SAINT AND SANATANA

While I was strolling through the valleys of Jaimini Hills recently during late midnight hours out of my spiritual interest to feel intangible conversations of invisible creatures possessing material sensibilities partly but using supernatural signs completely, I came across a heavenly talk between a young and highly attractive saint and an equally beautiful and inspiring Indian beauty near Himachal Pradesh. The following is the text version of their short talk decoded and typed by me using my extrasensory powers prevalent exclusively during those hours sanctified by me applying my sublime energy suitable to such contexts.

Sanatana: I have been waiting for long to talk with you for a few minutes. I am deeply impressed by your bodily attraction and spiritual growth, a rare combination of physical and mental brilliance to be found in this material world. Your body is shining with beauty. Your mind is filled with spiritual thoughts.

Saint: Ordinary human beings cannot see me with their material eyes. Let me know why and from where you came to this hilly region? When millions of ordinary Indian girls are craving material joys and comforts, what brought you here? I have no passion for this material world but compassion for you.

Sanatana: Thank you for your nominal interest in my material existence. I was born in 1990 at a village in Maharashtra to very rich parents as only daughter. I was educated and brought up very comfortably. Slowly I realized that I cannot rely on anybody or anything in this world though everything seems easily accessible to me. Especially pain and death all around me transformed my attitude towards life in this world a lot. One may be a billionaire or a magician with extraordinary skills and capacity to do many things but one is unable to bring happiness and comforts into the lives of even those closely associated to one. It means nobody has control on his life or on those of others. Everybody is playing a helpless role imposed by somebody else. Many things in this world are happening according to a perfect order. I consider him God. I think He is managing the occurrences in this world. Based on my study of many religious and spiritual books, I realized that bliss associated with God is permanent unlike the one we see in this material world. One day I left my house and came to this place after many enquiries about a serene and holy place where saints can be seen after a thorough spiritual struggle inside. I meditated God for about two years sitting silently in a cave, consuming fruits, nuts and leaves available in my surroundings. Slowly I started sensing the presence of holy beings like you. That’s how I came to feel your presence and get attracted towards your achievements. I am feeling blissful in your presence.

Saint: It’s wonder to know that a splendid beauty like you with so much of wealth and loving parents behind chose this difficult path while very young. Everybody that takes a birth in this material world possesses the qualities of similar creatures. A monkey behaves like other monkeys. A hunter thinks like another hunter. We generally find uniformity in characteristics of creatures in this material world. However, very few, who realize the power of God on many things occurring in this world, struggle to come out of this painful and transient sphere of human life. I am happy to know that you chose this path.

Sanatana: My spiritual growth is less compared to yours. I often feel lonely and lost recalling my association with my possessive parents and close friends. I somehow managed to suppress those feelings and focus deeply on God. Unless I get some of my doubts clarified by you, I cannot avoid my passion for the attractions in this world. One may fall off this spiritual process at any time, even after many years of meditation and realization of God, because the evil attractions here are so powerful and misguiding. Once I know the brilliance of this path, I cannot be tempted to fall back into that mire of human relationships and bonds. My awareness and passion for God must always guide me towards Him.

Saint: Many take fast decisions being compelled by some adverse conditions around them but withdraw themselves from those resolutions because transformation is not as easy and simple as we imagine before entering that critical process. We should despise what we have loved the most till that time. We must be ready to taste bitter foods leaving all tasty ones around. We should lose passion for this body. So many changes should happen within us and our behavior once we decide to transform completely. Many cannot withstand the ordeals on this tough path. So, they drop off it at any time just like that. I am glad that you achieved a degree of spiritual growth whereby you are able to feel my presence and talk to me. Every great soul should help other souls to transform from material bondage to divine realization. Considering your passion for realization of God, I would answer many of your questions. Remember that spiritual progress occurs slowly. There are stages of evolution in this journey also. I may not be able to answer all your questions. I have been meditating for the last 20 years. I achieved moderate spiritual status only. Still there is a long process ahead of me to be faced and achieved bravely and patiently.

Sanatana: God must be kind to all. He is like a kind father to all the creatures in this world but some are suffering with difficulties and inevitable pains and some are celebrating their lives with much wealth and happiness. Why these many differences among the creatures made by God? I am confused.

