7/29/2019 Double Minus is Plus
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Double Minus is Plus
You want to leave the misery of the world, and on attaining God,
you think thatyou will derive bliss or eternal happiness. By
leaving the worldly attachment, you
have left the minus [negative]. Then, you have attained the
intermediate state of
absolute peace, which is zero. Now on attaining God, you have
attained the plus[positive], which is bliss in your view. The plus
sign is a double minus in which,
two minus signs are arranged one over the other at right angles.
This double minus
indicates that you have to work more and face more misery in the
service of God.
The work and misery in worldly affairs is very much less
compared to the miseryin the work of God. The plus sign indicates
the cross and the servant of God has tosacrifice even his own life
to please God in the divine mission. You need not
sacrifice your life for the sake of your family at any time.
Unless you have
developed the attitude of enjoying misery, you cannot face
misery in the service of
God. Sugriva lost his wife because Vali took her away by force.
Sugriva did not
go to fight with Vali for the sake of his wife due to the fear
for his own life. Hislife was more valuable to him than his wifes.
But the same Sugriva went to Lanka
to fight in the war, putting his life at full risk, for the sake
of getting back Lord
Ramas wife, who had been captured by Ravana. Thus, one has to
even sacrificeones own life for the sake of God even though one may
not sacrifice ones own
life in any worldly matter. Jesus said that unless one is
prepared to carry his owncross for the sake of the Lord, one cannot
be His dearest disciple.
The plus sign appears as a double negative to threaten you by
its facial expression.The final result of the plus is not negative
at all because its value is only positive.
Similarly, if you are prepared for the double minus and
intensive sacrifice for God,
you will derive bliss at the end. God tests you to find out your
attitude. God wants
to know whether you have approached Him for bliss or to work and
do the totalsacrifice for His sake. Once God is fully convinced
about the reality of your
attitude, the result is quite different from the test. Finally
Sugriva was given a placein Brahma Loka (Vaikuntha), where Sugriva
lived with bliss. Ramayana is always
taken as a guide in pravritti (worldly life) by taking Rama as a
good son, goodhusband, good father, good friend etc. Rama was
always taken as a human being
externally and the inner form of Rama as the Lord was always
hidden. All the
monkeys were incarnations of angels and hence they could
recognize Rama as the
Lord. No Advaita scholar has become Brahman so far. Only
Hanuman, whoserved Rama as the Lord in the form of the contemporary
human incarnation
became Brahman. Only Hanuman became Brahman, but He still says
that He is
the servant of Rama. Therefore, Ramayana, which gives the path
for any soul tobecome Brahman, is the only scripture of the Advaita
philosophy in a practical
sense.
The total surrender of your self is possible if you know that
you are a tiny part ofHis movable property. A goat is a part of the
movable property of the butcher.
Every drop of its blood and every bit of its flesh is the
property of the butcheralone. The butcher is going to enjoy the
entire flesh and blood of the goat and
therefore there is no individuality for the goat. Similarly,
every atom of your grossbody and every wave of the energy in your
gross body belong to the God. All your
qualities (subtle body) and your entire pure awareness (soul or
causal body) belongto God alone. Hence, total surrender of your
self is the complete justice (Tameva
