Date: 23 May 2002 Occasion: Summer course address Place: Brindavan
God has no form
Foretell Natter
by
Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
A tree can be produced without any twirl and turn,
A stone can be produced without any puncture.
Can we falsify the forethought, without any defect?
The word of Sai is the word of truth.
Embodiments of love!
Our park ranger has asked me to means of access about the three akashas (infinities). That which cannot be seen by the eye, that cannot be heard by the ear, and that cannot be spoken by words characterizes the realm of akasha. It cannot be comprehended by the forethought either. The sun and the moon, the haze and the stars belong to the realm of akasha. Exhibit are three akashas : bhutakasha, chittakasha, and chidakasha.
The bhutakasha envelops the discernible and the invisible event. For slice, some stars are discernible in the sky; but there are assorted greater than that lie down invisible. The stash in the middle of the earth and the sun is about nine crores and eleven lakh miles. The bhutakasha spreads insensitive an mass that is unattainable to draw. The sun is a star,and there are famous other stars scattered in the plot. They analogous our own sun in extent. When they are so far to one side, they gang ornamental insignificant stars to us. One and all star shines with the splendour of the sun. The light of these stars actions at an unreasonable celerity of 16,000 crores of miles per second! Exhibit are other stars whose light has not yet reached the earth.
The light emanating from the stars is stupendous in its force. The vibrancy cannot be withstood by anything or someone on the earth. Our sun imparts only a twist of its neutral to earth. Neither the voluminous stars nor the sun and the moon are fitting of generating this effulgence on their own. Exhibit is a central power that is the pencil case of all this. It is the basic cheerful from which the rest of the vibrancy originates. This primordial power is that of the Atma. It allows the stars, sun, and moon to glow.
All these mentioned previous are encompassed in the bhutakasha. Seeing that is chittakasha then? When everything that is discernible is bhutakasha, it cannot be argued that colonize invisible belong to chittakasha. Exhibit is a power that is invisible, slam, soft, and eternal. This power is the chittakasha. In it is reflected or impressed everything that is seen is bhutakasha. The latitude of the chittakasha is very stumpy and penalize. On the other hand, the plain and discernible bhutakasha spans a pensive mass. Yet, the complete matter of bhutakasha gang in the chittakasha as stumpy blips! For slice, you see a voluminous coop up. Later you fasten your eyes after seeing it, you soul be strong to vision the image of the coop up from the chittakasha. By the same token, the stars and sky and all that is seen are permanently etched on the chittakasha.
The thin-skinned physical mass and put together of the bhutakasha allow not been estimated to catch sight of. But no matter which can be relaxed of the chittakasha. The complete discernible creation is stored in chittakasha in a penalize form. Every form and highly in the chittakasha is a weighing up of some victim in the bhutakasha. Bhutakasha is physically reckonable. That which is morally reckonable is chittakasha.
The third is called chidakasha. It is overly called Atma. Atma has no form. It has no improve. It is without any attributes, ever effulgent, eternal, winning, fully, not guilty, and perpetual. He who has seen this chidakasha is one who has had the incident of Atma. No school backdrop, present, or special abilities are sought-after to see chittakasha. On the other hand, none can see even the weighing up or shadow of chidakasha, all the same exhausting the drudgery.
The stash of out of the ordinary stars from the earth is measurable. But there are assorted greater than stars that are so far to one side that they are over and done any human reckon. Scientists allow prepared out of the ordinary attempts to examination such a event. They attempted to run the chidakasha with their arithmetic examinations. All their efforts can withhold them at utmost prepare the chittakasha, and not a walk greater than. Chidakasha couldn't be amply described even by the Vedanta. Science overly fails in its efforts. Even now, pointers are to some mass genial from Vedanta on chidakasha. The weighing up of bhutakasha is chittakasha. That which reflects chittakasha itself is chidakasha. The checking account in the middle of the three is explained as follows:
1. The one you give your verdict you are is bhutakasha such as it contains all that you see, notice, and incident.
2. The one that others give your verdict you are is the chittakasha, such as it reflects in your mind's eye doesn't matter what you mirror on.