Saint: This material world is like a huge playground prepared by God. We call it universe in our terms as ordinary human beings. Earth planet is a little bit in His creation of wonders and mysteries. He creates various souls initially and leaves them in this playground. Thereafter He simply watches the game of their lives and struggles in that playground like a neutral observer. Based on what those souls are doing with various body forms in a series of lifetimes, they accumulate an account of their own, which they must spend lifetime after lifetime. It is what we call Karma. Initially all souls have merits only. In course of time, due to the impact of God’s magic on various souls, they get into evil and remain there taking it as real wealth and happiness. God allows every soul to pass through millions of lifetimes to get astray unbelievably. It is like an innocent hero in a feature film committing many mistakes or doing wonders taking himself as an extraordinary person with exceptional qualities and ultimately realizing that he is almost nothing compared to God. We call it climax. A soul takes hundreds of years to search for its originator; that is God. Various players play differently in this longest game of spiritual journey planned and executed by God. If you are suffering, it’s because of what you did once and if you are happy now, it is also because of what you did once. God remains active much during the origin of a soul and its immersion in Him ultimately. He allows each soul to accumulate Karma of its own and live it until it reaches its destination towards the end of that long journey. We are all objects of game in His playground. He is the intelligent director and curious spectator of that longest drama in this creation. A father can cause birth to a creature but how it lives and dies is not in his hands in our familiar material world also. God also likes to play such nominal role while watching the game of various souls created by Him. He knows that every soul comes back to Him one day after being completely vexed with what’s happening around it in His sphere of pains and joys. You cannot blame Him if you are sad because you are responsible for it. You need not appreciate him if you are happy because you are responsible for it also. He treats both alike but we fail to understand it applying our narrow mindsets as humans. What everybody is supposed to do is to constantly remember Him and be grateful to Him feeling something like, “God! I am a helpless and hopeless creature in your big world. Thanks for creating my soul. Thank you for making me a player in your longest game of fun and pain. I played it more than enough. I committed many crimes and sins in this game thinking that it cannot bind me. The related Karma, attached to my soul, is making me take birth after birth in different life forms. I would not indulge in sins any more. From this birth onwards, I exclusively focus on clearing the results of my good and bad Karma alike because both make me take another series of births again. If I start this journey of reformation now, I may reach you in about 1000 years or so based on how much I could achieve. Till then, enable me to realize you gradually. I cannot play this painful game anymore. Help me reach you fast”. How many humans are entering this path of brilliance in the material world you saw once? They are talking a lot of nonsense and indulging in a variety of misdeeds and crimes neglecting God, their creator. What does a father do if his children are misbehaving? He allows them to their lot? He cares for them only when they realize about his kindness and affection? He guides them again towards a good path of happiness and comforts only when they earnestly seek his help. God allows you to play the game in this world as long as you like. You may go back to Him only when you want it. He has more patience and vision than you.

Sanatana: Why so much of attraction between females and males in all kinds of species on this earth? That temptation is so enticing and inevitable that millions of creatures are struggling in that mire of bodily attractions and related reproduction process across the world. They know that bringing up children is almost similar to hell but knowingly they are getting into that ditch repeatedly. Sex gives pleasure for a few moments but it leads to a series of attractions, bonds and related burdens one after one. Why are creatures unable to come out of this trap? What is making them so mad and foolish?

Saint: I think you must have watched cockfights somewhere. It is just one kind of bloody games conducted and enjoyed by thousands of evil rogues in this material world. They celebrate the pain of other creatures subjecting them to fights and races. Cocks know that they are being subjected to pain by humans but still they fight among themselves when others are watching. It is their inherent tendency to fight. Similarly God also desires to see how humans struggle and suffer if they are connected to one another with a strong bodily force. It is the inherent drive for sex. As long as there is that instinct in a creature, it continues to attach itself with a variety of creatures based on its passion for the entity of other gender. It is the source of pains and attachments. When there is no element of intense pain in the characterization of roles, no drama or film looks very interesting to viewers. We love and remember tragedies longer than comedies. Similarly, God also infuses pain into our lives through the medium of sex instincts. Until you realize that you are not the body but soul wearing various bodies according to the Karma accumulated by it because of what it has been doing over a series of lifetimes, you cannot resist temptation for sexual pleasures. You would reach that stage of realization only after you are unbearably disappointed with everything related to sex and what it entails in the lifetime of a creature. 

