By Sri Sandip Dasgupta
Welcome to the Janmashtami edition of
our e-zine. This is the auspicious day on which Lord Krishna came to this earth
to destroy the evil that had pervaded the universe. Sri Sri Babathakur is another incarnation of Lord
Sri Krishna - One who came down to this world to shower the “Light of Oneness”
amongst us so that we can live and experience our life with the awareness of
“Knowledge of Oneness”. When we live life with this awareness, we all march
slowly and steadily towards the Ultimate goal of reaching our True Source – the
Absolute One, which is the substratum of all mankind and Universe.
Sri Sri Babathakur has repeatedly told us that this world is
nothing but the “Sportful dramatic sameside game of Self Consciousness”, where
the Absolute One/Supreme One I-Reality has created diversity (Individual
I-Reality) all around for the sake of enjoying the game being played by the
individual I-Reality entities. In other
words, the Absolute One has created all the diversified entities so that the
individual entities can play the game created by the Absolute One. The individual entities are all like the two
sides of the same coin – hence Sri Sri Babathakur’s reference to the “sameside
game”. The same Absolute One is also the One that is watching the game being played
by the individual entities. It enjoys
the game, yet remains unaffected by the game and its results. The individual entities get affected by the
results of the game because they believe the individual entities to be real,
owing to the lack of Self-Knowledge, the Knowledge of the Substratum/Oneness. Sri Sri Babathakur has repeatedly urged us to
be conscious of the real substratum/the Supreme Oneness within us, which is
playing this game. This awareness will
allow us to surrender fully our actions and results to the Absolute One, who is
the Supreme cause of all events in this Universe.
Does that mean we give up all actions and meditate in a room
all along, hoping that enlightenment will suddenly appear to us? Not at all!
On the contrary, He has urged us to perform all our actions while fully
being aware that we are not the ones performing the actions. We are merely instruments of the Lord, performing actions on His behalf, and with the results of our actions also belonging to Him. Sri Sri Babathakur has urged us to be sincere in all our
actions. In one of his discourses, He
has stated that Lord Sri Krishna had urged Arjuna to fight the battle of
Mahabharata, because he wanted Arjuna, a Kshatriya, to be sincere with himself.
So, let us resolve to work on our daily tasks sincerely, yet
be conscious of the fact that we are performing all acts on behalf of the
Lord, and the results of those actions belong to Him.
On another note, there is proposal to form a Satsang group
(using audio/video phone conferencing technology) for the devotees residing in
Europe and Middle East. The group will be led by Tapas and Jasmine Rajderkar. Interested devotees may contact rajderkarj@yahoo.co.in or trajderkar@yahoo.com.
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