Revered Masters of the Order
Pranams
1.
God is known to be both samavarti and sama-darshi, is
the topic of the today’s Seminar being conducted by our
Institute on the auspicious occasion of Sri Krishna
Janmastami. How aptly the topic that is given for our
considered contemplation is fitting into today’s
occasion and it is indeed filling our heart with
pleasant surprise and Joy. Master has been kind to
elucidate the meaning of the mysticness that usually
gets enshrouded around the Halo word called as GOD.
2.
By this very statement, all the notions about GOD seem
to dissolve exposing us to the naked understanding and
awareness of IT through Pranahuti. GOD to us has been
really unknown at the feeling level and eternal
gratitude and millions of thanks to the Great Master
Mahatma Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur who has
enabled us to feel consistently and persistently the
highest and purest consciousness as unalloyed Love of
the Master as a result of a systemic practice of PAM.
The Samavarti character of the Master or God is
experienced as unalloyed love that flows from heart to
heart.
3.
Samavarti is also defined as being just and balanced.
Justness is something that can broadly be considered as
an effect to a cause or it comes into expression due to
action. The law of causality is supported by the
principle of Justness. It is the Base, so to say. It can
also be considered as an underlying support to activity
or creation, and the very activity to be considered to
be its expressed feature. For the creation to be
dynamic, the complementary feature i.e, inactivity is to
be considered as a part of activity or vice versa. The
Transition from the state of inactivity to activity and
back to inactivity completes one full cycle even like a
pendulum. But what is important for us to know that in
that one full cycle, two states of balance are
experienced one in each half cycle. Balance is always
found between activity and inactivity. Balance is one
more definition of samavarti. God is samavarti (i.e Just
and Balanced) means to me that He is the cause of the
creation or activity and He is the sustainer of the
same.
4.
Now to understand our reference w.r.t to God or Base, we
need to study the commentary on the First Commandment of
the Master, wherein He says, our goal is that junction
point of activity and inactivity because that is our
origin. The importance of Sandhi Gati and the meditation
at that point of time is stressed only to remind us of
the nature of our origin or Base – The Balanced
condition. To quote, “Now the time when the external
heat begins to subside, yielding place for the cooler
effect to settle in, or the meeting point of the two is
known as Sandhi-gati and this, in the opinion of the
mahatmas, is the time best suited for the practicexe
"Practice" of Sandhyaxe "Sandhya" and Upasana (worshipxe
"Worship"). This is the time of the advent of that which
is opposed to heat and it can be that alone which
existed prior to the generation of heat at the time of
creationxe "Time of Creation"xe "Creation" and which is
in close conformity with Naturexe "Nature", or in other
words the very image of the ultimatexe "Ultimate" state
we have finally to arrive at. Thus the point we start
from is the very point which corresponds closely with
the Destination”1xe "Destination".
5.
The first commandment really makes us know about our
base or origin. Now having known about the goal, we need
to start our journey so to say, we need to act otherwise
how shall I start my movement at all?
6.
So Master talks about meditation as the means and Heart
being the place of action. It is important for every one
of us to understand these basics and we all know very
well that hard practice or sadhana alone makes us know
about the path but also more about the methods of
practice.
7.
Having known about the need to realize the Goal, Master
asks to seek the Goal through the second commandment. He
introduces the concept of God or Base as Master through
the method of prayer. In Prayer, essentially we are
seeking the Goal and also seeking the help of the Master
in seeking Him. So here also the role of Samavarthi
comes to the fore as He is the cause or goal and He is
the means. If I have to move somebody towards me or I
have to move towards that, there needs to be some
attraction or some kind of relationship. In the second
commandment, Master brings in the concept of our link
with God/ Base as a matter of inheritance. To quote,
“The greater the love or affinity, the more does one
advancexe "Advance" towards Him. This relationshipxe
"Relationship" comes to us by inheritance”2 and in this
commandment, He is asking us to realise this truth of
relationship that has come to us by inheritance by
developing Love and Devotion and gives prayer as a sure
means to achieve the same. Master says, “Prayer is the
connecting link between the Master and the Serf”3, if
Master/ God is Samavarti then he should respond to
prayer that seeks Him and also that response should be
universal i.e, for all people and at all times.
8.
Some feel the response of the Master to Prayer but some
could not be feeling so the same and this gives in some
kind of doubt about the Samavarti nature of God/Master
and one starts rile(ing) on Him showering chosen
epithets. So faith seems to depend upon some factors
which are really extraneous. It is necessary for us to
Know that God or Master is Samavarti as it is essential
to bring in us the required emotional balance and
equanimity. In this system, one certainly feels the
response of the Master to prayer as descent of silent
vibrations giving joy and succour to the heart. But for
that to happen, one need to pray with a supplicant
heart. Supplicancy is a condition of heart which is
brimming with devotion with a feeling of utter
helplessness of the self, coupled with a feeling of
dependency with a heart seeking Him and Him alone.
9.
In the commentary on the commandments, Master repeatedly
talks about the nobility of the heart and I understand
it as a feeling of supplication. Now this supplication
is essential for the Divine descent into one’s heart as
it creates a state of a vacuity and that alone moves the
Master towards oneself. If objectively seen, we can see
a principle of balance that is operation and thus God
becomes samavarti not as a person but as a principle
that is in operation.
