Bhakti - ability to see beyond this Illusion

11 NOV 2010 - BHAKTHI, THE SONG OF GOD

Breeze is the song of the air,

Wave is the song of the ocean,

Flower is the song of the plant,

Fruit is the song of the tree,

Light is the song of the sun,

Life is the song of the consciousness,

Creativity is the song of the man,

Bhakthi is the song of God himself!

The best things each one can present to the cosmos – the air can present breeze, plant can present flower to the world, tree can present fruit to the world, best thing the ocean can present to us is waves, best thing human beings can give to cosmos is creativity and the best thing that God can give to world is Bhakthi.

Bhakthi is even beyond enlightenment. With bhakthi anything you have or not does not matter. Without bhakthi anything you have or not does not matter! Both ways anything you have or not does not matter.

Ashtavakra was a great master says whatever you experience as reality is illusion – he goes on describing from his experience. Now these scientists have proved it very clearly how whatever you call as reality, you experience only in the parietal lobe of the brain.

Understanding that whatever you call as reality is experienced in the parietal lobe and is just an illusion and ability to feel something beyond this illusion and ability to merge with it, relax into something beyond this illusion is Bhakthi. I am defining Bhakthi.

Bhakthi is where you see, whatever is seen and experienced including your body as illusion and ability to see beyond this illusion, resting into something which is beyond this illusion. This is bhakthi. Means, how many times you remember and you know that you are going to die whatever you are creating is going to be left behind, how many times you know it, but there is something inside you that gives you a strong courage, gut feeling – I am going to exist, I am going to be there, I am, I am eternal. There is something in all of us which is responsible to making us forget about our death. About our impermanence. About our non-existence. That streak, that line, that part which is in you – that part which reflects in you becomes alive becomes more in you when you start understanding this whatever you call as reality is illusion.

Please understand, if you think this is reality that part which gives you courage that you are reality looks like illusion, if you empower that more this will look like illusion. In the books describing meditation techniques, especially techniques for advaitic vedantic experiences, they are like – feel that from the behind of what you are seeing, there is a huge screen. Whatever you are seeing the whole thing is a moving movie.

Just visualize you are sitting in an Imax theatre. From the back of you there is a huge screen. And whatever you are seeing, experiencing, is running from that screen. In vedantic tradition, they say 3 days if you do this technique your liver will be completely healed. Your liver contains all your duplicate pseudo intellectual engrams in it. I used to wonder why such a description for this. The funny thing is this example is described in the vedic tradition when there was no movie and screen.

There are Sacred Sentiments we are not able to grasp but, it is. Same way, there is this illusion beyond reality we are not able to grasp now but it is – it exists. The person who is able to feel it is and able to rest in that truth, the ability to rest in that truth is Bhakthi. The trust that it exists is Vitarka. Bhakthi is song of the God and the greatest thing that God can contribute to the cosmos. If you have that, that is ultimate. Don’t bother towards whom you have. Even if you have to a small stone its ok.

So understand, with anything, if you feel beyond this screen there is a reality and have the ability to relax into it, you have Bhakthi. And the ultimate song God can sing, he is singing in your life!