3. The one you really are is the chidakasha or the persistence of Atma, your true aspect. It is Foretell Happiness. Happiness, I, weighing up of Goddess, and Atma all are mean the extremely. 'I' is simultaneous in particular to the Atma. 'I' is a independent lettered word. The Vedas publicize " Ekam sat vipahraha bahuda vadanti ". 'I' is the truth. It is interpreted in out of the ordinary ways by scholars. I may demand "Anil Kumar", and the riposte comes 'I'. I may demand "Girigaru" --once another time the riposte comes from the other neighboring, 'I'. In this way I may demand out the names of out of the ordinary lakhs of people; the riposte is eternally 'I'. This unity in alteration is 'I'. It is the Atmatatwa. It can't be explained as to the same extent the sky or earth etc. It is so hugely social that it has no gait at all. Scholars after that say, " Akasam gaganam sunyam. " Exhibit is nil but void space in which you may see a few stars and haze. But to what mass can you see them? Austerely up to a reliable stash. Anything over and done that is invisible to your eyes. That which can't be seen but only visualized is chittakasha. 'I' overly cannot be visualized. None can confer on its true meaning.
Even now, Vedanta eternally propounds unity in alteration along with all its tradition. For scrupulous the term " Aham Bramhasmi " translates to 'I am Brahma'. The word Brahma follows the independent meaning 'I'. Any other word has to stem Aham. Deteriorating the meaning 'I', the word Atma can't gang. Brahma is originated from 'I'. In this manner, the meaning 'I' signifies the primordial persistence.
Vedanta advises that while one may allow read scriptures and texts, one essential sluggish make every drudgery to find out their true aspect. One essential repeatedly ask oneself, "Who am I?" This hunch cannot be answered with your present or practical applications. Later asked "Who are you?" you riposte, "I am Anil Kumar". To whom is the name "Anil Kumar" given? Your parents allow unmovable that name to your immensity. Seeing that was your name until that time you were so christened? Exhibit is no tone. In this manner all names are only given; none of them were uneducated with you. They were all other to you at the time of your birth for identifying you in this touchable world. They don't establish your true cooperation. Atma has no perfect name. It is its own cooperation. It has no other form.
Bhutakasha and chittakasha can be discussed and arduous up to some mass. Even now chidakasha has no form or characteristic. Seeing that form and name can you entrust to the unclear one? It is after that its own cooperation. No one is strong to appreciate the true meaning of the word 'I'. 'I' essential not be baffled with ego. Ego has form, but not 'I'. Vedanta describes 'I' by refutation. It is not ether, ego, highly, or any such thing.
A master gone asked his aficionada to find out who he really was. The nearby day, the aficionada appeared and meant, "Sir, I've found the tone. My name is Ramaiah."
The master gone another time asked him, "Who are you?" While progress enquiry, the tone came, "I am the son of Mallaiah, and my mother's name is Pullamma."
These are all names of assorted bodies. None of them is your true cooperation such as names relate to the immensity. They are accomplished for you to slot in yourself in the physical world. Austerely one name was uneducated with you and not unmovable. It is 'I'. Atma, 'I' all mean the extremely. Cook up efforts to uncover the aspect of 'I'. Exhibit is nil overly you hardship to know progress. Exhibit is no hardship for you to say, "I am Ramaiah" taking into consideration announcing your true cooperation. 'I' is itself enough. No other words hardship to stem 'I' to validate your cooperation. 'I' is personal and eternally independent. Realising this is the secret restricted in all of Vedanta.
Chidakasha has nil to do with reflections, reactions, and resounds. It is over and done all three. It cannot be accepted or comprehended with any name or form. At one turn of time, in Uttar Pradesh, there was a wristlet merchant on the banks of issue Ganges. One day, a glossy form emerged from the Ganges and asked him, "Sir, soul you gist split me some bangles?"
The wristlet merchant complied, and plunder out some bangles for her extent, prepared her put them on. The form meant, " I don't allow the money for this bangles with me. Even now, I soul confer on you an unequivocal and commands to run the goods. Go to the character and gather the money from him. He is my dawn."
The wristlet merchant consequently asked her, "Madam, what is your name? I soul hardship to impart you at your goods for collecting the money." The form replied, "You can method them that my name is Ganga" and consequently deep in thought.
As directed, the wristlet merchant reached the goods and told the landlord that he had come to gather the money due to him from his youngster Ganga to whom he had sold some bangles. The amazed landlord replied, "I am not even conjugal. How can I consequently allow a youngster and how would she buy bangles?"
The wristlet merchant replied, " The member of the aristocracy was absolutely betraying the truth. How overly can I allow naked and found my way to your house? She even accepted your name for me. Is this your name or not?" The character voted for that it was so.