Sanatana: Can we consider doctors, teachers, inventors and scientists better creatures than laborers, peasant farmers, thieves and dullards? They are contributing substantially towards the awareness of masses and development of nation. They are working hard for the welfare and happiness of others.

Saint: Karma does not attach itself to a soul based on what you are doing but the purpose behind doing it knowingly. If a doctor serves the poor and the helpless selflessly, sacrificing many comforts in his personal life, he accumulates good kind of Karma. If a teacher is teaching just for the sake of salary and other benefits, he accumulates bad kind of Karma. If an inventor is creating something out of magnanimity, he is accumulating good Karma and if he does it to earn a lot of money, he accumulates bad Karma. Similarly, if scientists are making anything for the happiness of mankind and other creatures, they certainly accumulate good Karma. God scans our spirit of thoughts and true intentions but not our outward appearance and casual acts. If you smile at a baby out of pure love, it shows you as a good creature to God. If you pretend goodness towards a set of old and helpless people, and talk a few lies only to impress them somehow, God allows you to experience similar Karma. God knows many things about you which you also do not know about you because He is your creator and director. So, never consider one kind of living or profession superior or inferior to the other. It is your true intention that matters more than your acting skills. Anybody should not try to impress God through acting and lying.

Sanatana: Space research agencies like ISRO and NASA have been struggling hard for years to know more about unknown and inaccessible wonders in this universe. Can they completely understand the secrets and mysteries of this universe even after 1000 years from now?  

Saint: All those scientists and technicians are also characters in the game of God. To arouse a lot of curiosity and suspense in viewers, a director creates a multitude of characters and series of mesmerizing events in a feature film or drama. Likewise, God also encourages some of His creatures to explore His gigantic world, applying their material intelligence and capabilities. It’s like a physical trainer teaching his students to practice different kinds of exercises to keep themselves fit. If humans, the players in the game of God, are not active and enthusiastic to play different roles, ultimately the beauty of drama gets affected. So, God intentionally forces those scientists towards trying such space games also. They can never understand the phenomena and occurrences in this universe completely. Can an actor ever assess the true intelligence and creativity of his director just by acting in some of the films directed by him? Director is always more intelligent and powerful than those acting in creative pieces of expression made by him. Scientists may be able to understand one percent of this universe in another 1000 years or so.

Sanatana: Poets, idealists and saints take nature as a blessing of God because they always seek divine pleasure from the effects of nature everywhere. On the other hand, those living depending on forests, lakes, mountains and seas consider those entities of nature just as sources of their livelihood. What is the true purpose of nature in this world as planned by God?

Saint: Just like a beautician decorates a bride before her marriage and a gardener keeps his garden green and beautiful always, God also likes to keep His playground beautiful and pleasant mostly. What does a beautician do if that bride criticizes her irrationally out of excessive pride and the owner of a garden insults and beats that gardener for no particular reason. They know how to deface a bride or a garden because they are professionals. If various kinds of creatures, for the comfort and joy of which God created nature spectacularly, fail to keep it in that order only, God expresses His anger through the exhibition of concealed negative qualities of nature. Natural calamities are just an example of this nature of God. Man knows what is good or bad for him, others or nature but he does quite avoidable things to satisfy his ego and false prestige. When man misbehaves, God teaches him lessons. Moreover, nature plays a unique role towards various creatures depending on their Karma. A poet may also die in a forest through the bite of a snake if his Karma subjects him to that treatment. A peasant farmer may find a treasure of valuable items in his barren farm also if his good Karma leads him to that moment of bliss in his troublesome life. How nature looks, responds or reacts depends on what a creature in relation to it deserves at that particular moment. Nature also plays a definitive role in allowing various creatures in this world to live their Karma. You and I are using this forest to meditate God. A hunter searches for and kills birds and animals in it. A poet scribbles poetry being impressed by the beauty of this nature. All these creatures are being directed towards this forest to fulfill their Karmas differently.

