Page 94 - Wisdom Unfurled

Hitherto there have been all kinds of fanciful notions regarding the realms of God and what constitutes the experience of the fortunate souls who are blessed with the company of God after they depart from this world. Each religion has its own version of the divine habitats, the Vaikuntha of the Vaishnavite, the Kailasa of the Saivite, the paradise of the Christian and so on. All we are given to understand from the descriptions is a static picture of uninterrupted bliss, a kind of drugged immobility.
It is the Master, who has for the first time in the history of spirituality declared that man has a unique position in Nature and is destined to play a very important role in the maintenance and the upkeep of nature’s machinery. The fully evolved human being gives power to the devas, functionaries of nature when their power is depleted. The highest possibility for the human species consists in developing complete oneness with the Divine and implementing the will of the Divine by means of his highly developed will or special will.
One attains this state after renouncing all selfishness and effacing one’s own individuality to nothingness. Such a person with no personality is ever oriented to Him is in the state of communion with the Divine always ready to do His bidding whatever it may be. It is to be noted that this state does not fall to the lot of one and all. He alone succeeds whom He attracts and such a personality as exemplified by our Great Master emerges only when Nature is in dire need of the same. This culmination can be considered as the crowning effect of the injection of the original divine consciousness into the line of humanity from the line of divinity by a Master of caliber. The continuous influx of the divine consciousness helps the loosening of the knots formed by the individual and makes for a smooth and harmonious flow of the divine energy in him. The individuality is gradually given up and the individual develops greater and greater sense of identity with the divine. A stage is reached when the humanity is reduced to the barest minimum as would be needed to maintain a nominal difference between God and man. As the Master puts it even in the state of final realization idea of God and man is maintained and the realized one still remains in the sphere of devotion. He is an effective instrument in the hands of God with no idea of what he is. His actions are all automatic in full consonance with the Divine and he resides in the state of Complete Ignorance. Such is the practical significance of the Principle of Parallelism in Nature.
Avatars
The concept of Avatars is not new to the Hindu tradition. The Avatar or descent is normally for restoring dharma, the punishing of the wicked and protecting the good and noble hearted as has been declared by the