BENGALURU: Seeing god means different things at different levels of consciousness. Seekers begin their quest by trying to understand god intellectually by applying their pure positive intelligence, with a sense of hope to discover something mind-boggling, mysterious or so. When nothing such is discovered, then they become skeptical. If somehow they pass this sort of self-medication and persist in their seeking and receive guidance then they realize the limitation of intelligence without undermining it.
Such spiritual persons explore inside and then exploration engulfs universe, all the boundaries of inside and outside merge or dissolve and only absolute vision remains. Point of vision or stage of spiritual realization is the difference between guru, god and disciple or associate. Spiritual stage wherein one sees not anything, anywhere, except as constant presence of god, when we come across such a person we say that person has transformed into real guru.
Human etiquette of such a one is maintained even at the cost of one’s ‘life and name’. Disciple is that stage of spiritual realization, associated seeker sees only guru as sustainer of one’s spiritual life beyond apparent limitations of time and space and receives incessant divine transmission in response to one’s need.
God is that stage of absolute spiritual realization that none is capable of transmitting to other. And for that explanation is that, god alone exists. Then the question arises, whom will that alone transmit to if there is no other for god? That is why guru is created to get divinity transmitted
Real is god alone. While looking at it another way, we may say guru is a realized one who has realized one’s existence as an illusion created through god to be ‘present as path’ or light to others in this apparent world. So despite existing or appearing to be existing, to be precise, such a one knows that one exists not- in real.
There are four kinds of seekers or four stages of seeking through which every seeker passes. These stages are distressed, inquisitor, devotee and enlightened. For all four kinds of pilgrims or spiritual travelers there exists no fourth person or personality except guru, god and disciple, this they realize when intensity and steadiness or firmness of their respective souls is established.
Despite being omnipresent and all pervasive why humans don’t see god? If one asks any such question one’s journey may begin on the path of self realization. As, once one begins to see oneself as inseparable from one’s environment then, chances are that one would begin to explore where ‘I’ ends or begins? And where environment ends or begins? Where is the boundary between the two?
Take an example of simple activity of breathing. We breathe individually but we breathe from environment over which we have no individual ownership or control. However collectively we may play our role in spoiling by polluting environment or make it better by cleaning. But is not the collective comprised of individuals.
Now ponder over it subtly and decide, where the point of dependence is and where point of separation is? Who is omnipresent your ‘I’ or your environment? Are the two separable? The same thing is true about you and your god.
The writer is spiritual guru and founder of Universal Forum for Human Dignity (www.unifohd.com)