Sanatana: How can one attain salvation? When does one start journey in this direction?

Saint: Can we assess when each of 1000 children stop playing when left absolutely free in a large playground? How long each of them plays in that playground largely depends on their spirit of energy, enthusiasm, climatic conditions and so many other factors. Similarly, God sends all equally talented and energized players into His huge playground at a time with equal love for all of them. Some desire to come out of it earlier than others. Many play there for millions of years because God wants them to be so passionate and attached to His beautifully made playground of wonders and mysteries. When He wants to end that phase of creation and drama, He creates conducive atmosphere for all souls to realize Him fast and get back. It may be heavenly or hellish. Realization is possible both ways. After closing one phase of drama, He starts another. It runs for another millions of years. One can attain salvation when one realizes that one’s blissful destination is God, his creator, but nothing else around him here. When one starts journey towards this direction depends on the amount of one’s accumulated good or bad Karma. One should clear both kinds of Karma attached to one’s soul to move back to God.

Sanatana: Is human life superior to all other kinds of life forms in this material world?

Saint: Just like a few enthusiastic children wear different masks to play the roles of different animals, birds and creatures in a huge resort meant for it, various souls take different kinds of life forms in their long journey as individual souls. Compared to all other life forms, human life form is more suited to realization of God. It’s like the last game by those children in an amusement park. If they are not interested to come out of it, even before it gets dark, they stay back in it and suffer playing at night also. Those that step out of it before dusk reach their homes safely and rest there happily under the kind guidance of their parents. Since God is our father, we should utilize the human life form to understand the greatness of our father and try strongly to reach His abode early, without lingering with those shadows and evil attractions in this painful world of creatures. Human life is an opportunity given to us by God to reach Him earlier than His scheduled longest game. Many play there till the last hour set by God for a phase of game because He beautifies His playground so enticingly and enchantingly.

Sanatana: Why does spiritual life look very difficult to those entering it initially? I am finding every day and night like an ordeal to continue here despite my best efforts. Why is the route to God so tough?

Saint: I would explain you this point through a short story, “Mobi was the son of a rich and kind father. His mother died when he was four. His father brought him up affectionately ever since the death of her. When Mobi was 20, he fell in love with a foreign girl. He asked his father to get him married with her. His father enquired a lot about her and knew that it would be 15^th marriage for her if she would marry his son. She got accustomed to multiple marriages and torturing each of her husbands until they would leave her on their own. So, he did not approve his marriage with her as a kind and visionary father. Mobi thought that his father became a villain in his life. He married her against his wishes. His father gave all his money and assets to his son with the hope that he would be happy somehow. He told him that he was going away to a hilly region to live peacefully among tribes working hard as one of them. Soon Mobi realized that his wife was just like a sadist. Within two years, he got separated from her voluntarily. He started understanding the greatness and importance of his father in his life. He had no money on him to search for his father. He could reach his father after 10 years. He struggled and suffered a lot in this search for him. If he had obeyed the instructions of his kind father years ago, he would not have faced that many difficulties in his short life. His father welcomed him warmly and looked after him carefully”. In this story, Mobi is like an ordinary creature. His father is like God. The girl, whom he married and because of whom he suffered a lot, is like the evil attractions in this material world. God installs conscience in each creature He creates. It is a force of ideal guidance inherent in us. When we ignore its commands and go astray being misled by various evil forces, we miss our father, the God. We fail to recognize Him even if He is just beside us when we are entrapped by the shadows in this world. When we realize His greatness, we voluntarily struggle a lot to reach Him somehow. It is difficult to get a lost treasure back. It is very difficult to reach God after getting ourselves drenched in a number of pits of filth out of our ignorance caused by our accumulated Karma. God tests us extensively when we are thoroughly spoiled in many lifetimes. It’s like a teacher explaining a difficult lesson to his innocent student minding his happiness in future. We take a lot of time to wash a muddy cloth rather than a plain cloth. God does not allow our soul of desires and passions to reach Him with so many impurities. He subjects us to a variety of ablutions to cleanse our soul and make it suitable to access Him. This material world is like a circus. Anybody can live like anything here. The abode of God is like a temple. Only those entirely sanctified to enter and stay there can reach it after many struggles and pains. It is a tough path.

