, I have absorbed seventeen drops from the ocean
and published them as books. There are still seventeen more drops to publish!
How to absorb the
ever-expanding ocean?