The wristlet merchant argued, " If all this is true, the member of the aristocracy absolutely was not disloyalty." The goods landlord didn't even know that he had the invoice with him. He searched in his cabinet and was astounded to find the invoice there acute as predicted.
This character was an eager fanatic of mother Ganges. He was in raptures and told the bangle-seller, "Sir! I venerate mother Ganges. She is my patron deity. I allow approaching for myself to her and allow accordingly decide on to lie down unmarried. I am set to see the sacred fastener someplace you saw my mother Ganges. Let us go!"
The wristlet merchant refreshing and briskly any inwards at the banks of the issue. The bangle-seller caringly prayed, "Mother! You appeared to me and took the bangles. You guided me to your devotee's goods to withhold the episode. Force you not gang another time and gaudiness me your form? I allow come to you with thanks to method you that I allow usual the episode due to me."
A display replied, "Surrounding is the blessing that I argue for your thanks," and a hand emerged from the issue, with the in recent times bought bangles adorning it!
The fanatic saw the hand and was restless. He exclaimed, "Mother! Won't you gaudiness me your true form and sanctify me?" He cold entreating and praying.
The display replied, "Son! I cannot gaudiness any form to everybody. That is such as I do not allow a hold form. All forms that you can see are God's forms only! God can gang in any form that a fanatic prays to Him to gang in. God Himself has no inflexible form or characteristic. I showed you my hand chock-full with bangles honest as a slip that I allow all right bought the bangles, and you prerequisite pay the wristlet merchant."
The fanatic saw the hand; he was in raptures at the slenderness conferred on him and meant, "Mother! I allow seen at smallest your hand and allow been sanctified! I don't need anything overly in life". He cut popular the Ganges and breathed his rob.
Goddess eternally assumes the form that a fanatic visualizes and prays for. None can actually fix and give a price of what Goddess looks ornamental, such as there is no form at all! Ramakrishna Paramahamsa too had a nearby incident. He was staying at Kamarpakur. He was captivated by a strong poverty to allow darshan of the God Kali. Barred to lease the difficulty of separation anymore, he attempted to commit suicide by jumping popular the Ganges. Miraculously, all the same far he walked popular the issue, he found that the water came only up to his knees! He prayed, "O Blood relation of the universe! Why are you tiring me so? Why don't you reveal your form to me? Why don't you allow me to assemble in you? I am powerless to lease this knotty difficulty."
The mother God replied, "Son! I can gaudiness you my form if I had one in the apex place! I allow no form for you to see. My only form is that of Atma. You can see any form that you give your verdict of. All the forms that you see are products of your fantasy. None of them can be crazed to be the true cooperation of Goddess."
You say that Rama or Krishna or Sai Baba, etc. allow appeared until that time you. Manifold residents make such claims. These are all figments of one's fantasy ( bhrama ). As inclination as you allow bhrama you soul be far to one side from Brahma (Goddess). On the other hand if you allow realized Brahma, bhrama can come nowhere secretive you. The hardship of the hour is after that to lay into this fantasy. Get rid off the immensity religious zeal. Mature religious zeal to the Atma noticeably. Your true cooperation is Atma. It has neither a name nor a form. It is the consider of high. Atma is after that described as;
Nityanandam Parama Sukhadam Kevalam Gnanamurthym
Dwandwathetam Gaganasadrusham Tatwamatsyadi Lakshyam
Ekam, nityam, vimalam, achalam, sarvadi sakshibhutam. Indestructible high, invincible joyfulness, wisdom, non-dual, vague and essential, the independent one, eternal, fully, yet and eternal authentication --these are the assorted names and similes of the Atma. Even now, it has no form. In this way, do not aim to see the form of God. Considerably keep upright all the forms that you see to be that of God. Do not fix assorted forms as personal to God.
The spot of bhutakasha is that it encompasses the sun, the stars, and all the galaxies in it. Don't withhold these to be the permanent attributes of God! They soul all expire someday, endorsement on, or event forms. They soul lure themselves and rawhide from creation itself at some turn of time. Exhibit is only one thing that soul eternally be with you, in you, around you, previous you, and beneath you and that is high.
Happiness has no form. Exhibit is only one way to know it. People give your verdict that bursting out popular cheer is bliss! Flatly cheer essential not be a guffaw. How does Goddess laugh? It is by a acceptable smirk. No highly accompanies this smirk. It is not a guffaw, but it confers a lot of joy to colonize who see it. Showy cheer is called a " prahasan " being the muted smirk is called " hasan ". God eternally smiles and never laughs. Seeing that you see around you is an prepare in emotional behavior that is agreed on as cheer. Seeing this, residents picture that God prerequisite overly be smiling ornamental this!
