An extract from the book “Glimpses
of the Divine Vision” by Swami Ramdas – Section “God”
·
Give up the notion that you are the doer.
It is the Divine Shakti that propels you to all action. Root out all doubts,
and rise above the Dwandwas such as joy and grief, gain and loss, honour
and dishonour, friend and foe, virtue and sin, etc. Take it that God alone
is-who is Shakti or Prakriti in form, change, movement and
action, and who is Shiva or Purusha as the formless, immutable,
unmoving, actionless, all-pervading Spirit. Shakti in movement and
action stands for infinite love and bliss, and Shiva for absolute peace. Purusha
and Prakriti are the two eternal aspects of Purushottama who is both
these and beyond them. Enjoy the perfect calm and peace as Purusha, the
witness, and the bliss of universal love as Prakriti or Shakti.”
·
Change is the order of the universe. The
how and the wherefore of events, great and small, happening in the world are
questions which do not admit of any answer. The Lord’s will is supreme in all
things. In the early stages of Sadhana, when the individual and egoistic will
persists and makes progress difficult, to subdue it, surrender to the Almighty
will of God is indeed an easy path. A really independent will works in you only
when you are actuated by God's own will. The saint has made his will God's will
and vice versa. The surrendering of the weak and faulty will of the individual
to God's will, for eliminating thereby the ego sense, is truly easier than the
assertion of Divinity within you so that the individual will may be transformed
into the Divine Will. In the first case, you have an Almighty hand to lift you
up and guard you against any fall, whilst in the latter, since you depend on
your own gradually developing will, there is always the danger of a fall. You
have heard of the instance cited of the kitten and of the young one of the
monkey.
·
God’s will means God’s power. God’s power
is the manifested universe. All movement, all change in it, belongs to that
power. To realize this truth is to surrender to the power or will of God. The
individual “I” is utterly unreal. He and His power are the truth. His power is
infinite love and infinite joy. Just as the Sun’s power lies in the heat and
light he gives, so God’s power expresses in love and joy. God and His power are
at once one and different, like the milk and its whiteness. God stands for
absolute stillness and peace, His power for eternal movement and joy. Love
denotes movement. So love belongs to God’s power- which therefore makes for
joy. Power creates, maintains and destroys. It is all the work of love and for
joy. The visible universe is a manifestation of power, i.e., of love and joy;
the unmanifest is the calm, silent, still, all pervading, immutable Spirit.
·
A top is rotating at the highest velocity.
To all appearances it is perfectly at rest. A piece of iron is lying before us.
It seems to be resting, while its particles are in a state of intense vibration
and motion. Here rest and motion are combined in such a way that they exist
simultaneously with regard to every object. Apply it to the whole universe. It
is eternal movement co-existing with eternal rest. Eternal rest is the ideal;
eternal movement is the real. The one is Spirit and the other is Matter. Ideal
and Real, Spirit and Matter, are the two eternal non-moving and moving aspects
of the Transcendent One-the supreme ultimate Truth.
·
Indeed Sri Ram’s ways are inscrutable.
Yours is to watch the workings of His divine lila-His wonderful world-play. The
concepts of the pairs of opposites that you have are nothing but unreal bubbles
on the calm ocean of Sat-Chit-Anand. But how often you are deluded into the
belief that they are real! You see the mirage from a distance, you take it for
real water, while in truth there is no water at all. Such is this world. But
the irresistible Maya tries her best to fix up firmly the curtain of ignorance
between you and the Reality. There is a way out. Surrender to Sri Ram, the
Infinite existence, splendour, power, knowledge, purity and bliss, who tears
off this false curtain that shuts your eyes to His glory and magnificence. How
to surrender to Him? Universal love; universal love-that is the path. Let your
life be attuned to and guided by that Love. Oh, how grand, how sublime is that
Love. You then lose yourself in the vast expanse of a depthless, limitless,
all-pervading ocean of love. To taste it is joy, to enter into it is bliss, to
merge into it and become one with it means unutterable rapture and
inexpressible divine ecstasy. Then the world is not a world of diversity and
discord for you, but you behold that harmony reigns everywhere, love pervades
everywhere, and it is the deluge of bliss everywhere.
Swami Ramdas Web Site - anandashram.org