Sanatana: How can we get rid of our account of accumulated Karma?

Saint: We can get rid of Karma without indulging in any kind of Karma at all. If you are born rich, you should shun all your wealth and assets and seek God. If you are born poor, you should not try to become rich somehow struggling hard but search for God and strive to reach Him. If your goal is reaching God, you should shun all your desires and passions for anything or anybody appearing in this material world. A soul, which has been accustomed to a variety of desires and passions and related life forms, cannot resort towards God that easily. So, it is a vicious web around us in which one kind of Karma forces us towards another kind of extending or withdrawing from it. If you give 100 rupees to a person, you should go back to him sometime to take it back. If you borrow 1000 rupees from another person, you should go to him and repay it someday. Both ways, you are subject to the effects of your good or bad Karma. Both keep you back attached to this material world. Coming out of this net is a very difficult process. This is why millions of souls take a multitude of births and rebirths to live their Karma for thousands of years. God invites those souls back, faster, which request Him honestly for long.

Sanatana: Is there any use in one going to a number of temples regularly as we see here much?

Saint: God does not like acting skills of His devotees at all. What are they doing at temples? They are offering some gifts to God thinking that He blesses them irrationally and illogically. God sends all creatures into this world expecting all of them to be good and happy always. When they fail to be so, He loses compassion for them. He cannot bless them as long as they do not change to His expectations. Temples are manmade abodes of worship. They cannot be made holy unless those frequenting them are sacred. A rich and undisciplined student cannot impress his righteous teacher through his gimmicks and lies but a poor and obedient student can easily impress such teacher within days. God is like that teacher. We are all like His students. We need not visit any temple, church or mosque, as long as we are in the process of delivering ourselves from the webs we are creating around us continuously. Getting rid of our accumulated Karma allows us to reach God fast. So, we should focus more on this aspect of our lifetime instead of other acts. When our Karma is pulling us back from God, we cannot move ahead in that path. We created our Karma for long. We should rid it struggling hard for long.

Sanatana: Does our knowledge of and familiarity with saints help us reach God faster?

Saint: Saints are practitioners of the principles and practices required to reach God earlier than other ordinary creatures. Just like an experienced doctor can guide an inexperienced doctor in understanding the nature of medicines and the pursuit of surgeries, a saint can advise an ordinary person on how to understand and reach God. Just as an experienced and famous doctor does not have much time and patience to guide an ordinary doctor, most of the saints, who are intensely engaged in the pursuit of God through rigorous meditation, mostly do not guide ordinary people in a spiritual path. They do not like to add more Karma to their souls mingling with sinful rogues again, a mistake they committed once. It is an ordeal to win the heart of a great saint. He has no time for anything in this world except to try to reach God fast. He has been thoroughly vexed with everything and everybody in this world through taking a series of life forms. Their urge to reach God is so intense that they subject their bodies to many tests and atonements in that process. They treat their bodies just like worthless objects thrown into this material world unkindly by God. They don’t rest until they reach their destination. So, if you are finding many folks with beards and saffron pieces in public places and other abodes with special decoration, it means they are dropouts from the path of God or they are not even at the entrance gate of that pursuit. Many pretend as saints to impress others and make an ordinary or comfortable living. A real saint does not crave human company and comforts but moves away from them. He renounces all that.

Sanatana: Why should God create this longest game at all and subject all of us to so many pains?

Saint: I too asked this question some of my familiar saints here but nobody could answer it. It’s like asking a doctor why he pursued medicine and treating patients when he clearly knows that he cannot avoid death despite his best efforts. It’s like asking an old man why he is growing so many plants and trees beside public roads despite knowing that nobody is appreciating his vision and efforts. It’s like asking a mother why she is carrying an infant in her for nine months and suffering for her lifetime observing the life of her daughter or son. These are all testing and painful efforts. I too don’t understand why God is creating so many souls for each phase of His game and watching His tragic dramas one after another. Perhaps activity is his interest. He does not like to be idle always. Just as we are creating dolls for our babies, He is creating us to entertain His guests somewhere. I too don’t know where all these souls stay when He ends each phase of His longest drama. I think I can get answers to such highly difficult questions when I attain salvation and reach God. Unfortunately, those that attain salvation are not coming back into this material world to clarify many spiritual doubts of some ordinary human beings. Perhaps they are so averse to visiting this enticing and misleading playground that they are forgetting us altogether after reaching there after years of struggle and pains in that spiritual path.

