Ego factor in Spirituality

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Ego factor in Spirituality

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Ego factor in Spirituality

Hanuman is a monkey and is lower than the human level.  To worship Rama as God, Hanuman did not like to be a human being fearing the possibility of repulsion between common media.  The nature of any soul is to neglect the common medium and worship the higher medium.  The human being worships the higher medium of energetic form and the animal worships the higher medium of human form.  Gopikas became ladies of lower caste and both these factors suppressed their ego because Krishna is man of higher caste.  Arjuna is man of the same caste and hence could not get rid of the ego in spite of the very first hearing of Gita.  Therefore, do not look down at women and lower caste.  The soul has to take birth of a lady of a lower caste to get the final salvation as in the case of Gopikas.  Otherwise, Gopikas were the top most sages and need not be born as ladies in the lower caste.

        Shankara aimed at the divine society in which every human being deserves to become God like Hanuman.  For the sake of encouragement and to give confidence He used Advaita in advance the present tense can be used in the immediate future. When He stated that you are God (Tattvam Asi), it means the immediate future in which you are expected to become God.  Lord Shiva is famous for unlimited kindness even towards demons.  He revealed the whole truth gradually in the form of Ramanuja and Madhva subsequently.  The Lord is always kind.  Even the hell indicates His intensive kindness.  The severe punishments in the hell indicate the transformation as early as possible so that the soul can be uplifted as early as possible.  There is no contradiction between the three spiritual preachers.  The intention in them is one and the same.  The methods of treatment vary due to variations in the levels of the souls.  All the methods of the three Acharayas are only subsequent steps to the subsequent levels of the devotees.


At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

http://www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org
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