A'nanda Va'n'ii
"The Thoughts of P. R. Sarkar":
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A'nanda Va'nì (A'nanda Purnìima 2007)
Finally satya becomes victorious in each and every fight, in each and every clash and in each and every work. Satya comes out successful. "Satyameva jayate naìnrtamì", That is, the falsehood won't be victorious. "Satyena panthaì vitato devayaìnah": your path to godhood becomes widened with the help of this satya, that is, this satya makes the path wide so that progress towards godhood is achieved.
Shrii Shrii A'nandamu'rti
20 September 1978, Patna
A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 2
The Supreme Abode of Satya
A'nanda Va'nì (A'nanda Purnìima 2007)
You are following the path of sa'dhana'. Always remember that you must establish yourself in pure devotion and not formal devotion. And to become established in pure devotion you must perform virtuous deeds, practise sa'dhana' regularly, render selfless service to the world, and wage a relentless fight against wrongs and injustice. There is no room for cowardice. May you be victorious.
Shri Shri A'nandamu'rti
(selected from Subha'sita Sam'graha, VIII)
Supreme Consciousness:
In this universe there is nothing beyond the Supreme Consciousness. You always remain within His circle. Imagine that a cow is tied to a peg with a rope. The rope may be short or long, but the cow has to move around the peg. Similarly, human beings are moving around the Cosmic Nucleus. They go round without knowing that they are tied to a peg, without knowing Who is at the center. They think that they are everything, and that they know so much. They think they are not ordinary creatures; this creates pride in them. Then, while moving, suddenly a question comes in their minds. They ask where they are going, from where is the inspiration to move coming? When this realization, this question arises in their minds, then they know that they are moving around a peg, and that they have to go towards the center, towards the Supreme Nucleus. The day this realization comes they become spiritual aspirants and the radius starts decreasing. When the radius becomes nil, then they merge into the Supreme Consciousness.
Human beings will have to go on moving as long as they have the feeling that they and the Entity which has created them, the Supreme Consciousness at the Nucleus, are two different entities. When they realize suddenly on reaching close to the peg that they and the Entity which has created them are not different, the distance between the two will disappear and both will become one - they will merge in the nectar of Cosmic Consciousness. This is the ultimate aim of all beings, of plants, of anything which has life. Therefore, the person who comes onto the path of spiritual practice early is wise - and also fortunate.
("Prajina Bharati" June 1980, 32)
God is the controller of that vital force which keeps the organisms alive. He is our friend Who saves us from the jaws of calamities by His affectionate and tender touch. He exists everywhere. He is present about us sometimes as sound expression, sometimes as thought or emotion, and then again sometimes as individual entities. There is not a place in the universe where His Entity is not manifest. What we apparently take to be a void is also full of His Entity. He is even where the human intellect cannot reach, and where the imagination bounds back, thwarted and baffled. In the planetary world, it is His glory that shines as the sun. The backbone of the nervous system, the praising of the dead ancestors, the truth of the sages, the controller, the friend, the sun - are all these separate entitites? No, all is He, all is He, all is He.
(Subha's'ita Sam'graha II, 25)
Any energy is invisible. We see the operation and action of electrical energy through lights, fans, etc. Similarly, no one has ever seen the sun - only its action. It looks round, but from a short distance it is simply something burning. So electricity and the sun are to be felt only. The same is the case with the mind. No one can show his mind, nor can one see one's own mind. One can only feel. Similarly, the Supreme Consciousness is only to be felt and realized. When the whole mind is filled with the feeling of the Supreme Consciousness you can hardly bear it - nor can you express the bliss. You feel it - you can only enjoy it!
(A'nanda Vacana'mrtam, 27)
Kabir:
Have
you heard the music that no fingers enter into?
far inside the house entangled music -
What is the sense of leaving your house?
Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines,
but inside there is no music,
then what?
Mohammed's son pores over words, and points out this
and that,
but if his chest is not soaked with love,
then what?
The yogi comes along in his famous orange,
but if inside he is colorless, then what?
Kabir says: Every instant that the sun is risen,
if I stand in the temple, or on a balcony,
in the hot fields, or in a walled garden,
my own Lord is making love with me.
Mirabai:
O my
mind,
Drink the nectar of the Name of God.*
Drink the nectar of the Name of God.
Give up evil company,
And continually keep the company
Of holy men.
Listen to the accounts of Hari
that proceed from their lips.
Expel lust, anger, pride, greed and infatuation
From thy mind.
Mira's Lord is the courtly Giridhara,
She is soaked in His love.
(*Rama
- Nama)