Sanatana: There are many religions and spiritual paths in this world professed by various beings. Who is real God; Jesus Christ, Allah or Lord Krishna? Why so many beliefs and practices when there is one God only?  The followers of one religion are fighting with those of other religions and faiths. How can we understand who real God is and where He is? Why should not real God appear to us physically?

Saint: Let’s hope that Sun is a God. He is appearing in the same form in different countries at different times. He is called differently by different people according to their languages and faiths. He is a small round object to ordinary humans on earth. It is a huge entity of burning fire filled with gases and cosmic reactions to those scientists who are able to see it using their utilities of high capacity. I don’t know if there are creatures in other planets revolving around Sun. What might be their perception about Sun? Such many questions and doubts arise when we try to assess the true nature of God from our perspectives which are limited to a great extent. It’s like a kindergarten kid preparing a performance appraisal report about a scientist with extraordinary intelligence and inventions to his credit. Perhaps we must progress a lot in our spiritual journey to understand the true form and nature of God. Also, God is not appearing to us physically like the director of a feature film. We are able to see characters, events, dialogues, fights, duets and climax only in many films. Probably the director does not like to appear to his viewers in a film made by him. Similarly, God, the director of this huge drama and playground, does not like to make a showy appearance in His cosmic presentation. Perhaps we are not able to see Him with our ordinary eyes. He just wants us to be characters in His drama. We are helpless. Those that reached Him after years of spiritual struggle must have seen Him and chose to stay back with Him.

Sanatana: May I know why you entered this spiritual path at such a tender age?

Saint: Again, it is a matter of my Karma. My spiritual efforts in a series of my previous births blocked me from entering material life deeply in this birth. When I was four years old, one night, I had a dream. It awakened me from my ignorance and innocence as a child. I developed deep aversion for this material world within days after that subconscious experience. I told my parents that I had decided to go far away to meditate God. They are also spiritually oriented to much extent. They agreed after a few days of hesitation. Our souls decide where to take a birth and what course of life to be led based on our accumulated Karma in our previous life forms. God kindly facilitates such souls to reach His path of brilliance and divinity earlier than others. It is like a coach teaching the skills of a game more intensely to his highly devoted and disciplined student than those who are not interested in him or that game much. This credit goes to my accumulated Karma over my previous births and the kindness of God. Human willpower plays very nominal role only in this process of transformation from a materialist to a saint.

Sanatana: I love you. I miss you a lot if you go away from me leaving alone in this thick forest. Would you allow me to sit somewhere near you and meditate? I like this spiritual path but I am feeling forsaken.

Saint: You were an actress in your previous birth. You were an exceptional beauty as well. You used to tell ‘I love you’ to many actors in many dramas and films in that birth as part of your profession. Despite your meditation for two years and your ability to perceive my spiritual form, your soul is exerting the impulses of your most recent life form on you. You loved many in films and dramas in that life but failed to feel genuine love from any of those actors or your husband. That void of lovesickness and pain is still attached to your soul’s account of Karma. In this life also, you are born with the beauty of an angel. Even after years of rigorous meditation and attainment of many spiritual powers, I am feeling attracted towards you. This is how our Karma pulls us back into those evil material attractions. Bodily desires bind us if we meditate sitting closely in two caves. I request you to stay here. I go to my actual place of meditation, which is about one kilometer from here in this forest. Very soon, I am going to achieve a level of spiritual progress whereby I cannot be tempted by any material entity. Then I come to you and take you with me to allow you to sit somewhere near me and meditate God. I help you in this process. I save and keep you out of your material tendencies till then applying my spiritual power. I will be your spiritual guide hereafter. God would be kind with those that help others reach Him fast.