AWAKENING TO GODLINESS – THE RIGHT OF THE SOUL

               Translation of the book 'MARANAM PARAMANANDATHINTE THAKKOL',written by Anand Unnithan.Translated by: Krishna(Krishnankutty Nair).                                                 8

                      AWAKENING TO GODLINESS – THE RIGHT OF THE SOUL

Everyone has a right to it. Let him be a monk who discarded everything, or the family man who leads an ascetic life, or even the vulgar and drunkard Paramu Vellikkara (Name of a person).

Because we are all human souls which functions from within the divinity called supreme soul. 

Yes. God is my root.

Then I am God.

And the evidence to it?

Please look. The biggest evidence is the great men, the achievers of super human powers through meditation. isn’t? 

Please note that when I say achievers of super human powers, I did not mean all those priests or saints or sorcerers. I meant only those who achieved super human powers through meditation.

He can be a priest or a saint or a sorcerer.

Or may be an auto –rickshaw driver who leads an ordinary life.

Or it may be a notorious harlot.

Yes. It doesn’t matter as to who it is.  The only thing is that the person must have super human powers attained through meditation.

The power of meditation is divinity itself.  There is no sense in bowing in front of phonies. It neither gives nor enables to experience meditational powers. And when it cannot be possessed after going for it, it will make the person dejected. What a disgrace! Leaving off with great difficulty the habit of getting drunk, he went to meditate, but after meditation returned by the next bus without achieving anything! What a pity? Moreover, he was persuaded by them to pay a sum of ten thousand rupees to their charity fund! Will he get a heavenly reward at least for that noble deed!

There is no sense in laughing at ignorance, I agree.  Yet, I write this hoping that those who are still asleep may wake up and begin to think reasonably after reading this.

if a person helps anyone to get the blessing of God or to reach heaven, then remember that the person also will be in the chain of the same activity.

But even a small prayer of the person, who has reached the plane of  divinity, will be a blessing of God.

His words will become true.

Yes. The words of that person, who has reached the plane of  divinity will have super human powers.

But he will not curse anyone, since his aim is universal well-being. The divinity in him will not allow that.

Yet, those who give pain to them will have to face danger.  It is purely the will of God.

But it will not gladden the soul-conscious men.

Not only that.  He will also pray for the well-being of those people who pained him.

Yes. They are the lives which are conscious of all the three worlds.  Earth, heaven and hell.

They are Gods themselves.

But if one sits for hours together in some yogic posture calling God, will it give salvation?

These are thoughts delivered immature.  Because, thoughts delivered after getting developed fully in mind will contain both questions and answers.

But only the soul-conscious people are able to think that way.

Others will go on delivering immature thoughts.

Being self-conscious means awakening to divinity. People, who are unconscious of themselves, just wander observing the outside views, without thinking about themselves.  

Yet, there will come a few moments, when he will think about his self.

Momentary visions.

I am not telling about thoughts like his having taken no meals. 

I am telling about that question. WHO AM I?

As said earlier, there are many reasons which lead to it.

But once it happens, it cannot be forgotten.

Slowly he recognizes his own breathing. Recognizes his heart beat.

And realizes the constant swing of soul.

This movement, which he may experience rarely while his body is motionless, may amaze him.

And a thousand questions without an answer may hunt him.

He may even doubt as to who created God if God has created the world.

He may go on searching.

The journey of the person who believes something or other without any deep thinking will end up in various insincere, clownish roles.

He will be anything like an atheist or a person claiming to have spoken directly to God or one who sprays Bhasmam (holy ash) from the sky or a mad man.

But the person who continues his journey with full concentration will come in contact with different states of life, which is nothing other than the movement of the soul, which he had come to know earlier on odd occasions.

And it will make him blessed.

Because that experience will become the evidence to his faith.

Further journey will provide him with holy experiences of divinity.

But if he longs for the recurrence of these ecstatic experiences, it will take him away from the aim and will endanger him.

But if he continue the journey through Tapas (penance), divinity will slowly flow into him.

Gradually he will reach the state of union of Jeevatma and Paramatma (Individual soul and Super Soul) and will enjoy bliss eternal and reach the zone of jnana (Knowledge of the Absolute).

In the state of eternal bliss, he will enjoy Samadhi (the highest state of meditation) etc.

In this way, he rises to the stage of divinity.

But even a thought about the first step itself will be an impossibility to a person who has no previous experience on these lines in the previous birth.

But the men who have attained deliverance (who enjoy universal freedom) by the grace of Almighty have designed different systems and programs for the ignorant people.

The various paths like yoga, worship of deities, Sufism, meditation, places for worshiping God, different methods of worship, Tanthra (The path of mysticism and magical practices) and all other similar practices are included in this.

All these are meant to ensure that during the journey towards the target attention should be focused on the target alone.

Remember that only those incarnations which takes birth by the will of  God alone can easily wake up into divinity.

Yes. Even those who get a momentary glimpse are very fortunate indeed.

They will be able to reach the Absolute Bliss at least after going through a number of births.

To a few of them, the achievement will be in a moment by the grace of God.

Yes. And wear ochre coloured clothes if they need. Those who do not need it may wear anything.

Let those who desire so may establish Ashrams (The special accommodations where only those who have spirituality as their way of life reside) or take shelter in Ashrams or depend on a spiritual master or make speeches on spirituality. Others, who do not want these, may abstain from these.

Those who want to sit without doing anything may do so.  Others, who want to do works, may do works.

Yes. Self-realization does not mean leading a monastic life. Monastic life is only one of the paths to reach there.

Those who have the energy to proceed unmindful of any of the above customs or bondages are at liberty to proceed on their own way. And those who need guidance may take a suitable path as explained above to learn the path.

But remember one thing. It is meditation which is the important thing.

Meditation is not sitting with closed eyes.

It is the continuation of awakening or awareness.

It is self-consciousness.

It is the state of meditativeness.

It is divinity.

Some people ask: “What is divinity?”

It is beyond an explanation. How can you explain ecstasy except to say ecstasy?

It can only be experienced. Only that person, who has experienced it, can only understand anything said about ecstasy. What is the use in telling a blind man about elephant and goat?

Divinity is also like that. The only way to know it, is experiencing it.

But that awakening is the right of the soul.

And let divinity interfere for that….!

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