Exhibit is one aspect that you can use to impart Divinity: thanks. God is pliable you so assorted matter. Later you are not well, a doctor comes and gives you an jab. You pay the doctor his measure. Your excursion of thanks ends there. Later you are undernourished, you method your mother that you would ornamental to eat no matter which. Your mother gives you some goods that you gusto with deep-seated joy. This itself is an excursion of thanks to your mother. You may be assessment. Later someone comes and consoles you and gives you soul, you idiom thanks to him. In this way, all help rendered is gratefully recognized without use up. This essential be the strangeness. Sadly, there is no such tradition today.
God is pliable you so far away. You are success free keeping fit, free therapeutic aid, and free water. He is discourse with you so openly and moving about together with you so openly. He is pliable you everything so 'free'! How do you idiom your thanks for all these? You prerequisite confer on up your ego and circulated joyfulness ornamental He does. That soul be the in keeping thing to do. As it is meant, That nub that you allow unmovable me, O Lord!
I confer on it back to you, O intense One!
Seeing that overly can I here you, my Master!
If for my snuffle of thanks, O Lord!
Pilfer them all with my nub. It is these snuffle of joy and thanks that you prerequisite here to God. Deteriorating work this, you soul become an showing no gratitude wretch. You soul end popular the incessant scamper of birth and death. Turmoil and distress soul shadow you. Your snuffle of thanks soul free you from all such sweat. You soul eternally be ecstatic, with brainy smiles. This is the consequence of expressing your thanks to God.
At what time, there lived a fanatic of Lord Krishna who exhausted his time never-endingly contemplating on Krishna's name. But he had a problem! Krishna was depicted in assorted ways in noticeable pictures. Which form to chosen being contemplating on Lord Krishna? He can not place. These photographs are insincerely produced ones. It is meant, " Daivam manusha rupena (God is in the human form)." The crowns and jewels in the pictures are trappings provided by artists; they are not His true form. His true aspect is that He is ever joyful and is eternally making others smile! He is eternally ecstatic and presents high to others. That is the true benchmark of Lord Krishna. "Be happy; make others cheery." It is a give-and-take philosophy! Stand firm high and grow naturally high in return. That is the only true form of thanks you can idiom to God.
Deteriorating expressing your thanks, you cannot aim to gist God with anything that you may do. You soul not make a purchase of any joyfulness in return. Later you see your presiding deity, confer on a smirk. Do not stand with a crooked face! Together with such a severe character, you can never drive to incident high. You prerequisite eternally be cheery such as high is your true aspect. Everlastingly keep a innocuous smirk on your character. You may simply character some sweat and obstacles in life. Misery and wretchedness may sometimes surpass you. Don't break down and cry. These are matter that come and go. They are short-lived haze and soul never stand permanently to catch you. Don't bow to them; character them noticeably. A firm expect in God soul confer on you the satisfaction of to the same extent a true fanatic.
These days, you misfortune about your mother and dawn, kith and kin. How do you solicit to make a purchase of joyfulness with so assorted worries? Who are your parents? They are the ones who gave you a physical immensity. Whose immensity is it? It is only a physical victim. Leave out the immensity. Wonder about on Goddess noticeably. This is true integrity. Leave out bhutakasha genuine, while it is what you actually see. Chittakasha can be relied on to the extremely mass. At what time you assimilate everything in chittakasha, you soul run chidakasha. In this way, act the muscle to thoroughly assemble in chidakasha.
How soul you vision and assemble popular chittakasha ? I shall make clear it in articulate unconventional. In this world, out of the ordinary scholars and experts make clear Goddess heaps generally. Even now, Goddess that can be explained is not true Divinity! These are only similes and pointers to Goddess. They can clearly make you cheery or even hoodwink you. But you prerequisite go over and done these and aim to see the continuation that is " Tat ". " Tat twam asi (Thou Art That)". "Thou" contraption "this". "That" is " Tat ". All essential after that become one.
In receiving to Narasimhamurthy's prayer, I allow explained the three akashas of bhutakasha, chittakasha, and chidakasha to you. Best " akasha " is " hridayakasha (the nub)". Chidakasha is glowing and essential. Every lead to essential be prepared to know its aspect.