10.
As we start understanding Master as supporting and
operating principle, we start developing emotional and
mental tenacity to handle things or events that occur in
our life, a kind of faith in the Master. This
understanding also gives us positive thinking. The
rational and the supra rational faith in the Master
makes us not only mature but also positive in life. It
is very important to remind ourselves the thoughts of
Rev KCN in this context as said in the 3rd commandment
that, “The most mature concept of the Master is that he
is a Samavarthi one who does Just”4. This kind of
understanding is essential for following or abiding in
this commandment as it helps us maintain a steady and
sustained focus and determined will to attain the Goal.
The loss of determination or steam due to frivolous
reasons like blaming God for all the difficulties and
troubles in our sadhana is completely avoided by this
kind of understanding or attitude.
11.
The law of action is binding on us, we need to act and
we act and the result is that we get back results of our
own action and we react to that. In the 5th commandment,
Master says, we are the cause for our own action and the
results thereof and the whole process is a misery. I
feel that, it has become a misery as our ego has come
into action. We know that Ego reacts, it is elated when
it is bloated while it is depressed when it is snubbed.
This ego seems to create an alternate action and
reaction sequence or cycle that is binding. Therefore it
is necessary to understand the repeated emphasis of Dr
KCV in His Works, the famous statement, ‘Na Karma
Lipyate Nara’. He says Man is not bound by action when
it is done in remembrance of the Master/God. For a
person who is eager to move on the path of devotion and
remembrance abiding in the condition of dependent
awareness, it is necessary to treat every misery as
coming from Him and be thankful as it has come to
fruition lest one is away from the Lover or Lord to that
much extent, therefore it is a commandment for him. The
law of Love which is always lessening the distance
between the Lover and the beloved subsumes in itself all
the obstacles and makes the path clear. If Love is
awakened, nothing is an obstacle and it makes things
happen as it has the power to move. For such a person,
to treat miseries as Divine blessings is a matter of
etiquette that Love demand of him. Here again, we see a
principle in action, hence another inherent
understanding that God is samavarti.
12.
The concept of samadarsi is one having equal vision
towards all has been understood by me as one who has
samabhava towards things, person and events. We do
experience such feelings in the conditions pertaining to
viveka, vairagya and interdependency in different
intensities and in different dimensions. The basic
understanding of transience of life gives us an ability
to be equanimous in all situations. By the virtue of
having the conditions of vairagya, we feel non attached,
non possessive and remembrance alone gives joy to the
heart, we develop a neutral attitude in life. This is
also a kind of samadarshitva. Now coming to our treating
people, we find or we tend to more and more to an
attitude of sama bhava for all.
13.
The samadarsi bhava that we get in sadhana helps us
stay at upper plane of consciousness but I feel that our
movement or growth in it is possible only when we work
for the welfare of others. Living in upper plane is
working for others as what I understand. Working for
fraternity through Point A meditation and 9.00 PM prayer
are essential for a man to realize the God’s condition
of samadarsi – Utter selfless service.
14.
In the context of the seminar topic, I would like to
share my gut predominant feeling that to enable a man
live at a higher plane which is easily possible through
diversion of flow to Upper heart and thence to Atma
chakra is the greatest service that has been rendered
possible by the system of the Great Master Pujya Babuji
Maharaj, a boon that the humanity will be ever grateful
to Him- The Samavarti and The Samadarsi.
15.
On this auspicious day, Our gratitude to the Masters of
the Order. Our Eternal Gratitude to Lalaji Maharaj for
reviving the technique of Pranahuti and thus giving us
the access to the Base. The process of the Pranahuti is
the most significant aspect that is making us move to
the condition of our Base – The balance condition. I am
therefore very happy to present before you the answers
of the Master to a set of questions on Pranahuti.
16.
Pujya Babuji Maharaj answers in the following way as
Published in the compilation ‘Sparkles and Flashes’
How does the transmission work on you? Can you explain
it a little, Babuji?
It brings out the Divine Energy into you and then it
works. When Divine energy of that nature is coming into
you, it will function.
But how does it work on you?
You mean on my self.
Yes.
Well, in myself it brings me to the balanced state of
mind. Unbalanced character is lost. These are the
effects of the transmission.
17.
I have tried to bring in the above aspects only to
reiterate that PAM enables us to feel the balanced
condition of the Mind. Samavarti means Just and Balance
and this aspect of balancedness of GOD has been given to
us an experience. This experience literally de-mystifies
our understanding about the experiential nay the
existential nature of GOD. It has been our authentic
experience as an abiding state of mind and is
experienced as dynamic, effervescent, refreshing and
infusing vitality to us with an engendered feeling of
remembrance.
18.
This balancedness is being owned by us gradually, but
surely due to the sincere and dedicated practice leading
to an understanding that Master – the condition of
Ultimate Balance is ardently sought as a Goal.
19.
Pranams
References
1.
Imperience Beckons: page-2
2.
Imperience Beckons: page-19
3.
Imperience Beckons: page-17
4.
Imperience Beckons: page-91
